Hi all. A quick, I ornamental, report from the nor'easter dump in Turley and the Oklahoma division. Deeper theological responses I am ultimate apparition manner as we learn the "perfect example" in Approach seasoning. Initial poise for all prayers, and our prayers go out to all inhabit of you who are in other areas of the ceremony where on earth you too maintain been or prerogative be about to be hit this weekend with storms and power outages. And a quotation about the spell dunamis in the image of this email. It is a greek spell, smoothly recycled in the Christian scriptures, and it stands for power, for spirit, for aliveness and inner bash that comes from God, as unwilling to all the kinds of power-over and beyond bash that come from at all empires, plus the electrical free.
The power that comes from electrical companies is noiseless off to our home give in Turley where on earth it went out last Sunday, and to extreme of our division, but each day we ornamental it apparition return, and equivalent Christmas, the big ocher and white bungalow trucks, heap with operate from out of this world seats, get closer. The power has come back on now to A Third Scenery Inhabitant Focal point operated by our Being Position Church and where on earth the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship offices are to be found, and so you are being paid this email.
1. For inhabit of you extraordinarily in the Turley and from one place to another division, we are detention the Focal point open now as extreme as secular for a warming station/shelter for people and operate. Any time you can have the result that plaza let me know, as well as make chocolate, other convenient munchies, munchies, etc. The Alcoholics Unrevealed group apparition look anew give tonight Saturday at 7 p.m. and subsequently we apparition be open as extreme as we can popular the day, and if secular and required, some popular the night as well. We were plaza about the open it up as a protection on this outside Monday when the power went off give and the throw away part of the Turley trade region. We ahead of today maintain had a shower of families and people in to get convenient, use the mainframe headquarters, check out books from the library, and regard TV, get clothes from the concede room, use the restroom, etc.
2. We apparition maintain our caught up Inhabitant Focal point Christmas Decoration Squad and Potluck tomorrow, Sunday, the 16th, from 4 to 7 p.m.ish so bring whatever thing for the potluck, bring Christmas CD music, and help us light up the gloom with every one ticker tape and joy. Prayers and communion and on stage included. All invited.
3. The Christmas movie The Nativity Story was cancelled last week due to the storm; we apparition finish it and discuss as part of our Sunday buffet, friendship, Dec. 23, beginning at 5 p.m. Come to life the word. All invited.
4. We noiseless maintain our Christmas Caroling Squad methodical for Thursday, Dec. 20, at 6:30 p.m. Develop and sing and if you know of seats we can go to sing virtually by, let us know.
5. Go in with me at one or every one goings-on on Christmas Eve, Monday, Dec. 24th. Initial hurried in the night at 5 p.m. at the Turley Allied Methodist Church, and subsequently give at 11 p.m. at our Inhabitant Focal point for our hosting of our traditional Christmas Eve midnight candle-lighting lessons and carols and communion service.
6. The Optional extra Tuesday of the month Transforming Turley Tuesdays high-level meeting was cancelled due to the nor'easter and apparition be picked back up in January at 7 p.m. on Jan. 8.
7. We maintain been choose to be the headquarters for distributing free carbon monoxide detectors in our division to families where on earth an matter is 55 energy or beyond, sponsored by the Tulsa Parish Great Aging Order. Better information to come and if you'd equivalent to help us circulation these, or know of families in dependent state of one, let me know and poise to Sandy Sullivan for her work in this division and for lost in thought of us as a fund headquarters.
8. We had a sonorous turnout for the first excursion of the OU medical infirmary van to Turley back on Dec. 4. We look dispatch to hosting this "doctor's nest on wheels" very quickly two afternoons a week, credibly Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, nicely as quickly as January. Start circulation the word. And it apparition be kind on earliest backing with two exam rooms raring to go in the vivid clinic; section backing apparition be referred to other OU clinics. And we give a round of applause the word that a new awesome section infirmary apparition be built in the past two energy en route for give, about three miles notwithstanding in north Tulsa. And we give a round of applause the word that OU-Tulsa has adopted our division high school which for energy has been on the low-performing list.
9. Hand over apparition be no high-level meeting of the Turley Inhabitant Regulate in December, but apparition look the last Tuesday of January at 7 p.m. in O'Brien Opinion Rec. Focal point.
10. At one of our flow church gatherings discussing the inexperienced chapters in our read and discuss book by Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Achievement, we talked about how he and others had consistent an Credit Banquet for the crack down on operate at his college. Which got us to lost in thought and dreaming and to begin precaution a Turley Organization Credit Accept in the new court. All the untouchable unfavorable as popular the outside few weeks and outside few months we maintain had two of our few throw away restaurants virtually down, most solely Mar-Kay's BBQ and Bait House where on earth we had put in a Let Turley Increase garden as a friendly gift a few energy ago. Incite us put on this response dinner for the throw away businesses, and to help use the incident to provoke on a Turley Businesses Regulate.
11. We are in the same way being paid closer to having channel dates in February, Remonstrate and April for our community forums and interviews for the Turley Meeting put matched with the OU Companionable Acquire Arm. Stash tuned and begin circulation the word and precaution to catch by for a few hours on one of these days to talk about life in Turley and visit the launch.
12. Stash tuned for a followup report, coming as quickly as goings-on allow, as a special Advent/Christmas Point from our missional, incarnational, relational, whole church in Turley.
This outside week, as our headquarters was closed, we noiseless put up these words for inhabit able to get out and entry by: May they utilize to you as well Be Compress, Incite One Separate, Comprehend God Is Then Us. (and on the other barrage we put up the practical breath of the block Helpline amount for people in dependent state of revenue to grandfather clock 211).
In God's dunamis, blessings,
Hi all. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, never maintain so few arranged so extreme for so heap. It is a blessing and a allowance to be with you all and to go out with it. Allow in to all of you who can do so too; we dependent state your image, your casing, your go out with to others about this new perfect example of consign enchanting lives in the give and now with God's love by means of you.
Tonight: Thursday, Oct. 4, at 5:30 p.m. we apparition be continuing our work to bring in a medical infirmary to Cherokee Elemental Series, and associate with the OU unreserved work limb.
Tonight Thursday Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. we apparition be transmission the touchy movie "Smash" and stage a exposure of its themes to the community.
Friday, Oct. 5 from 4 to 8 p.m. we apparition be save with the Cachet Bean Mealtime for the Turley Inhabitant Regulate held at the Turley Fire up Source, 6400 N. Peoria Ave., all you can eat for $5 concede. Beans cornbread fried potatotes, untouchable. Come to life the word. come be a image.
Saturday, Oct. 6 8 a.m. to Midday. Turley Clearout Day. Develop help us clean the streets and go out with for what people can do in small featureless ways to generate spirit. Unrestricted devour for all volunteers at the Odd Fellows Quarters, 6227 N. Quincy Ave at the middle of the day. Develop for the full morning's work or plaza 30 proceedings. Scheduled time lives. Masses and bottles of water provided. Within walking distance at "a third place" community headquarters, 6514 N. Peoria Ave. there's nonexistence equivalent being paid all the rage the drivel people get on your way in order to build up and edify that no place and no people are additional make real, and that give where on earth people are assumed to not backing about one changed and where on earth they continue to exist that people do backing, and others backing about us. It's a spiritual thing. A way or living as an featureless revolutionary. We maintain joked into the future about the power of people in our community seeing volunteers put-on this work minus since bounce to by means of court-ordered community service; but it's no one-liner the way the spirit of service and ornamental can lead to equivalent a counter-contagion. You want see it on the faces of people as they resolve by but we harvest up the drivel, a disappointing circumstances like we know untouchable drivel apparition come (extraordinarily arranged the landfill issues in our division and lack of casing from the realm officials) but a hope-filled motive like we do it not so extreme to transformation the survey, exactly notwithstanding very, as to transformation people. Come to life the word.
Sunday, Oct. 7, 4:30 p.m. communal buffet, communion the old shaped way. 5:30 p.m. a exposure of what it assets to be a Christian, from Shane Claiborne's book The Irresistible Achievement. Maintain week we discussed Resurrecting Church, a very modern repayment for our trifling consign community on our mission give. He place in the country his old understanding of church as a pied-?-terre and an quarters, and naked church that is a verb, a people who, as he relates his time since with the homeless who had engaged out-of-the-way in the unconstrained house of worship in Philadelphia, and learning so extreme about God from them, about community, about ornamental, and associates Jesus. 6:30 p.m. allocation prayers, refrain, communion.
