God's Church and His Glory

It is a busy and exciting time here at Calvary! Many things are happening this summer in the life of our church. Some of which are shaping and molding our church for current and future generations to continue to serve Him and magnify His glory among the nations. We want to provide you some updates of some major items that are in progress and coming up.

We want to make sure that you have the most up to date information for not only things that are happening around our family of faith but also to make sure you know about major events in the life of the church. We are going to use our church website and mobile app more and more for church communications as this allows us to more effectively communicate, reduce costs and minimize complexity in how we have previously communicated. Below is a list of areas you can expect to see communications and what types of information you will see in each:

• Calvary Blog: Our website has a blog that will be used to tell you about the life and happenings of our church. You can expect to see many of our announcements and communications here. /blog
• Calvary Mobile App: Our mobile app makes it easy to communicate regularly throughout the week using the Messages feature. To start seeing the benefits of this, download our mobile app from your app store (for either Android or Apple, search for 'Calvary Inola'). Once you install the app and sign in to the app, here is information on how to use the Message feature of the mobile app. https://tinyurl.com/yjfhfzjv
• Text Message: Our texting subscription limits the number of text messages we can send each month and also limits what we can send, we will start using text messages as a way to communicate urgent/timely items (such as church closings).
• Weekly Bulletin: We will still have paper bulletins each week but they will be slimmed down with minimal information and will direct you to our church website or mobile app for more complete information. This will mostly contain items for the current week (such as events coming up).

Our church voted to adopt a new constitution and set of by-laws (the 'Constitution') on June 29, 2025 by majority vote. We are beginning the implementation process of our new constitution. A Constitution Implementation Team has been formed to identify and prioritize elements of the new constitution (such as additional Elders, formation of standing ministry teams, adding additional deacons, etc.), prioritize and schedule those items as well as communicate progress to the church. This teams first meeting will be July 13. The members of this team are Chad Cook, Bob Sullivan, Martin Chumley, Joel Bell, Tom Landsaw, Wes Shaffer, Kim Jackman, Susan Hendrix and Adam Henderson. If you have questions around the implementation of the new constitution, please feel free to reach out to any of these team members.

We are so thankful for Pastor Collin’s time here at Calvary along with his leadership and care of the flock. With his departure, we are actively working to scope, identify and call an interim pastor until we find a full time lead pastor. We are working with Andy Taylor (our Oklahoma Baptists Regional Ministry Partner) to help shape and guide our churches efforts around searching for and calling an interim pastor. Know that as we make progress, we will communicate to the church our efforts and also obtain affirmation from the congregation per our new constitution. Please be praying for the man that God would call to serve here until we find a full time lead pastor.

The Personnel Team is finalizing the scope of the secretary position which will become available after July 10. If you are interested in applying, feel free to fill out our online Employment application (https://calvaryinola.com/employment-application). Please contact Martin Chumley if you have questions about the position.