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Since March 2022, Steve Hall has been the pastor at First Baptist Church Allen. Prior to his current position, Steve served as the youth minister at Allen FBC from June 2011 to March 2014. After leaving Allen in 2014, he served as the Student Pastor at First Baptist Church in Piedmont for three years and then at Waterloo Road in Edmond for five years.
Read moreWashington, Oklahoma, and graduated in 2005. His wife, Kristin, grew up in Purcell, Oklahoma, and graduated in 2007. Together, they have a four-year-old daughter named Noa. Kristin works as a reading specialist at Reed Elementary in Holdenville.
Read moreThis Saturday, August 12th, at 4:00 p.m., the Allen United Pentecostal Church will hold a Pastoral Installation to make the appointment of Gary Vinson as church pastor official. Conducting the ceremony will be Rev. David Shatwell, Sectional Presbyter as emcee, and District Superintendent Rev. Matthew Martin. The congregation voted on June 8th to ask Rev. Vinson to take the lead of the local church.
Read moreMonday the Allen City Council met for their regular meeting. All members were present, Josh Marshall, Melinda Haney, Rhonda Skelton, Braylee Dickerson and Dianna Brannan. City Clerk Kala Stephens and Town Administrator Calem Woodward, Police Officer Chad Vandeveer and other guest were also in attendance.
Read moreWhen a Red Oak, Texas boy marries an Atwood, Oklahoma girl and they settle in her hometown, the result is a benefit for the whole area.
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