MUSTANG—Karen Watts never imagined that when she simply asked the F.A.I.T.H. Riders at Mustang, Chisholm Heights to pray for her husband, Terry, while he was deployed to the Middle East  in 2011, it would lead to an “Extreme Makeover: Motorcycle Edition.” No, Ty Pennington, star of the recently cancelled television program, “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,”

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MOORE—The president of LifeWay Christian resources and three Oklahoma pastors shared insights on how Oklahoma Baptists can celebrate the unity and the diversity they enjoy at the annual Pastors’ Conference Nov. 14 at Moore, First. The meeting, held as a preamble to the 105th Annual Meeting of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, featured two

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BRAGGS—Southern Baptist volunteers joined forces with World Mission Builders volunteers and others Oct. 28 to begin construction of  the new, 10,500-square-foot interdenominational Thunderbird chapel near here. The 16-day project was aimed at completing the exterior of the structure, which  will seat 200 people. Coming later are landscaping and completion of the interior before April, when

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Francisco Javier Salgado Coronel and his wife, Denis, (pronounced Denise) were taken to the Oklahoma County Detention Center in  Oklahoma City on Oct. 21. Thankfully, their visit was a short one, however. Coronel, administrative sub-secretary for public security for the State of Guerrero, Mexico, joined officials from the Guerrero Regional Baptist Convention and the Seminario

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by Bob Nigh Managing Editor Baptist Building staff became more educated about the status of the hungry in Oklahoma, and then collectively rose to the occasion and did something about it when they gathered for staff development day at the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma on Oct. 11. Moving from the confines of the Baptist

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More than 70 Oklahoma chaplains got hands-on experience in dealing with the aftermath of a disaster scene during a Volunteer Chaplain Requalification Training Exercise at the Baptist Building in Oklahoma City Sept. 24. The exercise was held mainly for the chaplains to meet requirements for requalification as an Oklahoma volunteer chaplain—in whatever discipline they serve,

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DAVIS—The three hundred persons who attended The Journey Conference Sept. 20 at Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center—most of them senior adults—were asked a poignant and piercing question by featured speaker Rick Rigsby during the event’s opening session. “Are you a trophy, or are you someone who can be trusted? Rigsby, an itinerant evangelist and grandfather

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Oklahoma Baptists with construction skills at any level have the opportunity to be a part of history by volunteering beginning in October to help construct Thunderbird Chapel at Camp Gruber near Braggs. “We want any Oklahoma Baptist man or woman who is interested in helping with volunteer construction to come to Camp Gruber to assist

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Paul Bettis doesn’t work at a gym, but he has trained more than 600 people during the past seven years. Not trained them in the “body-building” sense, but helped them to minister to others struggling with emotional and spiritual issues. Bettis, chaplaincy specialist for the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma (BGCO), has conducted training sessions

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DAVIS—The temperature wasn’t the only number that soared during one of the hottest summers to ever hit Oklahoma this year; a record number of campers—57,543—attended eight weeks of youth encampments at Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center. This year’s total shattered the previous total registration mark of 54,990, which was established in 2008. Five of this

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