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RELIGION 4• SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 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 320 S Magnolia Ave, Erick WHY PRAY? 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] 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 goodness and infinite wisdom Jesus showed us we cannot Pastor Brad Hyatt Sunday Worship: 10:45am New Life Christian Center Tuesday Bible Study: 12pm in how and when He answers become mature, fully func- Sunday Worship 11 am 20210 East Co. Road 1120 Wednesday 6 pm Elk City, OK 73644 our requests, may cause us tioning spiritual adults apart Nazarene to resentfully regard prayer from prayer. Prayer is so su- Central Missionary Baptist Pastor: Michael Anderson First Church of The Nazarene as an unproductive trick of premely important that Jesus 1205 W. B Avenue, Elk City www.NewLifeElkCity.com 816 W. 6th St., Elk City 580-225-0212 Service Information the imagination—especially could not be effective and 580-225-2026 Sundays: 10:00am & 6:00pm Rev. Andrew Dages when we don’t receive what obedient without filling hour Eastside Baptist Wednesdays: 7:00pm we prayed for when and how after hour, night after night, 421 N. Booth Avenue, Elk City 580-225-0742 Church of Christ Pentecostal we expected it. with communication with His Chase Brower, Min. Church of Christ Grace Temple Father. 216 N. Adams Ave., Elk City 601 W. 20th St, Elk City The law of supply and de- Fairview Baptist 580-225-0718 Lindell & Nequita Brown, Pastors 312 S. Lusk Avenue, Elk City Gantt Carter, Min. mand, a basic economics Having prayed His whole 580-225-0203 principle, is also a basic prin- life, when Jesus began His Iglesia Evangelica Cristo Es La Pena 301 S. Magnolia Ave, Erick 600 W. Main, Elk City ciple of prayer. Before a loan public ministry, He healed First Baptist Douglas Holland, Minister Pastor, Jose Reyes Dixie Yoder 1600 W. Country Club Blvd, Elk City 816-726-6988 agreement is completed, there blindness and deafness; stilled 580-225-7951 580-799-2964 Bible Study 10am Sunday Janet’s young son repeat- must be a borrower and a the storm; commanded de- lender; before a gift is possi- mons; spoke life into dead First Baptist Worship 11am Sunday Presbyterian ed the same short prayer be- Ladies Bible Study 10am Wednesday 400 S. Sheb Wooley, Erick Evening Open Bible Study 7pm fore each meal: “Thank you ble, there must be a giver and bodies and strength into crip- 580-526-3375 First Presbyterian Wednesday 217 N. Washington Ave., Elk City for this food, gracious God. receiver; an organ cannot be pled limbs. Jason Klechner, Min. 580-225-3130 Amen.” transplanted without a donor Church of Christ Elk City First Baptist Meets at Pioneer & Bell and a recipient. Jesus lived, chose, worked 504 N. 4th St., Sayre Non-Denominational 580-501-0175 One evening, however, he and ministered as a fully hu- 580-928-5518 [email protected] thanked God for birds, trees These human transactions man man; making visible to The Way Church First Hispanic Baptist Westside Church of Christ 201 S. Jefferson Ave., Elk City and insects; friends, family require a giver and a receiver, us what First Adam was in- 919 W. 8th St., Elk City 580-225-3052 and pets. Janet was thrilled and so does prayer. Need mo- tended to be. He fully sub- 580-225-7901 Gateway to hear him praying from his tivates us to pray expectantly; mitted to His Father’s will; Church of God 4227 W. 3rd St., Elk City Main Street Baptist 501 W. 1st, Elk City 580-225-1184 heart. But after his “Amen” recognizing that God’s abun- therefore, would not submit 1101 N. Main St., Elk City 580-225-0227 Curtis Newton, Min. he took a spoonful of stew, dant supply was fully provid- to anything that was not His 580-225-2938 Joe Thompson, Min. gasped, and dropped his ed at the Cross. Immature Father’s will. The Link prayer is often wishful, repe- Mt. Carmal Baptist Jehovah’s Witnesses 200 S. Main, Elk City spoon. “I should have prayed 1801 W. A Avenue, Elk City Jehovah’s Witnesses longer,” he said. “My food is titious begging, followed by He came into the same bro- 580-225-2061 402 E. Washington Ave., Sayre Trinity Fellowship still too hot.” aggravated grumbling when ken world in which we live, but 580-928-9330 Sayre One Church 580-928-2345 the “faith dollar” doesn’t ac- through prayer, Jesus healed 200 East Broadway, Elk City Lutheran People pray for many rea- tivate the “heavenly vending brokenness. Just so, through 580-210-8881 Christ Ministiries machine”. Waiting is often prayer, we heal brokenness. Kevin Brosius (pastor) Christ Lutheran 804 W. 6th St., Elk City sons. Some think of prayer 1023 W. 2nd St., Elk City part of the answer. God is de- When answers aren’t immedi- 580-243-9708 as the spiritual “apple a day Prairie View Baptist 580-225-2266 that keeps the devil away.” veloping maturity in His chil- ate, we can be confident that I-40 & S Hwy 34, Elk City dren in the waiting. God is at work, accomplishing Pastor Tod Thornton Seventh-Day Adventist But prayer is not an empty Sunday School 9:15, Worship 10:30 exercise Christians do simply His best in the middle of dif- Wed Prairie View Troops 3:30 Seventh-Day Adventist hoping to maintain spiritual God deeply desires to give ficulties both great and small Wed Prayer Meeting 6:30 11375 N. 1990 Rd., Elk City good spiritual and physical (Romans 8:28). 580-472-3472 health. Prayer is actually a Retrop Baptist Church Service times: most exciting component of gifts, but would dishonor our Intersection Hwy 6 and 55 2:00 pm Bible Study salvation! Prayer is the key ability to choose if He didn’t Please consider Infinite 580-303-0791 2:50 pm Church Service that unlocks provision for ev- allow us to recognize lack, Grace Ministries in your year- ery area of life. then choose to trust Him for round giving! Your generosi- provision. God provides so ty is an eternal investment in Effective prayer always be- much on a moment by mo- this and future generations. 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