The Baptist Courier

What is a missional church? Approximately 120 pastors, associational staff and lay leaders gathered recently at Trinity Baptist Church, Cayce, to explore this question and look at how churches can move from being settled to being moved.... Continue Reading »

Every spring or fall, area churches have a traditional series of services called revival. These meetings feature special music, a guest speaker, and/or covered dish meals that would put any restaurant buffet to shame. The purpose of these services... 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 »

LeRoy Cleveland, 88, of Spartanburg, a retired Baptist pastor who served his last church for 31 years, died March 8, 2008.... Continue Reading »

Roy Forrest, 78, of Taylors, a long-serving pastor and consultant for the Southern Baptist Convention, died Feb. 10, 2008, after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.... Continue Reading »

George E. Turbeville, 85, of Columbia, a pastor and former president of the South Carolina Baptist Pastor's Conference, active in the work of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, died Feb. 19, 2008.... Continue Reading »

John Arthur, 64, pastor for the last 44 years of Eureka First Baptist Church, a rural community 12 miles southeast of Edgefield, believes pastors who have served one church for periods of time measured not in years, but decades,... Continue Reading »

Martha Leathers Wennerberg of DeFuniak Springs, Fla., a South Carolina native who held both state and national WMU offices, died March 5, 2008, after a long battle with breast cancer.... Continue Reading »

Jonathan Merritt, a 25-year-old student at Southeastern Baptist Seminary, captured widespread media attention March 10 in releasing a statement titled ?A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change.?... Continue Reading »

Southern Baptists make up nearly 7 percent of the United States adult population, according to a new Pew study that also shows evangelicals outnumbering mainline church members and Catholics.... Continue Reading »

Fourteen new church planters were commissioned Sunday, March 9, at Taylors First Baptist Church. In the first-ever commissioning service, planters and their core teams were able to share prayer requests and ministry goals with those in attendance. The commissioned... Continue Reading »

Ergun Caner and Dinesh D"Souza will open the 2008 Christian Worldview Week at North Greenville University on Monday, March 17. The week will also feature Frank Reich, Ron Marks and worship leader Calvin Hunt.... Continue Reading »