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RELIGION 4• SATURDAY, JULY 4, 2026 The Elk City News Area Church Directory Assembly of God Catholic Methodist Queen of All Saints Assembly of God 914 N. 5th St., Sayre 115 W. 5th St., Erick United Methodist - Elk CIty 580-928-2385 720 W. Country Club Blvd, Elk City • Pastor: Gary Griffin Rev. Danny Grover 580-225-0262 Assembly of God [email protected] St. Mathews Catholic www.elkcityumc.com 7th and Locust St., Sayre 3001 E. Hwy 66, Elk City 580-928-4296 Sunday Worship: 9:00am (traditional); 580-225-0066 11:00am (contemporary) Jimmy Blanken, Min. Rev. Danny Grover Sunday School: 10:00 am First Assembly of God Christian Sunday Choir Practice: 10:15am 2701 S. Randall , Elk City Wednesday Night: 5:30pm Dinner; Antioch Christian 6:00pm Nursery (0-2 years old), 580-225-1167 3200 W. Country Club Blvd, Elk City Kevin Akins, Min. GLOW Kids (2 years old to 3rd grade), 580-243-0066 Highway 456 (4th-6th grade), Youth Jeff McDowell group (7th-12th grade), 6:30pm Adult Grandview Assembly of God Pioneer and Country Club, Elk City Bible Study Christian Church 580-225-7742 1 S. Walnut, Erick Bryan Herrick United Methodist - Erick 580-526-3284 320 S Magnolia Ave, Erick WHAT IS PRAYER? Baptist Great Plains Baptist Assn. 1902 Watts St., Sayre 580-928-2585 First Christian Church (Diciples of Christ) 1500 N. Randall, Elk City 580-225-7801 580-526-3949 [email protected] Sunday Worship: 9:00am United Methodist - Sayre 802 N. 4th St., Sayre • 580-928-2146 2 Corinthians 1:18-21 First Christian [email protected] Calvary Baptist Church 1601 N. 4th St., Sayre Prayer is often de- As surely as God is trust- 1018 W B Avenue, Elk City Sunday School: 9:30am 580-928-3639 Sunday Choir Practice: 10:15am fined as “conversation worthy and faithful and 580-225-5344 Pastor Brad Hyatt Sunday Worship: 10:45am with God” and that’s true means what He says, our New Life Christian Center Tuesday Bible Study: 12pm Sunday Worship 11 am 20210 East Co. Road 1120 enough. However, while speech and message to Wednesday 6 pm Elk City, OK 73644 many grasp the “talking” you have not been Yes Nazarene Central Missionary Baptist Pastor: Michael Anderson part of conversation, they [that might mean] No. 1205 W. B Avenue, Elk City First Church of The Nazarene www.NewLifeElkCity.com 816 W. 6th St., Elk City are less able to grasp or For the Son of God, 580-225-0212 Service Information 580-225-2026 appreciate the “listening” Christ Jesus (the Messiah), Sundays: 10:00am & 6:00pm Rev. Andrew Dages Eastside Baptist Wednesdays: 7:00pm part of a conversation. So Who has been preached 421 N. Booth Avenue, Elk City often what follows is em- among you by us, was not 580-225-0742 Church of Christ Pentecostal phasis on recited prayers, Yes and No; but in Him Chase Brower, Min. Church of Christ Grace Temple intercessory prayers—all it is [always the divine] 216 N. Adams Ave., Elk City 601 W. 20th St, Elk City Fairview Baptist 580-225-0718 good in themselves, but Yes. For as many as are Lindell & Nequita Brown, Pastors 312 S. Lusk Avenue, Elk City Gantt Carter, Min. Dixie Yoder seldom instruction on the promises of God, they 580-225-0203 Iglesia Evangelica Cristo Es La Pena paying attention to God. all find their Yes [answer] 301 S. Magnolia Ave, Erick 600 W. Main, Elk City Most of us have had the First Baptist Douglas Holland, Minister in Him [Christ]. For this Pastor, Jose Reyes experience of praying dil- 1600 W. Country Club Blvd, Elk City 816-726-6988 580-799-2964 Instead we should pray reason we also utter the 580-225-7951 Bible Study 10am Sunday igently for something and feeling excitement while saying: Amen (so be it) to the glo- First Baptist Worship 11am Sunday Presbyterian Ladies Bible Study 10am Wednesday waiting with anticipation I am going to sit still and ry of God. 400 S. Sheb Wooley, Erick Evening Open Bible Study 7pm First Presbyterian listen, while He speaks. There are two parts to 580-526-3375 Wednesday to see what God is going to Jason Klechner, Min. 217 N. Washington Ave., Elk City do in response to our con- I am going to think on prayer: God says YES! 580-225-3130 Church of Christ Elk City scientious intercession. His glory, rejoice in His to every promise He First Baptist Meets at Pioneer & Bell truth. has made, but we have 504 N. 4th St., Sayre 580-501-0175 Non-Denominational But as hours, days, weeks 580-928-5518 I’m going to think deep- to say the AMEN! Our [email protected] and months pass without The Way Church visible results, that first ly about His presence.” agreement with God, the First Hispanic Baptist Westside Church of Christ 201 S. Jefferson Ave., Elk City AMEN, is to the glory of 919 W. 8th St., Elk City 580-225-3052 sense of determination 580-225-7901 Over the years, I had God. Gateway becomes difficult to main- Church of God 4227 W. 3rd St., Elk City tain. Eventually, wanting problems with prayer. I Prayer is not something Main Street Baptist 501 W. 1st, Elk City 580-225-1184 wondered why God would Christians do simply to 1101 N. Main St., Elk City 580-225-0227 Curtis Newton, Min. to justify our seeming fail- 580-225-2938 tell us to pray when He maintain spiritual health, Joe Thompson, Min. ure—or God’s—we shrug The Link and assume “it just wasn’t surely already knows our although we often treat Mt. Carmal Baptist Jehovah’s Witnesses 200 S. Main, Elk City needs. After all, Jesus said it that way. How many 1801 W. A Avenue, Elk City Jehovah’s Witnesses God’s will to (you fill in 580-225-2061 He knows what we need times have we heard Pray 402 E. Washington Ave., Sayre Trinity Fellowship the blank) 580-928-9330 Sayre before we ask! 5, praise 5, read the Bible One Church 580-928-2345 Repeated failure to re- And I always had the 5. 200 East Broadway, Elk City Lutheran 580-210-8881 Christ Ministiries ceive what we pray for sense that God was going This 15 minutes each Kevin Brosius (pastor) Christ Lutheran 804 W. 6th St., Elk City brings us to the inevitable to do what He wanted to day is taught as the “apple 1023 W. 2nd St., Elk City 580-243-9708 Prairie View Baptist 580-225-2266 conclusion that it’s OK to do anyway. So, for many a day” that will keep the I-40 & S Hwy 34, Elk City ask, but because we live in years I prayed simply be- devil away. Pastor Tod Thornton Seventh-Day Adventist a sin-broken world, we can cause I was told I should, Sunday School 9:15, Worship 10:30 Wed Prairie View Troops 3:30 Seventh-Day Adventist only expect an occasional but it didn’t make sense to But when the Bible 11375 N. 1990 Rd., Elk City Wed Prayer Meeting 6:30 crumb from God until we me. uses the word prayer, it is 580-472-3472 die and “go to heaven”. So used in its most specific Retrop Baptist Church Service times: Intersection Hwy 6 and 55 2:00 pm Bible Study we ask, we wait, we shrug Prayer is the link be- sense—that I am expec- 2:50 pm Church Service 580-303-0791 and we pray with decreas- tween the beginning (cre- tantly agreeing with God ing enthusiasm as the cy- ation) and end (complete for something. In that cle continues. restoration) of Heaven sense, it is the way that Prayer presupposes a and Earth. When we un- derstand prayer, we won’t God has chosen to oper- ate the world, and more SUPPORT & RECOVERY RESOURCES belief in the personality of have to force ourselves specifically, His Kingdom. AA-Elk City Original Group– 105 Meadow Ridge Dr, Elk City, CR - The Link Church - 200 S. God and His ability and to spend time praying 113 Meadow Ridge Dr Suite K, Elk Nightly at 7pm Main St, Elk City, Mon at 7pm willingness to communi- or simply “saying our God has chosen prayer City–M-F at noon & M,W,F,S,Su at NA-Elk City– 100 S. Monroe CR - Great Plains Baptist Asso- cate with us. Prayer is, at prayers. Instead, prayer is as the method by which 7pm Ave, Suite 18, Elk City, Nightly at ciation- 1906 N Watts, Sayre - Th root, simply paying atten- a time of excitement and we change our world. AA-Elk City Southside Group– 7pm 6:30 tion to God. Imagine that! adventure! Would you Actually paying attention apply those words to your Send questions, com- to God! So simple, yet so prayer time? ments or topic suggestions often overlooked. to [email protected]. SUBSCRIBE TODAY Current news and great deals delivered right to your door! Call today to support the church page! 580-225-3000