The Baptist Courier

Retired directors of missions from South Carolina met at Ridgecrest May 5-7. The meetings, which are held quarterly, are primarily for fellowship and were started by former DOM Jimmy Skinner.... Continue Reading »

Volunteer women from several of South Carolina’s Baptist churches visited with three women in a McDonald’s restaurant in Pakistan, and with three Muslim women, also in Pakistan. The volunteers recently traveled to South Asia to minister to Christian women... Continue Reading »

I want to remind you of an important event coming up on June 10. This is something that should not be missed. It is an adults-only experience, with a minimum age limit of 18 years. This fantastic opportunity does... Continue Reading »

Dottie Rambo killed in bus accident Gospel music legend Dottie Rambo died May 11, when her tour bus veered from a Missouri highway and struck an embankment. Seven others aboard the bus suffered severe or moderate injuries in the... Continue Reading »

Les Puryear, senior pastor of Lewisville (N.C.) Baptist Church, will be nominated for president of the Southern Baptist Convention during the SBC's June 10-11 annual meeting in Indianapolis, Dwight McKissic, senior pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Tex.,... Continue Reading »

A team of Southern Baptists is on the ground in Bangkok, Thailand, to help national believers from Myanmar deal with the mounting crisis in their country after a May 3 cyclone left 62,000 people dead or missing and drove... Continue Reading »

Weary travelers stand alongside a river somewhere in South America's Amazon Basin. After three hours of trying to maneuver upstream by motorboat to a remote village, a group of International Mission Board missionaries grudgingly accepts the realization that the... Continue Reading »

Last fall, Charleston Southern students teamed up with First Baptist Church, Ravenel, and Charleston Baptist Association to reach out to a mobile home community located in Ravenel. Earlier this year, the groups returned to renew those relationships and to... Continue Reading »

Trey Hillman, manager of the Kansas City Royals, said during a Midwestern Baptist Seminary chapel service that it's by the grace of God he ever became involved in baseball.... Continue Reading »

Melvin Champaign is a hero to me not so much because he was a fellow firefighter, but because he showed me how a man in Christ can live and die with hope. He has shown us all how even... Continue Reading »

Entity heads to address DOM meeting The presidents of three Southern Baptist Convention entities will speak at the Southern Baptist Conference of Associational Directors of Missions’ June 8-9 annual meeting in Indianapolis, featuring the theme “Growing the Kingdom, Church... Continue Reading »

A scholarship in memory of Joseph Dennie, a former member of First Baptist Church in Laurens, has been established at Columbia International University.... Continue Reading »