April 6, 2021
Every Tuesday, women in His Quilters of Oakwood Christian Church (Enid, Okla.) gather to make quilts to give away, and almost nothing will interrupt them. “We don’t go to the dentist, to the doctor, anywhere on Tuesday, unless it’s an emergency,” says Diane Goodwin.
February 11, 2020
Several Restoration Movement churches held “Night to Shine” proms for people with special needs this past weekend. The proms are sponsored by the Tim Tebow Foundation. More than 700 events were held this year. Here are some of the ones we heard about. In California, Real Life Church in Valencia partnered with the Tim Tebow Foundation for the first time this year—although this was the fifth consecutive year the church has held a prom for people with special needs. “When they walk off the bus, and their eyes light up and their parents burst into tears, that’s coming close to
October 30, 2019
Compiled by Jim Nieman and Chris Moon Oakwood Christian Church in Enid, Okla., has started a support program for young women in unplanned pregnancies. OCC’s local Embrace Grace program was started by Tangee Lee to help young, unwed mothers stay involved in church life, according to the Enid News & Eagle. (The national program was founded in 2012.) “We want to break that stigma that’s been built up in society that the church is judgmental and you have to be perfect to be in church,” Lee told the newspaper. Alan Seibel, associate pastor at OCC, said the program can help
June 11, 2019
Two Oklahoma churches and a mission group are building a house for a longtime missionary couple returning home from the Philippines. Oakwood Christian Church in Enid and Lakewood Christian Church in McAlester are teaming on the project to construct the 2,300-square-foot home for Paul and Mary Wilson. Oakwood and Lakewood funded the materials for the project, while World Mission Builders, which is headed by Ed Thomas, has helped assemble the team of contractors that is working on the home. Paul Wilson is a former youth pastor at Oakwood Christian Church, which his brother, Dr. R. Joe Wilson, founded. Joe Wilson
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By Kent E. Fillinger Eric Keller grew up in Enid, Oklahoma, and attended Oakwood Christian Church. He returned to his home church for two summer internships during Bible college, and in 2003 he became the church”s student minister. Then, in 2008, Keller became senior minister at Oakwood. Some would say you can”t go back home to serve a church you attended as a child. They would point to the experience of Jesus. When he returned to his hometown to teach, some of the locals took offense, and Jesus responded, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town
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