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RELIGION 4• SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2026 The Elk City News Area Church Directory Assembly of God Catholic Methodist Queen of All Saints Assembly of God 914 N. 5th St., Sayre 115 W. 5th St., Erick United Methodist - Elk CIty 580-928-2385 720 W. Country Club Blvd, Elk City • Pastor: Gary Griffin Rev. Danny Grover 580-225-0262 Assembly of God [email protected] St. Mathews Catholic www.elkcityumc.com 7th and Locust St., Sayre 3001 E. Hwy 66, Elk City 580-928-4296 Sunday Worship: 9:00am (traditional); 580-225-0066 11:00am (contemporary) Jimmy Blanken, Min. Rev. Danny Grover Sunday School: 10:00 am First Assembly of God Christian Sunday Choir Practice: 10:15am 2701 S. Randall , Elk City Wednesday Night: 5:30pm Dinner; Antioch Christian 6:00pm Nursery (0-2 years old), 580-225-1167 3200 W. Country Club Blvd, Elk City Kevin Akins, Min. GLOW Kids (2 years old to 3rd grade), 580-243-0066 Highway 456 (4th-6th grade), Youth Jeff McDowell group (7th-12th grade), 6:30pm Adult Grandview Assembly of God Pioneer and Country Club, Elk City Bible Study Christian Church 580-225-7742 1 S. Walnut, Erick Bryan Herrick United Methodist - Erick 580-526-3284 WAS JESUS 320 S Magnolia Ave, Erick Baptist First Christian Church 580-526-3949 [email protected] (Diciples of Christ) Sunday Worship: 9:00am Great Plains Baptist Assn. 1500 N. Randall, Elk City 1902 Watts St., Sayre 580-225-7801 580-928-2585 United Methodist - Sayre 802 N. 4th St., Sayre • 580-928-2146 MURDERED? First Christian [email protected] Calvary Baptist Church 1601 N. 4th St., Sayre 1018 W B Avenue, Elk City Sunday School: 9:30am 580-928-3639 Sunday Choir Practice: 10:15am 580-225-5344 Pastor Brad Hyatt Sunday Worship: 10:45am New Life Christian Center Tuesday Bible Study: 12pm Sunday Worship 11 am 20210 East Co. Road 1120 Wednesday 6 pm Elk City, OK 73644 3:8). By saying an absolute brace God’s perfect design for Nazarene Central Missionary Baptist Pastor: Michael Anderson no to satan in the wilderness righteousness. When people 1205 W. B Avenue, Elk City First Church of The Nazarene www.NewLifeElkCity.com 816 W. 6th St., Elk City (Luke 4:1-13) and by taking all murder, they aren’t following 580-225-0212 Service Information 580-225-2026 of humanity’s sin into Himself God’s example. They’re imi- Sundays: 10:00am & 6:00pm Rev. Andrew Dages Eastside Baptist Wednesdays: 7:00pm and putting it to death in His tating satan, the liar, murderer 421 N. Booth Avenue, Elk City body on the cross (Colossians and thief. 580-225-0742 Church of Christ Pentecostal 1:13-22), Jesus has decisively Chase Brower, Min. Church of Christ Grace Temple defeated sin, satan and death Jesus’ death—His choice to 216 N. Adams Ave., Elk City 601 W. 20th St, Elk City Fairview Baptist 580-225-0718 Lindell & Nequita Brown, Pastors (Colossians 2:13-15). Our be drained of His life-blood 312 S. Lusk Avenue, Elk City Gantt Carter, Min. bodies are still mortal, so we on our behalf—is holy and 580-225-0203 Iglesia Evangelica Cristo Es La Pena fight the “skirmishes” of put- good. The process of His death 301 S. Magnolia Ave, Erick 600 W. Main, Elk City First Baptist Douglas Holland, Minister Pastor, Jose Reyes ting doubt and unbelief to is hard to accept, just as it’s dif- 1600 W. Country Club Blvd, Elk City 816-726-6988 580-799-2964 death even while believing ficult to experience the strain, 580-225-7951 Bible Study 10am Sunday God in the middle of difficult pain and ugly suffering of First Baptist Worship 11am Sunday Presbyterian Ladies Bible Study 10am Wednesday Dixie Yoder situations, but the war is won. childbirth, even knowing that 400 S. Sheb Wooley, Erick Evening Open Bible Study 7pm First Presbyterian new life is being produced. 580-526-3375 Wednesday In a discussion about Res- Jason Klechner, Min. 217 N. Washington Ave., Elk City urrection Day last week, this Murder describes a life 580-225-3130 Church of Christ Elk City question came up: “Dr. Dix- taken violently and with- Almighty God, the Creator, First Baptist Meets at Pioneer & Bell out permission. Jesus wasn’t offers His great love to keep 504 N. 4th St., Sayre 580-501-0175 Non-Denominational ie, I can’t understand why it 580-928-5518 murdered! He gave Himself us ultimately, eternally safe. [email protected] pleased God for Jesus to die The Way Church such a tortuous death. How willingly in agreement with To enable us to freely return First Hispanic Baptist Westside Church of Christ 201 S. Jefferson Ave., Elk City Father God, because of in- His love, God gave the amaz- 919 W. 8th St., Elk City 580-225-3052 can torture and murder be 580-225-7901 Gateway pleasing? It makes God seem finite love for humankind (1 ing privilege of choice. We are 4227 W. 3rd St., Elk City Church of God so bloodthirsty. Maybe people Timothy 2:6). His death was able to reject His love, protec- Main Street Baptist 501 W. 1st, Elk City 580-225-1184 the giving of one life in order tion, wisdom, and all else that 1101 N. Main St., Elk City 580-225-0227 Curtis Newton, Min. murder because they think 580-225-2938 that many would be saved. He offers. When we do, we ex- Joe Thompson, Min. they’re following God’s exam- The Link ple?” perience painful, often deadly Mt. Carmal Baptist Jehovah’s Witnesses 200 S. Main, Elk City God isn’t bloodthirsty. The consequences. Consequences 1801 W. A Avenue, Elk City Jehovah’s Witnesses 580-225-2061 402 E. Washington Ave., Sayre Trinity Fellowship We won’t fully understand Bible teaches that our blood is are simply the inevitable har- Sayre 580-928-9330 some things about God’s re- our physical life. Medical sci- vest of seeds sown, not God’s One Church 580-928-2345 demption plan until eternity, ence bears this out. Blood is punishment. 200 East Broadway, Elk City Lutheran 580-210-8881 Christ Ministiries but it’s necessary to eliminate one of the few things science Kevin Brosius (pastor) Christ Lutheran 804 W. 6th St., Elk City has not been able to imitate. Tender mercy and infinite 1023 W. 2nd St., Elk City the deadly, erroneous grid 580-225-2266 580-243-9708 Death came into the world grace is God’s idea; a gift pre- Prairie View Baptist of an angry, punishing God, I-40 & S Hwy 34, Elk City and read Scripture instead through Adam’s disobedience. pared for us in Christ long Pastor Tod Thornton Seventh-Day Adventist through the Biblical grid of In order for life to be restored, before time began: “…training Sunday School 9:15, Worship 10:30 Wed Prairie View Troops 3:30 Seventh-Day Adventist John 3:16—“For God so dear- blood—the source of human us to renounce ungodliness 11375 N. 1990 Rd., Elk City Wed Prayer Meeting 6:30 ly loved and highly prized the life—had to be the “curren- and worldly passions, and to 580-472-3472 cy” of payment for the death live self-controlled, upright, Retrop Baptist Church Service times: world that He even gave up 2:00 pm Bible Study produced by sin (Leviticus and godly lives in the present Intersection Hwy 6 and 55 His precious and only Begot- 580-303-0791 2:50 pm Church Service ten Son…”. 17:11). Because human life is age, waiting for our blessed of such immeasurable value, hope, the appearing of the glo- Torture and murder pro- God chose animals to die in ry of our great God and Savior duced by sin does not please God! It pleases satan, who our place in temporary pay- ment for sin until Jesus’ came Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all SUPPORT & RECOVERY RESOURCES intended destruction from and died as the final, forever lawlessness and to purify for AA-Elk City Original Group– 105 Meadow Ridge Dr, Elk City, CR - The Link Church - 200 S. the moment he rebelled. John sacrifice. himself a people for his own 113 Meadow Ridge Dr Suite K, Elk Nightly at 7pm Main St, Elk City, Mon at 7pm 10:10: “The thief comes only possession who are zealous City–M-F at noon & M,W,F,S,Su at NA-Elk City– 100 S. Monroe CR - Great Plains Baptist Asso- to steal, kill and destroy.” But God didn’t create death or for good works.” Titus
7pm Ave, Suite 18, Elk City, Nightly at ciation- 1906 N Watts, Sayre - Th evil—they came into existence AA-Elk City Southside Group– 7pm 6:30 Jesus came to neutralize the works of the devil, including when humankind rejected His Call 580-774-2884 to learn the horror of sin, sickness, life. Death exists anywhere life more about God’s great gift of accidents and death (1 John is rejected. Evil exists wherev- eternal life through His Son, er human beings refuse to em- Jesus Christ. SUBSCRIBE TODAY Current news and great deals delivered right to your door! Call today to support the church page! 580-225-3000