Word Search

40 What the Bridegroom did with the Maiden’s heart

5 Chinese seasoning

25 “Thy teeth are like a ock of ___” (Song 4:2) 27 Listens

57 What the goat skin on Jacob’s arm did to Isaac’s judgment

58 Water carrier

60 Small fry (var.)

61 Luge

41 Pain reliever

43 Be

44 Evil spirits

63 “___ skilfully with a loud noise” (Ps. 33:3)

46 “Stir not up, ___ awake my love, until he please” (Song 8:4)

65 “Thy belly is like a heap of wheat ___ about with lilies” (Song 7:2)

67 “Passed through the Red sea as by ___ land” (Heb. 11:29)

6 God’s grace o ers us the chance to begin ___

7 “The ___ that is in thy brother’s eye” (Matt. 7:3)

8 “His ___ is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely” (Song

41 “___ . . .evil” (Rom. 12:9)

42 “My beloved is like a ___ or a young hart” (Song 2:9)

45 Vase

Note: The word clues for the Word Search are chosen by the Messenger staff, while the puzzles and letters surrounding the clues are computer-generated at random.

Tributes

Bobby Burch

Bobby Burch, 96, died Jan. 16 in Walters. He pastored several Oklahoma Baptist churches over a span of more than 40 years, including 25 years at Okmulgee, Second.

Garnet Cole

Garnet Cole, 95, died Feb. 7. He served as pastor of Choctaw, First and then Tulsa, Red Fork before serving as director of missions of Tulsa Association for 17 years.

Peggy Lovejoy

Peggy Lovejoy, 89, died Jan. 30 in Richmond, Va. She was the widow of Bob Lovejoy who served Oklahoma Baptists as a pastor, director of missions and convention leader.

Kim McGehee

Kim McGehee, 71, died Dec. 7. He retired as bi-vocational pastor of Bushnell in Bryan Association after 27 years.

Betty Ussery

Betty Ussery, 92, died Feb. 3 in Muskogee. She served many years as a houseparent for Oklahoma Baptist Homes for Children.

Buddy Hunt East Regional Ministry Partner Oklahoma Baptists

As your regional ministry partner for eastern Oklahoma, one of the most amazing things I have witnessed is how God works through the transition process when a church is without a pastor. I am beginning an interim at Muskogee, Eastern Heights, my fifth interim as a regional ministry partner.

It is wonderful to see how God works through transition teams and churches as they prepare for new pastors. I have witnessed God work as churches took the Gospel to their community during the transition process.

God led these churches to call Christ-like men as their pastors, and the churches are flourishing and growing as God continues to bless them and their new pastors.

We have revamped the transition process into a three-to-four month development called the “Moving Forward Interim.” The Moving Forward Interim strategy aims to assist churches in maximizing the interim period and focus on God’s preferred future for each church. The strategy leads the church through assessing strengths and weaknesses, aligning ministries with the church’s mission and encouraging church revitalization.

The “Moving Forward Interim” is a strategy that any size church can use as they are searching God’s will for their next pastor. I recommend it to every church when they are in the process of searching for the pastor God desires.