2025 Community Thanksgiving Service

The Ministerial Alliance of Pauls Valley gathers at a Community Thanksgiving worship service on the Sunday evening before Thanksgiving every year.

Of all the Ministerial Alliance worship services throughout the year, this is the only one where we take up an offering. This year, the Ministerial Alliance ahs decided to donate all monies collected at the Community Thanksgiving Service to the Samaritan Food Pantry.

Here are the details for this year's Community Thanksgiving Service:

• Place: Ekklesia
• Date: Sunday, November 23rd
• Time: 6:00pm
• Preaching: Rev. DR. Jaiseong Pi

We hope to see you there.

M.A.Y. Fund Christmas Gifts

"M.A.Y." stands for the Ministerial Alliance Youth Fund. Sometimes it can be confusing because the M.A.Y. Fund program has activity in the months of both December and May. In both cases, Ministerial Alliance churches take up a collection to fund the activities. The biggest activity is a scholarship given to a few Pauls Valley graduating high school seniors awarded as a part of graduation in May. Read more about the M.A.Y. fund here.

In December, the M.A.Y. fund is used to be sure high school kids with unstable housing get a Christmas present. While there aren't many, several Pauls Valley high school kids have no home to live in with their family; they end up couch"-surfing" at relatives' or friends' houses. We respect their privacy and give these gifts through the high school counselors' office, so we don't even know who receives these gifts.

The M.A.Y. Fund Christmas gift is given in early December, so look for your local church to collect money for this in November. If you don't have a church home and still want to give, contact any of the Ministerial Alliance churches.

Hike the 2025 Ministerial Alliance Trunk-or-treat Trail

Ministerial Alliance churches and friends are providing safe places to go for Halloween treats and activities. Complete the Trunk-or-treat trail by visiting all five participating churches. Here is a list of participating churches and organizations:

Wednesday, October 29, 6:00-7:30 pm

Trinity Baptist Church (Parking Lot): Trunk-Or-Treat
108 Loftin Ln., Pauls Valley

Friday, October 31, 4:00-6:00 pm

First Christian Church (Parking Lot): Trunk-Or-Treat
300 N. Ash St., Pauls Valley

First Presbyterian Church (in front of the Church): Trunk-Or-Treat
320 N. Walnut St., Pauls Valley

First United Methodist Church (in the Church’s Park): Trunk-Or-Treat
401 N Willow St., Pauls Valley

Saturday, November 1, 1:00-4:00 pm

First Church of God (Parking Lot): Fall Festival
414 N Chickasaw St., Pauls Valley
Questions - (405)238-6169

and here is a Google Map showing the locations grouped by when that location will be active:
2025 MAPVOK Trunk-or-Treat

Samaritans Sunday

Each year in the fall, the Ministerial Alliance encourages the member churches to collect an offering in support of the Samaritans of Pauls Valley Food Pantry. Samaritans serves over one thousand families in Garvin county. While sometimes canned food drives can be helpful, Samaritans gets a discount on purchases of food from the Regional Food Bank, so your dollars are more efficiently used by giving them directly to Samaritans through your congregation. Samaritans is also always looking for volunteers. Food distribution is Tuesdays from 10:00am to 1:00 pm and Thursdays from 3:00pm to 6:00pm. If you're free during those times, even for an hour, stop by and help out. Many churches are taking up their collection this Sunday, September 28, but the particular date is up to each congregation, so check with your pastor as to when and how to donate.

August Gathering

This Sunday, August 31, is the Ministerial Alliance Gathering!

The Gathering is a quarterly opportunity for the churches of Pauls Valley to come together and pray for our community. Every fifth Sunday, our churches gather together for worship and fellowship. On this Sunday, August 31, at 6:00pm, we will gather at the First Presbyterian Church. The church is providing light snacks or desserts to brighten our eyes as we share in fellowship after the service. We hope to see you there.

The Gathering in June

The Gathering is a quarterly opportunity for the churches of Pauls Valley to come together and pray for our community. Every fifth Sunday, our churches gather together for worship and fellowship. On June 29, at 6:00pm, we will gather at Christian Life Church. We're told the church is providing light snacks or desserts to brighten our eyes as we share in fellowship after the service. We hope to see you there.

Christian Life Church

Christian Life Church is an International Pentecostal Holiness Church and has a heart to impact and develop people with the word of God. We meet for Discipleship Class at 10:00am, Family Worship Service at 11:00am and Bible Study at 6:00pm each Sunday. We also meet for Bible Study on Wednesday evenings at 6:00pm.

Pastor Neil Barlow

Christian Life Church (map)
820 S Walnut St.
Pauls Valley, OK 73075

(405)238-5625

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