Central Christian Church – Enid, Gives Away 925 Pairs of Shoes

Central Christian Church – Enid, partners with “Foster Feet“, which is a program that provides shoes to children in the community who need them. The original goal for the Foster Feet was to provide shoes to foster children who enter foster care with very little. The ministry has been expanded over the past couple of years to provide shoes to any child in need. Last year, the ministry provided shoes to over 700 children at the local schools and the church.

Enid Public Schools currently supports a student population of which almost 80% receive free or reduced prices lunches. To qualify for this, students and their family’s income must be less than 200% of the federal poverty level. The need was clear to Central Christian Church – Enid, and their ministry team.

On August 12th, they gave away 925 pairs of shoes to kids and families. Rev. Tom Stanley, (Senior Minister at Central Christian Church – Enid) says, “One of the most amazing things I have ever seen is the look of pure joy when a child receives a new pair of shoes.”

Thank you to Lauren Anderson who had the vision to create Foster Feet. Thank you to Central Christian Church – Enid, for partnering in this ministry and providing such an amazing outreach ministry to the Enid community.

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UCC Annual Meeting Oct. 18 – 19, 2019: Kansas-Oklahoma Conference Welcomes the Rev. Diana Butler Bass

What’s Gratitude Got to Do With It?

Join the Kansas-Oklahoma UCC Annual Conference in welcoming the Rev. Diana Butler Bass! Rev. Butler Bass will use her latest book, Grateful, as the basis for her presentations, What’s Gratitude Got to Do With It: Embracing Thanks as a Path to the Future.

Saturday October 19, 8:00 a.m.—3:30 p.m., Doubletree Hotel, 616 West Seventh Street, Tulsa, OK

DIANA BUTLER BASS IS AN AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR, PREACHER, AND PUBLIC SPEAKER on issues of spirituality, religion, culture, and politics. She has appeared on numerous television and radio programs. She has been featured in Time, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. From 1995 to 2000, she wrote a weekly column for the New York Times Syndicate. She was a founding blogger for both Beliefnet and Huffington Post religion. Her bylines include The Washington Post and Atlantic.com. She has preached and taught in hundreds of venues around the world.

SCHEDULE:

8:00 a.m. Breakfast sponsored by Phillips Theological Seminary
9:30 a.m. Gathering Words and Introductions
10:00 a.m. Presentation, Diana Butler Bass
11:15 a.m. Lunch and Book Signing; Visit Display Areas
1:30 p.m. Presentation, including questions, Diana Butler Bass
3:00 p.m. Sending forth

Download the flyer HERE

Register at https://tinyurl.com/KObutlerbass Select the “Saturday ONLY” option on the tickets page: tickets are $60 and include both presentations by Rev. Butler Bass, plus breakfast and lunch. Registration deadline: Oct. 11.

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Sept. 24: Oklahoma Disciples Foundation Hosts “FAITH UNDER FIRE: Teaching & Preaching Generosity”

Oklahoma Disciples Foundation is pleased to offer a free seminar titled “FAITH UNDER FIRE: Teaching and Preaching Generosity”. Please plan to join this one day stewardship and generosity seminar featuring Guest Speaker, Rev. Dr. Dale McConnell with Horizons Stewardship.

Click HERE to view the flyer

Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 • 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Location: Yale Avenue Christian Church, Tulsa
Cost: Free, plus complimentary lunch
Continuing Education: 4 contact hours
Register Online: HERE
Registration Deadline: 9/18/19
Questions: call Julie 405-525-6530 or jabowers@okdfdn.org

Rev. Dr. McConnell will present these topics:

Worst Practices in Stewardship
Next Level Generosity
Effective Preaching for Inspiring Generosity

The Foundation holds many worthwhile endowments benefiting the church, the Region and its missions and ministries, including funds for grants. Click this link: “Together We Touch Lives” if you would like to make an honorary or memorial donation to one of these funds.

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Rev. Terri Hord Owens Will Preach at East Sixth Street Christian Church’s Centennial Celebration

The East Sixth Street Christian Church, a (Disciples of Christ) congregation, will celebrate 100 years of ministry this fall. The congregation has a rich history filled with service to this city and indeed the world. The celebrations have been designed to reflect that local, state and national manifestations of ministry.

The church is delighted to have as its special guest for this celebration, the Rev. Teresa Hord Owens, the General Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada. Rev. Owens is just the second woman, and the first African American to be elected as General Minister and President. She will be the speaker for the Centennial Banquet on Saturday, October 12th, at the Embassy Suites Hilton, OKC Downtown Medical Center, on NE 8th and Phillips. The banquet is from 6pm-9pm. Tickets are $60.

The Centennial activities begin this Saturday, September 7th with a church cookout, music and games at Edwards Park, beginning at 11am. The next day, former Pastor Rev. Boyze Edwards will preach an Ancestor Memorial Service honoring those who built East Sixth Street. Pastor Edwards served as pastor from 1986 to 1996.

Our next event will be a Children’s Choir Musical on September 15th, at 3:30pm. On Sunday, September 29th, the celebration goes statewide as we host the Oklahoma Convocation of Christian Churches musical. Congregations across the state from Tulsa to Chickasha and in between will join us for a grand celebration of gospel and inspirational music.

We will cap the musical portion of the celebration with a Reunion Musical on October 6th at 3:30pm. If you were ever a member of any one of East Sixth Street’s choirs, the congregation wants and needs you to participate in celebrating 100 years of ministry. Rehearsal workshop will run from Tuesday, October 2nd – Friday, October 4th from 7pm – 8:30pm. Cost of the Workshop is $20 which includes ALL music and your official reunion t-shirt.

Wednesday, October 9th, Pastor Dwayne Rodgers and the Wildewood Christian Church family will join us in worship for our UNITY Service at 7pm, with Pastor Rodgers as the guest speaker. East Sixth Street and Wildewood were one congregation for the first 53 years of East Sixth Street history. “This ‘Reunion’ service not only recognizes a shared past but looks towards an unknown future with excitement and wonder”, said Rev. Jesse Jackson, pastor of East Sixth Street.

The celebration will conclude with Rev. Teresa Hord Owens preaching the Centennial Sermon on Sunday, October 13, at 11am at East Sixth Street Christian Church (located at 1139 N.E. 6th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73117). The congregation invites the entire community out to all these events, especially former members, family and friends.

Centennial Events at Glance:

September 7, 2019 11am-3pm Church Picnic Edwards Park
September 8, 2019 11am Ancestors Memorial Service (Guest Minister: Rev. B. Edwards, FL)
September 15, 2019 3:30pm Children Choir Musical
September 29, 2019 3:30pm Oklahoma Convocation Service
October 6, 2019 3:30pm ESCCC Reunion Musical
October 9, 2019 7pm Unity Service with Wildewood Christian Church (Guest Minister: Pastor Dwayne Rodgers)
October 12, 2019 6 pm-9pm 100th Anniversary Banquet at Embassy Suites by Hilton-OKC (Guest Speaker: Rev. Teresa Owens, General Minister and President Christian Church, Disciples of Christ)
October 13, 2019 11am 100th Anniversary Service (Guest Speaker: Rev. Teresa Owens, General Minister and President)

Photos from the Memorial Service

Photos from the Children’s Musical Choir

Photos from the Oklahoma Convocation of Christian Churches Musical

Photos from the Reunion Musical

Photos from the Centennial Banquet

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Sept. 28, 2019: Removing the Walls Together: An Interracial Youth Reconciliation/Racial Healing Symposium

Wildewood Christian Church in collaboration with the Oklahoma Disciples Foundation Inc. would like to invite you and your youth congregants to participate in a one day symposium at Wildewood Christian Church for 9th-12th graders entitled: Removing the Walls Together: A Racial Healing Symposium.

Each week brings more unsettling news stories about race relations in our country. Recent high profile racial incidents justify a great need for faith based racial healing throughout the country and we believe youth groups in the Christian church and area schools can bring a fresh perspective and response to this conversation. We can undertake this healing process collectively as we acknowledge the truth of past wrongs and yet build new, authentic relationships capable of transforming our communities and shifting our national discourse.

During this one day activity, the interracial youth participants will:

Discuss current news events and watch a short film on diversity
In a safe environment, we will delve more deeply into the youth’s personal experiences with race in their schools, in their homes etc. and discuss what they can do; through the love of Jesus Christ to challenge and change these inequities.
Anonymously document the proceedings for distribution throughout the faith based community.

We are preparing for 30 youth; therefore, please let us know as soon as possible if you would like to participate in this extraordinary event. Please call 405-478-0781 or e-mail wildewoodchristian@gmail.com for registration.

Event: Removing the Walls Together: An Interracial Youth Reconciliation/Racial Healing Symposium
Date: Saturday, September 28, 2019
Time: 10:00a.m. – 1:00p.m.
Place: Wildewood Christian Church, 6900 N. Kelley Avenue, OKC 73111

Large Conference Room – Lunch and T-Shirts provided

Our mantra: “All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, And gave us the ministry of reconciliation: God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And He has committed us to the message of reconciliation.”- The Apostle Paul, II Corinthians 5:18-19 (NIV)

Rev. Dwayne Rodgers
Senior Pastor

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Centennial Anniversary Celebrations

Please join us in celebrating all of the churches with big anniversaries this year. We thank you for many years of ministry, fellowship, and outreach. We wish each of you a blessed celebration!

100th Anniversary:

East Sixth Christian Church OKC, will celebrate on October 13, 2019.

125th Anniversaries:

First Christian Church Pawnee, will celebrate on August 25, 2019.
First Christian Church Claremore, will celebrate on September 8, 2019.
West Point Christian Church Yukon, will celebrate on September 8, 2019.
First Christian Church Alva, will celebrate on October 27, 2019.

Does your church have a centennial celebration this year? Let us know! We would love to celebrate with you! Email us at office@okdisciples.org

Check out the pictures from the anniversary celebrations!

First Christian Church Claremore celebrated their 125th Anniversary on September 8, 2019.

West Point Christian Church Yukon celebrated their 125th Anniversary on September 8, 2019.

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Fall 2019 Special Offerings

Our denomination will soon be celebrating three special day offerings. Look for inserts and envelopes in your worship bulletin or donate online here.

* Reconciliation Ministry Fund – Sept. 26 and Oct. 6
* Thanksgiving Offering (supporting higher education) – Nov. 17 and 24
* Christmas Offering (100% supports Region) – Dec. 15 and 22

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Year Books are Available

The 2019 Year Book & Directory is printed and available for order online or by downloading an order form should you need to pay by check. Online access is also available. Go to disciples.org/yearbook to get yours ordered today.

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Celebrate Alexander Campbell’s Birthday Sept. 12th

#DMFday on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, is the 231st birthday of Alexander Campbell, one of the founders of our denomination. To honor our Church’s history, we look towards the future, by investing in the regional and general ministries we’ve developed to live into our call to be a movement for wholeness in a fragmented world. No matter the size of your wallet, please plan to participate! Resources are available here.

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Britton Christian Church Tennis Academy Wins the Tennis Championship!

Britton Christian Church Tennis Academy (BCCTA) is so proud of the 12 and Under Junior Team Tennis Team that just returned from the Missouri Valley JTT Championships. The Missouri Valley section of the United States Tennis Association is made up of five states. The BCCTA kids competed for two days and came home with the championship! It was an incredible experience for the children and the sponsors. The USTA was there to do a story on BCCTA because they are an NJTL (National Junior Tennis and Learning) organization. This is the 50th anniversary of the NJTL, started by Arthur Ashe to bring tennis to kids who would not normally get the opportunity to play. You can read the full story on the Britton Christian Church Tennis Academy’s website HERE.

Read more about Britton Christian Church Tennis Academy and their incredible outreach story.