The Baptist Courier

Rebecca St. James, who has been named the National Day of Prayer's musical ambassador, has recorded a theme song, ?America, Honor God,? for this year"s May 4 observance.... Continue Reading »

Richard Land's travels to speak in Southern Baptist churches give him the opportunity to see the best of the United States from coast to coast, and the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission is inviting professional and... Continue Reading »

Cooperative Program up 1.86 percent Year-to-date contributions through the SBC Cooperative Program are 1.86 percent above the same time frame in 2005. As of March 31, the year-to-date total of $100,444,191 for CP missions is $1,838,074 above the $98,606,116... Continue Reading »

Reaching out to people where they are can be the best way to reach them for Christ ? at least that is the theory of a group of North Greenville University students who are blending skateboarding and the gospel.... Continue Reading »

The staff and students at the Baptist Children's Village in Clinton, Miss., are still feeling the effects of Hurricane Katrina. So during their March spring break, Clark Carter, Charleston Southern University campus minister and 22 CSU students painted, raked,... Continue Reading »

Three?years ago, in August 2003, Ashley Cummings, associate director of missions for the Pickens-Twelve Mile Baptist Association, called the Pickens County Sheriff"s Department to find out if there was a shelter for battered women in the county.... Continue Reading »

Things have changed a lot for Bishop Carlton Pearson.... Continue Reading »

Dean Wright Ussery, 82, of Mt. Pleasant, a pastor who served for 50 years and who helped establish the Baptist Student Union at Francis Marion University, died March 25.... Continue Reading »

Eloise Salvo McMichael, 79, who was not only a pastor's wife, but also a pastor's daughter and a pastor's mother, died March 9 in Columbia.... Continue Reading »

In 1974, I served as a student missionary to Japan. I lived with a Southern Baptist missionary couple in their home in Nagasaki. One day, while rummaging through the missionary's library, I picked up an old copy of HIS,... Continue Reading »

Mary Elizabeth DuPuis Russell, 82, who with her husband was instrumental in the founding of Baptist College of Charleston (now Charleston Southern University), died Feb. 27, in Jackson, Miss.... Continue Reading »

Thomas William Searcy, 77, of Easley, a retired Baptist minister who pastored churches in South Carolina and North Carolina, died March 1.... Continue Reading »