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OKLAHOMA
RAY STRAUSS is the senior pastor of Edmond Community Church
that is near the State Capitol in Okla homa City. Pastor Strauss is entre-
preneurial by nature and has a his tory of planting churches. His first
foray into church planting took him to Buckeye, Arizona, a Phoenix
suburb. ere he pastored the Church at Sun Valley and made such
a community impact that he was asked by the mayor to run for city
council. He ran, was elected, and served from 2010 until 2016. "ere
was an opportu nity to serve both the church and city," he said. "Help-
ing the city resolve challenges opened relationships that, in many cases,
generated new Christians and grew the church." Having served as
a Bible teacher and pastor to political leaders, Pastor Strauss has the
experience needed to minister to members of the legislature. Pas tor
Strauss is readying to launch a weekly discipleship Bible-study based
ministry at the Capitol, as well as in the governor's office in January of
2023. Pastor Strauss will be replacing CapMin's Dr. Cheyne Day who
will be singularly concentrating on his existing ministry in the Arkansas
State Capitol with the help of governor-elect Sarah Huckabee. Before
we recruited Pastor Strauss, Pastor Day led both the Arkansas and
Oklahoma minis tries for many years.
INTERIOR LOBBY OF THE OKLAHOMA
STATE CAPITOL BUILDING
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