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Honored to serve

Published on December 11, 2008

As a soldier serving in Iraq, I greatly appreciate being able log on to your Web site and get news from around the Baptist community.... Continue Reading »

CP giving trails last year’s pace

Published on December 11, 2008

Year-to-date contributions through the SBC's Cooperative Program are 0.16 percent behind the same time frame in 2007.... Continue Reading »

Dec. 31 deadline for church gifts

Published on December 11, 2008

The South Carolina Baptist Convention will close its 2008 financial records at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 31.... Continue Reading »

Wood Chopper’s Christmas

Published on December 11, 2008

The angel who appeared to the shepherds outside of Bethlehem to announce the birth of Christ said a sign for them would be a baby wrapped in rags lying in a manger. A sign is something that points to... Continue Reading »

Intersections: Where Faith Meets Life – by Bob Weathers

Published on December 11, 2008

Sometimes the power to stop evil comes in the most unexpected packages. That's what a Myrtle Beach robber learned on Nov. 14.... Continue Reading »

Acclaimed preacher Frank Pollard, voice of ‘The Baptist Hour,’ dies

Published on December 11, 2008

Frank Pollard, longtime preacher on the former ?Baptist Hour? radio broadcast and president of Golden Gate Baptist Seminary from 1983-86, died Nov. 30, 2008, at his home in Anselmo, Calif., in the San Francisco area.... Continue Reading »

New discipleship strategy leads students to believe, serve and model Christ

Published on December 11, 2008

It is estimated that 75 percent of youth and student pastors have no direction for ministry, living on a Sunday-to-Wednesday-to-Sunday treadmill, where students often have a topical knowledge of God in the same way they might approach algebra. That... Continue Reading »

South Carolinians reaching South Asia for God’s glory

Published on December 11, 2008

The 19th Gujarat International Kite Festival will be held Jan. 12-14, 2009, in Ahmedabad, India. The city shuts down as people from all walks of life fill the skies with kites of every size, shape and color.... Continue Reading »

Two churches recognized for CP giving

Published on December 11, 2008

Union Baptist Church, Laurens, and Memorial Baptist Church, Aiken, were both recognized for surpassing $1 million in Cooperative Program giving.... Continue Reading »

Marion Thompson Hudgens

Published on December 11, 2008

Marion Thompson Hudgens, 90, of Greenville, a retired pastor who served a number of Upstate congregations during his ministry, died Nov. 6, 2008.... Continue Reading »

Leon Lewis Lancaster

Published on December 11, 2008

Leon Lewis Lancaster, 86, of Fountain Inn, a retired pastor who served several churches across the state during a long ministry, died Sept. 6, 2008.... Continue Reading »

Praises Land’s letter

Published on December 10, 2008

Thank you. This (the open letter to President-elect Barack Obama from Richard Land, president of the SBC Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, published in the Nov. 13 Courier) is well stated and of great need today.... Continue Reading »