The Good News is a monthly report of effective ways congregations among churches of Christ in the United States are spreading the Word in their communities.
Please read all of these "good news" stories to find good ideas for your church to use.
The Good News is one of the many ways in which Oklahoma Christian University serves churches.
Recent Articles
- Good News Again
- Oklahoma City Campaign Baptizes Thirty Seven
- Oklahoma Church Making Media Services Available
- Oklahoma Christian Provides Newsletter for Young Men Who Want to Preach
- Good Radio News Ministry Presents Six Broadcasts Weekly
- Texas Congregation Uses “Community Group Evangelism”
- Church Member Collects and Distributes Bibles
Good News Again
This month’s Good News has stories about churches with active programs in making videos, using radio broadcasts, doing “group evangelism,” and holding effective door-knocking campaigns. There are also stories about an internet newsletter for young men wanting to preach, an effort to re-cycle used Bibles, a note from a reader who offers a free book on Grief Counseling, and an upcoming program at Oklahoma Christian University called Quest. We hope you will read all of these stories.
We also hope you will help us expand our readers of Good News. Forward Good News to your congregational email list or, even better, send us the list and we will add it to ours so the publication can go to all in your congregation each month. If you have a friend or relative you wish to add, or if you have a distribution list of friends, preachers, or churches, send those emails along and we will add them to our list to receive Good News. You can forward all such names to piper.johnson@oc.edu. If you have story ideas, send them to stafford.north@oc.edu.
Oklahoma City Campaign Baptizes Thirty Seven
During June of 2010, the 300-member Cherokee Hills Church of Christ in northwest Oklahoma City conducted a very successful outreach into their community, resulting in the baptism of thirty seven. Coupling with Monte Jennings and the Northwest Church of Christ in Lawton, and with Christians who came to help not only from Oklahoma but from Texas, Alabama, and Kentucky, Cherokee Hills members knocked doors each day for a week. Many, they found, were receptive to an invitation to church and to studying the Bible. During the campaign, they set up 271 Bible studies and within a few days after the …
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Oklahoma Church Making Media Services Available
Mike Mazzalongo, a Canadian who has spent many years building the church in Montreal, Canada, and who now is working with the Choctaw Church of Christ in Oklahoma, has written the following article to describe the work he and the church there are doing in media. Mazzalongo has many years of experience in media work both in the U.S. and Canada. The story below not only describes a church working in media, but also tells how others can tap into their resources for their own use.
For the first time in history, …
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Oklahoma Christian Provides Newsletter for Young Men Who Want to Preach
As a part of its service to churches of Christ, Oklahoma Christian University is now publishing a bi-monthly newsletter for young men who are considering the preaching ministry as their life’s work. The first two issues of the newsletter, called Man of God, were published earlier this year and a third one will come out in August. Dr. Stafford North of the OC Bible faculty edits the publication. To see the previous issues, go to www.oc.edu/manofgod.
The newsletter is part of a larger effort on the …
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Good Radio News Ministry Presents Six Broadcasts Weekly
The Ariton Church of Christ, Ariton, Alabama, produces six radio programs each week which use patriotic, cultural, and biblical themes as a way to provide broadcasts to improve the moral climate of our society and spread the good news of the gospel. The Ariton congregation, begun in 1996 in this city of 775 residents, now has fifty in attendance. George Merritt, an experienced and effective broadcaster, produces the radio materials.
The first program, called Power & the Glory, is a thirty-minute weekly broadcast which began in the year 2000. It is heard on 15 radio stations located in Alabama, Tennessee, …
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Texas Congregation Uses “Community Group Evangelism”
The Marble Falls Church of Christ, a 325-member church in the Texas Hill County, has utilized an interesting approach to making their presence known in the community and to informing people in the community about the gospel message. The article below, written by Dr. Terry Johnson, one of the elders there and former president of Oklahoma Christian, tells their story.
The Marble Falls Church of Christ has recently moved into a new 31,000 square-foot building, providing the congregation with ample classrooms, offices, a large fellowship hall, and a spacious auditorium. It was the …
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Church Member Collects and Distributes Bibles
About two and a half years ago, Ross Willingham, who attends the 125-member church of Christ in Perkins, Oklahoma, hit upon the idea of collecting extra Bibles that people no longer want so he could send Bibles to those who need them. Willingham built a website where people from anywhere in the world could request a Bible if they wanted one. Within forty-eight hours of the opening of the site, he had requests from every continent for thousands of Bibles.
From this beginning, Willingham has built a ministry of collecting and distributing Bibles. The group, which has its own Board …
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Quest at OC Set for October 3-5
Quest, OC’s lectureship program, is set for October 3 through 5, Sunday night through Tuesday evening. The program will feature classes and lectures through the day with lectures on Sunday and Monday nights. The program will climax on Tuesday evening at 5:30 with a dinner honoring elders and preachers and their wives to which all are invited.
Dr. Alan Martin, new Dean of OC’s College of Biblical Studies will begin the Quest program on Sunday night at 7 p.m. with a keynote address on the theme of Unity. Following his address, those attending will enjoy concerts and desserts.
Monday’s program …
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Announcement
Daniel Keeran reads Good News and is a member of the church of Christ in Victoria, British Columbia. Keeran has made available free to our readers an on-line copy of one of his books: Loss and Grief Counseling Skills. He has many years of experience in this field and holds a master’s degree in social work from the University of Louisville. He has written two books on baptism and he and his wife Jennie conduct a homeless ministry on which information is available at www.homelesspartners.com. If you are involved in helping those who are passing through a period …
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Good News is a marvelous Idea and will pass along good ides among congregations.
It is a credit to OCC and the CC. HH
Posted by Howard Hulett on 06.10.2010
Smithlawn Church in Lubbock Provides Adoption and Maternity Services
I attend Church of Christ - Wellington, KS
I love this idea. I have been a WBS teacher since 1981 and now only through e mail. We will never know in this lifetime who we will touch but it gives one a good feeling to know we have been faithful in getting out the Good News.
I try to mail bibles when I have graded several lessons and know they are eager
to study.
Posted by Darlene Larson on 06.10.2010
She Gave Away a Bible . . . and a Young Lady Learned About Jesus
Beverly makes the difference at this clinic. She is on-call every day, not just Thurdays. I have seen what she does for her patients - she loves them! I am so proud of her!
Posted by Mary Ann on 06.10.2010
Churches Use Medical Clinics to Serve Their Communities
