About

The Boggy Cumberland Presbyterian Church was organized August 13th, 1899. Beginning with only 13 members and a supply pastor, Reverend T. S. Cosey, the church met in the Boggy Schoolhouse, which at that time was a half-dugout. Cosey left the church two months after it was started and Reverend J. L. Joyner, a local farmer, became the church's second pastor. His starting salary was $82.50 per year. After a few years, the church met in a school building two and one-half miles east of Burns Flat.
The year began in typical western Oklahoma fashion with ice storms and power outages. Committees were operating in full force, the ministerial alliance was becoming more involved in helping needy families on a year-round basis, and more people were showing God's Love in Action in more ways than ever before. One new outreach was providing snacks for the Adventure Program at Foss Lake. This is a resident program for at-risk youth managed by Southwestern Oklahoman State University.
In April, Duawn Mearns submitted his resignation after accepting a call to a church in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The session accepted the resignation and formed a pastoral search committee headed by Rick Reeves and Rodney Chilton.
While searching for a pastor is certainly an arduous task; it has not supplanted the purpose of our church. We are here to love God and to love our neighbor. We have faced some small trials during this period, but continue forward faithfully, reminding ourselves that Jesus Christ is the head of the church and we as members all have our own purpose and calling. This period has produced its own blessings. Six adults from our own church have filled the pulpit, the youth continue to lead worship four times each year on 5th Sunday--which now includes both the contemporary and traditional services, and on occasion we have exchanged one of our members to deliver the message to the Clinton Cumberland Presbyterian Church, so that their pastor, Dale Nease, could come to our church to perform the sacrament of communion and deliver the Sunday morning message. Our Wednesday night F-4 program continues, with the men taking on the challenge of the Purpose Driven Life as their bible study program for the fall, more people helping in the kitchen, and good attendance in the women's bible study and in all of the youth groups. Our food pantry continues to assist several in our community, and more people from our congregation have stepped forward to take on leadership roles.
We remain a church without pretense, accepting people not judging them, and asking that each use their gifts and talents as he or she is called in service to our Lord Jesus.