Up and running!

Brother Nick, Brother Rob and Pastor Ray have been working on a church website and it is now up and running. It is totally awesome. God anointed them as they worked on it and they did a great job, so check it out and let them know what you think: www.tcogokc.com.

Sister Tammi

Welcome Bro. Nick!

Last night, we were privileged to be able to accept Brother Nick's transfer of membership. Unfortunately, I was dealing with a migraine and forgot my music AND my camera. Fortunately, I remembered the music in time to have my sister grab it on her way out of the house, but...sadly, not in time for the camera. Therefore...I am so sad to say there are no pictures of Bro. Nick being given the right hand of fellowship, but that doesn't mean that we aren't thrilled to finally to be able to claim him as one of our own. Woohoo! We've doubled our membership in four weeks...we seriously need to keep this up.

Welcome Bro. Paul and "Games People Play"

Welcoming Brother Paul as our newest member.

In the background, you hear the Spinners singing "Games People Play" while the pastor begins to pull games out of a box. Some may think that they've walked into the wrong place...but there is a point to all of this. How do we treat our service to God?

Some treat their service to God like a game of Yahtze. They roll the dice and see what they get, hoping they can fill in all the boxes before the game ends.

Some treat their service to God like a game of Uno. Hoping to pull all of the wilds and to miss all the draw fours.

Some have "Aggravation" while serving God and can't seem to get beyond it. If they aren't feeling the aggravation, they are causing others to feel it.

In his best Chinese voice: "Chinese Check-ahhhhs". Always trying to out-maneuver their brother or sister.

We treat God and our service to God like a game. We take Him out when we need or want something, then when we've satisfied that want/need, we put the lid back on the box and shove Him to the back of the closet and then wonder why our lives aren't blessed, why the Church isn't being blessed, why the Holy Ghost isn't moving in our services. We want to serve according to our own desires not according to God's desires.

Bottom line: Stop playing games with God and your eternity because when the game is over...you are out of time and will be lost.

Pictures of recent events!

On August 9, 2009, The Church of God was organized in Oklahoma City, OK. I've not edited any of the pictures because they would never get put on here, if I waited until I had them edited, so...here's Brother Rob and Sister Amy singing, "He Knows My Name."

Brother Jared sharing some history of the Church as well as the commission that Christ gave to the Church.

Everyone who attended the organizational service minus me. There were others that we hoped would have been there, but...we are very grateful for those who actually made it.

The campsite...otherwise known as "tent city".

Having a blast playing in the lake.

Saturday morning was "guys only" time

out on the pontoon boat with Brother Nick as the "Skipper". Although they didn't have much luck with the fish, they still managed to get in a good amount of fellowship.

Brother Paul quietly and patiently waiting for a tug on his line.

Sister Loree and Brother Bill enjoying their canoeing. Early morning and late evening seemed to be the best time to be out in the canoe since most of the big boats weren't out making waves at those times.




Sister Kim and Ethan tried their hand at canoeing and really enjoyed it. The Brock's are really good instructors, making it easy to learn how to canoe.

Sister Amy was one of the few who actually caught any fish. That may have been one of the largest caught too.

Brother Ray brought the message from Luke 15 and made us think and examine our own lives to make sure that we were "doing the will of the Father". There was an older couple camped fairly close to us. They had watched us most of the weekend, guess we provided interesting entertainment. Anyway, they had packed up their tent before we started service, but they hung around their site to listen in to the service. Sister Amy did an awesome job leading us in singing without any instruments.

Such a sweet face...I just had to take a picture!

Hope you enjoyed the pictoral history of what we've been up to. Maybe it will cause you to want to come join us for an event or even better, come join us for service.

Sister Tammi

A reminder...

Just wanted to take a moment to remind those who had planned to join us for camping, that it is this Friday thru Sunday at Wes Watkins Reservoir. Sister Sherry will be arriving around 11:00 (if not before) on Friday morning to snag a couple of campsites for the tents, close to the bathrooms. I think the sites are large enough to accommodate 3-4 tents so we can share the site expenses. We will be having a church service, on Sunday morning, at the campground. I was asked if we would be having any joint meals (potluck), and after talking to several, we've decided that we'll plan and cook meals for our own families and then eat together. I am looking forward to relaxing and enjoying the fellowship of all that attend.

We are having Bible study tonight, but I received a voicemail informing me that it will be held at Brother Paul Clevenger's home tonight and unfortunately, I have no idea where that is, so I can't tell anyone how to get there. If you were planning on attending tonight...I'm really sorry that I can't tell you where to go. Please forgive me.

I do have pictures from the service the Church was organized, but I haven't had time to sort through and see which ones turned out. I'll try to get some up in the next week or so.

If we don't see you tonight, hope we see you at the campout.

Sister Tammi

You are invited!

To join us for a very special service--

When: Sunday, 9 August 2009

Time: 4:00 P.M.

Where: 7200 S. Walker

Oklahoma City, OK

(lower level)

What's so special about this service?

We will be setting The Church of God in order during this service.

We are looking forward to having Brother Clive Jared and Brother Don Branscum in service with us.

We will have a time of food and fellowship following this service.

We would love to have you join us if you are in the area.

Come celebrate with us!

God is good!

Thank you so much for praying with us as we searched for a place to worship other than our living rooms. The building that we looked at on Monday night will provide a sanctuary, classroom, bathrooms, sound/video system, use of baptismal and fellowship hall for $350 per month which is a real blessing in such a large city. We knew on Monday evening that this would be a great deal, but were faced with coming up with first and last months rent and who has that kind of money just laying around when you are starting out? Not us...but after praying...God provided. We will be signing the papers and turning over a check tomorrow evening. Our first service in the new place will be next Sunday evening at 6:00. We are all very excited and very thankful for what God is doing here.

We had a wonderful Sunday School and service this morning. God's sweet Spirit moved throughout during class time, worship time as well as during the preaching. We had 14 in attendance, which is about what we've been averaging on Sunday morning. We had 19 during our first mid-week Bible Study, so not a bad start. We had a new visitor this morning and were very happy to make his acquaintance and hope that he will return again and again. I'll be sure to post the address to the new location for those who would like to attend, but wasn't too sure about attending church in someone's living room.

Have a great week!

Sister Tammi