Church Camp

We just returned from an awesome church camp on Friday. It was a wonderful time for our young people to draw closer to God. As a pastor, it is great to go and spend time with our young people and see God work in their lives. Now is when the real challenge begins for our youth though. They are coming back from a week of being surrounded by the things of God and now they are going to have to work to keep up their commitments. Living a life for God as a teenager today is not easy to do, that is why we try our hardest to help them grow in the Lord. Our teenagers are great!!!

Now, as you can tell, June was busy at our church. We had our VBS and saw 50 kids there during the week. Our summer intern arrived and we began working on summer projects.

The month of July is going to seem much quieter now that all our June activities are done. We will go play laser tag on July 12th and are having a late night teen night on July 29th.

We invite you to come join us for a Sunday service. Lord bless you and have a great day.

Pastor Richard Perkins

Van Update

Just a quick update for those who may not know but we run a van route on Sunday morning and Wednesday night picking up kids for church. We have seperate services on both days geared towards children 6th grade through Kindergarten. We'd love to pick up your kids!

Currently, God has been blessing our van route as He has added to it tremendously in the month of May. We have gone from picking up 2 kids to having 12-14 kids. God is so good!

We again would like to extend an invitation to you to come visit our church. If it doesn't work for you to come, but you would like to send your child on the van, just call us at the church and if no one is around the phone, leave a message saying you would like your child picked up and we would be happy to get them.

Lord bless you and have a wonderful day!

Pastor Richard Perkins
Grace Baptist Church

The Summer Months Will Soon Be Here

Praise God for beautiful weather these last few months. You can never tell how things will be in Oklahoma. One day it is in the 70's and the following day you may be faced with 90's.

The summer looks to be very busy like most summers. We have already kicked off a year long Sunday School campaign called C.S.I. (Constant Scripture Investigation) in which we are encouraging individuals to memorizing Scripture and read their Bibles. Each month we declare a winner. The theme for the month of June is "Respecting One Another" so therefore on May 29th, our message will be centered around the thought of respect to kick off the month of June. It has been a fun competition thus far.

June will be extremely busy in that on the 12th, our summer intern, Stephen Kerr, will arrive and be with us through the month of August. It will be a blessing to have him with us.

June 13th kicks off our week of VBS that will run through the 17th from 6:30-8:30pm. All children who will be in K-6th grade next year are invited to attend.

Then not too long after that on June 27th, we will leave out for church camp. It will be a great time of spiritual growth for both our junior age and high school kids.

Our current sermon series are as follows
Sunday Morning-I John
Sunday Night-Titus
Wednesday Night-Ephesians

I would just like to add that God has been blessing Grace Baptist Church and we look forward to what else He is going to do. He has been faithful in blessing the church in attendance and giving. If you live in or around Cleveland, or if you are passing through, we would love to have you in one of our services.

In His Service,
Pastor Richard Perkins

Grace Baptist Church
"Where God is God, Sin is Sin, and Jesus Christ Still Saves."

Mother's Day Evening Service

Just letting anyone know who may want to know... We are having our 6pm evening service today (Mother's Day). All are welcome!!!

A Great Easter!!!

What a great day we had in Easter services yesterday. We were praying for God to bless our services and He did with 84 people in attendance. That is over twice what the church was averaging back in June of last year when I arrived. The spirit was great in the church even though it was a rainy, stormy day. It began raining in Cleveland around 2am (I was told this. I wasn't up at 2. Haha) and it rained all day with only a few breaks. Even during our morning service you could hear the rolling and rumbling of the thunder, but it didn't change the spirit. You could see the excitement of those who were there. We had a wonderful time in God's House. We had our Easter egg hunt following church in the building. We had a skit during our morning service explaining the importance of knowing the truth of God's Word.

We continue to see God bless our church as we move forward. Our philosophy is not just that God can bless the church, but God will bless the church and we will see it grow and be a light for Jesus Christ in Cleveland, OK. I look forward to another great month serving as pastor of this church!

Easter!

What a great day we had in God's House yesterday. We had 52 with a young family visiting. It is always a blessing to be able to meet in the House of the Lord. I look forward to every chance we get to meet with our Lord. This coming Sunday is a day that is important to many individuals. It is the day we take to remember the Jesus Christ died, was buried and rose from the grave for the sins of mankind. We are looking forward to a wonderful day of worshipping our Lord and Saviour. We want to invite you to come if you do not have a church to attend this Sunday.

I continue to see God blessing our church in many ways. I love to come to church and see fellow Christians who desire to worship God. God's House is a wonderful place to be on Sundays.

We will continue to follow God until He returns.

Grace Baptist Church
"Where God is God, Sin is Sin, and Jesus Christ Still Saves."

Standing On God's Word

I would be lying if I said it was not a challege to build a church without compromising standards. Churches can lower their standards and begin to see numerical growth, but the problem is, that numerical growth lacks spiritual growth. That's why (even if the work is harder) we are not going to go the way of the world. It's sad to see some of the men I went to college with turning away from their standards and seeking the world's ways to bring people in.

I'm glad to say that we are a church that is not going to change our stand on the Bible, music, modesty, etc. We believe that the King James Bible is the inspired Word of God. We believe music should be God honoring and not resemble the world. We believe that when God's people come to church that they should wear modest, God honoring clothes. We are not going to be a church that teaches what I call a "Come as you are. Leave as you were" kind of philosophy. We want to see lives changed. That's why we stand by the fact that God is God, sin is sin and Jesus Christ still saves. In order to believe that, we have to preach all of God's Word. The only feel good message that is right is the one that makes God feel good.

We would like to invite you to come visit a church that believes in preaching the Word of God and not the philosophies of man. If you yearn to build a relationship with God, the creator of this world, then I want to extend an invitation to you to come and see us at one of our many services.

God bless you and have a wonderful day.

Pastor Richard Perkins