As you know, last year WatersEdge purchased a building near downtown Oklahoma City (that was formerly the offices of the Sonic Corporation) to serve as the new location for the offices of Oklahoma Baptists, WatersEdge, Oklahoma Baptist Homes for Children (OBHC) and Baptist Village Communities (BVC).
This was a significant development as the building allows for the growing office space needs of WatersEdge while at the same time placing the state convention in a firmer financial position. The money saved from operating and maintaining the aging building on 3800 North May allows the state convention to make greater investment in carrying out our mission of serving churches, serving pastors/staff and conducting our gospel ministries.
The new office location furthermore allows the offices of the state convention and its affiliates—WatersEdge, OBHC, and BVC (with the exception of Oklahoma Baptist University, located in Shawnee) to remain together in the same building. This is something I believe is important to Oklahoma Baptists and helps continue to foster the unique unity we enjoy as a state convention. Oklahoma Baptists and its affiliates have a strong relationship working side by side as we seek to achieve our common objective of advancing the Gospel of Jesus Christ across our state and the world.
I am happy to report that our team at Oklahoma Baptists as well as the teams of our affiliates are now moved in and operating out of the new office location. Morale is high, and we are all looking forward to even greater unity and collaboration together. WatersEdge occupies the second floor of the building, Oklahoma Baptists is on the third floor, and OBHC and BVC occupy the fourth floor. Sonic continues to have some employees on the first floor for the short term future.
If you want to reach us or one of our affiliates, the phone number is still the same: (405)-942-3800 or (405)- 942-3000. The address of the new office location is 300 Johnny Bench Drive, Oklahoma City, OK 73104. WatersEdge is suite 200, Oklahoma Baptists is suite 300, BVC is suite 400, and OBHC is suite 450. There is guest parking on the east side of the building and the visitor entrance is on the north side.
You can also park south of the building and take a very short, scenic walk across the canal to the building. In the near future, we will announce the date of an open house for you to come and see our new home.
We are so grateful to God for this opportunity to begin a new chapter of Oklahoma Baptists’ ministry in this new office location. We are praying that God will grow and strengthen our efforts to serve Oklahoma Baptists churches and play a part in God advancing His kingdom across the globe.
