The Baptist Courier

Stacy Williams Stacy Williams began duties Oct. 16 as pastor of First Baptist Church, Edgefield. A native of Greer, he is a graduate of North Greenville University and Erskine Seminary. He and his wife Lynn have two children, Cade... Continue Reading »

The Georgia Baptist Convention, by an overwhelming majority, voted Nov. 15 to sever its 172-year-old relationship with Mercer University.... Continue Reading »

The South Carolina Baptist Historical Society presented its annual award for the outstanding bicentennial celebration to The Baptist Church of Beaufort.... Continue Reading »

William Willimon, bishop of the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church, and Jeff Rogers, pastor of First Baptist Church, Greenville, are the keynote speakers for the Eleventh Annual John A. Hamrick Lectureship at First Baptist Church, Charleston,... Continue Reading »

The lighting is set. The cameras are rolling. The anchors are behind the desk, ready to deliver the evening's news. While this scene may be fairly common across the nation, for North Greenville University students, it marked a new... Continue Reading »

In 2001, the Christian Life and Public Affairs Committee instituted the Impact Your World award. It is presented to the church that expands the kingdom of God by dealing with social/moral issues through local community ministries. This year's recipient... Continue Reading »

Kelly McCorkle has represented the state of South Carolina in the Miss America pageant, worked for Jim DeMint in his bid to become a senator and traveled around the world as a contestant on CBS? ?Amazing Race.? Now she... Continue Reading »

Williams TED WILLIAMS is serving as pastor of Abney Memorial Baptist Church, Greenwood. A graduate of Luther Rice Seminary, he also did graduate study in biblical counseling at Liberty University. He previously served Snow Memorial Baptist Church in Johnson... Continue Reading »

Timothy Shaw was licensed to the ministry Oct. 2 by McMillan Memorial Baptist Church, Marion. Presenting the certificate is his father Richard Shaw, pastor of McMillan Memorial.   The congregation of White Springs Baptist Church, Lancaster, recently broke ground... Continue Reading »

We live in a culture that continues to push the envelope to become more and more immoral. In the midst of this disintegration, why do Christians seem to have such a small and seemingly insignificant impact?... Continue Reading »

Where have true, God-purposed ?friends? gone in this day of ours? Most of us start out seeking godly, true friends to walk with us over the stormy times, the pressured times and even our failures. But somewhere in our... Continue Reading »

These past few months have been a time of great challenge in many parts of our country caught in the path of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma.... Continue Reading »