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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. It is headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. [1] The convention is made up of 41 Baptist associations and around 1,750 churches as of 2020.
Falls Creek is the home of Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center. The former B. B. McKinney Chapel in Falls Creek was named in honor of Baylus Benjamin McKinney, the Louisiana native and Christian singer and composer of 149 gospel hymns. It was demolished in 2003-2004 for the construction of the new R.A. Young Tabernacle.
In 2016, the seminary announced plans to build a new Student Center on the north slope of the campus, using a $7 million lead gift by the Mathena family of Oklahoma City. [7] Construction on this project—which includes a gymnasium, fitness center, faculty offices, cafeteria, coffee shop, bookstore, and expanded study center, and which ...
The Southern Baptist Convention expelled a rural Oklahoma church from its membership Tuesday after resurfaced pictures and video show its pastor impersonating late singer Ray Charles in blackface ...
After being postponed due to COVID, the Oklahoma Conference of Churches' "No Hate in the Heartland" gala featuring Cornel West will be Nov. 4 in OKC.
Pages in category "Baptist Christianity in Oklahoma" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. ... Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center
On 14 October 1977, the Board of Directors of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma voted 54–2 to ban SRS at Baptist Medical Center. [1] [3] Curtis Nigh, a pastor from Midwest City, Oklahoma, opposed the decision. [5] Foerster warned that the vote would cause Baptists to be "viewed as bigoted buffoons". [5]
Oklahoma Baptist University has several rivals throughout the Sooner Athletic Conference (SAC). Before the closure of St. Gregory's University, which was about a mile west from Oklahoma Baptist University on MacArthur Street in Shawnee, OBU had a rivalry with that school. As a result of the religious affiliations of both universities (St ...