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RELIGION 4• SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 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 SIN’S MARINADE 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 bings and mindless riot- special; that we all came 802 N. 4th St., Sayre • 580-928-2146 First Christian [email protected] ing and looting, we might from the same primordial Calvary Baptist Church 1601 N. 4th St., Sayre 1018 W B Avenue, Elk City Sunday School: 9:30am ask, “Why did Cain kill slime as animals, and “evo- 580-928-3639 Sunday Choir Practice: 10:15am 580-225-5344 Abel?” Cain wasn’t play- lutionary progress” comes Pastor Brad Hyatt Sunday Worship: 10:45am New Life Christian Center Tuesday Bible Study: 12pm ing violent war games or through elimination of the Sunday Worship 11 am 20210 East Co. Road 1120 Wednesday 6 pm Elk City, OK 73644 watching violent television. weak. Soaking in this mar- Nazarene Guns weren’t available, but inade produces acceptance Central Missionary Baptist Pastor: Michael Anderson First Church of The Nazarene rocks were plentiful. Could of abortion infanticide and 1205 W. B Avenue, Elk City www.NewLifeElkCity.com 816 W. 6th St., Elk City 580-225-0212 Service Information Abel’s murder have been sale of babies’ body parts; 580-225-2026 Sundays: 10:00am & 6:00pm Rev. Andrew Dages prevented by medication, the gradual reduction of Eastside Baptist Wednesdays: 7:00pm behavior modification or medical care for the elder- 421 N. Booth Avenue, Elk City 580-225-0742 Church of Christ Pentecostal enhanced self-esteem? Can ly and growing support Chase Brower, Min. Church of Christ Grace Temple the current street violence for physician-assisted sui- 216 N. Adams Ave., Elk City 601 W. 20th St, Elk City be prevented by passing cide. Why do we expect the Fairview Baptist 580-225-0718 Dixie Yoder 312 S. Lusk Avenue, Elk City Lindell & Nequita Brown, Pastors more laws? No! Cain mur- thinking of those soaking Gantt Carter, Min. 580-225-0203 dered his brother and peo- in sin-marinade to be made Iglesia Evangelica Cristo Es La Pena 301 S. Magnolia Ave, Erick 600 W. Main, Elk City Our world appears to be ple throw deadly riot-tan- good by more laws, or to First Baptist Douglas Holland, Minister Pastor, Jose Reyes literally coming apart at 1600 W. Country Club Blvd, Elk City 816-726-6988 trums because their hearts make good laws? 580-225-7951 580-799-2964 the seams. YouTube, TV Bible Study 10am Sunday are evil. Until we call sin (2 Timothy 3:1–4; Jer- and social media are over- First Baptist Worship 11am Sunday Presbyterian by its real name and deal emiah 17:9): “Know this, Ladies Bible Study 10am Wednesday flowing with sexual wrong, 400 S. Sheb Wooley, Erick Evening Open Bible Study 7pm with it through the blood in these last days, perilous 580-526-3375 First Presbyterian violence and greed. Knowl- Wednesday 217 N. Washington Ave., Elk City of Jesus, we’ll continue to times will come: men will Jason Klechner, Min. edge is increasing exponen- 580-225-3130 experience the deadly hor- be lovers of self and money; Church of Christ Elk City tially, yet each new level of First Baptist Meets at Pioneer & Bell ror of sin’s fruit. People boasters, proud, disobedi- 504 N. 4th St., Sayre Non-Denominational wickedness brings an out- 580-225-0718 kill because they desire and ent to parents, unthankful, 580-928-5518 [email protected] pouring of confusion about choose murder from an evil unholy, unloving, unfor- The Way Church ‘how this could have hap- First Hispanic Baptist Westside Church of Christ 201 S. Jefferson Ave., Elk City heart (Mark 7:21-23). Vio- giving, slanderers, without 919 W. 8th St., Elk City pened!’ 580-225-3052 lent videos and music aren’t self-control, brutal, de- 580-225-7901 Gateway the root cause, although a spisers of good, traitors, Church of God 4227 W. 3rd St., Elk City The general response to Main Street Baptist 501 W. 1st, Elk City 580-225-1184 preexistent appetite for vi- headstrong; those who love 1101 N. Main St., Elk City public violence is a demand 580-225-0227 Curtis Newton, Min. olence is certainly strength- pleasure more than God. 580-225-2938 Joe Thompson, Min. for more gun control, more ened by violent input. The unregenerate heart is The Link psychological drugs and less Mt. Carmal Baptist Jehovah’s Witnesses 200 S. Main, Elk City Good cooks prepare meat deceitful above all things— 1801 W. A Avenue, Elk City mention of God. Proverbs Jehovah’s Witnesses by soaking it over-night in it is exceedingly perverse, 580-225-2061 402 E. Washington Ave., Sayre Trinity Fellowship 4:19 explains the world’s marinade sauce. The fla- corrupt, and severely, mor- 580-928-9330 Sayre bewilderment: “The way of One Church 580-928-2345 vor is absorbed into the tally sick! Who can know 200 East Broadway, Elk City Lutheran the wicked is like darkness; meat. Our culture is soak- it?” 580-210-8881 Christ Ministiries they don’t even know what ing in the sin-marinade of Believers must soak in the Kevin Brosius (pastor) Christ Lutheran 804 W. 6th St., Elk City makes them stumble.” 1023 W. 2nd St., Elk City 580-243-9708 the evolution lie, violence, marinade of God’s love and Prairie View Baptist 580-225-2266 rebellion and selfishness. His Word, so that we confi- I-40 & S Hwy 34, Elk City Oxymoronic Hollywood Persistent and deadly vio- dently become salt and light Pastor Tod Thornton Seventh-Day Adventist blames guns for violence, Sunday School 9:15, Worship 10:30 lence is simply the natural in a dark, sin-rotted world. Wed Prairie View Troops 3:30 Seventh-Day Adventist even as it continually spews flavor of violent videos and Violence can be reduced Wed Prayer Meeting 6:30 11375 N. 1990 Rd., Elk City out graphic, bloody violence disrespectful, angry music only by heart changes that 580-472-3472 that’s quickly absorbed and Retrop Baptist Church Service times: and language absorbed into come as we lift up the Name Intersection Hwy 6 and 55 2:00 pm Bible Study imitated by impressionable an evil heart. The Bible is of Jesus and introduce a dy- 580-303-0791 2:50 pm Church Service young minds. Their hyp- largely withheld or rejected ing world to Him. Knowl- ocritical finger-pointing from our permissive, ad- edge of the Bible teaches us gives credence to the old dicted, chemically-saturat- about Jesus and His way of saying, “the pot calling the kettle black”! ed culture. Not knowing or righteousness. As we learn SUPPORT & RECOVERY RESOURCES caring that the highest Bib- to live life from His Pres- lical commandment is love ence within, we increasingly AA-Elk City Original Group– 105 Meadow Ridge Dr, Elk City, Main St, Elk City, Mon at 7pm Jesus described what hap- for others, people do what choose God’s rightness over 113 Meadow Ridge Dr Suite K, Elk Nightly at 7pm CR - Great Plains Baptist Associ- pens when sin-blinded peo- City–M-F at noon & Every Night at Codependents Anony- ation- 1906 N Watts, Sayre - Th 6:30 is natural to a wicked, un- the world’s wrongness. The ple offer “leadership”: “Can 7pm mous-White Buffalo, Mon 5:30pm NA-Elk City– 100 S. Monroe Ave, changed heart: finding ways love of Christ changes lives AA-Elk City Southside Group– CR - The Link Church - 200 S. Suite 18, Elk City, Nightly at 7pm the blind lead the blind? to justify or explain any sin, by changing hearts, thought Won’t they both fall into the including murder and sexu- patterns and choices. ditch?” (Luke 6:39) al deviancy. Send your questions and Searching for the motive SUBSCRIBE TODAY The “evolution-lie mari- comments to: drdixie51@ behind shootings, stab- nade” says human life isn’t gmail.com Current news and great deals delivered right to your door! Call today to support the church page! 580-225-3000