A Living Free Bible Study is being held each Wednesday evening at 6:30 p.m. at the Vian United Methodist Church. The main goal of the bible study is to assist people along the path of total recovery –...

Jesus said: “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have comm an...

When our time was over in Ohio and it was time to say our goodbyes, my daughter took us back to the rental place where we picked up another rental car to drive back to Oklahoma. My ex-husband loaded e...

The Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET) offers free resources to help Oklahomans achieve their New Year’s health resolutions through small daily steps. Whether you wish to eat more nutritiously,...

Dear Editor, The Clothes Closet will be closed the month of January for us to be able to collect enough clothes for all sizes - men, women and children. We have helped three families with children. So...

I was helping Jill with some decorations for the kids’ Christ mas program. It required cut ting and shaping some styrofoam. It was a sheet that was 4’x8’ and had angles and a little arch required. I h...

Dear Editor, Thank you to all the elves that made “Santa’’s Workshop” a success at “Downtown in December.” Your generosity spread the magic of Christmas. The smiles and giggles were contagious. Goodwi...

Dear Editor, This past Saturday, Gore HS Football Team competed at the highest level in class A football in Oklahoma, the state championship game in Edmond. This game was the finally of a 14-0 season ...

“Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethle hem…And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloth...

Ephesians 5:17-21 says: Wherefore be ye not unwise, but under standing what the will of the Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but be filled with the spirit. Speaking to yourselve...

John 11:10 “But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.” The Edge of Night was a long running TV serial that aired from 1956 1984. It was a popular show and many pe...

Dear Editor, Both of my parents were born and grew up in Vian. My father was Olen Barker and my mother was Lorene Keck Barker; both are deceased. In going through my mother’s papers, I found the enclo...

Dear Editor, I am the director of Lake Tenkiller Sky Warn, a group of HAM radio operators who live on or around the Lake Tenkiller area. The purpose of this group is to monitor and report severe weath...

One characteristic of the God kind of love is that it forgives. When God’s love is in demonstration, there is an attitude of forgiveness because love and forgiveness go hand in-hand. The God kind of l...

“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Heb. 11:1). .. the just shall live by his faith (Hab. 2:4). Faithless If there was ever a time for the Church to let Her ...

IThessalonians 5:3 “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.” There is a idiom that has been ...

Harris family thanks you Letter to the Editor: Thank you doesn’t fully express the deep appreciation we feel for the kindness that all our friends, neighbors and family have shown us through this very...

Dear Editor, God is so great and awesome! As pastor of the Vian United Methodist Church, my wife and I would love to invite everyone to visit and worship with our church family. We are a “come as you ...

“ Matthew 9:4-7 “And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts? For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk? But that ye may kn...

Righteousness is the ability to stand in the presence of God, without the sense of guilt or inferiority as though sin never existed. Isaiah 54:13-17... And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord...