Dennis Jernigan at the piano, where he s written hundreds of published worship songs. At 61, Jernigan is dealing with a damaged left vocal cord and early stage Parkinson s disease, but he is taking to social media to amplify, not stop, his ministry. | Dennis Jernigan
“We may suffer persecution, but Jesus will be with us. The Church has no idea I’ve had so much persecution in my life,” Christian singer/songwriter Dennis Jernigan told The Christian Post about his just-released book. “God has met me in those
Middle of Nowhere moments and not wasted them.”
Jernigan, 61, has weathered storms ever since a chance encounter with an adult male as a 5-year-old stirred same-sex attraction in him. This week started his 40th year of deliverance from homosexuality, a period marked not only by joy but also battles with LGBT activists who despise his testimony.
Steven Jones returns to Bison Hill as HR director
OBU
OBU recently welcomed Steven Jones as human resources director. He assumed his duties Jan. 25.
Jones earned a Bachelor of Music Education with an emphasis in vocal music education from OBU in 2000. In 2019, he earned an MBA from Purdue University and in 2020 he earned an MBA from TIAS School of Business and Society in the Netherlands. Both degrees were part of a joint Global Executive International Masters in Management program through the Krannert School of Management at Purdue. As part of the program, he was able to take courses and visit companies around the globe before the global response to COVID-19 reduced the ease of international travel.
This is what could have been. If the computer geeks at MIT in 1960 had just held on just a little while longer with the Mississippi freedom riders. If uprisings in Watts, and Detroit, and Newark and Kansas City did not make Black people the computing revolution’s first problem to solve. If Black people had averted the collision between civil rights and computing technology that Willard Wirtz once predicted. If Black people had bothered to seriously engage Roy Wilkins’ admonition to “computerize the race problem.” This talk will walk the attendees through the alternative black technological futures that some had already begun to imagine and design more than fifty years ago. Who, what and why were those futures foreclosed upon, and how did they impact the tech present? Can Black people still salvage our former technological dreams to imagine – and realize – a different kind of Black future?
Bill Barnett, a prominent Oklahoma Baptists pastor and Native American ministry leader, died on Feb. 5 of COVID-19. He was 87.
Barnett was founding senior pastor of Indian Nations Baptist Church in Seminole and a former first vice president of Oklahoma Baptists, also known as the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma.
"We are thankful to have been a part of his amazing life; although we are saddened, we find comfort in the hope that God instilled within us that we will be together again," Barnett's family said in a social media post. "Let us be joyful as we remember the many blessings he brought to all of us as a man of God called to do his work. 'I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
The Redbud City: It happened in February
Clyde Wooldridge
Contributing writer
1851 - The Indian Appropriations Act was the name of several acts passed by the Congress. A considerable number of acts were passed under the same name throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. From the outset, the most notable landmark of the acts was the one of 1851.
The official name was the “Appropriation Bill for Indian Affairs,” passed on Feb. 27, 1851. The act allocated funds to move western tribes onto reservations. Reservations were protected and enclosed by the federal government. According to the government at that time, reservations were created to protect the Native Americans from the growing encroachment of whites moving westward. This act set the precedent for modern-day Native American reservations.