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North Greenville receives NAMB missions award

North Greenville University is one of only eight colleges and universities in the United States being honored with the ?Courts Redford Award for Excellence in Student Missionary Deployment? by the North American Mission Board.... Continue Reading »

Wheelchair ramp is result of shared missions experience

It is a 23-foot-long wheelchair ramp that connects a driveway to a back door at a Simpsonville home, but the route that led to building it wound through three states and grew out of a relationship forged in a... Continue Reading »

Singleton receives Alumni Service Award at Anderson University

Angela Hughes Singleton, class of 1998, was recognized with the Alumni Service Award at the recent Anderson University Founders Day ceremonies.... Continue Reading »

Latta honored for 25 years of missions work in Appalachia

Phillip Latta, pastor of First Baptist Church, Hemingway, was honored Feb. 4 for 25 years of service to missions in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia.... Continue Reading »

Fast Facts for March 22, 2007

SWBTS officers, McKissic agree to meet In a joint announcement March 12, Arlington, Tex., pastor Dwight McKissic and the officers of the board of trustees at Southwestern Baptist Seminary announced they “have agreed to meet privately and confidentially” and... Continue Reading »

Rebecca St. James, Delirious? in concert at CSU

English Christian rock band Delirious? and Grammy Award-winner Rebecca St. James will be in concert at Charleston Southern University's Lightsey Chapel Auditorium April 12.... Continue Reading »

Attitude is issue

Perhaps some Baptists have forgotten one of the basic rules of English grammar: A sentence ends with a punctuation mark, such as a period. First Timothy 2:12 does not have a period after the word 'teach.? To end the... Continue Reading »

CP, up 6.05 percent; suggests strengthening cooperation

With year-to-date contributions through the Southern Baptist Convention's Cooperative Program now 6.05 percent ahead of the same time frame in 2006, SBC Executive Committee president and chief executive officer Morris Chapman noted, 'this surge in giving through the Cooperative... Continue Reading »

Beth Moore: Friendships should honor God

Girlfriends and God ? both are biblical relationships necessary in the life of a Christian woman, Beth Moore told 7,000-plus Living Proof Live attendees Feb. 16-17 in Detroit.... Continue Reading »

Hold to the course

I would like to respond to the letter from Ann Kelly in the Feb. 22, 2007 edition of The Baptist Courier.... Continue Reading »

Crossing Carolina for March 22, 2007

JAMES EDWARD BAKER began duties March 4 as senior pastor of Grays Hill Baptist Church, Beaufort. He and wife Sandy come to Grays Hill from Bishopville, where he served as pastor for more than five years. Baker is a... Continue Reading »

Developing?Disciples: Lost in South Carolina estimated at 1.6 million-plus

The Bible Belt was an area in which socially conservative Christian evangelical Protestantism is a dominant or pervasive part of the culture. The term ?Bible Belt? was coined by the American journalist and social commentator, H.L. Mencken, in the... Continue Reading »