Indian Nations Presbytery

Indian Nations Presbytery
Serving 55 Congregations in Central and Southwest Oklahoma

(405) 524-0990 * (405) 524-1037 Fax * 1001 NW 25th St., Ste. 206, Oklahoma City, OK 73106

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Hobart FPC

First Presbyterian Church
Hobart, Oklahoma

Rev. Ann Wasson, Stated Supply

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(580) 726-2657

PO Box 895
Hobart, OK 73651-0895		Sunday
9:45a   Sunday School
    Coffee
10:50a  Worship

Wednesday
9:30a    Prayer Fellowship
6p        Community Bible Study
7p        Session (3rd Wed)

4th Thursdays
1:30p   Presbyterian Women
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2nd & Broadway
Hobart, OK 73651 		Print/Large Map
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A Brief History of First Presbyterian Church in Hobart, Oklahoma 

Organized June 6, 1902 by the Rev. E.M. Lumm and twelve members, by 1903 other new residents joined the original twelve. In 1905, the Congregational church united with the Presbyterians. The Presbyterian Church was then located on S. Main Street. The united group moved to the Congregational Church building on Second at Broadway.

The Presbyterians had a church bell, a gift from a church in Indiana, made by the Buckeye Bell Foundry in Cincinnati in 1848. It was moved from the original Presbyterian Church to the new location. To this day, it is rung every Sunday as worship begins. When Dr. McCurry was pastor, he was known to say, "When the church bell rings, it's mealtime for the soul."

By 1918 the church was out of debt and a new wing was added to the building. The pipe organ was purchased in 1915 for $4000. It is still played every Sunday, one of the few remaining pipe organs in the area. In 1950 the church building was remodeled and in 1956 the manse was built. In 1964, while Jerry Hilton was pastor, the church sponsored a Cuban Refugee family, a couple with 8 children and the 9th on the way. At the time none of them spoke English. Several of them remain in the area, working and raising families of their own.  

Since 1984, developed under the leadership of Robert Abel, a prayer fellowship continue to meet.  We meet to send prayer cards, to read Scripture and pray for our community nearly every Wednesday morning.  Over the last few years, we have engaged in a radio ministry, supporting one-minute ads for the church.  The ads voiced by pastor Ann Wasson, focus on faith concerns in daily living with the tag line, "join us at First Presbyterian Church, where with God's help, we're making it day by day."

 

Ministers 

Rev. E.M. Lumm June 6, 1902
Rev. Thomas J. Irvin, 1903
Rev. George Willingham, 1904
Rev. Walter Crozier, 1913
Rev. C.P. Dubois,  1914
Rev. W.T. Alexander, 1916
Rev. Charles W. Estes, 1918
Dr. A.E. Wardner, 1927|
Rev. W.H.F. Moore, 1936
Dr. D. Ernest McCurry, 1942
Rev. C. Paul Russell, 1953
Rev. Paul Rolla, 1956
Rev, James K. Story, 1959
Rev. Jerry Hilton, 1964
Rev. Ralph Clingan, 1969
Rev. Bill Westmoreland, 1971
Rev. Marion Floyd, 1974
Rev. Robert Phillips,  1980
Rev. Robert Abel, 1984
Rev. Charles Andrus, 1986
Rev. Stephen Saville, 1993
Rev. Ginger Allen, 1996
Rev. Ann Wasson, 2000