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Church Historical Summary
In November 1963, a group of young men from Oklahoma Christian's Harvester's Club canvassed the Mustang area to see if there might be a need for the Lord's church to be established there. Mustang at that time was a community of 960 people, and the projected growth was such that the survey supported the belief that it could most certainly sustain a congregation of the Church of Christ. With the help of the Harrah Church of Christ and Southwest Church of Christ in Oklahoma City, the property on which the building now sits, was purchased. Three families, later joined by three more families from the Oklahoma City and surrounding areas, met that first Sunday in November 1963 in an old house in the Wheatland area. The Tulia, Texas congregation provided them with pews, songbooks, chairs, and the necessary office and Bible supplies to get them started. They held their mid-week services on Thursdays so each family could stay in touch with their home congregations on Wednesday nights. The six men of the congregation (Wendell Hughes, Don Green, Freddy Lemmons, Kenny Davidson, Richard Hankins, and Cotton Thompson) traveled many miles on Wednesday evenings to talk to congregations after their services about buying bonds to help get the building built. Finally in 1965, enough bonds had been sold to start a building program. The first vacation Bible school opened in the summer of 1966. That building, built in 1965, received its first add-on and face-lift in 1973 when a new auditorium was constructed and the old one converted to classrooms. Today Lakehoma Church of Christ has added another new auditorium, converting the other one to a fellowship room/classroom facility. More classrooms have been added and plans for the completion of an all-purpose building/class room facility are pending. Lakehoma, from humble beginnings, has grown to a congregation of more than 350. She stands as a godly influence in the community of Mustang. The 1963 predictions of a needed congregation in the "growing community of Mustang" certainly came true.
•Last Updated• ( ••Monday•, 08 •September• 2008 09:41• )
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