From the Executive Director
The LAST Next Time
For the past four years, I have been signing off this article with “Until Next Time.” Here we are, June 2021, and this is the last of these. No more next time in this space from Steve McNeil. Jeannine and I want to thank you SCBI for placing your confidence in us on March 6, 2017, at the Executive Board meeting when you voted unanimously to call me as your Executive Director. What a humbling moment in my life. I must confess to you that I feel that my life has been a string of humbling moments. In 1975, my pastor came to me and asked if I would consider being the part-time Recreation Director at our church in Oklahoma City. I was saved through the ministry of this church. They had just built a new “Christian Life Center” and wanted me to organize the programs and ministry for the church. I couldn’t believe they were asking me to do this. About a year and a half later, the pastor came back and asked if I would
A Unique Time for SCBI
I have been writing in this article for the past year about different aspects of a process that our state convention is going through called Denominee. This has been an interesting, challenging, informative and futuristic look at how we function as a state convention. Let me take a moment
Pray for Your Search Team
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“For I Know the Plans I Have for You”
Great words, often quoted from the prophet Jeremiah, “11 ‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare
Thank you, SCBI
Many of you have heard by now that the Lord has given Jeannine and me peace about the next steps in our journey with Him.
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