Thursday, 09 September 2010, 03:06 am PDT
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The Miracle and The Mission and More
http://turleyok. blogspot. com/2010/08/yes-miracles-among-ruins-we-did-it. html Thanks for all who supported, donated, prayed, shared. We made a big missional leap today, and even bigger ones are j... [read more]
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The Tulsa World article about Miracle Among The Ruins, and more
Here is the link to the story about our community and our Miracle Among The Ruins project for Tulsa North and Turley area that ran in the Tulsa World yesterday. http://www. tulsaworld. com/news/art... [read more]
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The Attraction of Small Things, or What We Told The Medical Students When They Came Here: Part Two
For Part One go to this link:http://progressivechurchplanting. blogspot. com/2010/07/church-of-small-blessings-or-report-on. html Part One focused on our talk this summer with medical and other stu... [read more]
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Disruptive Innovation For Real Community Health: Using the Incarnational Missional Model of Church For Other Community Organizing
A radical good idea has legs, has wings, will organically adapt and be transforming in other systems. "Disruptive Innovation" "Turning Your Organization/Institution Inside Out... [read more]
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Images
Here is a link to a few images at a third place, that signal community and hospitality, visual seeds of our mission. http://turleyok. blogspot. com/2010/08/images-at-third-place. html [read more]
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Revival/Retreat 2010 Program Bios and more: Early Registration Discount Ends Sept. 19
Here are bios for most of the Revival/Retreat 2010 presenters for the event to be held Oct. 14-17 at Horizon UU Church in Carrollton, TX, with a mini-revival registration for Friday night lecture a... [read more]
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In Prayer
Hi all. First, thank you. Secondly, thank you. And lastly, thank you. We do need your help right now. This is a final appeal for help for our Miracle Among The Ruins project in our community. We ha... [read more]
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The Church Has Left The Building...and the T-shirt
Good missional stuff here http://networkedblogs. com/6 Vqp RRev. Sean's post includes a link and a recommendation about our ministry here, and about our current project need for the Miracle Among ... [read more]
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Join These People at Revival/Retreat 2010 in Dallas Area Oct. 14-17
Hi all. Come join with the following people who will be at Revival/Retreat 2010: Oct. 14-17, (with Friday and Saturday registration available for those unable to come Thurs through Sunday). Horizon... [read more]
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Look At This Lineup of Revival/Retreat Speakers and Come Join Us
Hi all. Come join with the following people who will be at Revival/Retreat 2010: Oct. 14-17, (with Friday and Saturday registration available for those unable to come Thurs through Sunday). Horizon... [read more]
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A View of Us From Outside, With Pics
Here is a blog that gives a good peek into the community center part of our being, the missional in the missional church so to speak; I will have to see about doing something similar to record our ... [read more]
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To See, To Share, To Serve
Here is this week's reflection on this week's lectionary selection of scripture. See http://www. textweek. com/ for more on the lectionary. Glad that the UUCF was a part of the creation of the le... [read more]
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Versions of the Lord's Prayer
This Week during my seminar on "The Way of Jesus", one of the days we will be focusing on the Prayer of Jesus. The other days we will focus on The Parables or Unconventional Wisdom of... [read more]
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Come let us reason together...
Wise words from my colleague and friend Tom Schade:It is useful to remember that being in the United States without having gone through the proper immigration procedures is NOT a crime. It is a ci... [read more]
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Church of Sighs and Broken Alleluias and Mustard Seeds: Read When Your Heart Is Ready
Make sure, if you are interested in missional church and community renewing living, and I hope you are and will be, that you read this. There I was this evening, at dusk, following one of those ins... [read more]
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Party Among The Ruins: Wed. July 28, 7-9 pm
Your Invitation, and Please Invite Others What: "Party Among The Ruins"Make real the Miracle Among the Ruins project to turn a block of abandoned properties here in Tulsa North/Turley... [read more]
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The Church of Small Blessings (or a Report on What We Told The Medical Students)
Hi all. First, Upcoming events:This Friday, poverty education workshop at O'Brien Recreation Center from noon to four pm between our community residents and incoming OU graduate social work studen... [read more]
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New Emergent links; read especially Annie Bullock's Real Austin
INSIDE THIS EMERGENT/C+ A Time To Reconstruct+ Real Austin: Theology on a Downtown Bus+ Unstudying God: Finding God in the Barren Land Resources from Around the Village. .. UPCOMINGCONFERENCESNew C... [read more]
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Come to Poverty Education Experience Workshop Friday July 23
We still need a few more folks to sign up to help us in the poverty education workshop Friday July 23 at O'Brien Park, 6147 N. Lewis, with OU Graduate Social Work students. Helpers will get free l... [read more]
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In the way of Jesus
IN THE WAY OF JESUSSWUUSI 2010 WORKSHOP, Aug. 2 - 5, afternoons Western Hills Lodge, Sequoyah State Park, near Wagoner OKwww. swuuc. org REV. RON ROBINSONMonday: The Parables of Jesus DVD episode f... [read more]
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Words For The Fourth
Turley is a particularly wild place on the days celebrating the Fourth of July. Because we are an urban/smalltown/rural mix and unincorporated section of the Tulsa Northside, we have become the mec... [read more]
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Emergent Theological Conversation: Creating Liberated Spaces in a Postcolonial World
Theological Conversation - Creating Liberated Spaces in a Postcolonial World When:November 01, 2010 at 02:00 PM-to-November 03, 2010 at 12:30 PMWhere:First Presbyterian Church, Atlanta 1328 Peachtr... [read more]
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The Christian Fellowship at General Assembly 2010
Our UUCF http://www. uuchristian. org/ communion service featuring the preaching of the Rev. Alma Faith Crawford was powerful and moving on a Thursday afternoon in Minneapolis. It is for some the o... [read more]
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An Update On Current Dreams Becoming Reality
We have a new extended deadline of July 30 to try to raise the still needed $100 from 80 people, or $50 from 160 people, etc. goal to make the Miracle Among the Ruins happen. Become a part of this ... [read more]
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If you are finding this website after the General Assembly Missional Workshop...
. .. Welcome. The workshop just barely scratched the surface of challenging our thinking about how our images and ideas of church limit our transformational possibilities. Hope you will browse the ... [read more]