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RELIGION 4• SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 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 GENETICALLY MODIFIED Baptist Great Plains Baptist Assn. First Christian Church (Diciples of Christ) 1500 N. Randall, Elk City 320 S Magnolia Ave, Erick 580-526-3949 [email protected] Sunday Worship: 9:00am CHRISTIANITY 1902 Watts St., Sayre 580-225-7801 580-928-2585 United Methodist - Sayre 802 N. 4th St., Sayre • 580-928-2146 First Christian [email protected] Calvary Baptist Church 1601 N. 4th St., Sayre 1018 W B Avenue, Elk City Sunday School: 9:30am 580-928-3639 Sunday Choir Practice: 10:15am rampant “allergies” of ag- itual growth and increased 580-225-5344 Pastor Brad Hyatt Sunday Worship: 10:45am nosticism, atheism, accep- understanding cannot grow New Life Christian Center Tuesday Bible Study: 12pm Sunday Worship 11 am 20210 East Co. Road 1120 tance of sinful behaviors, in the stagnant—although Wednesday 6 pm Elk City, OK 73644 fear and despair. Christians temporarily comfortable— Nazarene Central Missionary Baptist Pastor: Michael Anderson live defeated, ineffective atmosphere of boxed reli- 1205 W. B Avenue, Elk City First Church of The Nazarene www.NewLifeElkCity.com 816 W. 6th St., Elk City lives—slowly being affected gion. Paul warned Timo- 580-225-0212 Service Information 580-225-2026 by spiritual malnutrition— thy to watch for those who Sundays: 10:00am & 6:00pm Rev. Andrew Dages Eastside Baptist Wednesdays: 7:00pm even starvation. would mislead spiritually 421 N. Booth Avenue, Elk City ignorant and weak believers 580-225-0742 Church of Christ Pentecostal “The time is coming when away from Truth: Chase Brower, Min. Church of Christ Grace Temple people will not tolerate 216 N. Adams Ave., Elk City 601 W. 20th St, Elk City Fairview Baptist 580-225-0718 sound and wholesome in- “For although they hold Lindell & Nequita Brown, Pastors 312 S. Lusk Avenue, Elk City Gantt Carter, Min. struction, but, having ears a form of piety—true reli- 580-225-0203 Iglesia Evangelica Cristo Es La Pena itching for something pleas- gion—they deny and reject 301 S. Magnolia Ave, Erick 600 W. Main, Elk City Dixie Yoder First Baptist Douglas Holland, Minister Pastor, Jose Reyes ing and gratifying, they will and are strangers to the pow- 1600 W. Country Club Blvd, Elk City 816-726-6988 With the advent of boxed 580-799-2964 gather to themselves one er of it. Their conduct be- 580-225-7951 Bible Study 10am Sunday food, nutritional deficiency teacher after another, cho- lies the genuineness of their Worship 11am Sunday Presbyterian First Baptist Ladies Bible Study 10am Wednesday in the American diet has be- sen to satisfy their own lik- profession. Avoid all such 400 S. Sheb Wooley, Erick Evening Open Bible Study 7pm First Presbyterian come a pervasive problem. ing and to foster the errors people! For among them 580-526-3375 Wednesday 217 N. Washington Ave., Elk City As someone wryly observed, Jason Klechner, Min. they hold,” (2 Timothy
are those who worm their 580-225-3130 we would be better off eating Church of Christ Elk City way into homes and capti- First Baptist Meets at Pioneer & Bell the boxes that breakfast ce- “… you have become dull vate silly, weak-natured and 504 N. 4th St., Sayre 580-225-0718 Non-Denominational real comes in, rather than 580-928-5518 [email protected] in your spiritual hearing and spiritually dwarfed women, the cereal itself. At least the The Way Church sluggish—even slothful—in loaded down with the bur- First Hispanic Baptist Westside Church of Christ 201 S. Jefferson Ave., Elk City boxes aren’t made of nu- achieving spiritual insight. den of their sins and easily 919 W. 8th St., Elk City 580-225-3052 tritionally deficient sugar 580-225-7901 Gateway For even though by this swayed and led away by var- and there is the potential of Church of God 4227 W. 3rd St., Elk City time you ought to be teach- ious evil desires and seduc- Main Street Baptist 501 W. 1st, Elk City 580-225-1184 gaining some fiber from the ing others, you actually need tive impulses. These weak 1101 N. Main St., Elk City 580-225-0227 Curtis Newton, Min. cardboard! 580-225-2938 Joe Thompson, Min. someone to teach you over women will listen to any- The Link again the very first princi- body who will teach them; Mt. Carmal Baptist Jehovah’s Witnesses 200 S. Main, Elk City A new problem has aris- ples of God’s Word. You have they are forever inquiring 1801 W. A Avenue, Elk City Jehovah’s Witnesses en as farmland shrinks 580-225-2061 402 E. Washington Ave., Sayre Trinity Fellowship come to need milk, not sol- and getting information, but and the demand for food 580-928-9330 Sayre id food. For everyone who are never able to arrive at a One Church 580-928-2345 increases: genetic modifi- continues to feed on milk recognition and knowledge 200 East Broadway, Elk City Lutheran cation of seeds. The intent 580-210-8881 Christ Ministiries is obviously inexperienced of the Truth.” 2 Timothy
Kevin Brosius (pastor) Christ Lutheran is to increase production, 804 W. 6th St., Elk City and unskilled in the doc- 1023 W. 2nd St., Elk City 580-243-9708 but in many cases, the re- trine of righteousness, for he James describes genuine, Prairie View Baptist 580-225-2266 sult is something that looks I-40 & S Hwy 34, Elk City is a mere infant not able to non-GMO Christianity: Pastor Tod Thornton Seventh-Day Adventist like wheat or corn or other talk yet! But solid food is for “External religious wor- Sunday School 9:15, Worship 10:30 seeds, but is nutritionally full-grown men, for those ship that is pure and un- Wed Prairie View Troops 3:30 Seventh-Day Adventist different—often lacking in Wed Prayer Meeting 6:30 11375 N. 1990 Rd., Elk City whose senses and men- blemished in the sight of 580-472-3472 natural food value and more tal faculties are trained by God the Father is this: to vis- Retrop Baptist Church Service times: difficult to digest. With it practice to discriminate and it and help and care for the Intersection Hwy 6 and 55 2:00 pm Bible Study comes increased food al- 580-303-0791 2:50 pm Church Service distinguish between what is orphans and widows in their lergies. Celiac disease runs morally good and noble and affliction and need, and to rampant, and many Amer- what is evil and contrary ei- keep oneself unspotted and icans suffer from malnutri- tion and obesity. ther to divine or human law.” (Hebrews
uncontaminated from the world.” James
SUPPORT & RECOVERY RESOURCES AA-Elk City Original Group– 105 Meadow Ridge Dr, Elk City, Main St, Elk City, Mon at 7pm This can be compared to Genuine, unmodified Dr. Dixie teaches and 113 Meadow Ridge Dr Suite K, Elk Nightly at 7pm CR - Great Plains Baptist Associ- an even greater problem in spiritual food for grownups supports balanced Biblical City–M-F at noon & Every Night at Codependents Anony- ation- 1906 N Watts, Sayre - Th 6:30 the spiritual arena. As peo- cannot be found in Guidance for strengthening 7pm mous-White Buffalo, Mon 5:30pm NA-Elk City– 100 S. Monroe Ave, ple reach more and more one-minute devotional on and restoring relationships, AA-Elk City Southside Group– CR - The Link Church - 200 S. Suite 18, Elk City, Nightly at 7pm for a feel-good, sugary form our phones as we dash off to as well as spiritual maturi- of “boxed” religion, they the next ballgame or exercise ty. Send your questions and are less and less satisfied. class. That’s a spiritual Pop- comments to drdixie51@ The “GMO” religion being touted as genuine results in Tart, void of nutrition. Spir- gmail.com SUBSCRIBE TODAY Current news and great deals delivered right to your door! Call today to support the church page! 580-225-3000