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 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 Hurricane 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

ENGAGE CHILDREN AND YOUTH-CHRISTMAS

Engaging children and youth is one of the five areas of impacts in NMI. NMI continues to encourage churches to involve children and youth in all missions' endeavors and to nurture them as they seek to respond to God’s call.  NMI encourages every church, every district to be intentional and encourage and engage every child, every youth in the mission of God in your community and around the world. NMI continues to encourage churches to involve children and youth in all missions' endeavors and to nurture them as they seek to respond to God’s call.  We encourage collaboration with Nazarene Youth International and Nazarene Discipleship International to best engage all ages of the church. We believe nurturing and leadership development is best done in the local church and individualized to the needs of each person.

Select this LINK to send a Christmas Parcel.

CARE & CONNECTION

CARE & CONNECTION is provided to every global and sponsored Nazarene missionary who is on contract with Global Missions, from our Oklahoma District.  Global missionaries have global assignments which are long-term assignments whereas sponsored missionaries are usually short-term missionaries and are sponsored by a local Oklahoma District church.  Select the picture of the missionary or the missionary family to find out more information about each one (currently unavailable).

GLOBAL MISSIONARIES:
    

SPONSORED MISSIONARIES:

(Formerly L.I.N.K.S.)

Loving Interested Nazarenes Knowing and Sharing is a network of personal connections between global missionaries and Nazarene districts around the world.  

A participating missionary is assigned to our district for one calendar year and is not from the Oklahoma District. This gives all the churches on the district an opportunity to become personally acquainted with the missionary family and their field of service. A L.I.N.K.S. relationship fosters a sense of involvement with the global mission's enterprise of the church through regular correspondence from the missionaries, updates from their field, and even through deputation services while the missionaries are on home assignment. 

Missionaries and churches experience close relationships built over time linking them through a common bond.

Select this LINK (link is currently unavailable) for more information.

Our L.I.N.K.S. missionaries for the Oklahoma District for the current year are Larry and Lynne Bollinger and are currently serving in the Philippines and the Asia-Pacific region.  Select this LINK to find out more information about our L.I.N.K.S. missionary.

Please pray for all of our Care & Connection and L.I.N.K.S. missionaries.

CRISIS CARE KITS (CCKs)

Preparing for a rainy day.  Preparing Crisis Care Kits before a disaster occurs, can facilitate a much faster response time for those that need help as soon as possible, which might be you.

For more complete information about the Crisis Care Kits from the Oklahoma District Nazarene Missions International, please select this LINK.

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.

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.

Give the gift of learning to meet needs of Nazarene schools in the Middle East that serve students from kindergarten through high school—many of whom are refugees from Syria and Iraq, displaced by war and violence.

Select the LINK to find out more about how Nazarene Compassionate Ministries are helping children in the Middle East to learn.

Select this LINK to view a view on the NCM Christmas Project 2025.

Select this LINK to give to the NCM Christmas Project 2025 directly or select this LINK to give to the NCM Christmas Project 2025 though our local church.  Please be sure to put the Project ID# 128635 in the memo area if you are contributing through this website's "Ways We Donate" webpage or if your writing a physical check.

Date:  December 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:  December 28, 2025
Day:  Sunday
Time:  Preparation:  3:00pm; Supper:  5:00pm-6:00pm

Feeding Hope is a non-profit organization in Durant, Oklahoma, that provides a free supper to anyone in need on Tuesday's, Thursday's and Sunday's.

If you would like to volunteer to be a worker at Feeding Hope on every fourth Sunday of the month, please email the church at info@lifesong118.com and you will be contacted and given information about Feeding Hope.

Select this LINK to find out about Feeding Hope as a non-profit charity organization.

Select this LINK to go to Feeding Hope's Facebook page.

Date: January 24, 2026
Coaches Meeting Time:  9:30am-10:00am
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Theme:  Wear Tie-dye

This year's children's quizzing will be over the book of Genesis. This quiz will be over digsites 11-15. 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