Genealogical group gets primer on research tool

Sherrie Furber will present a program on how to use the online research website at the

meeting 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Edmond Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1315 E. 33, Edmond. Admission is free.

The purpose of the Edmond Genealogical Society is to develop and maintain high standards for training and assisting members in genealogical and related historical research. For more information, go to www.rootsweb. ancestry.com/~okegs.

will meet from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday at the Lawton Public Library, 110 S. 4, Lawton. Speakers provide programs that include matters of interest to genealogical researchers.

The society publishes a quarterly journal, which provides information that covers genealogical and historical materials of the southwest Oklahoma counties.

For more information about the society and their collection, go to www.sirinet. net/~lgarris/swogs.

houses an Oklahoma genealogical and family history collection. The collection consists of the combined resources of Southwest Oklahoma Genealogical Society and Lawton Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Lawton Public Library. Contributions also have been made by the Daughters of 1812, Southwest Oklahoma Historical Society, other heritage groups, authors and patrons.

For more information, visit the website at www.cityof. lawton.ok.us/library.

will meet at 6 p.m. May 25 in the Grant Foreman Room of the Muskogee Public Library, 807 W Okmulgee, Muskogee. Betty Smith Ridge, author and storyteller, will be the guest speaker.

For more information, go to www.muskogeecountygenealogicalsociety.org.

Jesus’ 12 disciples (with the exception of Judas, who betrayed Him and then took his own life) not only continued to believe in Him, but they spent the rest of their lives telling others about Him. They took seriously Jesus’ command to “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation” (Mark 16:15).

Why did they do this — often in the face of fierce opposition and even death? The reason was because they believed beyond doubt that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, sent from Heaven to save us from our sins. We have rebelled against God and chosen to go our own way, and as a result we deserve only God’s judgment. But God loves us, and by His death and resurrection Jesus Christ provided the way for us to be forgiven and cleansed of our sins.

This is good news! And this is why those first Christians were willing to risk their lives to tell others about Christ. As one of them said when told to stop preaching, “As for us, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard” (Acts 4:20).

The Bible doesn’t tell us exactly how those faithful disciples died, refusing to deny Christ even in the face of death (although later historians tell us they all died as martyrs). What about us? Are we convinced of the truth of the Gospel, and are we seeking to tell others the good news of Christ’s salvation? Make sure of your own commitment to Jesus Christ, and then ask Him to use you to point others to His life-changing love.