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The Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma (BGCO), now known simply as Oklahoma Baptists, is a group of churches affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the convention is made up of 41 Baptist associations and around 1,750 churches as of 2020.
Oklahoma Baptist Homes for Children (OBHC) is a nonprofit organization which aims to provide homes for children affected by abuse, abandonment, neglect, or poverty. [2] [3] Founded in 1903 as an orphan's home, the Baptist Homes for Children is a family-style residential care facility with eight children residing in cottages on four campuses across the state.
Yarbrough said Oklahoma Baptists teams were deployed for about 190 days in 2023, providing disaster relief assistance across the state, as well as Florida and Guam.
The former Sonic headquarters in Lower Bricktown is set to be purchased by the Baptist Foundation of Oklahoma to house state Southern Baptist groups.
The ministry has been accused of preying on low-income and elderly people by using census records to target their mailings. [6]Although for several years the ministry operated without a church building and conducted its direct mail donation operation through the Tulsa address, a physical location to hold services—a then-78-year-old Baptist church in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood [4 ...
An Oklahoma minister will be nominated to lead the Southern Baptist Convention when delegates of the nation's largest Protestant denomination gather in June.. The Rev. Mike Keahbone, of Lawton ...
Gracemont Baptist Church purchased an outlet Mall in 1991 Oklahoman In 2002, approximately 100 remaining members [citation needed] of Gracemont Baptist Church in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tulsa, asked Alex Himaya to accept a position as Senior Pastor and to help revitalize the church.
An Eid Prayer gathering is set for 9 a.m. Sunday, June 16, at the Oklahoma City Fairgrounds Pavilion, 3212 Wichita Walk. Doors will open at 8 a.m. A United Eid Festival will be from 6 to 10 p.m ...