The Baptist Courier

Memphis in late spring can be a muggy place. Let your imagination take you back to 1925 (yes, before air conditioning). Fifty-six hundred messengers were meeting inside the city's brand new convention center for the annual meeting of the... Continue Reading »

Cherokee Falls Community Project Outreach Handyman Ministries began in the first week of September 1995 to help people with small home repairs and wheelchair ramps, also to open doors as a witness for Jesus Christ.... Continue Reading »

Baptists make 2 million meals in hurricane relief Southern Baptist disaster relief volunteers surpassed the milestone of preparing more than 2 million hot meals in the wake of Hurricanes Ike and Gustav. More than 100 units from 19 state... Continue Reading »

The Bylaws Committee of the South Carolina Baptist Convention will present an amendment to the messengers at its annual meeting Nov. 11-12.... Continue Reading »

Evergreen Baptist Church in Effingham recently welcomed this family of six, and on Sept. 21 pastor Quinn Hooks baptized five of them. From left are Joseph Pack, Daren Pack, Vonda Pack (who joined by transfer of membership from another... Continue Reading »

?Big Russ and Me: Father and Son,? by Tim Russert. ?Faith of My Fathers,? by John McCain. ?Lessons Learned as the Son of a Serial Killer,? by Michael Sims. While you may be familiar with parts of the first... Continue Reading »

FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH, Barnwell, recently held baptism for 12 new members. Rev. Marshall Still baptized four of his grandchildren; Rev. Dan Boineau baptized two of his grandsons; and John Nixon, who has been pastor at Friendship for 24 years,... Continue Reading »

Donnie Hamlin Hughes of Greer, wife of retired pastor and director of missions Wallace Hughes, died Aug. 22, 2008, following a four-year battle with cancer.... Continue Reading »

Vello M. Forrester, 94, of Greenville, a retired pastor who ?loved a good story and could tell quite a few himself,? died Aug. 14, 2008.... Continue Reading »

Trustees of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission expressed thanks to Greenwood pastor Hal Lane for his leadership in a unanimous show of support at the close of their meeting meeting Sept. 16-17 in Nashville, Tenn.... Continue Reading »

Marguerite Brannon Rogers, 78, of Gray Court, wife of retired pastor Henry E. Rogers, died Aug. 27, 2008, at Martha Franks Baptist Retirement Center, Laurens.... Continue Reading »

This is the final report of the 2008 Committee on Committees. If approved by messengers to the 2008 annual meeting, members begin serving Jan. 1, 2009. Rudy Gray from Seneca is the chairman.... Continue Reading »