The Baptist Courier

Charleston Southern University held its commencement ceremony May 3, in which 300 undergraduate and graduate students received their degrees. Thousands of parents, friends and relatives packed the North Charleston Coliseum to witness the occasion.... Continue Reading »

Charles ?Buddy? Freeman encouraged 250 North Greenville University graduates May 1 to ?bring sanity back into an insane world.? The graduating class marks the single largest class in the school's 116-year history.... Continue Reading »

Anderson University held spring commencement May 3, and among the 175 who crossed the stage were 13 graduates who received the first master's degrees awarded in the school's history.... Continue Reading »

The Stringer-Rainey Fountain Sculpture ? representing the final piece of construction of the new Thrift Library at Anderson University ? was unveiled during recent Founder's Day ceremonies.... Continue Reading »

In March, the properties committee of the South Carolina Baptist Convention Executive Board gave approval for a new master plan to be developed for the White Oak Conference Center to aid future planning for the conference center and give... Continue Reading »

Seth Condrey was recognized at the 2008 Gospel Music Association's Dove Awards for Spanish Language Album of the Year with ?De Corazon a Corazon.? The former North Greenville University student has taken an unexpected route to being an award-winning... Continue Reading »

My life has been kind of like a tapestry, God's tapestry ? everything done with a purpose in mind. I was born in Germany to a German single mother. Until age 5, I lived in an orphanage. Then an... Continue Reading »

As I have mentioned in previous articles, I have been encouraging the Southern Baptist North American Mission Board to present to our convention a multifaceted, flexible evangelism strategy which will help pull our churches together over the next years... Continue Reading »

A search committee selected from the Executive Board's planning and ministries committee will work with executive director-treasurer Jim Austin to secure a new multiplication team associate executive director for the staff of the South Carolina Baptist Convention.... Continue Reading »

Persistent noise that hums in the background of life is called white noise. Usually the noise is so subtle that we unconsciously accept it as necessary to functioning normally. Remove it and you become oddly disturbed.... Continue Reading »

More than 500 senior adults representing 53 churches attended the South Carolina Baptist Senior Adult Convention March 31-April 2 at Charleston Southern University.... Continue Reading »

Mark Powers, South Carolina Baptist Convention director of worship and music, received the director's baton of the Singing Churchmen as the group expressed their appreciation to Jim Gill, who retired from the convention staff in 2007 but continued to... Continue Reading »