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Dogwood Prairie United Methodist Church
Oblong
IL
62449
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Who we are
OUR MISSION
To reach out to the community through personal witnessing and cooperation with other churches while nurturing and providing support to the congregation through the church service and sunday school, and doing so with commitment through personal witnessing, prayer, attendance, and daily living in order to follow Jesus’ command to go unto all the world to spread the good news.
OUR VISION
To be a lighthouse for the lost, a feeding place for growing Christians, and a teaching ministry geared for all ages.
To reach out to the community through personal witnessing and cooperation with other churches while nurturing and providing support to the congregation through the church service and sunday school, and doing so with commitment through personal witnessing, prayer, attendance, and daily living in order to follow Jesus’ command to go unto all the world to spread the good news.
OUR VISION
To be a lighthouse for the lost, a feeding place for growing Christians, and a teaching ministry geared for all ages.
Location of worship / Church Address
3031 E 1450th Avenue
Oblong,
IL
62449
United States
Phone: (618) 592-3678
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Church Pastor
San Young Lee
Pastor
3031 E 1450th Avenue
Oblong,
IL
62449
United States
Phone: (618) 592-3678
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Quote of the Day
Psalms 31:3
For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
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I was born in a mountain at a retreat center for prayers in Korea, on May 31st of 1963.
I grew up in a very religious environment, and I naturally became religious. We lived in a parsonage as I was growing up, which usually located closely by the church. As an early bird I was then as I am now, I would wake up early to the prayer noises(?) people, including my parents, make. I used to get goosebumps whenever I thought of someone who is out there listening to the people pouring their hearts out, the outcries of the desperate out of absolute helplessness (people’s intense prayers made me think that they were really desperate trying to get someone else’s attention like that). That ‘someone out there’ always followed me wherever I went. I also could feel that ‘someone out there’ in the nature: the sky, clouds, winds and breezes, Spring and Autumn rains, changing leaves, trees, flowers, sun and moon and stars…. It was an extra blessing to listen to rains pelting down the ground early in the crack of dawn. What cleansing rituals that had been for me!! I felt so clean by listening to the rain which made me feel washing away all my impurities and wrongdoings from my heart. I was a happy child, and felt that everyone loved me.
My father was a Nazarene minister for 31 years and died when he was 57 years old. He was generous, meek, humble and was very dedicated to his ministry. My father’s ministry was one of a kind in terms of it being a communal one. Church gathered for prayers morning and night, not to mention Sunday and night worship services, Wednesday night worship service and Friday night gathering for all night prayer meeting. During week days and nights, after night prayer meeting, people would come in our parsonage for refreshment. Whenever they come our parsonage to share meals, they would check out things that might be lacking in our parsonage and they would supply them, be that woods for warming the parsonage in the winter, or rice or potatoes or ??. Whenever church members have new produces in their garden or crops in their field, they would first bring them to their pastor. If church members were nearby our parsonage and feel hungry, then, they would come in and eat anything they could find even if there was no one at the parsonage. Church members were more like a surrogate family replacing my relatives and my grandparents who lived far away from us. My mother was a legendary prayer warrior in my father’s circle in Korea. God has endowed her with charismatic gifts such as gift of healing, prophecy at times, dreams, of course gift of tongues, and she even had a gift of seeing through people, what they were thinking, etc., though it might sound unbelievable to many.
I am greatly influenced by both of my parents who had taught us, five sisters and three brothers, to please God above all else. I dedicated my life to God in my early age: “Here I am Lord, send me wherever you want me to be.” I have obeyed when God called me to serve in a mission field right after I finished my graduate studies at Vanderbilt. I had no one there, no family, no friends, in the Philippines. I live there like a lonely warrior teaching and doing administrative work at a seminary in Manila. It had not been an easy task to be obedient and faithful to God’s calling, but I have to confess that it had been God who had enabled me to obey. “By the grace of God I am what I am.” Today God has called me to be a pastor at Dogwood Prairie and Seed Chapel, and I wonder what God wants to fulfill at these churches through me. “I do not know about tomorrow”, all I know is that I will trust God every step of the way in my ministry at Dogwood Prairie and Seed Chapel. My foremost desire is to be a pleasing sacrifice to God, and daily I am praying to be “pure and holy” to be a bride to Christ my savior who is the meaning and purpose of my life.
I grew up in a very religious environment, and I naturally became religious. We lived in a parsonage as I was growing up, which usually located closely by the church. As an early bird I was then as I am now, I would wake up early to the prayer noises(?) people, including my parents, make. I used to get goosebumps whenever I thought of someone who is out there listening to the people pouring their hearts out, the outcries of the desperate out of absolute helplessness (people’s intense prayers made me think that they were really desperate trying to get someone else’s attention like that). That ‘someone out there’ always followed me wherever I went. I also could feel that ‘someone out there’ in the nature: the sky, clouds, winds and breezes, Spring and Autumn rains, changing leaves, trees, flowers, sun and moon and stars…. It was an extra blessing to listen to rains pelting down the ground early in the crack of dawn. What cleansing rituals that had been for me!! I felt so clean by listening to the rain which made me feel washing away all my impurities and wrongdoings from my heart. I was a happy child, and felt that everyone loved me.
My father was a Nazarene minister for 31 years and died when he was 57 years old. He was generous, meek, humble and was very dedicated to his ministry. My father’s ministry was one of a kind in terms of it being a communal one. Church gathered for prayers morning and night, not to mention Sunday and night worship services, Wednesday night worship service and Friday night gathering for all night prayer meeting. During week days and nights, after night prayer meeting, people would come in our parsonage for refreshment. Whenever they come our parsonage to share meals, they would check out things that might be lacking in our parsonage and they would supply them, be that woods for warming the parsonage in the winter, or rice or potatoes or ??. Whenever church members have new produces in their garden or crops in their field, they would first bring them to their pastor. If church members were nearby our parsonage and feel hungry, then, they would come in and eat anything they could find even if there was no one at the parsonage. Church members were more like a surrogate family replacing my relatives and my grandparents who lived far away from us. My mother was a legendary prayer warrior in my father’s circle in Korea. God has endowed her with charismatic gifts such as gift of healing, prophecy at times, dreams, of course gift of tongues, and she even had a gift of seeing through people, what they were thinking, etc., though it might sound unbelievable to many.
I am greatly influenced by both of my parents who had taught us, five sisters and three brothers, to please God above all else. I dedicated my life to God in my early age: “Here I am Lord, send me wherever you want me to be.” I have obeyed when God called me to serve in a mission field right after I finished my graduate studies at Vanderbilt. I had no one there, no family, no friends, in the Philippines. I live there like a lonely warrior teaching and doing administrative work at a seminary in Manila. It had not been an easy task to be obedient and faithful to God’s calling, but I have to confess that it had been God who had enabled me to obey. “By the grace of God I am what I am.” Today God has called me to be a pastor at Dogwood Prairie and Seed Chapel, and I wonder what God wants to fulfill at these churches through me. “I do not know about tomorrow”, all I know is that I will trust God every step of the way in my ministry at Dogwood Prairie and Seed Chapel. My foremost desire is to be a pleasing sacrifice to God, and daily I am praying to be “pure and holy” to be a bride to Christ my savior who is the meaning and purpose of my life.
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Dogwood Prairie United Methodist Church History
Dogwood was began in 1857, and Prairie in 1854.
Original location of the first permanent building for Dogwood was across the road, just northwest of present church.
Prairie was located close to present Prairie Cemetery, the church building was facing to the west. If not the first, it was one of the first churches built in Oblong Township.
Dogwood congregation met in the log Dogwood School from 1857 until the first church was built on the above listed location. Many of the charter members had originally worshiped at the “Old Prairie Church”, which stood on the prairie almost two miles east of the Dogwood Prairie present site.
Both Dogwood and Prairie churches were served by pastors of the Robinson Illinois Circuit, until they later became a part of the Oblong Circuit.
The present Dogwood church was built in 1907-1908, remodeled in 1945-1946, and the addition added in 1977-1978. The Youth Building was built in 1950-1951, and the parsonage in 1958-1959.
The Prairie church was built in 1880, with several additions and updating over the years. The basement and classrooms added in 1954. Prior to the first building, they met in the Prairie School for several years. The present structure was razed in 2002 following the merger, and the land deeded to the Prairie Cemetery.
The Oblong Circuit was established in the late 1800’s or early 1900’s consisting of six churches: Dogwood, Prairie, Kirk Chapel, Stoy, Leeper Chapel, and Seed Chapel.
In 1964, Dogwood and Prairie were united by conference action as The North Oblong Parish. Prior to that, Prairie had been served by pastors from Robinson First United Methodist Church for a short time.
In 2002, due to decreasing attendance, and other similar circumstances, the Prairie congregation voted to merge with Dogwood, and Dogwood readily agreed. The two churches were merged by a duly called Charge conference conducted by District Superintendent Rev. William Frazier into the Dogwood Prairie United Methodist Church.
Rev. David Ducommon was pastor when the merger took place, and Rev. Nicholas Gleason served from July 1st, 2009 to July 1st.2011, followed by Rev. Hiram Gonzalez effective July 1st. 2011.
Seed Chapel, located south of Oblong, was assigned and became a part of the Dogwood Prairie/Seed Chapel Charge in July 2003. Which was exactly 50 years from the time that the Seed Chapel church became a pilot charge, and left the six member circuit know as the Oblong Circuit.
This short history was complied by Rondel L Boyd along with his wife Sherry who are presently the oldest member in years of attending the Dogwood, now Dogwood Prairie Church. This information gleaned from records keep years earlier by W.L.Reed and Frank Cary, both earlier members of Dogwood church, and Barbara Dix of the Prairie community, transcribed information from the Crawford County IL. Gen. Web, and information found in Dogwood, and Prairie 150 year celebration booklets. Most information used is believed to be correct, however there are a few variations in dates from some printed material.
Original location of the first permanent building for Dogwood was across the road, just northwest of present church.
Prairie was located close to present Prairie Cemetery, the church building was facing to the west. If not the first, it was one of the first churches built in Oblong Township.
Dogwood congregation met in the log Dogwood School from 1857 until the first church was built on the above listed location. Many of the charter members had originally worshiped at the “Old Prairie Church”, which stood on the prairie almost two miles east of the Dogwood Prairie present site.
Both Dogwood and Prairie churches were served by pastors of the Robinson Illinois Circuit, until they later became a part of the Oblong Circuit.
The present Dogwood church was built in 1907-1908, remodeled in 1945-1946, and the addition added in 1977-1978. The Youth Building was built in 1950-1951, and the parsonage in 1958-1959.
The Prairie church was built in 1880, with several additions and updating over the years. The basement and classrooms added in 1954. Prior to the first building, they met in the Prairie School for several years. The present structure was razed in 2002 following the merger, and the land deeded to the Prairie Cemetery.
The Oblong Circuit was established in the late 1800’s or early 1900’s consisting of six churches: Dogwood, Prairie, Kirk Chapel, Stoy, Leeper Chapel, and Seed Chapel.
In 1964, Dogwood and Prairie were united by conference action as The North Oblong Parish. Prior to that, Prairie had been served by pastors from Robinson First United Methodist Church for a short time.
In 2002, due to decreasing attendance, and other similar circumstances, the Prairie congregation voted to merge with Dogwood, and Dogwood readily agreed. The two churches were merged by a duly called Charge conference conducted by District Superintendent Rev. William Frazier into the Dogwood Prairie United Methodist Church.
Rev. David Ducommon was pastor when the merger took place, and Rev. Nicholas Gleason served from July 1st, 2009 to July 1st.2011, followed by Rev. Hiram Gonzalez effective July 1st. 2011.
Seed Chapel, located south of Oblong, was assigned and became a part of the Dogwood Prairie/Seed Chapel Charge in July 2003. Which was exactly 50 years from the time that the Seed Chapel church became a pilot charge, and left the six member circuit know as the Oblong Circuit.
This short history was complied by Rondel L Boyd along with his wife Sherry who are presently the oldest member in years of attending the Dogwood, now Dogwood Prairie Church. This information gleaned from records keep years earlier by W.L.Reed and Frank Cary, both earlier members of Dogwood church, and Barbara Dix of the Prairie community, transcribed information from the Crawford County IL. Gen. Web, and information found in Dogwood, and Prairie 150 year celebration booklets. Most information used is believed to be correct, however there are a few variations in dates from some printed material.
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