Jerry Davidson disciples Alaska natives
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. Jerry and Gwen Davidson started Frontier Native Church in 2017 with plans to disciple young Native men to be church leaders. It’s a church plant 15 years in the making. The youth of Hobart, First started going to Alaska in 2006 to lead in Vacation...
Charles Scheffe plants in Phoenix
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. Charles Scheffe had been in children’s ministry for 10 years in the Edmond area when he sensed God leading him to start a church. He learned the North American Mission Board had done the hard work of narrowing down potential cities by identifying...
Heath A. Thomas asks God for wisdom
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. In addition to serving as president of Oklahoma Baptist University, Heath A. Thomas is professor of Old Testament at OBU. He’s taught Old Testament since 2005 in the United Kingdom, North Carolina, and Oklahoma. He has written several books on...
Rodeo riders come to Pat Alphin in Wyoming
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. It was Renee Alphin’s idea. The church planter’s wife suggested a camera to videotape riders at Cody, Wyoming’s nightly rodeo, since she and her Cowboy Church planting husband Pat Alphin were there anyway, making friends with townspeople and rodeo...
Noble Paddyaker serves OU freshmen
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. Unlike Noble Paddyaker’s original thinking as a college student, the ladder of success climbs down. Now as a collegiate missionary on the campus of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, he helps students learn the path to success in God’s kingdom....
Wyatt Hebblethwaite ministers to freshmen
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. During the Freshman Experience, first-year students attending Baptist Collegiate Ministries (BCM) at the University of Oklahoma (OU) in Norman learn to have consistent time with God every day, to memorize Scripture and to develop a lifestyle of...
