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RELIGION 4• SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 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 LAURA’S Baptist Great Plains Baptist Assn. First Christian Church (Diciples of Christ) 1500 N. Randall, Elk City 320 S Magnolia Ave, Erick 580-526-3949 [email protected] Sunday Worship: 9:00am DISOBEDIENCE 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 little girl. At last Laura had to stay inside. She 580-225-5344 Pastor Brad Hyatt Sunday Worship: 10:45am New Life Christian Center could bear it no longer. couldn’t even fetch water Sunday Worship 11 am 20210 East Co. Road 1120 Tuesday Bible Study: 12pm She slid out of bed and from the spring, for that Wednesday 6 pm Elk City, OK 73644 Nazarene her bare feet stole across was going out of Ma’s Central Missionary Baptist Pastor: Michael Anderson First Church of The Nazarene the cool earthen floor. In sight. Mary fetched the 1205 W. B Avenue, Elk City www.NewLifeElkCity.com 816 W. 6th St., Elk City 580-225-0212 her nightgown and night- water, Mary took Carrie Service Information 580-225-2026 Sundays: 10:00am & 6:00pm Rev. Andrew Dages cap she stood beside Pa. to walk on the prairie. Eastside Baptist Wednesdays: 7:00pm She could feel him smil- Laura had to stay in. Jack 421 N. Booth Avenue, Elk City 580-225-0742 Church of Christ Pentecostal ing down at her. “What the bulldog jumped out Chase Brower, Min. Church of Christ Grace Temple is it, little half-pint?” he on the path and looked 216 N. Adams Ave., Elk City 601 W. 20th St, Elk City Fairview Baptist 580-225-0718 asked her. “You look like back at her, begging her 312 S. Lusk Avenue, Elk City Gantt Carter, Min. Lindell & Nequita Brown, Pastors a little ghost, all white in to come out. He could 580-225-0203 Iglesia Evangelica Cristo Es La Pena the dark.” not understand why she 301 S. Magnolia Ave, Erick 600 W. Main, Elk City Dixie Yoder First Baptist Douglas Holland, Minister Pastor, Jose Reyes did not. 1600 W. Country Club Blvd, Elk City 816-726-6988 580-799-2964 A couple of weeks ago, 580-225-7951 “Pa,” Laura said, in Bible Study 10am Sunday I was contemplating the Worship 11am Sunday Presbyterian a quivery small voice, Laura helped Ma. She First Baptist Ladies Bible Study 10am Wednesday subtle nature of choos- 400 S. Sheb Wooley, Erick “I—I—started to go to washed the dishes, swept 580-526-3375 Evening Open Bible Study 7pm First Presbyterian ing disobedience when Wednesday 217 N. Washington Ave., Elk City the swimming-hole.” the floor and set the table. Jason Klechner, Min. I came upon this exam- 580-225-3130 “You did!” Pa exclaimed. After dinner she ripped a Church of Christ Elk City ple in the book, On the First Baptist Meets at Pioneer & Bell Then he asked, “Well, sheet that was worn in 504 N. 4th St., Sayre 580-225-0718 Non-Denominational Banks of Plum Creek, what stopped you?” “I the middle. Ma turned 580-928-5518 [email protected] by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The Way Church don’t know,” Laura whis- the strips of muslin and First Hispanic Baptist 201 S. Jefferson Ave., Elk City She was seven and had Westside Church of Christ pered. “It had gray fur pinned them together, 919 W. 8th St., Elk City 580-225-3052 been told that she mustn’t 580-225-7901 Gateway and it—it flattened out and Laura whipped the go into the creek where Church of God 4227 W. 3rd St., Elk City flat. It snarled.” Pa said, “It new seam, over and over Main Street Baptist 501 W. 1st, Elk City 580-225-1184 the water was dark. As 1101 N. Main St., Elk City must have been a badger.” with tiny stitches. She 580-225-2938 580-225-0227 Curtis Newton, Min. she considered how cool Joe Thompson, Min. Then for a long time he thought that seam and The Link that water would feel on Mt. Carmal Baptist Jehovah’s Witnesses didn’t say anything and that day would never 200 S. Main, Elk City that hot day, one step at a 1801 W. A Avenue, Elk City Jehovah’s Witnesses Laura waited. He said at end. But at last Ma rolled 580-225-2061 402 E. Washington Ave., Sayre Trinity Fellowship time, she came nearer and last, “I hardly know what up her mending. “You 580-928-9330 Sayre nearer to the forbidden One Church 580-928-2345 to do, Laura. You see, I have been a good girl, 200 East Broadway, Elk City Lutheran water. Suddenly, a strange trusted you. But do you Laura,” Ma said. “We will 580-210-8881 Christ Ministiries animal blocked her path, Kevin Brosius (pastor) Christ Lutheran 804 W. 6th St., Elk City know what people have tell Pa so. And I am sure 1023 W. 2nd St., Elk City and when it growled at 580-243-9708 to do to anyone they that badger saved you Prairie View Baptist 580-225-2266 her, she turned and ran to I-40 & S Hwy 34, Elk City can’t trust?” “Wh—at?” from drowning, for if you Pastor Tod Thornton Seventh-Day Adventist the house. Laura quavered. “They had gone TO that deep Sunday School 9:15, Worship 10:30 Wed Prairie View Troops 3:30 Seventh-Day Adventist have to watch him,” said water you would have 11375 N. 1990 Rd., Elk City “Laura had been bad Wed Prayer Meeting 6:30 Pa. “I guess you must be gone INTO it. Once you 580-472-3472 and she knew it. She had Service times: watched. So tomorrow begin being naughty, it Retrop Baptist Church 2:00 pm Bible Study broken her promise to Intersection Hwy 6 and 55 you stay where Ma can is easier to go on and on, 580-303-0791 2:50 pm Church Service Pa. But no one had seen watch you. You aren’t to and sooner or later some- her. No one knew she had go out of her sight all day. thing dreadful happens.” started to go to the swim- If you are good, then we ming-hole. If she didn’t tell, no one would ever will let you try again to be “Yes, Ma,” Laura said. SUPPORT & RECOVERY RESOURCES a little girl we can trust. She knew that now. The know. Only that strange AA-Elk City Original Group– 105 Meadow Ridge Dr, Elk City, Main St, Elk City, Mon at 7pm “Very well, Charles,” Ma whole day was gone. Lau- 113 Meadow Ridge Dr Suite K, Elk Nightly at 7pm CR - Great Plains Baptist Associ- animal knew, and it could said. “I will watch her to- ra had not seen that sun- City–M-F at noon & Every Night at Codependents Anony- ation- 1906 N Watts, Sayre - Th 6:30 not tell on her. But she morrow and I’m sure she rise, nor the shadows of 7pm mous-White Buffalo, Mon 5:30pm NA-Elk City– 100 S. Monroe Ave, felt worse and worse in- AA-Elk City Southside Group– CR - The Link Church - 200 S. Suite 18, Elk City, Nightly at 7pm will be good.” clouds on the prairie. She side. She couldn’t sleep. was sure that choosing to Breaking a promise was The next day was a do right could never be as as bad as telling a lie. Pa dreadful day. Ma was hard as being watched. thought she was a good mending, and Laura SUBSCRIBE TODAY Current news and great deals delivered right to your door! Call today to support the church page! 580-225-3000