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Need a fresh idea to bring in the New Year at your church? Here are two ideas!... Continue Reading »

One-third of the North American Mission Board's staff will be leaving at the end of the year as a result of retirement incentives and other downsizing of the Southern Baptist entity. On Friday, Dec. 10, NAMB recognized retirees who... Continue Reading »

Year-long activities highlighting ?giving gifts to the community? have marked the 200th anniversary of Camden's First Baptist Church, constituted with 25 members in 1810 as the Camden Baptist Church.... Continue Reading »

South Carolina Baptists made sure every inmate in the state prison system received a Christmas gift this year. The annual Christmas Packets for Prisoners drive collected 24,815 packets, which were placed in the hands of inmates on Dec. 7.... Continue Reading »

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) declared in September that the recession which began in December 2007 ended in June 2009. According to a recent LifeWay Research study, pastors of Protestant churches might disagree. After feeling moderate impact... Continue Reading »

?Now That You?ve Been Called to Ministry? is the title of a new book written by members of the Christian studies faculty at Anderson University.... Continue Reading »

Joe Donahue lay awake in terror that night. From his sleeping bag on the floor of his parents? trailer, his 8-year-old ears were flooded with the sounds of destruction: His drunken father's screaming, things smashing, breaking and shattering in... Continue Reading »

When I was a college student in Oxford, Ohio, I knew ?Lottie Moon? only as the name of a local popular bar named after a Confederate spy during the Civil War ? not the missionary whose name our annual... Continue Reading »

Cannon Eugene Price Jr., 82, of Anderson, a retired pastor and educator, died Oct. 31, 2010, at the Rainey Hospice House.... Continue Reading »

In the wake of massive rainfall and extensive flooding caused by Hurricane Tomas as it skirted western Haiti, disaster-weary Haitians are now coping with an increased spread of cholera worsened by bacteria-filled standing water.... Continue Reading »

Looking for some extra cash? You may find some in an unlikely place. The IRS is trying to return more than $164 million in undelivered checks to taxpayers. There are more than 111,000 taxpayers who are due a refund... Continue Reading »

The challenges and opportunities smaller Southern Baptist churches might embrace to reach their communities with the gospel was the focus of a Small Church and Bivocational Pastors Missional Initiative Dialogue at the North American Mission Board.... Continue Reading »