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Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of The Father and The Son and The Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Matthew 28:19-20

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Salvation Bracelet Ministry

As of Sunday, May 11, 2008 we have received 115,175 requests from 162 countries. To find out more about the Salvation Bracelet Ministry or to get a Free Salvation Bracelet click the link provided below. If you would like more information or have questions please EmailSalvationBracelet@OakGrove-Baptist.Organd we will be happy to respond and answer your questions.


A View Of The Salvation Bracelet Ministry by Dorris Owen

"Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptiszing them in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you, and lo, I am with you always even to the end of the age." (NASB) Not long after Chuck Campbell became our pastor we adopted this scripture as our mission statement. Little did we know that we would be reaching the world with salvation bracelets and the Word of God when Jeff Owen set up a church website.

We are a very small church, but our God is SO BIG! This is like a miracle he has entrusted to us. When requests first started pouring in we were overwhelmed, but by trial and error we got better. The church would meet Wednesday and Sunday evenings before services to make bracelets, stuff envelopes and address them.

Many did not get their bracelets as the postal sorting machines were shooting them out of the envelope. We, also, had a lot of returns for incorrect addresses. We learned better ways as we went along.

Requests kept coming in, more than we could handle a couple of hours a week. I was hired as a part-time church secretary, except I don't classify this work as secretarial. Although God must have been preparing me for this job years ago. I worked in a office of the Olin Cellophane plant where order can in, labels were made for packaging, and bills of lading for shipping, which is all similar to getting the salvation bracelets mailed. The pastor gets the address labels printed from his computer, then they are put in envelopes which include a letter from the pastor, the plan of salvation and what the colored beads on the bracelet represent, and of course, a bracelet, then taken to the post office. In two week period recently I mailed out 2,167 bracelets.

Other churches have stepped in to help; our association has helped; the Baptist State Convention, and lots of individuals. One church started furnishing the materils and making the bracelets for us. this is greatly appreciated.

This is an interesting job. I have met new people through telephone conversations, and writing to some. In the process of labeling the envelopes I wonder about the person it is going to and pray that God will bless them. Seeing so many towns, citites and countries is a geography lesson in itself. then I think, "I guess these people wonder where Lake Toxaway, North Carolina is too!!"

Our pastor stayed glued to his computer one day and was praising God when he saw that the first person was saved in Russia. Now, he has seen people saved in China. Thousands have said they accepted Jesus as their savior after reading the plan of salvation and praying the sinner's prayer. As comedian Jerry Clower used to say, "Ain't God Good?"

 

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Check out the Oak Grove Prayer Wall  You may post your own prayer request or send a private prayer request to the Oak Grove Prayer Warrior Team. All prayer requests are taken seriously and lifted up unto God by individual Prayer Warriors and as a group during the Wednesday Night Prayer Service.
Requests received during the week are brought before the Lord during each Wednesday Night Prayer Service.

Oak Grove Baptist Church Was constituted on July 31, 1880. The first church members were: George W. Henderson, Millie L. Henderson, John Whitmire, Henry B. Galloway, John Jackson adn Martha Jackson. The first pastor was Andy S. Whitmire. They met in the local school house in Quebec community.
The first church on the present site was built in 1903. The building fund for the current church was started on October 18, 1936 and construction began in March 1939 and was completed on April 27, 1944. Renovations have been made to the building since, but the orginal structure is still standing.