Pickleball crunches Gospel barriers for Griff Henderson
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an expanded article based on the 2020 Cooperative Program Prayer Guide for Oklahoma Baptists. For more information, please visit www.oklahomabaptists.org/cp. Griff Henderson, who uses sports like pickleball to build relationships, does the same with basketball and golf. “I enjoy participating in sporting events, and I’m a Thunder and a Sooner fan,” Henderson said about the NBA basketball team in...
Mark Dance takes aim statewide
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an expanded article based on the 2020 Cooperative Program Prayer Guide for Oklahoma Baptists. For more information, please visit www.oklahomabaptists.org/cp. Mark Dance is a bow hunter with a wide perspective and a laser focus, able to see the forest despite the trees, and yet the quivering branch disguising his target. Serving in north-central Oklahoma as a regional ministry partner, Dance also is...
Buddy Hunt serves in eastern Oklahoma
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an expanded article based on the 2020 Cooperative Program Prayer Guide for Oklahoma Baptists. For more information, please visit www.oklahomabaptists.org/cp. Buddy Hunt has been a volunteer chaplain for the Tahlequah Police Department for 11 years. He’s been in ministry since 1981, including 1991-97 as associate director in the former Religious Education Department for Oklahoma Baptists. This year he’s...
Brett Selby runs into ministry
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an expanded article based on the 2020 Cooperative Program Prayer Guide for Oklahoma Baptists. For more information, please visit www.oklahomabaptists.org/cp. One of Brett Selby’s prayers is “that the Lord will give me safety and protection as I travel.” As a regional ministry partner he travels the southwest quadrant of Oklahoma, encouraging pastors, churches and associations as they advance the Gospel....
Walter Wilson stays busy
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an expanded article based on the 2020 Cooperative Program Prayer Guide for Oklahoma Baptists. For more information, please visit www.oklahomabaptists.org/cp. Walter Wilson, who serves Oklahoma Baptists as African American Affinity Ministry Partner (AMP), has been pastor for 13 years of Lawton, Friendship. He graduated in 1984 from Bishop College in Dallas, from Dallas Baptist University in 1987 with a...
