I want to take a few moments and share a little about a wonderful group of people. My home church! Over the last fews months they have been striving to updrage buses and vans, completely remodel the K-12 school system, (building, curriculum and all), turn the old homeless facility and outreach center into a new Pre-K daycare and add on to the gymnasium with a new outreach center. All at the same time, while trying to coordinate it between the Pastor, the deacon board, the Principal, the teachers, the outreach leaders, the congregation, the workers and staffers and all schedules involved. Never have I seen a grimmaced face, heard a cross word or felt a bad spirit. Praise God for a Holy, functioning, modern day outreach church!!! When it is all about souls and everyone is prayed through, it can be done.
These first few pictures are of what once was the old gym. It has been the outreach center for the past few years and here it is being troansformed into "Tiny Hearts", our new Pre-K center. I could not begin to tell you who all was involved in bringing this thing together because I personally had nothing to do with it, but I can say this: #1-It was a HUGE undertaking, and #2-I sure am proud of them.
These last couple of pictures are of the rooms as they were being finished up. I know for a fact that every time I peeked in there for several weeks, there was Sister Katrina Vic with her sister or her sons, working away. Praise God for her.
After this comes pictures of our state of the art Christian School: Bethany Christian Acadamy. Under the competent direction of Principal Dustin. It is amazing how may people and how much effort went into this new school and how daunting the task really was of transforming it over from the old A.C.E pace school to the new video Abeka program. But what amazes me even more is how smoothly it has all been done. Now I know a little bit about the struggles and the bumps because two of my children attend there and my wife teaches there, but all in all, it is incrdebible how well the transition has worked thus far. Again, I am so very proud of our church, our school and the great spirit of the people that work at both.
As if it wouldn't be enough that they just finished remodeling the school completely and they were in the process of creating a Pre-K daycare center, they are building a new outreach center at the same time. I have spent over 16years in ministry. Almost all of it directly in outreach ministry and I am in awe everyday of how well all the different ministries out of this one local church communicate, work together and get along. No, I am not saying that it is perfect. But I will say this: I have seen people go through things at our church that would have completely destroyed people in most other places and some how God has always given us the grace to work through these most difficult of situations and not just "maintain", BUT GROW! Praise the Lord!!!
As someone who does these things for a living I will tell you something: If you can't get your act together good enough to have any kind of programs going on at your church without having fighting and bickering, murmuring and complaining amongst yourselves....It's probably a good thing that you aren't bringing people into that mess!
OK, where was I. Haha. Oh yes! Here are some pictures of the kitchen staff that are working through all of the shifting around and back and forth of still trying to have all of thier scheduled outreach services and feed thier meals to the ultra poor and homeless while all of this is going on. A picture of the new outreach center as it is still being put together and a shot of the make shift outreach service until thier new facility is finished.
I would also like to say that I appreciate all of the people that have come and gone and done thier part over the years for the HMA Tulsa service that is now firmly and confidently in the hands of Brother Earl Wayne and Bethany Holiness Church but let me say a VERY special thank you to those that have been with us from the very beginning and never waivered. Sister Christen, Brother Art, Sister Betty Jo, Brother Justin, Sister Jo Ann and of course my wife and the rest of my family, and all the new staff as well....this is truly your work for the kingdom of heaven. God bless you and God bless Bethany Holiness Church for being that great and Godly example!
I want to take a few moments and share a little about a wonderful group of people. My home church! Over the last fews months they have been striving to updrage buses and vans, completely remodel the K-12 school system, (building, curriculum and all), turn the old homeless facility and outreach center into a new Pre-K daycare and add on to the gymnasium with a new outreach center. All at the same time, while trying to coordinate it between the Pastor, the deacon board, the Principal, the teachers, the outreach leaders, the congregation, the workers and staffers and all schedules involved. Never have I seen a grimmaced face, heard a cross word or felt a bad spirit. Praise God for a Holy, functioning, modern day outreach church!!! When it is all about souls and everyone is prayed through, it can be done.
These first few pictures are of what once was the old gym. It has been the outreach center for the past few years and here it is being troansformed into "Tiny Hearts", our new Pre-K center. I could not begin to tell you who all was involved in bringing this thing together because I personally had nothing to do with it, but I can say this: #1-It was a HUGE undertaking, and #2-I sure am proud of them.
These last couple of pictures are of the rooms as they were being finished up. I know for a fact that every time I peeked in there for several weeks, there was Sister Katrina Vic with her sister or her sons, working away. Praise God for her.
After this comes pictures of our state of the art Christian School: Bethany Christian Acadamy. Under the competent direction of Principal Dustin. It is amazing how may people and how much effort went into this new school and how daunting the task really was of transforming it over from the old A.C.E pace school to the new video Abeka program. But what amazes me even more is how smoothly it has all been done. Now I know a little bit about the struggles and the bumps because two of my children attend there and my wife teaches there, but all in all, it is incrdebible how well the transition has worked thus far. Again, I am so very proud of our church, our school and the great spirit of the people that work at both.
As if it wouldn't be enough that they just finished remodeling the school completely and they were in the process of creating a Pre-K daycare center, they are building a new outreach center at the same time. I have spent over 16years in ministry. Almost all of it directly in outreach ministry and I am in awe everyday of how well all the different ministries out of this one local church communicate, work together and get along. No, I am not saying that it is perfect. But I will say this: I have seen people go through things at our church that would have completely destroyed people in most other places and some how God has always given us the grace to work through these most difficult of situations and not just "maintain", BUT GROW! Praise the Lord!!!
As someone who does these things for a living I will tell you something: If you can't get your act together good enough to have any kind of programs going on at your church without having fighting and bickering, murmuring and complaining amongst yourselves....It's probably a good thing that you aren't bringing people into that mess! 
OK, where was I. Haha. Oh yes! Here are some pictures of the kitchen staff that are working through all of the shifting around and back and forth of still trying to have all of thier scheduled outreach services and feed thier meals to the ultra poor and homeless while all of this is going on. A picture of the new outreach center as it is still being put together and a shot of the make shift outreach service until thier new facility is finished.
I would also like to say that I appreciate all of the people that have come and gone and done thier part over the years for the HMA Tulsa service that is now firmly and confidently in the hands of Brother Earl Wayne and Bethany Holiness Church but let me say a VERY special thank you to those that have been with us from the very beginning and never waivered. Sister Christen, Brother Art, Sister Betty Jo, Brother Justin, Sister Jo Ann and of course my wife and the rest of my family, and all the new staff as well....this is truly your work for the kingdom of heaven. God bless you and God bless Bethany Holiness Church for being that great and Godly example!
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