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August 24, 2022 ‘The Beckham County Record -D Church Directory Eternal GPS: God’s Positioning System A viewpoint that is be- ERICK FIRST CHRISTIAN coming more common 221 S, Walnut, Erick 580-526-3938 These local and area congregations THE SWEETWATER FIRST because of _ influencers ‘Sunday Bible School 10 a.m. BAPTIST CHURCH like Oprah Winfrey is: “I Worship 11 a.m, welcome you to worship with them Bill Smithey, Pastor « 534-2312 Sunday School 10 a.m, - Worship 11 a.m. QUEEN OF ALL SAINTS Evening Worship 6:30 p.m. don’t believe Jesus is the 915 N. Sth St., Sayre 928-2385 Father Danny Glover in services each week! Wed. Night Service 6:30 p.m. only way to God. Many Mass Sunday 8:00 a.m. ERICK ASSEMBLY OF sincerely spiritual people, Religious Ed/Pre School & Youth confident that they’ll have a positive experience after See St. Matthew Catholic Church ST. MATTHEW CATHOLIC Parson GOD 114 West Sth Erick + 757-756-6011 Sunday Morning Worship 11 a.m. CHURCH IN ELK CITY ‘Sunday School 9:45 - 10:30 a.m. Dixie Yoder death, don’t believe Jesus is exclusive either. A lov- 3001 B. Hwy 66, Elk City 580-225-0066 Father Danny Glover Mass Sat. 5:00 pm & To Person Sunday Evening Service 7 p.m. Wednesdays Prayer & Bible Study 7 p.m. ing God wouldn’t make it ‘Sun. 10:45 am By Kerry Hookstra that hard to get to Him. I believe when we try to do right, “Religious Ed/Pres-school-8th ERICK CHURCH OF Sunday 9:30 am the good hopefully outweighs the bad. I trust in diligence and “Religious Ed/Youth 9th-12th CHRIST ‘Wednesday 6:30 pm In memoriam ofKerry, we will be pulling some ofhis 301 Magnolia, Erick g00d behavior.” JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES Parson To Person columns from the past. Ron Goodnight, Minister -405-979- 627 B. Benton 9152 Gary Nation, Coordinator of the Body Worship 11 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. One defining statement Jesus made about Himself was Ladies Bible Study, Thursday, 10 a.m. Our assessment of how things “should be” comes from of Elders Public Bible Lecture - Sunday 10 a.m. to say that He is the way, the truth, and the life. The Apos- a limited human perspective. We've all heard the prideful ‘WatchTower Study- tle Thomas wanted to know how he could know the way TEXOLA BAPTIST announcement, “if I was God, I’d do this...or I wouldn’t do Sunday 10:35 a.m. Texola, OK, 526-3000 Bible Study, Ministry School -Thursday and that opened the door for Jesus to go deeper into His Charlie Floyd, Pastor that...” But until we humbly recognize we cannot ever know 7:30 purpose in this world. In every instance of His work you Sun. School 10 a.m. + Worship 11 a.m. all God knows, we won’t make the choice of faith to believe can count on Him being a sure thing. We live in a world Sunday evening Bible that God is love; He is always good; He knows all things, and SAYRE FIRST BAPTIST that is uncertain and unpredictable. It has the potential Study 5:30 p.m. 504N. 4TH + 928-5518 to drive us crazy as we seek to make sense of it. Money, ‘Worship 6 p.m. He never makes a mistake. God’s level of goodness is never Peter Parker, Pastor Wednesday night Bible Study 7 p.m. ‘Alan Headrick, Music & health, and life itself are never sure things but Jesus is determined by our level of understanding. Discipleship Minister unequivocally certain. COUNTRY Sunday School 9:30 CHAPEL-ERICK Sunday Morning Worship 10:45 Each of us is seeking direction and meaning in life. Non-Denominational At 6:00 a.m., people look at their respective clocks and Men's& Women’s Bible Study, Jesus is the way to take us where we are seeking. He takes 5.1/4 miles north of Erick ConnectKids Choirs & Youth Collide Ben & Alvinita North agree: “It's 6:00 in the moming.” We concur with our clocks Sundays at 6:00 p.m, what we do for Him and makes it fruitful. Jesus is the Sunday morning worship 10 a.m. Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. truth and reality against which everything else is mea- Wednesday night service 7 p.m. because there’s a specific starting point, Greenwich, England, ConnectKids (children) 6 p.m. Collide Youth Worship at sured. The gospel or the good news lets us see the life that ERICK FIRST UNITED where time and place are defined for the entire world. All time FBCCC 6 p.m, METHODIST CHURCH Jesus offers. Our eternal life comes through Him and His is measured relative to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and all sacrifice on the cross. Rev. Jack Atkinson, Pastor SPRING CREEK BAPTIST 320. Magnolia + 526-3949 places have latitude (distance north or south of the Equator) RT.1, Willow The essential nature of Jesus Christ is seen in sal- ‘Sunday School 10 a.m, + vation. We have faith in Him that is essential to being Worship: 11 a.m. and longitude (distance east or west of the Greenwich Merid- Rev, Mathew Riggs, pastor Elementary Group 5:30 p.m. S.S. 9:45 » Worship Services delivered from sin. That faith leads us to repent from sin UMYE7 p.m. ian) relative to Greenwich. Whether flying, sailing, driving 10:40 a.m, UMM - 2nd Sunday of the or walking using a Global Positioning System, position and ‘Church Training 6 p.m.-Evening Worship 7 and confess Jesus as Lord and Savior. We obey Him in bap- ‘month 6:30 p.m. Wed. Night Service 6 p.m. tism to gain new life as we are born again. The Holy Spirit UMW 3rd Thursday ofthe time are always measured from Greenwich. If each person or SAYRE UNITED worked to convict us and comes to be part of our lives month 7 pam. people group decided to use a different starting point for time METHODIST when we commit our hearts to Christ. Is Jesus the way for CARTER FIRST BAPTIST 802 N. th, Sayre + 928-2146 and place, any meeting would depend solely on chance, with Rev. Alex Costea, Pastor you? Has He become the truth in your life? Will you come 221.8, Main + 580-486-3366 ‘Worship 9:30 a.m. to Him for eternal life? Sunday School 10 a.m, no possibility of success. Sunday School 10:45 a.m. Worship 11 a.m. ‘We find a constant theme in Scripture: “For God so dear- UMYE 5 p.m. 6 pm. Sunday Evening Worship UMM 2nd Wednesday ofthe month, 7 am. MY OF FATHER’S HOUSE Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6 p.m. TRINITY FELLOWSHIP PRAYER ly loved...that He gave up His only unique Son, Jesus; that (Below activities during school year only) Thrive at 6:30 p.m., Wednesdays CARTER CHURCH OF whoever believes in HIM, shall not perish, but has everlast- Good News Club Thursdays after (Non-Denominational) 201 N. 11th, Sayre CHRIST school Andy Taylor, Daryle Perry, Heath Smith, Pastor 105 N. Third Street ing life.” This is the profoundly necessary starting point for Buddy Suthers, & Eric Easter, Pastors Sunday School 10 a.m. Sunday Bible Class 10 a.m. everything about human existence and how we relate to God. SAYRE CHURCH OF ‘Sunday Morning Worship, 10 a.m. Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday Worship 11 a.m. CHRIST Wednesday Prayer Time 10 a.m. Wed. night Bible Study 6 p.m. Evening Worship 5 p.m. If we ignore this “Eternal Mean Time”, our understanding of 6th and Locust + 928-3427 Keepers of the Faith Children’s Ministry Wednesday Evening Bible Study6 p.m. Billy Clabaugh, Minister Daring Service NEW LIBERTY everything else about life will be inaccurate; based solely on Bible School 10 a.m. Ground Zero Youth Wednesdays at 6:15 pm Chris & Judy Ogden, Pastor THE HARVEST HOUSE wishful thinking and happenstance. Worship 10:45 a.m. and p.m. Praise & Worship 10:30 a.m. 312N. Broadway + 580-374-1675 Ladies Bible Class - 10 a.m. Wed. ERICK FIRST BAPTIST Sunday evening service 6 p.m. Non-Denominational Wednesday 7 p.m. 400 S. Sheb Wooley, 526-3375 Shane Poindexter, Pastor God doesn’t “make it hard”. Jesus said we must have un- Jason Kleckner, Pastor HEXT BAPTIST Sunday School 10 a.m. SAYRE ASSEMBLY OF GOD Logan Reimer, Youth Director Sunday Worship 10:45 a.m. & 6 p.m. complicated, humble faith to receive God’s simple plan to ‘7th and Locust Sun, School 9:45 a.m.+ Worship 11 a.m. West of Sayre Wednesdays 7 p.m. Jim Blanken, Pastor Pastor Jim H. Bland enter into relationship with Him (Matthew 18:2-4), Youth Discipleship 5:30 p.m. Sunday Worship 10 a.m. Sunday School 10 a.m. Evening Worship 6:30 p.m, Bible Study 4 p.m. Seventh-Day Adventist Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. ‘Wednesday Evening Adult, Youth Church in America Wednesday 7 p.m. & Fusion 6:30 p.m. CHEYENNE FIRST 11375 N. 1990 Road, Elk City We know without a common, unchanging starting point BAPTIST 580-472-3472 for time and place, chaos would reign supreme in an unguid- SAYRE FIRST CHRISTIAN BUFFALO BAPTIST Dr. Dennis Hooper, Pastor Located one mile west of Elk Lake 1601 N. 4th Street + 928-3639 Rt. 2, Sayre, Hwy 152 Sunday School 9:45 a.m. South of Elk City ed world. In the spiritual realm, a common, unchangeable Dennis Knight, Pastor Sunday Worship 10:50 a.m. & 6 p.m. 9:30 a.m. to noon Saturday mornings Northwest of Sayre ‘Wednesday6 p.m. Awana, Yth & Prayer starting point is even more necessary, and Jesus made it very Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Ron Henning, Pastor The Refuge Church Worship and Communion 10:50 a.m. SS.10a.m, + Worship 11 a.m. Non-Denominational clear: HE IS the “spiritual Greenwich”. HE IS that one point Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. Evening Worship6 p.m. 18410 HWY 152, Sayre, OK from which all eternal existence, security and order emanate. Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m. Wed. 3 Miles West of Sayre on HWY 152 John 14:6 “I, Jesus, alone, in contradistinction to all oth- inside the barn. 580-729-0953 ers, am THE Road, THE Truth and THE Life. No one comes Worship at the Church of Your Choice this Sunday! 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