The Baptist Courier

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

If, as has been previously affirmed, the Cooperative Program is to be the funding future of the SBC, then unqualified support for the Cooperative Program by the convention's elected leadership should be a litmus test for serving.... Continue Reading »

The South Carolina Baptist Convention has published online forms for nominating individuals to serve on committees of the convention and boards of the convention"s institutions.... Continue Reading »

In short, I am for the candidate who supports the Cooperative Program (by word and deed). I am in my seventh year as a director of missions, and now, as in my previous 20 years as a pastor, I... Continue Reading »