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RELIGION 4• SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 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 Death and Taxes 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 First Christian [email protected] that only death and taxes have the final word. For Calvary Baptist Church 1601 N. 4th St., Sayre 1018 W B Avenue, Elk City Sunday School: 9:30am 580-928-3639 are sure. The unchanging the believer in Jesus Christ, 580-225-5344 Sunday Choir Practice: 10:15am Sunday Worship: 10:45am nature of God, His charac- eternal life—not death—is Pastor Brad Hyatt New Life Christian Center Tuesday Bible Study: 12pm ter, His justice, His mercy, the true certainty. Sunday Worship 11 am 20210 East Co. Road 1120 Wednesday 6 pm Elk City, OK 73644 and His purposes remain Even taxes, the other half Nazarene constant across centuries. of the tired old saying, are Central Missionary Baptist Pastor: Michael Anderson First Church of The Nazarene Human systems may rise not presented in Scripture 1205 W. B Avenue, Elk City www.NewLifeElkCity.com 816 W. 6th St., Elk City 580-225-0212 Service Information and fall, and death in all as an unchanging certain- Sundays: 10:00am & 6:00pm 580-225-2026 Rev. Andrew Dages its forms will one day be ty. While Romans 13:6 ac- Eastside Baptist Wednesdays: 7:00pm completely eliminated, knowledges that taxes are 421 N. Booth Avenue, Elk City 580-225-0742 Church of Christ Pentecostal but God’s nature is eter- part of living under earthly Chase Brower, Min. Church of Christ Grace Temple nally fixed. “Jesus Christ authority, the Bible does 216 N. Adams Ave., Elk City 601 W. 20th St, Elk City (the Messiah) is [always] not treat taxation as an Fairview Baptist 580-225-0718 Lindell & Nequita Brown, Pastors 312 S. Lusk Avenue, Elk City Gantt Carter, Min. the same, yesterday, today, eternal or universal princi- 580-225-0203 Dixie Yoder Iglesia Evangelica Cristo Es La Pena [yes] and forever (to the ple. Taxes exist only with- 301 S. Magnolia Ave, Erick 600 W. Main, Elk City ages).” Hebrews
in human governmental First Baptist Douglas Holland, Minister The old saying “Noth- 1600 W. Country Club Blvd, Elk City 816-726-6988 Pastor, Jose Reyes ing is sure but death and Because God is un- structures, all of which are 580-225-7951 Bible Study 10am Sunday 580-799-2964 taxes” has echoed through changeable, His promises temporary. God’s king- Worship 11am Sunday Presbyterian are absolutely certain. In dom, to which believers First Baptist Ladies Bible Study 10am Wednesday generations as a “truth”; a 400 S. Sheb Wooley, Erick Evening Open Bible Study 7pm cynical summary of hu- 2 Corinthians 1:20, Paul ultimately belong, is not 580-526-3375 Wednesday First Presbyterian 217 N. Washington Ave., Elk City man existence. It suggests writes, “For all the prom- upheld by taxation but by Jason Klechner, Min. 580-225-3130 that life is fundamentally ises of God find their Yes His sovereign rule. Earth- First Baptist Church of Christ Elk City Meets at Pioneer & Bell uncertain, unpredictable, answer in Him.” God’s ly governments will pass 504 N. 4th St., Sayre 580-501-0175 Non-Denominational and unstable—except for commitments are guar- away, but God’s kingdom is 580-928-5518 [email protected] two unavoidable reali- anteed. His promises far everlasting. First Hispanic Baptist The Way Church Westside Church of Christ 201 S. Jefferson Ave., Elk City ties: that every person will outweigh the inevitabili- Ultimately, Scripture 919 W. 8th St., Elk City 580-225-3052 eventually die, and that ty of taxes, which depend teaches that the greatest 580-225-7901 Gateway every society will demand on human governments, certainty in life is God Main Street Baptist Church of God 4227 W. 3rd St., Elk City 501 W. 1st, Elk City 580-225-1184 taxes. While the phrase or death, which will ulti- Himself—His existence, 1101 N. Main St., Elk City 580-225-0227 Curtis Newton, Min. describes a common hu- mately be abolished. The His faithfulness, His jus- 580-225-2938 Joe Thompson, Min. man experience, Scripture believer’s hope is anchored tice, His love, and His eter- Mt. Carmal Baptist Jehovah’s Witnesses The Link 200 S. Main, Elk City presents a very different not in the temporary reali- nal purposes. Death will 1801 W. A Avenue, Elk City Jehovah’s Witnesses view of what is truly cer- ties of earthly life but in the be defeated. Taxes will end 580-225-2061 402 E. Washington Ave., Sayre Trinity Fellowship tain. According to the Bi- eternal reliability of God’s with earthly governments. One Church 580-928-9330 Sayre 580-928-2345 ble, death and taxes are not word. But God’s kingdom, His 200 East Broadway, Elk City Lutheran the ultimate certainties of Scripture also challenges promises, and the eternal 580-210-8881 Christ Ministiries Kevin Brosius (pastor) Christ Lutheran life. God’s character, His the inevitability of death life He offers remain un- 1023 W. 2nd St., Elk City 804 W. 6th St., Elk City 580-243-9708 promises, His sovereignty, itself. While physical death shakable. Prairie View Baptist 580-225-2266 and the eternal destiny He is a present reality for hu- The saying “Nothing is I-40 & S Hwy 34, Elk City manity, the Bible teaches sure but death and taxes” Pastor Tod Thornton Seventh-Day Adventist offers are far more certain Sunday School 9:15, Worship 10:30 than any earthly inevitabil- that death is not the final reflects a limited, earth- Wed Prairie View Troops 3:30 Seventh-Day Adventist or ultimate certainty. In ly perspective. Scripture Wed Prayer Meeting 6:30 11375 N. 1990 Rd., Elk City ity. Knowledge of Scripture 580-472-3472 and a deepening under- fact, death is described invites us into a far great- Retrop Baptist Church Service times: standing of the nature of as an enemy that will be er reality—one in which Intersection Hwy 6 and 55 2:00 pm Bible Study destroyed. 1 Corinthi- God’s unchanging nature 580-303-0791 2:50 pm Church Service God, makes it clear that the saying is incomplete at ans 15:26 states, “The last and eternal promises are best, misleading at worst, enemy to be destroyed is the true certainties that and one that believers death.” Through Christ’s shape our lives and our should not repeat. resurrection, death has al- hope. SUPPORT & RECOVERY RESOURCES Scripture teaches ready been defeated, and It is necessary that we AA-Elk City Original Group– 105 Meadow Ridge Dr, Elk City, CR - The Link Church - 200 S. that God Himself is the believers are promised learn to think Biblically 113 Meadow Ridge Dr Suite K, Elk Nightly at 7pm Main St, Elk City, Mon at 7pm ultimate certainty. Un- eternal life. Jesus Himself about everything! Infinite City–M-F at noon & M,W,F,S,Su at NA-Elk City– 100 S. Monroe CR - Great Plains Baptist Asso- like human institutions or declares in John 11:25– Grace Ministries is a great 7pm Ave, Suite 18, Elk City, Nightly at ciation- 1906 N Watts, Sayre - Th physical life, God cannot 26, “I am the resurrection place to receive support, AA-Elk City Southside Group– 7pm 6:30 change. Malachi 3:6 de- and the life. Whoever be- training and Bible knowl- clares, “For I the Lord do lieves in me, though he edge to help in that growth not change.” This state- die, yet shall he live.” This process. 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