The Baptist Courier

IT HAPPENS EVERY YEAR all over the country - budget committees meeting to decide salary and benefits for their minister and other staff members and employees. In small and large churches, committees wrestle with the tough questions of providing... Continue Reading »

Southern Baptist Convention president Bobby Welch is applauding a task force report that calls for greater Cooperative Program support from leaders throughout the Southern Baptist Convention.... Continue Reading »

WHEN I was actively pursuing academic and theological training, I studied at two Southern Baptist colleges and a Southern Baptist seminary. I did additional study at two non-Baptist seminaries. I will always be grateful for those study and learning... Continue Reading »

SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a Virginia case that the Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional. On Sept. 14, a San Francisco District Court followed the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in the... Continue Reading »

? People “elected to Southern Baptist Convention positions of leadership” should come from “strong Cooperative Program churches” and should be “well-known advocates themselves of Cooperative Program commitment.” ? Every elected SBC and state convention leader “should promote the Cooperative... Continue Reading »

DON WILTON, pastor of First Baptist Church, Spartanburg, for the past 12 years, will be nominated for president of the South Carolina Baptist Convention at the annual meeting Nov. 15-16.... Continue Reading »

THIS IS THE FINAL report of the 2005 Committee on Committees. If approved by messengers to the 2005 annual meeting, members begin serving Jan. 1, 2006. Rudy Gray from Seneca is chairman.... Continue Reading »

In 2000, an Empowering Kingdom Growth futuring group was appointed by Carlisle Driggers to prepare the state convention for the second chapter of the EKG emphasis. The group presented its report at the annual meeting of the convention in... Continue Reading »

NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY president Jimmy Epting and representatives of the soon-to-be established T. Walter Brashier Graduate School at Fairview were presented a symbolic key to the old sanctuary of Fairview Baptist Church, Greer, Sept. 18.... Continue Reading »

IN AUGUST 1964, Bethany Baptist Church, McCormick, began a "Love" story that has lasted more than 41 years.... Continue Reading »

MARSHALL FAGG began duties Oct. 1 as team leader of the evangelism and missions team for the South Carolina Baptist Convention.... Continue Reading »

CORY SINGLETON began duties Aug. 15 as associate director for the youth ministry group of the South Carolina Baptist Convention.... Continue Reading »