Shining light on Lawton’s Asian ‘Hidden Harvest’
LAWTON—It’s 6:30 a.m., Monday. Chunhai Li is loading up his car with Bibles, Christian literature, song sheets and heading out with a few faithful members of Oklahoma City-area Chinese churches toward Lawton. Chunhai is a worker in Oklahoma’s Chinese Hidden Harvest, one among several of Oklahoma’s under-served, overlooked people groups or population segments. Li is pastor of the Oklahoma City, Northwest Mandarin, but every other week...
Partnership missions: The Hidden Harvest: Guymon, international mission field in the Oklahoma Panhandle
“Right now we are working directly with people from 29 countries who speak 37 distinct languages.” It’s a comment you might expect to hear in a planning meeting at the International Mission Board. But this is a sentence that can be commonly heard spoken by educators, business owners and ministry leaders around café tables in Guymon, Okla. Many may think of Guymon as the uttermost part of the state—go northwest on Highway 3 to Slapout...
Partnership missions: Haskins School offers new classes Spring 2017
The Robert Haskins School of Christian Ministry is offering a new schedule of contextualized ministry training classes for the spring 2017 semester, bringing the total classes offered through the school from 18 to 51 total semester hours of instruction. Enrollment in the Haskins School starts January 16th and is open to any Oklahoma Baptist with a calling to ministry. There is no application fee. Classes cost $125 per 14 week...
OKC language school meets needs, sows seeds
Every Wednesday morning a text message is sent out to scores of cell phones across the OKC Metro area: “WOW!!!! AWESOME!!! FANTASTICO!!! Clases de ingles English classes!! Spanish classes!! Chinese classes!! Korean classes!! Arabic classes!! Citizenship classes!! Invite your friends. 6.00 pm tonight!! EXCELENTE!!!” The text message comes from Richard Collins, director of the Language Learning Fellowship, a ministry of Oklahoma City,...
