{"id":208,"date":"2020-05-20T00:53:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T00:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/?page_id=208"},"modified":"2020-06-01T00:12:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T00:12:32","slug":"our-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/?page_id=208","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The land Trinity Baptist Church of Octavia is located on was part of the original government allotment given to the Wilson Family when the Choctaw Indians came from Mississippi.\u00a0 Raymond and Matilda Wilson gave the property for use as a church site and stated that if there ever ceased to be a church on the property it would revert to the heirs. So, in 1905, Octavia Baptist Church was established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When the original Octavia Baptist Church purchased highway frontage property on Highway 259, they had the original church building physically moved to that property.  The original church site given by Raymond and Matilda Wilson was vacant.  Their daughter, Rayma Wilson, felt there needed to be a church on the property as her parents desired and asked her niece, Helen Caldwell, and husband Ben to oversee the building of Trinity Baptist Church of Octavia.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was founded by Ben and Helen Caldwell, Imogene White, and Rayma Wilson on December 5, 1995.\u00a0 Construction of the present church building began soon; however, one member, Imogene White, passed away before construction was completed in May 1996.\u00a0 Russell Shuffield from Malvern, Arkansas was the first Pastor and served as Pastor from July 1996 until 2001 when his health forced him to resign. Doug Maggard from Antlers, Oklahoma was called as Pastor from 2001 to 2003 when his health prevented him from traveling. \u00a0 In 2002, due to Pastor Maggard\u2019s health issues, Ben Caldwell asked the Pastor of Octavia Baptist Church if he knew of someone willing to fill the pulpit of the small church when needed.\u00a0 He was given the name of a young man from Watson who\u00a0recently surrendered to preach named Randy Keiss.\u00a0 Randy filled the pulpit in Pastor Maggard\u2019s absence and, in 2003, Pastor Maggard ultimately had to resign due to health issues.\u00a0 In the spring of 2004, Randy accepted the call to Pastor, was ordained, and is the current serving Pastor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The land Trinity Baptist Church of Octavia is located on was part of the original government allotment given to the Wilson Family when the Choctaw Indians came from Mississippi.\u00a0 Raymond and Matilda Wilson gave the property for use as a church site and stated that if there ever ceased to be a church on the property it would revert to the heirs.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tbcoctavia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}