Eastside Baptist Church

3rd & Osage

Join Eastside Baptist Church and Pastor Marcus Jeffrey with services online. Sunday morning service is at 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study is at 6 p.m. and Weekly Encouragement is Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Crosstown Church

Voted “Friendliest Church” in Okmulgee by readers of the Okmulgee Times, Crosstown is located at 6th & Kern. There is a place for you at Crosstown. The congregation invites you to experience the truth of God’s Word.

View podcasts and live streams at www.crosstownphc.org. Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ crosstownphchurch. You may want to view our Sunday Service on CD or DVD. Contact us online or order from our media counter at church.

Sunday Services: 10:45 a.m. Life Enrichment Classes: 9:45 a.m. Senior’s Sunday School: 10 a.m. Dynamic Praise & Worship: 10:45 a.m. Dynamic Praise & Worship ushers in the presence of the Lord. The anointed Word of God follows, presented by the Holy Ghost and Pastor Rocky Ausbrooks. Children’s Church for ages 3-5 and 6-12 is held after Praise & Worship.

Wednesday Service: 7 p.m. Prayer Focus: 6-7 p.m. After Praise & Worship: KOTM (Kids in Motion) for ages 3-5 and 6-12. L.E.D. Youth / Teens: 7 p.m.

For more information, please call the church office at 918-756-2442 from 9 to 12 noon and 1 to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

Cornerstone Foursquare

A Place of Hope Online

Cornerstone Foursquare exists to bring hope and to find and follow Jesus. CF is a place to be accepted, belong and give back as we learn to live stronger lives and follow Jesus.

Lead Pastor: Rev. Mickey Baldwin

Christian Education Director: Ms. Gladys Espinoza

Making a connection to Hope and living a Solid Life starts with a life founded in knowing Jesus, but it’s also living that life together ‘In Jesus’ day after day. Connecting with Cornerstone Foursquare (CF) is your next step to experience genuine love, forgiveness and a caring family.

All Sunday and Wednesday services are now online only at the same times through Facebook Live at 10:30 a.m. Sunday and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Simply follow our Facebook at Cornerstone Foursquare Okmulgee.

Location: 617 N. Oklahoma Ave. Intersection of Oklahoma and Trent.

Check us out more at these social media sites: FB/ Cornerstone Foursquare Okmulgee, on Instagram: CornerstoneOkmulgee, @CornerstoneOK.

For more information, call 918-756-4787 or find us on the web at www.okmulgeefoursquare.org (follow the online devotionals for 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting)

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Trinity Lutheran Church

All in-person activities are suspended until further notice.

Individual Spoken Divine Services will be offered by appointment Monday to Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Please contact the pastor for an appointment.

Regular church services are suspended at this time. However, you may view our worship services on Facebook Live at the Trinity Lutheran Church Okmulgee Facebook page Sundays at 10:45 a.m. and you may listen to Pastor Tiews’ sermons on our website at www.trinityokmulgee.org/listen-online.

Pastor Rev. Dr. Christian Tiews and Trinity Lutheran Church, a congregation of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, cordially invite you each Sunday at 10:45 a.m. to the Facebook Live Service and Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. for the Facebook Live Evening Prayer Service until further notice.

Trinity Lutheran Church is located at 1314 E. 6th St. in Okmulgee. Our office phone number is 918-756- 6046 and office hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Thursday and 1 to 5 p.m. Friday.

Henryetta First Christian Church

8:30 a.m. - Sunday morning services and fellowship with Pastor Carl Tinnea. 9 a.m. - Breakfast in downstairs Fellowship Hall with Bible Study for adults and Sunday school for children of all ages. 10 a.m. - Praise & Worship service. A nursery is available for children ages four and younger. First Christian Church is located at 412 N. 5th St. in Henryetta.

“Do Not Be Afraid or Discouraged” by Mary Morris

“May the Lord give you discretion and understanding when he puts you in command over Israel, so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God. Then you will have success if you are careful to observe the decrees and laws that the Lord gave Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged. (1 Chronicles 22:12-13)”

I’m not a commander of Israel. Are you? I thought not. But do we believe that these words are just as true now for us as they were in the times of of the kings?

We’re still facing removal from our loved ones, from our friends, from our churches (which, by the way, are groups and not buildings), and from everything we once considered part of our normal way of life. Is this the way God intended us to live? Of course not! Is this an attack by Satan? It could be, or it could just as easily be something we’ve brought on ourselves through accident or our great hubris. Debating the whys and wherefores doesn’t change its existence: C-19 is here and we must learn to deal with its consequences.

That means we have been given yet another chance by an unseen but all-knowing God whose limitless grace allows for us to reach out to Him when at last we realize we just don’t have the wherewithal to do this alone. We have exhausted ourselves and our resources to fill all this extra time given us. Have we turned to the One who set up this opportunity for us?

Yes, it is indeed an opportunity. Can you even remember when last you read a good book? No, not “People” magazine or “USA Today” -- a real, honest-to-goodness book, in whatever genre you like. And board games -- were you about nine when last you played Clue or Life? How long has it been (if ever) that the entire family was engaged in preparing for a meal -- setting the table, making the salad, cooking, cleaning up (kids’ all-time favorite)? Have you followed each and every previous day of your child’s education as closely as you are now? Have you truly worshipped together as you have the chance to now?

That’s okay. I’ll give you time to think about it... We are living a second chance life. We can grow closer together than ever we’ve been before today. If we do this right, we’re sure to find that, in the end, we’re much better, stronger -- and wiser! -- for it.

So continue to uphold God’s Law. Face each day knowing God’s plan is in place, that you are a part of it, and that His strength is yours. “Do not be afraid or discouraged.”

St. Michael Catholic Church

The Resurrection of Jesus, Easter Sunday

This Sunday all believers in the world celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, Lord and God who suffered, died and Rose from the dead as God alone. He told people when he still lived among them.

Easter is a Big Deal, a very Big Deal! Every one of the four Gospels provides an account of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, which makes perfect sense because the bodily resurrections of Jesus Christ has always been the foundation of the Christian Faith from the very beginning. It is an ancient tradition, based on the evidence of scripture and on the writings of the early Church, that Jesus celebrated the Last Supper on a Thursday, died on Friday, and rose form the dead on a Sunday. Thus, today’s Gospel tells us that Jesus rose from the dead on the first day of the week (Jn. 20:1). Within about a hundred years of Jesus’s Resurrection, Christians were celebrating the great Easter Vigil, beginning after dark on Holy Saturday and continuing until dawn on Easter morning.

During this vigil, Christians heard salvation history through scripture readings, celebrated the Resurrection of Jesus, and looked forward to his return. At the vigil, men and women who had gone through years of instruction were baptized and received First Communion. Without his Death and Rising to new life Je sus would have been merely another Jewish teacher and failed messiah. His teachings would be just a code of ethics and our worship in vain. We celebrate the Resurrection for fifty days, and for the rest of the year every Sunday is a kind of “Mini-Easter”. Easter is the culmination of Christ’s life, death, and Resurrection that we celebrate with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth (1 Corinthians 5:8). If you have not been to church for a while, we invite you to come back again and know that you are welcome in the community of faith.

Indeed, the Resurrection of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior is our hope the center of our Christian Life on our journey of life.

May the Resurrection of Jesus help us to put our trust in Him who must suffer, die, but rose from the dead as the power of God as he told us when he was with his Apostles and people, so that we follow Him in this life faithfully, and one day when He calls each of us to meet Him, we are going to enjoy eternal life with Him and all Saints in His Kingdom forever.

Happy Easter to each one of you. Enjoy today with Jesus and others.

Second Baptist Church

Sunday, April 12, we will celebrate the day our Savior Jesus Christ rose from the dead. Jesus Christ showed great love when He gave His life on the cross for each of us.

It is our prayer that anyone who does not know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior will come discover how they can have eternal life in Him.

Dr. Steve Gallagher is our pastor. Services are currently presented on Facebook Live for those wishing to tune in. If you need to contact the church office, please call 918-756-6027. Our office is currently closed.

Second Baptist Church is located at 1003 N. Alabama and is “Where God’s Love Comes First.”

First United Methodist Church

8th & Seminole Streets • Okmulgee Stay connected! First United Methodist Church invites you to worship with us this Sunday. We are on Facebook Live for both the 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. services and now, you can watch worship via Youtube. Visit our website to find the link. and consider subscribing so you don’t miss any new releases!

Opportunities of the week:

Wednesday, April 8

7 p.m. Chancel Choir Practice - Santuary

Jubilee Christian Center

918-756-5338 • jccokmulgee.com

Jubilee Christian Center is a non-denominational church located 1/2 mile north of the MCN Physical & Rehab Center on the east side of Hwy. 75, in Okmulgee.

Pastors Dale and Colleen Litsey invite you to Sunday Services at 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. and Wednesday Services at 7 p.m.

Adult Sunday School: Sunday at 9 a.m.

Celebrate Recovery: Friday from 6 to 8:30 p.m.

Children’s Ministry: Nursery is available for ages 0-2 for all church services. Pre-School Class for ages 3-5 for all services. Children’s Church for ages 6-8 and 9-12 are Sunday morning & Wednesday evening.

Jail Ministry: Okmulgee County Jail Ministry is every other Sunday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Jubilee Men’s Ministry: Breakfast meetings are the first Saturday of each month at 8 a.m.

Victorious Women Fellowship: VWF meetings are the third Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m.

Youth Ministry: Youth classes for ages 13-18 are Wednesday at 7 p.m.

Hoffman First Baptist Church

4th & School Rd. • Hoffman

Where everyone is welcome and everyone is somebody.

Sunday School begins at 10 a.m. every Sunday, followed by worship services at 11 a.m.

Come join us!

Pastor Ethan Dover • 918-758-5402