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Capitol View – by Joe Mack

The legislative year has passed, and we?ve dealt with a number of issues concerning families in South Carolina.... Continue Reading »

An Encouraging Word – by Don Wilton

I am so honored to greet you in this edition of The Baptist Courier. What a blessing it is to have a paper like this in our state. The editorial staff is ?out of the top drawer? and, judging... Continue Reading »

IMB trustees table qualifications study, extend Burleson sanctions

Trustees of the International Mission Board, meeting May 22-24 in Albuquerque, tabled a motion calling for a special task force to study doctrinal qualifications for missionary candidates, appointed 95 new missionaries and elected officers for 2006-07.... Continue Reading »

Fast Facts

CP giving 1.23% above last year’s pace Year-to-date contributions through the Southern Baptist Convention’s Cooperative Program are 1.23 percent above the same time frame in 2005. As of May 31, 2006, the year-to-date total of $134,091,968 for Cooperative Program... Continue Reading »

What is SBC’s message to churches that don’t give 10 percent?

Is the Southern Baptist Convention about to say to churches like the one I pastor, "We want your money (even if it is a tiny amount) but are not interested in your ideas or personal participation?" I sort of... Continue Reading »

Recent events are counterproductive to support of the Cooperative Program

A trip down the road of demanding what has always been voluntary and cooperative will ultimately lead to disaster! We may have gone too far already to turn back. Good men with outstanding leadership capabilities, a heart for evangelism... Continue Reading »

Don Wilton, SCBC president, declares support for Frank Page

I believe Frank Page is the man for this hour. I endorse him wholeheartedly and I call upon all Southern Baptists to think and to pray very deliberately about electing a man whose leadership is leading us to be... Continue Reading »

Dr. Frank Page has a heart for pastors and staffs of small churches

Here's something you don't know, and probably will not hear from any other source: Dr. Page cares about and loves the pastors and staffs of small churches as well as the mega churches. I know that because I am... Continue Reading »

Why I will nominate Dr. Frank S. Page for Southern Baptist Convention president

Not only do I sense a profound leading of the Lord to do so, but like so many other Southern Baptists, I?m deeply concerned about the direction of our Convention. My heart is burdened because the crown jewel of... Continue Reading »

President, as pastors, should lead by example

I believe strongly that it would be beneficial for Dr. Floyd to remove his name from consideration to be our next president and allow Dr. Frank Page to be elected without opposition.... Continue Reading »

Florida pastor to nominate South Carolina’s Frank Page for SBC president

The Baptist Courier has learned that a Florida pastor will place the name of Frank Page of South Carolina into nomination for president of the Southern Baptist Convention.... Continue Reading »

Page actually meets criteria of Executive Committee’s recommendations

And now both news services tell us that the SBC Executive Committee has backed down from a recent recommendation that the convention give emphasis to the election of officers from churches that contribute at least 10 percent of undesignated... Continue Reading »