Religious Life at OCU

05/30/2026

OCU Stars at the Oklahoma United Methodist Annual Conference!

05/15/2026

Congratulations, 2026 Graduates! Our Baccalaureate service was a beautiful service of worship. We are grateful to our 2026 Baccalaureate preacher, Rev. Dr. Robert Gorrell for such a powerful word of Hope.

05/09/2026

Welcome to the 2026 Baccalaureate service for Oklahoma City University.

05/07/2026

Graduates, families, friends, faculty and staff are invited to the Bishop W. Angie Smith Chapel at 9:00am Saturday, May 9th for Oklahoma City University's 2026 Graduation Baccalaureate service.
Graduates, faculty, and staff are encouraged to wear academic regalia and robes.
Our guest preacher will be the Reverend Dr. Robert Gorrell and the 2026 Graduates Baccalaureate Choir will provide our special music.

A livestream of the service can be found at:
www.Facebook.com/ReligiousLifeOCU

Please note that handicap accessible entrances are on the East side of the building.
All Chapel "Reserved" parking spots are reserved for Baccalaureate leadership.

04/30/2026

Welcome to University Worship!
We welcome Rev. Aly Shahan as our preacher today. Thank you for joining us today as we recognize the student leaders at this university during the service.
*The views expressed during this service do not necessarily reflect the views of Oklahoma City University or the United Methodist
Church.

04/29/2026

Join us for our FINAL University Worship service, Thursday at 1:00pm as we celebrate an amazing year & the annual Student Leadership Convocation!

We will recognize OCU's outstanding graduating student leaders, be blessed by the 2026 Graduating Senior Baccalaureate Choir, and Rev. Aly Shahan will provide our sending forth message. It will be a beautiful service of celebration and hope.

No matter your involvement in Religious Life or your commitment to faith, you are invited, worthy, and welcome exactly as you are!

If you are unable to attend in person and would like to join us virtually, the service will be livestreamed at www.facebook.com/religiouslifeocu

04/29/2026

A special word from Dr. Melissa Plamann, Professor of Music and Wanda L. Bass Chair of Organ:

It's time for our annual GIVING DAY (today and tomorrow, April 29-30)!

This year for OCU’s Giving Day, I’d ask you to consider supporting the Wanda L. Bass Chapel Organ Endowment. We are so grateful for the glorious Hotlkamp organ, housed in the Bishop W. Angie Smith Chapel. The 70-rank organ was built in 1968 by the Holtkamp Organ Company and renovated in 2018 by the Reuter Organ Company. It is played for hours every day and utilized in hundreds of concerts and services each year, both as a solo and collaborative instrument.

The OCU Organ Studio is indebted to the Wanda L. Bass Foundation, who in its wisdom created an endowment for routine maintenance. Many may not realize that pipe organs require frequent tuning, typically 3-4 times each year. This means that at some point, every single pipe in our organ is manually tuned by a trained technician. And, as our instrument continues to age, more maintenance and repair will be required.

This Giving Day, I ask that you donate as little as $1 to this fund. My goal is to win the bonus for “most new donors”—if everyone who has ever enjoyed a worship service, concert, recital, baccalaureate, memorial, Vespers, or any other event in the OCU Chapel would donate just $10, we could go a long way in securing the organ’s legacy for many years to come.

Click the QR code on this pic, or copy and paste the following:

https://www.givecampus.com/campaigns/75776/donations/new?designation=wandalbasschapelorganendowment&

Many thanks, and please pass this along!

Sincerely,
Melissa M. Plamann
Professor of Music and Wanda L. Bass Chair of Organ (2010-present)

04/28/2026

We are so proud of Landon Cain! Way to go!

🎓 Congratulations to Landon Cain, Class of 2026 at Oklahoma City University! Keep reading for some "stats" on Landon, one of our many UMHEF scholars who are graduating this spring.

✅ Degree - Bachelor of Arts
✅ Major - Religious studies and youth ministry
✅ Campus Involvement - Student Government Association, speech and debate team, Wesley Center leadership team, Christian Men's Ministry (president), and TKA religion honor society
✅ Plans After Graduation - Attending Perkins School of Theology - Southern Methodist University for a Masters of Divinity

04/23/2026

OCU's University Worship community partnered with OCU Blue Goes Green and Spirit of Grace Liturgical Dancers to lead our Earth Day University Worship service today. We are grateful for their leadership, for our Worship Singers choir who blessed us as always, and for Rev. Dr. Mark Davies who brought a powerful and convicting message. If you haven't been by the cleared out Community Garden, make sure to go check it out, and if you or your organization would like to assist in its revitalization and upkeep, reach out to OCU Blue Goes Green.

04/23/2026

Welcome to University Worship! We also welcome Rev. Dr. Mark Davies as our
guest preacher today! *The views expressed during this service do not
necessarily reflect the views of Oklahoma City University or the United Methodist
Church.