Join Us for Sunday morning Bible Study at 10:00 a.m.
and Worship at 10:45 a.m.
Sunday Evening Service is at 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday night Bible Study is at 7:00 p.m.
Brief history of the Congregation
The El Dorado Church of Christ was established around 1919. For its first ten years or so it met in rented quarters downtown but bought its present property about 1927 and continued to meet in the house located there. In 1954 the congregation erected the current building at 637 South High Street. The plans for the building were drawn up by Cleo Blue, the preacher for the congregation at that time. From those plans Bob Travis made the blueprints for the construction work. (His widow still worships with the congregation today.) Bob Travis also built the sign which was located in the front of the building toward South High Street. It was replaced in early 2011 with a grey granite sign which should serve the congregation well into the future.
Many of her members worked in the local refineries and when the north refinery shut down the membership numbers took a serious hit as many of the families had to move away from the El Dorado area to find work. The last few years have seen growth, both numerical and spiritual, with the uniting of this congregation and the Emporia Street congregation and we look forward to continued growth in the coming years. We would like you to come and be a part of it!
Over the years since her beginnings the church has had some great preachers and some not-so-great preachers as well. That is just the nature of life. The one stand-out preacher is Cleo Blue, who got the present building built in 1954. He served the congregation twice as her located evangelist, first through the early 1950s and later in the 1960s. Each of these men has made their mark on the El Dorado Church of Christ and the city as well. Only eternity will tell how much good has been done!
From the Preacher - Cleveland (Clee) Reddinger
Any man-made creed is by its very nature divisive and contrary to the will of Christ, Matthew 15:8, 9. As one old and respected preacher once said, If a creed says more than the New Testament it says too much. If it says less than the New Testament it does not say enough. And if it says the same thing as the New Testament we don't need it because we have the New Testament! Truer words were never spoken! I can, however, put a few principles down about what we believe without generating a man-made creed.
1. Jesus is The King, 1 Timothy 6:15. His word (spoken by Him or through his Apostles) means more to us than the words of men or any man.
2. We must obey our King, Luke 6:46. You can't tell Jesus you are not going to do what He and still expect to go to heaven when you leave his world.
3. We will be judged by the Word of Christ, Deuteronomy 18:18f; John 12:44-50.
4. There is a Heaven and there is a Hell and EVERY human being will go to one or the other for all eternity, Matthew 25:46.
5. Jesus died on the cross so that even the vilest of sins could be forgiven and the sinner go to Heaven, but that is THEIR choice, Romans 5:8,9; 2 Peter 3:9.
These few things are believed by us and much more. Come worship with us and learn at the feet of Jesus