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Alva Church of God with Pastor Sheryl White Sunday: At 9:30 a.m. Sunday school will meet, with morning worship starting at 10:30. In the evening, the youth group will meet at 5 p.m. This is for students in grades 6-12. At 6:30 p.m. Children's Ministries fo K-5th grades will meet. Young adults also meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday: Bible study will begin at 7 p.m. Alva Church of God is located at 517 Ninth St. in Alva and can be found on the web at www.AlvaChurchOfGod.org. Alva Friends Church Please meet us for coffee and donut fellowship at 10:15...
“For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8). The Bible tells us that faith is something that is absolutely essential for us to have. Most people start asking, “Well, if faith is so important, then what is faith? What do you mean by faith? What is the definition of faith? How can I know if I have proper faith? How much faith must I have?” Wait just a minute; not so many questions at the same time! Let’s slow down and take a look at things a little at a time. One question...
Have you ever had the feeling like there aren’t any good people left in the world? Then, one day, someone performs an act of random kindness to you and all faith in humanity is restored. Oh, what a wonderful feeling! There is a teaching of such kindness in the word of God that carries over from the Old Testament into the New Testament. It comes from the second greatest command to “love your neighbor as yourself.” The Lord says in Leviticus 19:18, “Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbo...
A favorite annual tradition, the Church Women's Intra-City Salad Supper, will be held this Monday evening at a new time: 6 p.m. The event is open to all women in the Alva church community. Organizers suggest participants “bring a favorite salad to share with your interfaith friends.” First Presbyterian Church is at 628 Church St. Those with questions may call the church at 580-327-3895 for more information....
“Roses are red, violets are blue, if skunks had a college they’d call it P.U.” Before it closed, Phillips University in Enid had a skunk mascot. Punxsutawney Phil, the Pennsylvania groundhog, emerged from his burrow to see his shadow yesterday. That predicts six more weeks of winter. We just finished the coldest month of the year, but February is no cake walk except for the bright spot of Valentine’s Day. My second-only-to-Christmas favorite holiday, the day after is my birthday. Hopeful...
I was sitting in my recliner Saturday evening, listening to worship music on YouTube and cramming like I was still in college, trying to get ready for Sunday school, when one sentence in the study guide caught my eye. We were studying John 7:14-29 and they were talking about Jesus teaching in the temple during the festival of booths and this is the sentence that got my attention. “The people of Jerusalem were evaluating Jesus’s teaching, especially His authority. In the process, they were confronted with their own hypocrisy and lack of pow...
Like most athletic endeavors, football is a sport played mostly by young people who are physically fit. That is especially true when the game is played at a professional level. Consequently, almost always when a professional athlete has a medical issue during a game it is because of aggravating an old injury or experiencing a new one. Thus, when Damar Hamlin of football’s Buffalo Bills suffered a heart attack during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals on Jan. 2, all players on both teams were...
Team Standings O'Bar – 55 ½ wins, 36 ½ losses Knights of Columbus – 55 wins, 37 losses Dilly Dilly – 51 losses, 41 wins Rollin GoodTimes – 47 ½ wins, 44 ½ losses Marshall's Oldtimers – 41 ½ wins, 50 ½ losses Holy Bowlers – 36 wins, 44 losses The Bowl Movements – 40 ½ wins, 51 ½ losses Livin' on a Spare – 39 wins, 53 losses Last Week's Top Scores Scratch Game Knights of Columbus – 890 O'Bar – 821 Dilly Dilly – 812 Scratch Series Knights of Columbus – 2447 Dilly Dilly – 2322 O'Bar – 2312 Handicap Game Knights of Columbus – 1198 O'Bar – 1145 The...
WICHITA, Kan. – Northwestern Oklahoma State Track & Field finished the Herm Wilson Invitational Saturday afternoon. The Ranger's continued to show success in the meet throughout the weekend. In the weekend meet 30 personal bests were set along with two more school records. The Rangers were highlighted by Brianna Brantley setting the school record in the 60m dash, in addition to the 4x400 relay run, which included Bell, Lacy, Hengen and Henderson. Gina Wilson and Mary Kate Foster competed for Northwestern in the Pentathlon. Wilson finished 11th...
The Alva Ladybugs added another one to the win column Tuesday night as they hosted the Tonkawa Lady Buccaneers. Tonkawa put the first points on the board and led 4-2 early on, but the Ladybugs quickly took control of the game. At halftime, Alva led 27-11 following a big 15 point second quarter. By the third quarter, the Ladybugs had extended their lead to 41-16 and finally won the game 52-23. First Half Tonkawa senior Brooklyn Day scored first in the game, but Lakin Gaddy picked off a pass and... Full story
In their first home game since Jan. 12, Goldbugs Kyler Penco and Daylon Malone made short work of the Tonkawa Buccaneers Tuesday night. Tonkawa was held to four points in the first quarter while the Alva duo scored 18 points. They accounted for 12 of Alva's 14 points in the second quarter to lead 32-12 at halftime. Although the Buccaneers stepped up their game to score 16 points in the third quarter, the Goldbugs smothered them with 25 points. With Alva sending in players from the bench, the... Full story
The Alva Robotics Team is invited to meet at the Alva Public Library on Saturday, Feb. 4, at 10 a.m. Alumni team members and families are encouraged to attend to discuss plans for the upcoming 2023 Heartland BEST season....
Students in the Social Workers Association of Tomorrow (SWAT) chapter at Northwestern Oklahoma State University recently completed their Compassion in Action Dignity Drive for the 2022 fall semester. SWAT is a student-run organization that seeks to enhance the social work learning experience. One of SWAT's purposes is to employ community service projects while supporting community partners and their consumers. The Compassion in Action Dignity Drive is one of the community service projects SWAT...
When Alva Hospital Authority (AHA) trustees arrived for the Jan. 31 meeting, there were hospital beds in the hallway outside the meeting room. These were some of the old beds displaced by new modern ones. They’re in storage while the hospital looks for buyers. Late last year the Share Medical Center Foundation sent out letters about the need for new beds, and generous donors responded. Kelly Parker reported the foundation was able to give the hospital $109,000 specific to the beds and some more in funds already collected that were specified t... Full story
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's new attorney general has apologized to one of Gov. Kevin Stitt's former cabinet secretaries for his criminal indictment in 2020 by a previous attorney general, saying he believes the secretary "committed no wrongdoing." Attorney General Gentner Drummond sent the letter Wednesday to David Ostrowe, Stitt's former secretary of digital transformation and technology. In it, he wrote that former Attorney General Mike Hunter failed to avoid the appearance of impropriety and should have disqualified himself from i...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Thousands of frustrated Texans shivered in their homes Thursday after more than a day without power, including many in the state capital, as an icy winter storm that has been blamed for at least 10 traffic deaths lingered across much of the southern U.S. Even as temperatures finally pushed above freezing in Austin — and were expected to climb past 50 degrees (10 Celsius) on Friday — the relief will be just in time for an Arctic front to drop from Canada and threaten northern states. New England in particular is forec...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian magazine on Thursday released audio of a senator claiming then President Jair Bolsonaro sought help in a plot to annul the October elections and keep himself in power. In the recording, Sen. Marcos do Val tells the magazine Veja that the idea was discussed when he met with Bolsonaro and lawmaker Daniel Silveira on Dec. 9 at the presidential residence, three weeks before leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was set to take office. Do Val, who was an ally during Bolsonaro's four-year term, said the far-right le...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been spotted over U.S. airspace for a couple days, but the Pentagon decided not to shoot it down due to risks of harm for people on the ground, officials said Thursday. The discovery of the balloon puts a further strain on U.S.-China relations at a time of heightened tensions. A senior defense official told Pentagon reporters that the U.S. has "very high confidence" it is a Chinese high-altitude balloon and it was flying over sensitive sites to collect i...
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials said Thursday a company is recalling its over-the-counter eye drops that have been linked to an outbreak of drug-resistant infections. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week sent a health alert to doctors, saying the outbreak included at least 55 people in 12 states. One died and at least five others had permanent vision loss. The infections, including some found in blood, urine and lungs, were linked to EzriCare Artificial Tears. Many said they had used the product, which is a l...
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — A former "Dances With Wolves" actor accused of sexually abusing Indigenous girls and leading a cult must remain held without bail until his next court hearing, a judge ordered Thursday morning. Nathan Chasing Horse, 46, faces charges of sex trafficking, sexual assault against a child younger than 16, and child abuse. He has been in custody since his arrest Tuesday afternoon near the North Las Vegas home that he shares with his five wives. He appeared briefly in court Thursday for the first time since he was taken i...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is a man who writes down his thoughts. And some of those handwritten musings over his decades of public service are now a part of a special counsel's investigation into the handling of classified documents. It isn't clear yet what the investigators are looking for by taking custody of notes from his time as vice president and his decades in the Senate that were found in his Delaware homes in Rehoboth Beach and Wilmington. Biden's attorneys did not say whether the notes were considered to be classified, only...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The sound of the djembe drums started as a low tremble and grew more distinct as the musicians drew closer to the hundreds gathered inside the Memphis church. "We love you, Tyre," the drummers chanted, referring to Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man whose beating by five police officers led to his death and this funeral on the first day of Black History Month. By the time the procession reached Nichols' black casket draped in a large white bouquet, the congregation in the Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church was on i...
WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of agonizing, the U.S has agreed to send longer-range bombs to Ukraine as it prepares to launch a spring offensive to retake territory Russia captured last year, U.S. officials said Thursday, confirming that the new weapons will have roughly double the range of any other offensive weapon provided by America. The U.S. will provide ground-launched small diameter bombs as part of a $2.17 billion aid package it is expected to announce Friday, several U.S. officials said. The package also for the first time includes e...
Rodents predicting weather trends. Why? Just as fair a Groundhog Day question, though, is this: Why not? And more importantly, why should Punxsutawney Phil always get to, well, hog the press? The spring-heralding (or spring-delaying) small animal has taken firm root in some swaths of American culture. And while Phil and his Pennsylvania ilk are the most celebrated, there is an astonishingly broad selection of other critters who have felt the need (or, at least, their handlers have) to put reputations on the line to "predict" meteorology in the...
