Date: Sunday, April 6, 2025

Beginning on Sunday, April 6, 2025, Reverend Jim Peña will be co-pastoring with Pastor Winston Wilson as our interim pastors.

Pastor Jim will be preaching on Sunday Mornings, except for Easter Sunday and Pastor Winston will be working with the music, children, and dealing with the details of running the church business.

Pray for our co-pastors, that they will speak the truth in love to us and be guided by the hand of our Lord Jesus Christ during this time of change and pray for us as a church that the Lord Jesus Christ will open our minds and our hearts to receive His word on Sunday Morning and that we will not only be hearers of the Word, but doers of the Word.

To learn more about Brother Peña, follow this LINK.

To learn more about Pastor Winston Wilson, follow this LINK.

Select this LINK to respond to the devastating wildfires in the state of California or give through the offering on Sunday morning or though LifeSong Church's online options by selecting this LINK.  Please use the memo "Compassionate Ministries Project ID: 140061" when you are online or on your check or offering envelope so that your gift will go toward the California Wildfires Response.

As the recovery from Hurricane Helene, Milton, and JOHN continues, Nazarene Compassionate Ministries (NCM) is committed to acting in compassion, including the long-term needs that go beyond immediate risks and dangers. Click HERE to learn more about Nazarene Compassionate Ministries response to Hurricanes Helene, Milton, and John.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.  "May they prosper who love you.  May peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces."  Psalm 122:6-7 (NASB)

Conflict, displacement, economic crises, political instability–these ongoing struggles impact millions of people across the Middle East. Basic survival can feel like an overwhelming challenge when food costs soar or once-safe neighborhoods turn dangerous. In the midst of turmoil, Nazarene churches are providing essential compassionate care ranging from food vouchers and education for children to spiritual and psychological support.

Your gift will sustain vital expressions of Christ’s hope and healing for traumatized communities. Please select GIVE NOW or GIVE through LifeSong Church of the Nazarene and include this memo on your check or online giving app:  Project ID - 123595.

A series of wildfires devastated parts of Maui in Hawaii, killing dozens of people and destroying the historic town of Lahaina. The wildfires are the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century. The Church of the Nazarene in Hawaii is responding to this crisis, with Nazarene congregations on Maui serving as evacuation shelters and providing food, bedding, clothes, toiletries, and other emergency supplies to evacuees. Your gift will support these efforts and a long-term future response as the island rebuilds.

To support, GIVE NOW or GIVE through your local church.  Please include this memo on your check or online giving app to your local church:  Project ID - 140029.

*We Unite in Prayer*

Father of all mercies and God of all comfort,

look with love on all who are suffering during this time of strife and warfare. Protect the defenseless, comfort the children, heal the wounded, and sustain the refugee and hungry. Turn hearts to lay down weapons. Open to all a way of reconciliation and lead us to be peacemakers in our own spheres, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, the Prince of Peace.

Amen.

Select this LINK for the latest updates on Ukraine.

Nazarene churches in Ukraine are responding to those impacted by conflict and displacement.  To support, GIVE NOW or or GIVE through your local church.  Please include this memo on your check or online giving app to your local church:  NCM Eurasia North Field Crisis Fund - 137043.

Thank you for giving to the Lord!

Our hearts ache for those in Afghanistan—those who are in danger, those who are afraid, and those who are hurting. In times of grieving, the Psalms offer lament to cry out to God in prayer.

Click HERE to learn more about Nazarene Compassionate Ministries response to Afghanistan.

There are more people fleeing home than ever before.

As of 2019, 79.5 million individuals have fled violence, persecution, extreme poverty, and increasing climate crises in their home countries without any guarantee of ever returning. They are seeking safety, opportunity, and a chance to live with dignity. Those who flee often end up living in poverty, with insufficient food, clothing, and shelter. On top of physical needs, they are also coping with grief and trauma.

Around the world,

• 82.4 million people are forcibly displaced, a number that has risen exponentially in the last several years
• Half of those living as refugees are children, who often travel alone or in groups, making them especially vulnerable to human trafficking and other forms of violence
• On average, people will spend about 17 years living displaced.

Select this LINK for more information about how to help those seeking safety.

In Beirut, Lebanon, the Church of the Nazarene serves a community embroiled in an ongoing economic and political crisis. Through the spiritual care of churches, scholarships for children to attend Nazarene educational programs, medical and psychological care for those in need, and vouchers to offset the high price of food, the difficulties of daily life are reduced for people born in Lebanon and refugees from other nations. When you give, you’ll help Nazarenes in Lebanon provide hope and encouragement.

Select this LINK to give online to the Lebanon Crisis Response

What is Alabaster?

The Alabaster Offering provides funds for property and buildings around the world. While we understand the church consists of the people of God and not a building, buildings erected for the purpose of ministry help provide a sense of permanence, functionally enhance ministry efforts, and convey an attitude that the Church of the Nazarene intends to "put down roots." 

Use of Alabaster funds

Alabaster funds are to be used for new churches to:
    •    Purchase a property or church building
    •    Purchase or build a church parsonage
    •    Build a church building
    •    Conversion of a property into a church gathering space
    •    Meet initial costs for renting a church meeting space for a limited period

Alabaster funds may also be used to:
    •    Purchase or build missionary homes
    •    Purchase or build regional or field missions' facilities
    •    Build or repurpose buildings on Bible college campuses

Select this LINK for a video on the Alabaster Offering.

Select this LINK for more detailed information.

Hand Crafted Items from the wood of the old First Church of the Nazarene building in Durant, Oklahoma.  Click LINK for pictures and detailed information for ordering.

These hand-crafted items are made out of wood from various selections of the old Church, now "The Monterey."

Donated proceeds will go towards our new church building project.

Please email Carol Smith at this LINK to get information about each item or call or text her at (580) 916-5778.

ONLINE DONATION METHODS: Can be processed here  using a Personal Computer or here  using a tablet or mobile device.  Please specify your order in the "other" tab.

Help us by sharing your students ' information.  We need information for any student attending ANY college or university in State of Oklahoma.  Please scan the OR code in the graphic or select this LINK to complete the information form for your student.

The form is intended to provide college pastors within the Nazarene community with information about potential students in their respective areas.

JOIN A LIFE GROUP AND GROW

Who holds you accountable spiritually?  Who lifts you up?

Who do you help hold accountable spiritually?  Who do you lift up?

To find out more information about our LIFE groups follow this LINK.

To find the places and times of your Life Group, please refer to the Regular Schedule on the home page of this website or the Calendar page on this website.

Date:  To Be Announced Later
Day:  Sunday Afternoon
Time:  2:00 PM- 3:00 PM
Place:  Worship Center, 200 West Beech Street, Durant, Oklahoma
Lead:  Pam Blankenship

The New Life Group will continue our study in the book called "SACRED REST," by Saundra Dalton-Smith, M.D.

This Life Group is open to all who want to attend.

Select this LINK to get more information about how to join our group, obtain the book the date for the next schedule meeting, and get more details about our group.

Please join us every other Saturday afternoon at the Worship Center located at 200 West Beech Street, Durant, Oklahoma.

Day:  Wednesday
Time:  Evening Meal:  5:00 PM; Service:  6:00 PM
Place:  Worship Center:  200 West Beech Street, Durant, Oklahoma

Please join us every Wednesday of the month as we pray together that God will lead us as a church in the way we need to go concerning our ministries, for a new church building on our new plot of ground, our Oklahoma District Church of the Nazarene leadership, and our Half-Million Mobilization:  Prayer Journal "Call to Prayer:  Easter to Pentecost."

A light meal will be provided before the service.

• DAY: Wednesday, September 24, 7:00am local time. Around the globe students meet at flagpoles to pray for their schools.
• WEEK: The Global Week of Student Prayer, Sept 21 - Sept. 27, 2025. Public, private, or home school students, pray in unique ways, places and times all week. Some will launch on-campus Bible clubs.
• Select this LINK to find out more information about "SEE YOU AT THE POLE."

• DOWNLOAD THE CAMPUS PRAYER APP TODAY! Go to your app store and download "SYATP" app. It will help you prepare for SYATP and keep the movement alive at your school.

Date: September 27, 2025
Coaches Meeting Time:  9:30am-10:00am
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Theme:  Wear a crazy hat or crazy hair.

This year's children's quizzing will be over the book of Genesis. This quiz will be over digsites 1-5. If you have any questions, please contact Martha Wilson.

If you want to get started in quizzing but do not have the funds in which to start, PLEASE call Mrs. Selena Kyzer (Oklahoma District Quiz Director) at (405) 789-9411 or email her by selecting this LINK.

For more information about children's quizzing at LifeSong, please follow this LINK to our Children's Quizzing webpage

Select this LINK, to view a promotional video for Children's Quizzing.

Date:  September 28, 2025

Follow this LINK for information on The Lord's Supper.

2 Corinthians 13:5-6

Follow this LINK for suggested questions to examine yourself to see if you are in the faith.

Those that plan to view our live streaming service online and participate in Communion with us should obtain and prepare their Communion Elements as soon as possible.  Then on the Sunday that we serve Communion, please have your Communion Elements available at the being of the service so as not to be rushed when the Church takes Communion.

Date:  September 28, 2025

The Alabaster Offering gets to the mission field via several avenues. The most widely used is the Alabaster Box. Individuals are challenged to regularly contribute the cost of items they desire but do not need. The boxes also serve as reminders to pray for those people who will benefit from Alabaster buildings.

In September and February, the money is collected. The semi-annual offerings in September and February are tradition in the Church of the Nazarene.

Select this LINK for a short video on the Alabaster Offering.

Select this LINK for more detailed information.

DEADLINE TO REGISTER:  October 8, 2025

Date:  July 1-5, 2026
Place:  Salt Lake City, Utah
Traveling Dates:  June 28-30 and July 6, 2026
Transportation:  Charter buses leaving from Bethany, Oklahoma

Nazarene Youth Conference is a quadrennial event that will bring together an estimated 10,000 high school students and youth leaders from across the USA/Canada Region for five days of worship services, service projects, and more. 

Additional details, including theme, speakers, and other details, will be released in the spring of 2025 through district NYI leadership and on the NYC social media pages.

Registration is happening now! Please send in your church sign-up sheet by selecting this LINK so we can get the registration link to your parents and sponsors! The cost is $2,000 per person. We look forward to what God has planned for these students and ask that you be in prayer for all those going! 

Select this LINK for more information about NYC26!

Select this LINK for more information on registration for NYC26!

DATE:  November 6-8 we will be celebrating SNU Homecoming.  There is something very special about coming back together where friendships were forged, faith was formed, and the pursuit of a degree started it all. Mark your calendar, call your classmates, and make plans to attend.   
We are planning a full schedule of IN-PERSON activities and events for alumni of all ages to attend! Class Reunions are at the heart and soul of SNU’s Homecoming tradition!  This year we welcome back the classes of 1966, 1976, 1986, 1996, 2006, 2016, and 2021 as well as other fellow alums for a great weekend together!  

Area Lodging- https://www.snu.edu/area-lodging/ 

Select this LINK to register.

For further assistance contact us at alumni@snu.edu or (405) 491-6312

Dates:

• October 10, 2025:  Kinesiology Spotlight Day, Communications Spotlight Day, and Commercial Music Production Spotlight Day
• October 14, 2025:  Private School Preview Day
• November 7, 2025:  Homecoming Preview Day
• To Be Announced:  Junior Preview Day

Time: 8:45AM-12:00 PM

Get a preview of the SNU experience! Join us for SNU Preview Day to meet learn about the admissions process, hear about financial aid and scholarship opportunities, and meet with professors from various departments. You and your parents will get answers to your most pressing questions about life at SNU!

Select this LINK for more information and to apply.

Please call (405) 491-6324 or select this LINK to email the admissions department at SNU if you have any questions about the Preview Days.

DATE:  November 7-8, 2025
PLACE:  Camp Bond
SPEAKER:  Dr. David Graves, General Superintendent Emeritus
SONG LEADER:  Reverend Marcus Whitworth
REGISTRATION:  $65.00 per person plus lodging.

Theme:  Rooted in God's Word

Select the graphic to enlarge it.  You can close the graphic by selecting the X at the top right-hand corner of the webpage.  Additional information can be obtained by selecting this LINK.

Select this LINK to register for this retreat.

Select this LINK to contact the pastor at Richland Church of the Nazarene for more information.