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As The Baptist Courier has reported, this year's contributions to the Mother's Day Offering will be used to set up a fund to help pastors, missionaries and their spouses (or widows) who need financial assistance in their senior years... Continue Reading »

Seventeen Charleston Southern University students spent two Saturdays in February working at a Habitat for Humanity construction site in Jedburg. Their goal: to complete the porch on a 23,000-foot ReStore facility. The building will serve as a collection site... Continue Reading »

Ben Maynard BEN MAYNARD is the new pastor of Ridgecrest Baptist Church, Florence. Maynard comes to Ridgecrest from Bethea Baptist Retirement Community, where he served as a chaplain, church planter, volunteer coordinator, and pastor of Bethea Baptist Church. He... Continue Reading »

To learn about the SCBC's 2008 service opportunities in South Asia, visit www.scbaptist.org.... Continue Reading »

The South Carolina Baptist Convention has posted at its Web site a slate of audio files featuring messages and breakout sessions from the 2008 State Evangelism Conference held Feb. 25-26 at First Baptist Church, Rock Hill.... Continue Reading »

In her benedictory address as executive director of Woman's Missionary Union of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, Evelyn Blount praised the women attending the annual state meeting March 14-15 at Fairview Baptist Church in Greer, telling them, ?It's not... Continue Reading »

?I think we have a marriage like many Americans, maybe even like many of you. Elected officials are really just reflections of the people we represent.? With those words, New York Gov. David Paterson brushed aside his admission in... Continue Reading »

Baptist leaders in the former Soviet Union are catching a vision of fulfilling the Great Commission as they learn more about Empowering Kingdom Growth and Thy Kingdom Come, according to Southern Baptists who have been working with those leaders... Continue Reading »

Concord Baptist Church, Anderson, held a men's ministry sporting clay shoot Feb. 23 in Pendleton. Approximately 150 people attended, and many men had no church affiliation.... Continue Reading »

Recently, Southern Baptists? attention has been focused on media reports which relate to the signing and release of a document titled, 'southern Baptists Environment and Climate Initiative.? Seldom have I seen such a reaction. Part of this has been... Continue Reading »

A ministry team from Charleston Southern University recently participated in a week of evangelism in Baltimore, Md. The group, led by campus minister Clark Carter, partnered with Embrace Baltimore, a two-year emphasis by the North American Mission Board.... Continue Reading »

The thousands of Southern Baptist ministers and their spouses ? who have discovered, to their disappointment and dismay, that their retirement incomes sometimes fall short of meeting minimum requirements for daily living ? have for decades had a faithful... Continue Reading »