Pastors

There are nearly 1,800 churches in our Oklahoma Baptist family, and our churches have been given pastors to feed, to protect and to lead.

Upcoming Events

MVP Retreat

2025 Priority of Preaching Conference

2024 Pastor’s Conference

Relations

Ever Borunda

Ever Borunda

Emerson Falls

Emerson Falls

Buddy Hunt

Buddy Hunt

Philip Jones

Philip Jones

Amy Petersen

Amy Petersen

Brett Selby

Brett Selby

Walter Wilson

Walter Wilson

Andy Taylor

Andy Taylor

Pastor Resources

Multivocational Pastors & Small Attendance Churches

Our mission is to strengthen multi-vocational pastors and the churches they lead.

Native American Relations

Our Native American Ministries focus on developing indigenous leadership, creating contagious communities of faith, and affecting revitalization in plateaued and declining churches.

Hispanic Relations

Oklahoma Baptists Hispanic Ministries exists to support the local church in fulfilling the Great Commission. Our goal is to serve as a means of cooperation between the churches of Oklahoma, the nation, and the world.

Learning to Preach – Putting the Pieces Together – STRUCTURE

What if I told you there is a tool available to expositors that, once mastered, will keep you from ever having to worry about sermon outlines again? Would you be interested? Here is the tool: structure. Become competent in discerning the structure of a text and your...

In Between Now and Then: A Helpful Image

Recently at the Priority of Preaching conference here in OKC, Dr. Jim Shaddix of Southeastern Seminary was speaking about this subject of dealing with ancient texts and of the challenge of getting to the "then" so that we deliver a message for the "now." He provided...

Learning to Preach: Putting the Pieces Together – CONTEXT

Preaching is letting texts talk, according to an expositional luminary such as J.I. Packer. Of course, he's spot on: if the preacher is talking rather than the text, that's not biblical preaching. However, every text has a context. Without it, goes the old saying, all...

The Images of a Preacher

We live in an image-driven culture. Even the oldest among us grew up with photographs and most of us grew up on TV and movies. There is no escaping the power of the image. A picture truly is worth a thousand words because we will remember an image long after the words...

Can Preaching Be Improved?

I read a blog post by a seminary professor that humorously answered this question by saying, "No, of course not. I'm just doing this for the money." Can preaching be taught? Why would I suggest that preachers should intentionally strive to get better in their ministry...