The Baptist Courier

A group of 40 youth and adults from First Baptist Church, Duncan, traveled to Palmer, Alaska, in early June to participate in a World Changers mission project. During the weeklong event, the Duncan group served with 100 other participants... Continue Reading »

Tom Sees, pastor of Smyrna Baptist Church, Smyrna, and his wife Shirley led a missions team in April to the Santa Cruz area of Jamaica. Team members delivered a washing machine they purchased to the infirmary in Santa Cruz.... Continue Reading »

Bryan Atkinson BRYAN ATKINSON began duties as student minister at Summerton Baptist Church, Summerton, June 1. He is the first full-time student minister in Summerton’s 148-year history. The son of a pastor, Atkinson grew up in Camden and Darlington.... Continue Reading »

Irene Nunn Cooper, of Spartanburg, wife of retired Baptist pastor Robert Sydney Cooper for 68 years, died July 1, 2007.... Continue Reading »

There is something about M-Fuge that has kept youth pastor Joe Monk coming back year after year since 1998. ?For youth, M-Fuge is a good introduction to missions and is very relational in its interaction with people,? said Monk,... Continue Reading »

A little 9-year-old boy sat stoically still while medical missionaries cleaned his wound; a gash on his eyelid that led to infection and fever. It was after the treatment that he finally cried, not because of the pain from... Continue Reading »

Even when we don't understand our present circumstances, we can walk in the light.... Continue Reading »

What if we baptized someone? This was the question Randy Harling, senior pastor of First Baptist Church, Simpsonville, posed to his staff in planning a groundbreaking service. Just one month later, four people were baptized where the baptismal pool... Continue Reading »

Sam Lawrence is the pastor at Poe Baptist Church in Greenville. In a sense, he has come home; he was baptized there some 30 years ago. Lawrence says the watchword these days for Poe Baptist is one familiar to... Continue Reading »

Ruth Bell Graham, wife of evangelist Billy Graham, died June 14, surrounded by her husband and five children at her Montreat, N.C., home. She was 87.... Continue Reading »

A definition of the Cooperative Program was among the recommendations adopted June 12 during the SBC Executive Committee's report at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.... Continue Reading »

Does your church have a Christian Life Concerns committee? You may call it by a different name ? Community Impact Team, CIA for Christians in Action, Salt and Light committee, or any other name that implies your group is... Continue Reading »