The Baptist Courier

The Great Commission is, first and foremost, what we are to be about as Christians and as Baptists.... Continue Reading »

First Baptist Church, Lockhart, recently held its annual wild game dinner. This year, approximately 700 attended, along with 100 workers from First Baptist and other area churches. Keynote speaker was Hank Parker, a well-known bass fisherman who is also... Continue Reading »

Stephen Watson STEPHEN WATSON was installed March 9 as pastor of Sullivan’s Island Baptist Church. Watson is a 2003 graduate of Southwestern Baptist Seminary and a 1996 graduate of The Citadel, where he served as regimental religious officer. For... Continue Reading »

Liana Byers, a junior at Charleston Southern University, has been chosen as a 2008 Palmetto Gold Scholarship recipient.... Continue Reading »

Southwestern Baptist Seminary celebrated its 100th birthday in grand Texas style, March 14, replete with a centennial chapel service, alumni gatherings and a campus-wide picnic featuring a spectacular fireworks show. Several notable alumni were present to honor the legacy... Continue Reading »

For the second-straight year, the Area 6 Special Olympics Spring Games were held April 3 on the Bagwell-Settle Track at Charleston Southern University. As they were a year ago, Charleston Southern student-athletes were heavily involved as volunteers for the... Continue Reading »

Each month, the Neill Mims family of South Carolina and another family have a worship service at the home. Together they sing songs, have puppet skits, memorize Bible verses, and listen to Bible stories.... Continue Reading »

Displayed prominently on its Web site, the motto for Gap Hill Baptist Church, Six Mile, proclaims: 'standing in the Gap for Jesus.? Boyce Whitman has likewise been standing faithfully in the gap for nearly 47 years as pastor of... Continue Reading »

As South Carolina Baptist Ministries for the Aging launches a campaign to establish a fund to provide financial assistance for retired pastors and missionaries and their spouses or widows to live at one of the ministry's two retirement communities,... Continue Reading »

As LifeWay Christian Resources prepares for the Aug. 8 launch of the LifeWay Worship Project, the most ambitious offering of integrated music worship products in its history, church worship leaders across South Carolina are beginning to talk about how... Continue Reading »

My husband and I moved to Bethea in April 2000 after many years of faithful service as pastor and evangelist, and found that too often there were Christian senior adults who needed a place to call home in their... Continue Reading »

Edgar Carter Morgan, 94, of Seneca, a retired Southern Baptist missionary and an academic dean at a Baptist seminary in China, died April 5, 2008.... Continue Reading »