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  • Through focus on relationships, churches' international missions continue despite pandemic
    by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Tuesday, June 16, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    OKLAHOMA CITY (BP) -- In an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19, Guatemala has closed its borders to most foreigners. But one Southern Baptist church's vision of Gospel advance in the Central American country has not been disrupted.

    For four years, members of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Oklahoma City have poured time and resources into a very poor, rural area in central Guatemala which has virtually no access to the Gospel. Read More

  • 25 years later, memories of OKC bombing remain vivid
    by George Schroeder, posted Friday, April 17, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    OKLAHOMA CITY (BP) -- All these years later, the memory remains vivid. Anthony Jordan was headed to his office at church, waiting at a stoplight -- when suddenly, everything shook. And then he saw smoke rising from the downtown skyline, more than five miles away.

    "You talk to any Oklahoma City person, and I promise you, they can tell you exactly where they were when the bomb went off," says Jordan, who was pastor of Northwest Baptist Church at the time. Read More

  • Oklahoma Baptists mark 25th anniversary of OKC bombing
    by Bob Nigh/Baptist Messenger, posted Thursday, April 16, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    OKLAHOMA CITY (BP) -- At 9:02 a.m. Wednesday, April 19, 1995, a huge explosion rocked downtown Oklahoma City, and a pillar of black smoke soared into the bright azure sky above the center of the state's capital. Shocked and stunned residents watched in disbelief, wondering what had happened.

    Thanks to almost immediate television coverage, it took only a few minutes for most residents to learn that the explosion was the result of a bomb placed in a 24-foot Ryder rental truck parked in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Read More

  • Oklahoma Baptists to send $1M more to SBC for Gospel advance
    by Brian Hobbs, posted Friday, November 15, 2019 (4 years ago)

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    OKLAHOMA CITY (BP) -- More than 1,000 Oklahoma Baptist messengers and guests from across the state gathered Nov. 11-12 at Quail Springs Baptist Church in Oklahoma City for the 113th Annual Meeting of Oklahoma Baptists.

    From approving an increased Cooperative Program (CP) spending plan for 2020 that allocates $1 million more to the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), to hosting an International Mission Board (IMB) Sending Celebration that sent 29 missionaries to the field, the 2019 Annual Meeting was marked by major ministry milestones. Read More

  • Missionaries prepare to go; Oklahoma Baptists commit to sending more
    by Catherine Finch, posted Thursday, November 14, 2019 (4 years ago)

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    OKLAHOMA CITY (BP) -- During a missionary Sending Celebration held in conjunction with their 2019 Annual Meeting, hundreds of Oklahoma Baptists from across the state witnessed how their giving enables the International Mission Board to send missionaries around the globe. The IMB appointed 29 missionaries, voted on and approved by IMB trustees, at Quail Springs Baptist Church in Oklahoma City on Tuesday (Nov. 12). Paul Chitwood, IMB President, preached the message at the service, challenging and encouraging the missionaries and attendees to do the good work God has called them to. Read More

  • Heath Thomas to become OBU's 16th president
    by Oklahoma Baptist University staff, posted Monday, November 11, 2019 (4 years ago)

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    SHAWNEE, Okla. (BP) -- The Oklahoma Baptist University (OBU) board of trustees voted Friday (Nov. 8) to elect Heath Thomas as the university's 16th president during its fall meeting on the OBU campus in Shawnee. Thomas currently serves at OBU as the dean of the Hobbs College of Theology and Ministry and the associate vice president for church relations. He will assume the role of president in January 2020.

    In addition to his duties as dean and associate vice president, Thomas also serves as interim dean of the divisions of behavioral and social sciences and language and literature, the Floyd K. Clark Chair of Christian Leadership and professor of Old Testament. He joined the OBU faculty in 2015 after serving as director of Ph.D. studies and associate professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C. Read More

  • Disaster Relief Appreciation Day set for Nov. 10
    by Tobin Perry, posted Wednesday, November 06, 2019 (4 years ago)

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    FORT GIBSON, Okla. (BP) -- It has been nearly 18 years since the darkest day of Lonnie Rowan's life. On Dec. 31, 2001, Rowan fell into a brush fire on his Ft. Gibson, Okla., property. With burns over 35 percent of his body, doctors gave him a 1 percent chance to live.

    God's odds were much better.

    Although Rowan had one leg amputated below the knee and the other leg amputated above the knee, he beat all the other medical expectations. The doctors said he'd spend four months in ... Read More