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This is in response to the letter titled ?Return to roots? that was in the June 14 Baptist Courier. When reading this, I felt as though I was being told we do not want you in our church if... Continue Reading »

A little 9-year-old boy sat stoically still while medical missionaries cleaned his wound; a gash on his eyelid that led to infection and fever. It was after the treatment that he finally cried, not because of the pain from... Continue Reading »

What if we baptized someone? This was the question Randy Harling, senior pastor of First Baptist Church, Simpsonville, posed to his staff in planning a groundbreaking service. Just one month later, four people were baptized where the baptismal pool... Continue Reading »

Sam Lawrence is the pastor at Poe Baptist Church in Greenville. In a sense, he has come home; he was baptized there some 30 years ago. Lawrence says the watchword these days for Poe Baptist is one familiar to... Continue Reading »

In recent months, it is increasingly hard to escape the rash of media focused on ministers and their wives. Mary Winkler, a Tennessee pastor's wife and mother, was convicted of murdering her husband. Ted Haggard, a Colorado mega-church pastor,... Continue Reading »

Dear Dr. Graham: Which is stronger in your opinion, good or evil? When I read the headlines every day, it looks like evil is winning out, although I?d like to think that good will win in the end. What... Continue Reading »

Danny Hester began duties as associate over co-ed ministries and mission action for South Carolina Woman's Missionary Union in May.... Continue Reading »

When Paul Bateman, an usher at Earle Street Baptist Church in Greenville, befriended a church member who sat by herself on the back pew, he had no idea of the ministry that would come from his display of kindness.... Continue Reading »

New Vision, Charleston Southern University's contemporary Christian vocal ensemble, completed its weeklong ministry tour through North Carolina and Virginia May 13.... Continue Reading »

On Jan. 14, 2005, Jennifer Christenbury learned she had invasive ductile carcinoma ? breast cancer. It was a scary diagnosis for the elementary school teacher, wife and mother of two young children, who was serving as a Mission Friends... Continue Reading »

Meeting in San Antonio June 12-13, more than 8,500 messengers to the 150th session of the Southern Baptist Convention elected a South Carolinian to a second term as president, agreed upon a definition of the Cooperative Program, and adopted... Continue Reading »

?As the Lord commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai ... all that were able to go forth to war? (Numbers 1:19-20). . It is on July 4 of each year when we are reminded... Continue Reading »