ASSEMBLY OF GOD

MUSKOGEE FIRST, 3100 Gulick, will present “The Christ” at 7 p.m. today, and 3 and 7 p.m. Sunday. A high-definition presentation of the life of Christ featuring the best in drama, music, lights, and special effects.

• Sunday, 10 a.m., Easter Sunday worship service will be an illustrated sermon “The Table,” an original drama. Information: 682-9000.

KEEFETON, 1891 E. 10018 St. South, Keefeton, will host a gospel singing at 7 p.m. the third Friday of each month. Information: Shawn Miller, 681-7554.

LIFEPOINT, U.S. 69 South, will celebrate the resurrection of Christ at 10 a.m. Sunday. Theme will focus on the message “Who Rolled Away the Stone?” This service with Pastor Jack Manley will include full motion video clips. Information: 686-9600.

WARNER FIRST, 206 Third St., is hosting its annual Sunday School drive at 9:45 a.m. Sunday. Theme is, “Is Your Easter Feeling Hollow?” Sunday school classes will begin at 9:45 a.m., followed with children’s church and morning worship at 10:45 a.m. Activities include: clowns, puppet shows, prizes and egg hunt and more. For a ride or information: 463-2629, or www.warnerfirstassembly.org.



BAPTIST

CENTRAL, 624 East Side Blvd., has a free clothing closet open from 1 to 3 p.m. Tuesdays. Enter through the northwest corner door. Information: 683-2946.

COAL CREEK will have an Easter sunrise service will be at 6:30 a.m. Sunday. Breakfast will be served immediately after.

• April 27, 3 p.m., pastor’s 13th anniversary celebration with guest speaker the Rev. J. Johnson of Lubbock, Texas. Dinner will be served.

The church is located one-eighth mile south of U.S. 62 and U.S. 64 junction.

FIRST, 111 S. Seventh St., offers on Sundays: 9:30 and 10:55 a.m., worship services; 9:30 and 10:55 a.m., Bible study classes; 5 p.m., discipleship classes; 6:30 p.m., evening worship service. Other activities and classes:

• Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m., evening children’s programs; 5:30 p.m., Fellowship Supper; 6:15 p.m., adult Bible studies, Fellowship Hall. Information: 682-3496.

FIRST MISSIONARY, Fifth and Denison streets, Sunday school starts at 9:45 a.m. The Rev. Cleo Maurice Baccus Jr. will return on Easter Sunday after 11 years away. Baccus is returning with his wife, Christine of almost 15 years and their two daughters, Tamera and Shanna. Information: 682-2199.

HILLCREST FREE WILL, 909 N. E. 11th St., Wagoner, will have an all-you-can-eat bean dinner, 5 to 7 p.m. April 3. Menu: brown beans, cole slaw, corn bread and desert. Cost: $5, adults, and $2.50, children under 12. Information: 485-2672 or hillcrestfwbc@windstream.net.

KEEFETON FREE WILL, South U.S. 64, will present an Easter production at 11 a.m. Sunday with puppets to live music. Information: 989-5290.

LAWRENCE STREET, corner of Patterson and Lawrence Street off Gibson Street, will host a Block Party from 1 to 5 p.m. April 5. The Christian band, Friday Night Out, will perform. There will be inflatables, hamburgers, hotdogs, snow cones, cotton candy, popcorn, door prizes for all ages and giveaways. Everyone is welcome. Information: 577-1733.

OLDHAM MEMORIAL, 3705 Tahlequah, offers on Sundays: 9:30 a.m. Sunday School classes for all ages; 10:40 a.m. worship service led by Scott McDaniel and pastor Tom Gragg; 5:30 p.m. group meetings for children, first through sixth grade and youth; 6:30 p.m. worship service. Wednesdays a prayer service begins at 6:30 p.m. Nursery provided for ages birth to 5. Information: 682-4916 or www.oldhammbc.org.

TRINITY, Oktaha, will have a Six-County Gospel Singing Convention, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 29 with a potluck luncheon at noon. Information: 733-4259.

VANN LAKE, 5068 N. 90th Street West, Porter, seven miles north on U.S. 69, turn west at Baker’s Catfish and go one and one-half miles, will host a Wild Onion Dinner and Gospel Singing today. All singers welcome. Offering will be taken. Dinner begins at 6 p.m. with singing at 7 p.m. Information: The Rev. Dale Carey, 816-1412, or 686-6980.

WILSON CHAPEL, Oklahoma 16 West of Muskogee, will have a sunrise Easter service at 6 a.m. Sunday. Information: Delbert Josey, pastor, 684-3266.



CATHOLIC

ST. JOSEPH, 321 N. Virginia St., will host a free community breakfast from 8 to 10 a.m., fourth Saturday of each month, in the Parish Life Center, 301 N. Virginia. Enter through the west door. Information: Alan Zbavitel, Grand Knight, 683-1662 or Joe Brandt, K of C activities chairman, 577-6141. Sponsored by the Knights of Columbus Council No. 962. Holy Week activities:

• Holy Saturday confessions will be from 3 to 5 p.m. The Easter Vigil Mass will begin at 8 p.m. A reception for those being baptized and confirmed will follow the Mass. There is no 5:30 p.m. Mass this Saturday.

• The Feast of the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ will be celebrated on Easter Sunday with Mass at 8 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Easter egg hunts will take place after the 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Masses.

• The senior citizens group will meet at 12:10 p.m. Thursday.



LUTHERAN

FIRST, 428 E. Broadway, services begin with Sunday School for all ages at 9:15 a.m., and worship service at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. For van pickup or for information: Wayne Schuett, pastor, 682-9533.

• Today, 10 a.m., Easter party for children ages 4 through sixth grade.

• Sunday, Easter Sunday, 6:30 a.m., sunrise service; 7:45 a.m., breakfast; 8:30 a.m., special activity; 9:15 a.m. Sunday School; 10:30 worship service.



NONDENOMINATIONAL

CHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY, 2420 N. 24th St., Community Egg Hunt and Carnival, 10 a.m. to noon today.

EASTSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH, 500 Peak Blvd., will have an Easter “Sonrise” Service at 7 a.m. Sunday at the Rainbow Amphitheater at Honor Heights Park. In case of bad weather, it will be held at the church. An 11 a.m. Easter worship service will be held at the church. Information: 687-6790.

ABIDING LIFE FELLOWSHIP, 1407 Callahan St., offers classes and activities:

• Sundays, 9:30 a.m., Sunday school classes; 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. worship service.

• Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., dinner, 7 p.m. services. For information or transportation: 686-7253.

GOD’S POWERHOUSE CHRISTIAN CENTER, 1616 E. Hancock St., hosts holy ghost healing services at 7 p.m. Saturdays with pastors Danny and Brandy Scott. Information: 682-1030 or 360-2089 or www.GodsPowerhouse.org.

• Make Me Like Jesus meetings are at 6:30 p.m. Mondays with Apostle Charley Ford.

• Leadership classes with Bishop Charley Ford are 7 p.m. Thursdays.

Information: www.ForSuchATime.org/events.



PRESBYTERIAN

BETHANY, 2000 Haskell Blvd., offers these classes and activities:

• Sunday, 8:30 to 10 a.m., Easter breakfast; 10 a.m., egg hunt; 10:45 a.m., Easter cantata by the choir.

• Tuesday, 8 a.m., Acts 16:5 breakfast at the Back in Time Diner.

• Wednesday, 4 p.m., after school program for kindergarten to eighth grade.

• Thursday, 1:30 p.m., fun and games; 7 p.m., Compassionate Friends.

• Friday, 5 p.m., mystery dinner.

FIRST, 500 W. Broadway, offers these classes and activities:

• Sunday, 11 a.m., Easter service with an Easter egg hunt for the children following the worship service. No evening handbell rehearsal.

• Monday, noon, Monday Musings Brown bag lunch and conversation, Nash Hall; 1 p.m., prayer group, church library.

• Tuesday, noon, Presbyterian Women luncheon in Nash Hall. Hazel Grice and her kitchen committee have planned a spring luncheon at noon. Melony Carey will give a book review on “The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: Finding One’s Way in a Multicultural America,” by Junot Diaz. She will talk about Diaz’s conversation with Rich Fisher on NPR Tulsa and what he said to her when she interviewed Diaz, and play an excerpt from his interview. Melony thinks life has changed drastically since we were children and she will discuss the novel from that view.



UNITED METHODIST

FIRST, 302 Beauregard, Fort Gibson, will host a United Spirit Lay Witness Mission program March 28, 29 and 30. Information: 478-3811.

FIRST, Porter, will host a free community breakfast from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. March 30, the last Sunday of the month. Information: 483-6013.

FIRST, 500 E. Okmulgee Ave., offers these services and opportunities:

• Mondays and Thursdays, 6:30 p.m., Rags to Recovery Gamblers Anonymous.

• Mondays and Fridays, 9 a.m., Angels at Play Kids Day Out Program.

• Mondays, 6:30 a.m., Men’s Prayer Breakfast, Boom-A-Rang Diner; 3:30 p.m., Children’s Choir Rehearsal.

• Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m., First Place Bible Study/Weight Loss.

• Wednesdays, 4 p.m., Youth Bible Study; 6 p.m., yoga; 5:30 p.m., Grace Notes Handbell Rehearsal; 6:30 p.m., Chancel Choir rehearsal; 6:15 p.m., Soul Focus Band practice; 7:30 p.m., Heavy Metal Handbell rehearsal; 7:30 p.m., Methodist 101.

• Sundays, 9 and 11 a.m. worship, 10 a.m. Sunday school; 5 p.m. United Methodist Youth Fellowship; Youth Easter Sunrise Service and Breakfast.

• Friday, fifth and sixth grade service project.

• March 29, 11 a.m. and noon, Bolivia mission trip luncheon fund raiser.

GORE, Fourth and Winn streets, will host a Parents Night Out from 6 to 9 p.m. the third Friday of the month. Parents with children from infants to 10 years of age may drop off their children with no charge. Children may enjoy crafts, storytelling, games, movies and pizza.

• The Gore-Webbers Falls Community Food Pantry is open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Monday and Tuesday of the third full week of each month. Groceries will be handed out at Gore United Methodist Church. This food pantry is hosted by the Gore United Methodist Church and sponsored by the Gore-Webbers Falls Ministerial Alliance. Information: 489-5313.

ST. PAUL, 2130 W. Okmulgee Ave., will host a free community breakfast from 8 to 10 a.m. April 12, second Saturday of each month, in the activity building. Enter through the south door. Information: 687-7571. Other activities:

• Sunday, 8:30 a.m., Rowsey Chapel; 9 a.m. FUEL Contemporary worship service, Fellowship Hall; 9:45 a.m. Sunday School and Spirit Zone; 11 a.m. worship service, sanctuary; 7 p.m., youth leave for ski trip.

• Tuesday, 9 a.m., senior adult yoga; Narthex

Pictorial directory appointments, check your day and time for Tuesday or Wednesday; 5:30 p.m. worship work area, small conference room; and 5:30 p.m., liturgical dance practice, sanctuary.

TRINITY, 518 Houston St., hosts Muskogee Cooperative Ministries Baby Basket Infant Supply Closet. Hours: 10 a.m. to noon Mondays; 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays; and 4:30 to 6 p.m. Wednesdays. Photo identification is requested. Information: 687-4693.

• Sundays, 9:30 a.m. Sunday School; 10:45 a.m. worship service.

• Wednesday, 7 p.m., weekly Bible study.



OTHER

ARK OF FAITH, 401 E. Broadway, will have a coffeehouse from 8 to 11 p.m. Fridays. Featuring various local talent. Refreshments are free. Bring one song, poem, or a three-minute testimony to share at audience-participation set. Information: 682-8411.

THE JOYFUL NOISE NETWORK features the Rev. Tony Wooden and “Churching with St. Paul,” Greater Shiloh Outreach, New Life Ministries and more from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturdays on Channel 29. Information: 680-1521.

DERRICK A. REED RADIO MINISTRIES presents The Joy In The Morning Radio Show from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Sundays on KTFX 101.7. Information: Derrick Reed, 856-1683, www.derrickareedradio.com.

“THE SOUNDS OF SUNDAY” radio show will be heard at 7:30 a.m. Sundays on KTFX 101.7 FM in Muskogee. The Rev. Leon Schneider, pastor of the Wagoner Church of God of Prophecy, will be the host.

MUSKOGEE COUNTY GOSPEL SINGING CONVENTION, 1:30 p.m. April 6, first Sundays, except October; Greenleaf Apartments, 715 S. York St.

FREE SIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES, 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays, New Community Church, 3600 E. Shawnee. All ages welcome. Information: 840-9089 or 683-9111.