Services

& Activities

May 25, 2025

9:30 AM Sunday school & Bible study

for all ages

10:45 AM Morning service

5:00 PM Men's Bible study

Women's Bible study—Galatians

Youth & Children's studies

May 25, 2025

Memorial Day—Office Closed

 Remember those who gave their lives

in service during World War II:

Jack Suagee, Roger Barnett

*Leroy Radford, Joe Flynt, Jr.

Karl Dement, George L. McCulley

John T. Ellis, Jack Wiley

Eugene Hansard, Austin McClatchy

J. C. Bishop, Thomas Upton

Earl Brown, Johnnie Pebeck

Francis K. Hobbs

*The plaque mistakenly reads "Redford" due to misreading

Radford's handwritten church membership card. According to a pencilled noted on his membership card, he had joined by baptism on January 2, 1944.

Army records list him as Pfc. Lee Roy Radford, and he is buried in Plot B, Row 22, Grave 20 of the Normandy American Cemetery. His membership record card lists "Springdale, NC," as his hometown, but there is no town by that name in Rutherford County, NC, which lists him on its page of deceased soldiers; so it is likely whoever took his membership information mistook "Spindale" for "Springdale." Radford was in the 8th Infantry Division, and his Army service number, beginning with a "1," indicated he enlisted rather than having been drafted.

Our membership card indicates he was in the 28th Regiment, which sources indicate landed on Utah Beach July 4, 1944. Radford died July 14. He had just turned 23 when he gave his life.

Tuesday, May 27

1:00 PM Dorcas Circle

Wednesday, May 28

5:45 PM Fellowship meal—Spaghetti Pie

6:30 PM  Midweek services

Youth & Children's activities

Click on the bulletin icon below for a full-sized, printable PDF of thecoming week's bulletin..

We provide a low-power AM radio broadcast of the morning service in our

parking lot at 1610 AM on your radio

for those who prefer to remain in their cars.

About Kelham Baptist Church

Kelham Baptist Church began in December of 1913 in the Bath subdivision on the east side of Oklahoma City. We celebrated 100 years of preaching the gospel in 2013. This year will mark 111 years.

Sarah (Kelham) Bath, wife of real estate developer Vincent Bath, saw the need for a Sunday School for her neighborhood children, and that became the Kelham Avenue Baptist Church. She began a Sunday School in her home about 1911 to reach children in the neighborhood of Kelham Avenue and NE 13th in Oklahoma City. This church grew from that small Sunday School outreach.

Photo source: Gumm, John. [Photograph 2012.201.B0971.0026], photograph, February 5, 1959; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1294512/m1/1/?q=kelham: accessed June 10, 2021), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.

Photo source: Kelham Baptist Church archives, Anson Justice files.

In 1955, the church moved from Kelham Avenue to NE 36th and Staton Drive, taking in Park Estates Baptst Church, a mission of First Baptist Church of Oklahoma City. Several years before the church moved, it spent almost $250,000 (in 1954 dollars a little over $2.9 million in 2025 dollars) to renovate the facilities because Pastor Anson Justice believed a church of some kind proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ would be there. That location is the current home of Avery Chapel, AME.

Edited Photo source: Jacoby, Ray. Kelham Avenue Baptist Church, photograph, June 13, 1957; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1587189/): accessed December 28, 2021), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society

VBS Group Photo, 1957: Pastor David C. Hall is on the left.

Photo credit: Jacoby, Ray. Kelham Avenue Baptist Church, photograph, June 13, 1957; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1587363/m1/1/?q=Kelham: accessed June 10, 2021), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.

In the late 1960s, Kelham moved to the northwest side of Oklahoma City, merging with Utah Avenue Baptist Church. The buildings the church had constructed on NE 36th and Staton Drive were sold and currently house two different Baptist churches, Greater Mount Carmel Baptist Church and Followers of Christ Baptist Church.

The two gray-scaled pictures below are from the Southern Baptist Historical Society website:

https://cdn.sbhla.org/wp-content/uploads/20231205180019/Oklahoma-Kelham-First_Baptist_Church-1-scaled.jpg

We believe Kelham Baptist Church is a place you can call home. Our music is traditional (we sing hymns from hymnbooks not because we are old-fashioned but because hymns powerfully emphasize historic truths of our faith and remind us of the truths those who have gone before us have learned and celebrated). The community of God's people singing is a powerful testimony and great encouragement. Our preaching is expositional (we explain the Bible and apply its teachings to our lives today). Our church family is warm and welcoming. We unapologetically are Baptist in the historic Baptist tradition of free churches.

You can join our drive-in church service on Sunday mornings by parking in our parking lot and tuning your radio to 1610 AM.

Kelham Baptist Church

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 12605 3400 N. Meridian Avenue
Oklahoma City, OK   73157
U.S.
Telephone: (405) 946-9826
Fax: (405) 946-9826 (a voice call is necessary before faxing any material)