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Dear Oklahoma Baptists,

Every Number Has a Story!

In Acts 5:14 the Scripture says, “More and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number.”

Although this Scripture talks about more and more men and women, we must remember the focus was on individuals whose

lives were radically changed when they met Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. Every Number Has a Story!

You hold in your hands the Annual Report of our work as Oklahoma Baptists. While there are many numbers in this book,

may I remind you that stories of changed lives are the heartbeat behind the statistics. Every Number Has a Story!

Just consider:

• As the new school year began 8,956 students who attended the Youth Evangelism Conference prepared to share their faith

in Christ with their peers.

• Record attendance at Falls Creek brought a record number of decisions —5,453 public decisions included 1,548 professions

of faith and 981 called to ministry. These individuals went back to their hometowns, churches and schools to make an impact

for Christ.

• Through ACROSS Oklahoma, 800,000 homes received materials about salvation and local churches. One young woman

from Waukomis shared with the pastor’s wife that she had accepted the Lord as her Savior because she read the brochure

delivered to her door.

Because you are a member of a cooperating Oklahoma Baptist church, you have

been a part of each life that has been changed. You have been a part of every story

in this book.

Thank you for your participation in the Cooperative Program. May God bless you and

your church as you continue to serve Him. May we see many new lives brought into

Christ’s Kingdom in the year ahead.

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Hispanic Sunday School Materials

Lead Like Jesus

Leadership Development

Marriage Enrichment

Men’s Fraternity

Men’s Ministry

Men’s Retreat

Ministerial Counseling

Ministers’ Wives Weekend

Missional Ministry Conference

Missions and Ministries Celebration

Mother/Daughter Weekend

Oklahoma Baptist Symphony

Oklahoma Bible Conference

Oklahoma Ladies Retreat

Oklahoma Ladies Retreat inspired women to walk by faith.

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Pastoral Learning Communities

Robert Haskins School of Leadership

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Single Adult Ministry

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Family and Men’s Ministry

More than 2,200 men attended the “Rewired” Oklahoma State Men’s Retreat, recording over 30 professions of faith, and more

than 325 motorcycle riders participated in the “Rewired Rally to Falls Creek.” Fifty-seven dads and daughters attended the first

ever Father/Daughter Weekend and nearly 200 fathers and sons attended Father/Son weekends at CrossTimbers. There were

75 pastors and staff trained in Prepare/Enrich marriage counseling training.

Faith Riders Motorcycle Ministry

In 2008, the Family and Men’s Ministry launched a new local church motorcycle ministry called Faith Riders in more than 20

churches throughout Oklahoma. Every participating church recorded reaching families through this ministry. Twenty-five

riders from across Oklahoma traveled to Sturgis, South Dakota, to participate in the South Dakota Baptist Convention’s 2008

Sturgis Mission where there were 1,344 professions of faith.

PowerUP Your Sunday School Strategies

PowerUP Your World, the latest strategy for developing a missional Sunday School, was released

in 2008. Since introducing the original PowerUP Resource in 2006, over 2,000 PowerUP Kits have

been released. The PowerUP strategy has been adopted in five state conventions. PowerUP Your

World is the most comprehensive missional Sunday School strategy to date and challenges each

person and class in the church in a holistic approach to personal spiritual growth and living life

as a missionary in their community.

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Women’s Missions and Ministries

A pastor’s wife wrote, “This was one of the best weekends I have ever experienced. I now know that I am not alone. I even

have a prayer partner for this year. Thank you so much!” The Ministers’ Wives Weekend is just one example of the many

ways Oklahoma Baptist women’s leaders are equipped and encouraged. More than 200 pastors’ wives attended the weekend

event, with 561 women receiving missions and evangelism training at S.W.E.E.T Spots. This year was the largest-ever

Oklahoma Ladies Retreat at Falls Creek with more than 3,000 women who were encouraged to walk by faith. Perhaps most

significantly, 10,000 miles were logged on Pray ACROSS Oklahoma, a statewide prayer walking effort on March 8.

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college students are reached, trained and sent out.

Collegiate Ministry — Moving Lives Forward

I met Joe the first night of our “Don’t Waste Your Life” Bible study. At the urging of his friends he began coming to the BCM

meetings at Southeastern. He said that God had been on his mind lately and he was on a quest to discover Him. I explained to

him that to be a follower of Jesus, a person must confess with his mouth that Jesus is Lord and also believe in his heart that

God raised Jesus from the dead, and through these confessions he would be saved. I then asked him, “What do you think?”

He told me that he doesn’t have a problem confessing that Jesus is Lord, but he wasn’t sure if he believed that Jesus was

actually raised from the dead. For Joe, Jesus was a good man, maybe the best man ever, but he wasn’t ready to follow Him

with his life.

The next week Joe came back to our meeting. “Do you remember what we talked about last week?” I asked. “Yes,” he said.

I asked him, “What has God been saying to you?” “1 believe” was his simple reply. I said, “You do?” “Yes,” he said firmly.

So in the manner of one week, I had met Joe, explained the Gospel to him; he’d weighed the truth of the Scripture, and he

had committed his life to follow Jesus. The following week Joe told our large group meeting of his new found faith, began

attending church and was baptized. He is now an active part of our group. Joe’s life was moved forward from darkness

into light.

- Brandon Brister, Director, SOSU

BCM is striving to be a spiritual “Rapid Transit System” moving the lives of college students forward as quickly as possible,

reaching them, training them and sending them to their world.

Last year 8,708 college students were engaged on 35 campuses, with 139 making first time commitments to Jesus. Of those,

642 were involved in training programs and 710 served in mission ventures. Regarding missions, BCM students served in

Oklahoma through Baptist Homes for Children, CrossTimbers, DaySpring Villa, Falls Creek, Kiamichi Baptist Assembly, Summit

Camps and multiple other camps. Others served as youth and children’s interns in Oklahoma churches. Still others served in

Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Vermont, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, South Asia, Central Asia, East

Asia, Southeast China, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Ecuador, England, Guatemala, Japan, Malawi, Mexico, Peru, Russia,

Tanzania and Venezuela.

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Falls Creek Youth Weeks

GO Students International Mission Trips

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Oklahoma Youth Ministry Forum

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2008 YEC (Youth Evangelism Conference)

The largest gathering of Oklahoma Southern Baptists each year is the annual Youth Evangelism conference (YEC). August 8-9, 2008, the

Ford center in Oklahoma City hosted 8,956 students and leaders to hear the challenge to return to their school sharing Christ. The theme for

the conference was “Jesus 08,” but the focus of the weekend was challenging and equipping students to return to school living their faith,

sharing their faith and focusing on who is their leader. Wes Hamilton, Ben Fuqua, Pocket Full of Rocks, 33Miles, Hawk Nelson and Run Kid

Run were the special guests at the 2008 YEC.

Before the evening session of YEc, more than 1,200 students and leaders prayer walked, served in economically-challenged neighborhoods

or distributed materials around the Oklahoma city area to help local church starts. After the Mission YEC projects, students gathered at

Moore, First Baptist for breakout training conferences on practical ways to live and share their faith. The YEC was followed on Saturday

evening by Christian Family Day at Frontier City with an “Idea Walk Through” for leaders and an outdoor concert with Sanctus Real.

2008 Falls Creek Youth Weeks

The simplicity of “The Lord is my Shepherd” was the main focus for the Graze 2008 Falls Creek Youth Camp. Thousands of students and

adults at Falls Creek were challenged to understand more about God as they considered what it really means for the Lord to be their

Shepherd; He is present with them, providing for them, protecting them and He has a plan for them.

The youth weeks during the summer of 2008 hosted 926 churches, 41,983 full time campers, and 54,990 total campers, which are all new

records for Falls Creek. During the eight weeks of camp there were 5,453 public decisions, including 1,548 professions of faith and 981

publicly called to ministry.

Falls Creek is best understood through the lives of teenagers who shared their faith for the first time during the student-led invitation

counseling; through students who walked into the Wynn Center for World Missions and asked about the next step in sharing their faith

at school and overseas; or through the life of a student who just came to camp to skateboard, but went home a follower of Jesus with

a skateboard.

GO Students

Our students were fulfilling the call of God on their lives to leave the comforts of Oklahoma to share Christ in the United Kingdom with people

they had never met. They interacted in the immigrant neighborhoods with people from all over the Middle East and North Africa and had the

unique opportunity to tell them for the first time about Jesus.

GO Students 2008 had 206 high school students and adults from 96 different churches serving for ten days in July on a GO Students

Mission Team in the United Kingdom. Each team member spent hours prayer walking, sharing the Gospel with people of various cultural

backgrounds, learning from 1MB missionaries about their daily task and studying the Scriptures to learn the heart of God for all people.

Sumphero Youth Discipleship

Sumpherö (some-fair-o) Youth Discipleship is a thirty-two session curriculum of interactive discipleship designed to engage students in

eight specific spiritual disciplines. Authored and piloted by Oklahoma youth pastors, Sumpherö is a free downloadable resource offered

by the BGCO Student Ministry. More than 315 churches from 16 states have accessed Sumpherö Volume One and more than 120 churches

have downloaded Sumphero Volume Two. Volume Three was released in the fall of 2008.

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Vacation Bible School

Aloha! Surf’s up! Outrigger Island: Living God’s Unshakable Truth was the 2008 VBS theme. This year, Oklahoma churches

enrolled 40,300 children and celebrated 1,300 decisions for Christ. How exciting!!! Children were able to learn how to know,

speak and live God’s truth. This tropical adventure helped kids develop the stability they need to become unshakable in a

world of shifting sands.

Mission Ignition

This year marked the beginning of a new focus for Oklahoma children called Mission Ignition. We invited children from all

over the state to join us for this one-day exploration of missions. Activities for this event included low ropes, cartooning,

crafts and a variety of mission adventures the children could take part in. This year over 1,000 people participated in Mission

Ignition from 32 different Baptist churches. Children were able to gain a better understanding of missions, and they obtained

a stronger desire to do missions where they are located. Five children were nominated and recognized as recipients of the

“Mission Ignition Outstanding Service Award” and many children’s groups accepted the challenge of serving others in 2008.

Church Weekday Education

Nicole and her husband came to church after they had been invited by their daughter’s daycare teacher and they both

accepted Christ. Mom says: “You could never dream that a 4-year-old could change her entire family, but she did.” Oklahoma

Baptists trained 442 church weekday directors and teachers atthe 2008 Church Weekday Annual Workshop Come Grow

With Me held at Moore, First Baptist. The attendees were encouraged to guide boys and girls to grow as Jesus grew in

wisdom, stature, and in favor with God and man. The two-day event offered 51 breakout sessions with 29 conference leaders

that equipped participants from Southern Baptist, Nazarene, Methodist, Presbyterian, Assemblies of God, Christian and

nondenominational churches.

Heart of the Child Convention

Arkansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Kansas-Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas joined efforts to equip preschool and children’s

leadership in all areas of ministry at the 2008 Preschool and Children’s Convention. Over 1,200 leaders from these state

conventions chose from over 145 breakout sessions with 70 conference leaders, which concentrated on the specifics

of Sunday School, discipleship, worship, missions, recreation and fellowships, and weekday ministries. Leaders were

challenged, encouraged, and led to worship by guest speakers Dr. Thom Rainer, President and CEO of LifeWay Christian

Resources; Jerry Vogel, Manager of Childhood Publishing, LifeWay; Daryl Eldridge, President, Rockbridge Seminary; and

Christian Recording Artist, Jason Catron.

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Annuity Checks to Widows

Anti-Gambling Sunday Awareness

Baptist Messenger

Baptist Messenger News Web site

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BGCO Communications Strategies

BGCO Resource Web site (www.bgco.org)

ChurchComm Conference

Church Communication Strategies

Compensation Studies

Crisis Communications

Demographics

Electronic Video Communications

Ethics & Religious Liberty Committee (ERLC)

ERLC Alerts

ERLC Day at the Capitol

Family Day at the Capitol

Guide Stone

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Media Relations

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2008 was another successful year helping protect the unborn with the passage of SB 1878. This year the 17th annual Rose Day Rally at the

State Capitol had nearly 700 in attendance. By serving as the voice of Oklahoma Baptists, the BGCO gave more than 150 media interviews

in 2008. This year the Communications Team hosted ChurchComm, the first ever Church Communications Conference. More than 110 people

representing 48 churches from all over the state of Oklahoma attended. ChurchComm was offered free of charge to all churches, to provide

solutions to better communicate to the church and community.

Electronic Video Communications

In 2008, the Electronic Media Department produced the “Now is the lime” Oklahoma State Missions Offering DVD, PowerUP Your World

videos, the Messenger Radio program, Cooperative Program videos as well as several promotional videos and training events. Last year’s

projects resulted in six Baptist Communicator’s Awards.

Interactive Web Communications

In 2008, BGCO launched a revised Web site www.BGCO.org. The revisions expanded functionality and streamlined navigation designed to

make it easier to find the many resources offered online by BGCO ministries. Online registration for Falls Creek youth camp was utilized for a

second year, and a new addition to the Falls Creek Web site was the creation of an online staff application.

Print Operations

One area of growth we are experiencing is the development of materials for church capital campaigns. Our staff is taking the projects

from development and design to providing the church with all finished printed pieces. Another area of change is bringing the mailing of the

Baptist Messenger in-house. When this project is complete, the convention will save thousands of dollars in mailing costs per year.

Information Services

Compensation Survey Churches across Oklahoma are striving to provide adequate compensation for their pastors and staff members.

The 2008 Church Compensation Survey, completed by over 1,000 Oklahoma pastors and staff members, is used by budget and finance

committees to bring salaries to standard levels.

Retirement and Insurance — Over one-third of our churches provide Church Retirement Plan contributions for their pastors and staff

members. In addition, the BGCO provides disability and survivor protection benefits, as well as matching contributions to eligible

participants. Medical and life insurance is another great need provided by many churches to pastors, staff members and their families.

More churches each year begin offering these important benefits. Multiple conferences and church visits are held each year to encourage

and inform churches of this need.

Regional Tax Seminars — Seven Regional Tax Seminars attended by over 250 churches helped ministers, church treasurers and others know

how to set up salary packages to best benefit their pastors and staff members as well as the churches.

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Ethnic Church Evangelism

Evangelism Conferences

Ev ngelism Resources

Evangelistic Events

Evangelistic “Fish Clubs” on High School

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Internet Evangelism

Oklahoma Life Media Campaign

Personal Evangelism Training

State Evangelism Conference

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March 2008 found Oklahoma Baptists gearing up for one of the largest evangelistic efforts in our convention’s history. We

reached more than 800,000 homes with the Gospel and an invitation to a local congregation for an evangelistic Easter service.

This year, Women’s Missions and Ministries kicked off this historic event as they led us to Pray ACROSS Oklahoma on March

8. The Sunday School department prepared five weeks’ worth of tips on how to connectthe prospects that were discovered

to a Sunday School class. These two new additions to the event along with a new tag on our statewide commercial which

said “This Easter discover Life through Jesus Christ at a Southern Baptist church in your community,” drilled the seed of

the Gospel deep into the lives of Oklahomans across the state.

The door-to-door Gospel distribution was a very important aspect of the campaign. The commercial was broadcast in every

section of our State throughout the month of March. This commercial was born out of extensive research on what lost

people are thinking about in Oklahoma. It was said that the commercial scratched the itch that was identified through the

research. One example of this came from Danny Marney, pastor at Waukomis. He shared that on Easter Sunday they had

a young female visitor who wanted to talk to his wife. She began sharing the plan of salvation and the girl told her she had

gotten saved a few days earlier because she had read the brochure that the church placed on her door previously. They

are so excited! Later the church received a call from someone else who wanted to know how to be saved. The person who

answered the phone said she knew how she got saved, but wasn’t sure how to tell someone else; then she remembered the

ACROSS pen with the Gospel presentation in it that the pastor had given her. She pulled out the Gospel presentation from the

ACROSS pen and shared with the caller, who then prayed to receive Christ.

Research on Oklahoma Baptist churches has revealed that our largest decline in baptisms and Sunday School enrollment

is among young adults, ages 18 to 34. Churches are struggling with ways to reach, keep, and deploy these “emerging

generations” for the cause of Christ. To assist in this effort, the BGCO has established the position of Emerging Generations

Evangelism Specialist. Cris Lowery has moved into this role, giving his full attention to this great effort.

Oklahoma Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelists is composed of men and women who have committed themselves

to impacting our world through evangelism. Oklahoma is fortunate to have some of the most sought after and Godly men

and women serving as Vocational Evangelists in our state. Lastyearthey gave oftheirtime during a busytime ofyearto

participate in simultaneous revivals in Utah. This was an effort as part of our convention’s partnership with that state. God

blessed everyone who went on the trip and several salvations were recorded in the churches. These evangelists are

committed to evangelizing our world, so it is no surprise that they would see the bus breaking down in New Mexico as an

opportunity to lead the mechanic to salvation. They all agreed that while they were anxious to get home, they wouldn’t have

missed the opportunity to see this man accept Christ.

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Baptist Builders

Baptist Nursing Fellowship

Campers on Mission

Charity Pharmacy and Medical Clinics

Children in Action

Christian Women’s Job Corps

ConNEXTtion Bible Studies

Deaf and Blind Ministry

Disaster Relief

Edna McMillan State Missions Offering

Ethnic Church Building Emergency Fund

Girls in Action

Heart Call

Hunger Funds Ministry

Leadership Training Ministry for Church

Missions and Ministries Celebration

Mission Friends

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Partnership Missions

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Statewide Women’s Enrichment and

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Disaster Relief

Jerry Benson, State Mudout Team Leader for Disaster Relief, has been a very busy man this past year leading scores of Oklahomans on

missions assisting in flooded and destroyed homes across Oklahoma, Iowa and south Texas. His influence as a “volunteer on mission” has

spread through Watonga, First Baptist. Some individuals in the church made their first “disaster mission trip” following the Picher tornado.

Pastor Rick Harrison said because many people in the church have found a place to do hands on missions, a renewed commitmentto

missions in their church has come about. Watonga had extensive damage from the August 2007 storms, and now they are helping others

who have experienced similar difficulties.

In the pastyear Oklahoma Baptist Disaster Relief responded to nine federally declared disasters in Oklahoma, from floods, to fires and

tornadoes and ice storms. Oklahoma Baptists were also called upon to serve disaster victims in Kansas, Michigan, Iowa, Texas, California

and Burma (Myanmar). Approximately 4,000 volunteers served in these efforts.

Partnership Missions

Michael Staton, pastor of Mustang, First Baptist, led his church on a church planting mission project to Zorcua, Mexico, in the state of

Guerrero. Pastor Staton stated, “This is just what we’ve been looking and praying for.” Oklahoma Baptists have joined Guerrero Baptists in a

church planting movement in order to evangelize their state. Partnership Missions is seeking 24 Oklahoma churches to adopt a church plant

in Mexico and partner with the church planting team there to see the church grow and establish in these selected unevangelized towns.

Fourteen church plants have been started in the past year in Guerrero.

Oklahoma Baptists currently have formal partnerships in Bangladesh, Armenia, Mexico, Utah/Idaho, and New Orleans. Each of these

partnership areas received several Oklahoma teams within the past year. These teams have focused on evangelism and church planting.

Oklahoma vocational evangelists joined with several state pastors in helping Utah/Idaho have simultaneous revival services in

September 2008.

Church Planting

Twenty-year-old Amanda accepted Christ on August 3, 2008, only seven months after the first worship service of University Fellowship

Church, a new church in Norman. Pastor Matt Mcintosh said that a ladies small group built relationships with Amanda. She readily

accepted Christ and now continues to follow and serve Christ through this new church.

In the last twelve months, 50 new Baptist churches have been planted with 428 people following Christ in believer’s baptism. Half of these

new churches are primarily ethnic in membership, and most of these worship in a language other than English. Of the English language

churches, several are oriented toward certain cultural expressions, such as cowboys, motorcycle enthusiasts or young adults. These new

churches are extending God’s Kingdom by sharing the Gospel with the lost and helping them to find eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ.

Chaplaincy

A “hard core” biker from Ardmore rode his motorcycle to Sturgis, South Dakota for the annual gathering of several hundred thousand

Harley-Davidson enthusiasts. While there an Oklahoma Baptist chaplain shared Jesus Christ with him and he repented of his sins and

trusted Jesus as Lord. Now he is part of an Oklahoma Baptist church and growing as a new follower of Christ.

Three hundred fifteen Oklahoma Baptist chaplains serve in 27 different areas of chaplaincy, from disaster relief to prison and jail. They

serve in hospitals and in the oil patch and in just about every other place where people gather. In the past 12 months, 105 individuals have

completed some form of chaplaincy training.

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CrossTimbers Children’s Mission Adventure Camp set sail for a smooth first year! By efficiently combining Nunny Cha-ha Girl’s

Camp and using Camp Hudgen’s location in McAlester, we were able to increase the quality of camp life through your support,

prayers and generous giving. Renovations in lodging, camp equipment and programming unlocked an exciting future for the

CrossTimber’s vision. CrossTimbers welcomed 3rd through 6th grade campers and offered the following camping options:

•6 Co-ed Weeks

.1 All Boys Week

• 1 All Girls Week

• 1 Special Needs Week - Camp Perfect Wings

Every day, children experienced hands-on mission activities such as a hike to an African village, cooking and eating real

foreign foods, joining Campers on Missions, by helping build a real building and playing Wheel of Fortune to learn aboutthe

Cooperative Program. The average attendance for the main co-ed sessions was 145. God worked in the lives of 96 young

campers with many decisions for salvations and rededications! With only 10 percent of the property actually being utilized,

we anticipate great supportfrom Oklahoma Baptists and await God’s provision in the years to come.

Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center

Did you know that last year Falls Creek served over 85,000 people? Did you know that 30,000 of those were not during the

summer months? Falls Creek is much more than just a greatfacility or eightweeks of youth camp. It is a place readyto serve

all ages year-round.

Over the decades the place called “Falls Creek” has transitioned from a summer tent city into a year-round, full service

conference center. Motel lodging, meeting rooms, meal service and a wide range of recreational opportunities for groups of

30 or 3,000 are offered. Falls Creek staff has expanded increasing services and improving quality in a commitmentto make

disciples and impact lostness.

For 91 years Falls Creek has been a quiet place where God has radically affected the lives of hundreds of thousands in a way

that has rippled across the globe. We are ready to see it happen again in the next 91 years, because what happens at The

Creek impacts the world.

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Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care, Hugo

Atzheimer’s and Dementia Care, OKC

Assisted Living, OKC

Assisted Living, Owasso

Baptist Children’s Home, OKC

Baptist Children’s Home, Owasso

Baptist Home Care, Cleveland

Baptist Home Care, OKC

Baptist Home Care, Owasso

Baptist Home for Girls, Madill

Boys Ranch Town, Edmond

Case Management, Tulsa County

Charitable Trust Administration and

Investment Management

Church Financing

Comprehensive Campus Ministry Program

Disciple Now Teams

Durable Medical Equipment

Endowment Ministry

Exploring Your Call Conference

Global Missions Equipping

Hope Pregnancy Centers, OKC

Hope Pregnancy Centers, Tulsa

Maternity Services, Owasso

M.B.A. Master’s Degree Program

Nursing Care, Hugo

Nursing Care, Owasso

Nursing Care, OKC

OBU Special Emphasis Sunday

Oklahoma Baptist Pastors Winter Bible

Study Clinic

Planned Giving

Preaching Ministry

Residential Care, Ada

Residential Care, Okmulgee

Residential Living, Ada

Residential Living, Broken Arrow

Residential Living, Cleveland

Residential Living, Hugo

Residential Living, Lake Texoma

Residential Living, OKC

Residential Living, Okmulgee

Residential Living, Owasso

Skilled Nursing, Hugo

Skilled Nursing, OKC

Skilled Nursing, Owasso

Ten Bachelor’s Degree Programs

Training Institute

Weekly Chapel Program

Worship Ministry Teams

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Oklahoma Baptist University graduated 282 students in 2007-2008.

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Through our participation in the Cooperative Program

we minister to all ages and stages of life.

The Baptist Foundation of Oklahoma

The Baptist Foundation of Oklahoma receives and manages gifts that strengthen Southern Baptist ministries. Approximately

$10 million was distributed to more than 300 charitable causes in Oklahoma, across the nation and around the world. These

numbers had many stories behind them

the stories of donors who sincerely wanted to help ministries or stories of lives

improved because of generous gifts. Donors’ gifts affected and improved the lives around them, creating a generous story

behind the Foundation’s numbers.

Baptist Village Retirement Communities

Oklahoma Baptist Village Communities marked 50 years of ministry in 2008. God has truly blessed this ministry over these

50 years and now we serve over 2,100 people every day. In the fall of 2008 ground was broken on a new assisted living and

memory care neighborhood at Baptist Village of Broken Arrow. To celebrate 50 years of ministry, BVRC launched the “Life

Without Limits” campaign to raise $700,000 for new transportation for the residents and to provide funds for the Larry and

Edwine Adams Assistance Fund, which provides support to residents with financial needs. With eight villages, three home

health agencies, case management and medical equipment, BVRC is poised to move forward in shaping the future of

aging services.

Oklahoma Baptist Homes for Children

This year Oklahoma Baptist Homes for Children celebrated 97 professions of faith while providing a home for more than 300

children on its four campuses. OBHC’s AfterCare Program provided follow-up care and continued relationships with more than

630 young people. In addition, three pregnancy centers welcomed more than 3,559 client visits. Eighty-seven percent of the

young women who received ultrasounds chose life for their babies.

Oklahoma Baptist Un versity

Oklahoma Baptist University graduated 282 students in the 2007-2008 academic year. Students participated in campus

worship, discipleship and ministry, including six global missions ventures. Recognized as the worldwide leader in the number

of graduates serving as 1MB missionaries, OBU had six students enterthe 1MB Journeyman Program. Education graduates

had a 97.2 percent pass rate on state certification exams, 91 percent of nursing graduates passed their licensing exam and 91

percent of pre-med graduates were accepted to medical school. OBU gained approval for a new master’s degree program in

nursing education.

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2009 COOPERATIVE PROGRAM

MISSIONS AND MINISTRIES PLAN

Oklahoma Baptist

University

6 Seminaries

87%

Baptist General

Convention of

Oklahoma

60%

International Mission Board

20%

North American Mission Board

9.1%

Southern Baptist

Convention

40%

Oklahoma Baptist

Homes for Children

11%

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Ethics & Religious

and SBC

Liberty

OperatingCommission

Baptist Village

Retirement Communities

2.2%

The Baptist Foundation

of Oklahoma

0.2%

Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma

$ 10,786,839

42.8%

BGCO Affiliates

$ 4,334,000

17.2%

Southern Baptist Convention Missions & Ministries

$ 10,080,000

40.0%

TOTAL Cooperative Program Budget

$ 25,200,000

100.0%

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CHALLENGE

Every Member. Every Church.

10% to Reach the World.

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