The Baptist Courier

Ben Maynard BEN MAYNARD is the new pastor of Ridgecrest Baptist Church, Florence. Maynard comes to Ridgecrest from Bethea Baptist Retirement Community, where he served as a chaplain, church planter, volunteer coordinator, and pastor of Bethea Baptist Church. He... Continue Reading »

This month, the South Carolina Baptist Convention launched a new Web site with enhanced features, easier navigation and extended capabilities.... Continue Reading »

The South Carolina Baptist Convention has posted at its Web site a slate of audio files featuring messages and breakout sessions from the 2008 State Evangelism Conference held Feb. 25-26 at First Baptist Church, Rock Hill.... Continue Reading »

SBC president Frank Page has named two South Carolinians as members of the Resolutions Committee who will serve during the June 10-11 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Indianapolis.... Continue Reading »

?I think we have a marriage like many Americans, maybe even like many of you. Elected officials are really just reflections of the people we represent.? With those words, New York Gov. David Paterson brushed aside his admission in... Continue Reading »

I strongly urge my fellow Southern Baptists to support the Mother's Day Offering for South Carolina Baptist Ministries for the Aging. The offering this year will assist elderly pastors, missionaries and their spouses who do not have adequate funds... Continue Reading »

Concord Baptist Church, Anderson, held a men's ministry sporting clay shoot Feb. 23 in Pendleton. Approximately 150 people attended, and many men had no church affiliation.... Continue Reading »

Ken Hemphill, national Empowering Kingdom Growth strategist, has turned his attention and the attention of Southern Baptists to an issue, he says, is the ?one specific issue of repentance that God demands of the people who would experience revival.?... Continue Reading »

First, we should be excellent stewards of the environment. Second, do we really accept the premise that cutting down a tree (destroy the creation) is equivalent to 'tearing a page out of the Bible??... Continue Reading »

A ministry team from Charleston Southern University recently participated in a week of evangelism in Baltimore, Md. The group, led by campus minister Clark Carter, partnered with Embrace Baltimore, a two-year emphasis by the North American Mission Board.... Continue Reading »

More than a hundred local business leaders attended the LifeWorks Charleston breakfast hosted by Charleston Southern University. The mission of LifeWorks is to be a conduit for Christian professionals seeking to successfully apply their faith in the marketplace, providing... Continue Reading »

Why does the Southern Baptist Convention need to start even more churches than the 43,000-plus now on the books? David Meacham, senior strategist for church planting with the North American Mission Board, says it's because Christian denominations ? especially... Continue Reading »