West Point Christian Church

West Point Christian Church West Point Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is a small, rural church in Yukon, OK (USA).

West Point Christian Church History Moment / Disciple History MomentAugust 16, 2026Rev Newland family Go to Tibet, China...
08/16/2026

West Point Christian Church History Moment / Disciple History Moment
August 16, 2026

Rev Newland family Go to Tibet, China, and Philippines, then POWs

Rev. Vernon Newland was called to pastor West Point Christian Church in September 1928 and served the church until 1930 when he moved over to become the pastor at Yukon First Christian Church.

In 1934, the Newlands--Rev Vernon, wife Mona, sons, Melvin, Marcia (born in Tibet), Neal (born in the prison camp!) traveled to Tibet and China to be missionaries from 1934 to 1940.

In 1941 the State Department canceled travel to the Chinese mainland. The family had been on furlough in the US and was traveling back and so was stranded on the island of Cebu in the Philippines. They continued mission work there when in 1941 the war broke out and the Newlands fled to the mountains. They taught and preached to the mountain people until July 1942 when they were captured and placed in a prison camp. There they lived for 2 years and 7 month at the Cebu camp when they were moved to the Santo Tomas camp in Manila for another 2 years! The Newlands “received fair treatment until the last nine months when hunger and starvation set in. In the last weeks one to three were dying every day, seven full-grown men in one day in less than 23 hours. Misery and suffering and death were the rule in this closing period of camp.”

Rev Newland lost more than 50lbs before they were liberated by the US First Calvary Division. “It was a joyous, never-to-be forgotten night for nearly 4,000 starving men, women and children the greater part of whom had been imprisoned behind stone walls . . . We were put on a ship at Manila on April 10 and arrived San Francisco, May 12.”

Following their harrowing experiences, Rev Newland was a popular speaker especially in the Yukon and West Point district for many years after their ordeal.

He founded or co-founded numerous Bible colleges:
In 1946, Midwest Christian College in Oklahoma City
Dallas Christian College (1950)
St. Louis Christian College (1956)
Memphis (later Mid-South) Christian College (1959)
Iowa Christian College (1971).

Sadly, in 1974 Newland was killed in a small airplane accident in Eastern Oklahoma after attending a men’s retreat.

References: Various newspaper articles located in Newspapers.com

08/16/2026

August 16, 2026
Rev Aaron Todd
Scripture: Isaiah 56:1, 6-8
Serrmon: "For All People"

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08/11/2026

The Disciples of Christ is a freedom loving and democratic church. No top down autocratic rules or "must believes". We respect differences. Others may say you must believe this or that. We don't.

One of our founders, Alexander Campbell, said it this way: "But who is a Christian? I answer, every one that believes in his heart that Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah, the Son of God; repents of his sins, and obeys him in all things according to his measure of knowledge of his will."

Disciples History MomentAugust 9, 2026The 225th Anniversary of the Cane Ridge Camp Meeting, 6-12 August 1801 In Aug 6-12...
08/09/2026

Disciples History Moment
August 9, 2026

The 225th Anniversary of the Cane Ridge Camp Meeting, 6-12 August 1801

In Aug 6-12,1801 Barton W. Stone, one of the founders of the Stone-Campbell Movement and eventually the Disciples of Christ, became the host of the Cane Ridge Camp Meeting which is sometimes called “The Great Revival” of the Second Great Awakening (1790-1840). It numbered upwards of 20,000 and 4 city blocks of trees were cleared for the crowds. The Second Great Awakening was a time of emotional camp meeting revivals.

The “Awakening” was from spiritual slumbers which were, perhaps, caused by a secularization that arose after the Revolutionary War. These spirited “awakenings” fostered social reform, abolition, leadership roles for women, and the democratization of salvation.

At Cane Ridge, people sang, prayed and many preachers preached: Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodist, Black preachers, and even children! There were as many as seven preaching in various locations at one time! The governor of KY, a Baptist preacher, was even there! Hundreds fell into ecstatic states and one observer said the sound was as loud as Niagara Falls as people fell into ecstatic states: running, dancing, singing, barking, and some seemingly frozen on the ground.

All came from their hard scrabble lives on the frontier for the opportunity to receive the Lord’s Supper.

People stayed and preachers preached until the food ran out! It has been called by some historians “the most important religious event in American history” and “America’s Pentecost” because it was unparalleled in scale, transformed American religious practices, and initiated enduring social and theological changes.

Perhaps most importantly, it was evidence that people of different churches could worship and receive the Lord’s Supper together—early evidence of seeking “wholeness in a fragmented world.”

References: The Cane Ridge Reader by Hoke Dickenson, Cane Ridge: America’s Pentecost by Paul Conkin, and The Stone-Campbell Encyclopedia.

08/09/2026

August 9, 2026
Rev Les Hastings
Scripture: Matthew 14. 22-33
Serrmon: "Walking and Sinking"

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08/08/2026

We believe Christians are Christian. We have no creed but Christ. And so, we welcome everyone to communion at the Lord's Supper.

08/05/2026

It has been found that the US uses more indecent language--cursing, swearing, and the F-bomb more than any other country. Does cursing, swearing, and the F-bomb make people more decent? Nicer? More like Jesus? Or is it evidence of what is truly inside a person?

West Point Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) History MomentAugust 2, 2026The Organization of West Point Christian C...
08/02/2026

West Point Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) History Moment
August 2, 2026

The Organization of West Point Christian Church and Early Activities of the Fry Family1890-1905

Continuing on with the early history of West Point Christian Church--
Beginning in 1890 a “soddy” school and later a wood-framed school in 1893 were used as a Union Sunday school. Regular meetings were being held there and it was supposed by many that a church might soon be organized.

One day a horseback rider stopped at Lucy Fry’s house. It was Rev. J. B. Robertson who was looking to round up Christian Church members in the area. Lucy provided Robertson a typical fine southern frontier dinner—“Fat meat” (fatback or salt pork, the heavy, salt-cured layer of fat from a pig’s back or sides) smothered with green onions and cornbread. (I wonder if he carried TicTacs!). Lucy gave the Reverend the directions to the homes of the Smiths, Godfreys, Brown, Roberstons, Bohns, Hendersons, Allard, Patches, Conners, Deardorffs, Perkins, Christmans, and Purdins.

Rev Robertson held a meeting at the West Point school and when he made the first invitation to membership in the new West Point Christian Church Lucy Fry was the first person to come forward and she brought her Letter of Church Transfer and good standing with her. A total of thirty-four people organized the church and eighteen of those were baptized, likely in Shell Creek, and others came forward to make their confession of faith that day.

In 1905, 11 year-old Mabel Fry, Lucy’s daughter, was in her first Children’s Day program. Lucy had shipped her cherished organ from Kansas after they homesteaded in the territory and sent it to be used in the program. (in 1906 use of instrumental music in worship would cause the separation of the Disciples and the Church of Christ). Lucy was worried that Mabel should have money to give at the event as it would be Mabel’s first missionary offering. So important was the offering that despite having no money to give Mabel for the offering, Lucy gave 2 coins that she had hidden away. Those two coins had been lain on her little 2 year-old daughter Maud’s the eyes when she died! Mabel used those two coins for her missionary offering. So, the spreading of the Gospel was obviously very important to them.

References: “Early History of West Point’s Church” by Mabel C. Fry in the Yukon Progress, June 20, 1957, Oklahoma Christians by Stephen J. England.

08/02/2026

August 2, 2026
Rev Les Hastings
Scripture: Matthew 14. 13-21
Serrmon: "Don't Forget About The Boy"

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08/01/2026

West Point Christian Church is not a fancy church. Not big. Not full of bustling activity We are simply Christians worshiping together as a family eager to have new folk join in the simple worship of God.

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1600 S Richland Road, Yukon
Oklahoma City, OK
73099

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