Oak Grove Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church), located about five miles west and one-half miles (10 km) south of Adair, Mayes County, OK, had its beginning as a mission station about 1927, when Monroe Hostetler of Hesston, KS, located in the community and conducted a Sunday school in the schoolhouse. Later preaching services were also arranged for and a mission was organized under the South Central Conference. Richard Birky served as the resident pastor 1942-1947. In 1944 a house was remodeled as a church. In the spring of 1957 a new concrete block building was finished and dedicated; this building is located five miles west of Adair on Highway 28. In 1956 the membership was 21, with Richard Birky as pastor again, now also a bishop (1954- ).

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