Post Oak Church Celebrates 126 Years
Post Oak Church celebrated its 126th Anniversary on Sunday, October 9.
Post Oak is important because it brings people together through gospel according to Pastor Dean Edwards.
“I think in our culture today we have a tendency to forget the past; we try to hide the past and the importance of it,” he said. “What we look at here…is that there was somebody brave enough 126 years ago to come out and spread the gospel. Yet we try to water it down and it brings us right back to the roots not only the Comanches themselves and how they were impacted by this and where it went from there but many other cultures like the Mexicans and the white folks that came. So, it brings us right back to the grounded part of it and we look back and we see the heritages that have come from here and we say ‘you know, we need to continue that bravery.’”
The church invited community members to come to the original site of the church.
Jacquetta McClung, a churchgoer, said it’s a special day for her and she talked about her connection to the church.
“I did I graduated from the one-room school that was right over there,” she said. “And I just told my grandkids ‘I’m going to show them everything.’ And that’s what I went to church up until they moved it and I was schooled there through the…eighth grade, I graduated Indiahoma when they moved it, but I went here all the years that it was here and then they moved it over there and I graduated from there. And the second thing why this area is just… we used to eat dinner we still eat dinner every day we still eat dinner carrying on the tradition of serving the people through spiritual and physical fellowship. And then the second thing that I remember a lot about not only just the church, we had church all the time, was there was a pond down there and we’re on kind of a hill, a pretty hill, with beautiful views and down in that low part there’s a pond and that was where I was baptized.
There was a church service at the original site, which featured hymns sung in Comanche, as well as a tour of the event for anyone who wanted to join.
