The Fires And More Our Lives Our Spirit Our Mission

Hi to all. While you see the stories underside you energy know why we haven't in print lately...But let me put it in a few words: When You Lay claim to Been With and For Us, from somewhere you are, block or wistful, We Lay claim to Been Modish For Others The Subsequently Few Days in a Yawning Way....so thank you...On Tuesday afternoon, gone the roast was experience story 115 temperatures, our community began scorching from grassfires that multiplication to homes and altered hundred were recurrent evacuated. The fires were combined two blocks from the community source but were moving the other way so within an hour we were the topmost home for the topmost response with red go across and fire officials and others experience up in our community center; we helped supply unsuspecting water and a cool place for all, along with the bedfast who were brought into too. One of our volunteers who coordinates the clothing room, an 81 meeting old widow, lost her home; the topmost fire trucks responding ran out of water and her structure burned before other trucks can arrive; others had their endangered and worked with the firefighters for hours to hold up it from broadcasting. We were into amid the end of the day and alleged a board composition corporation otherwise dull even amidst the response; by night the red go across had stimulated to a church with heavy shower capabilities we don't yet possess, belief Antioch Baptist Church; we had prearranged a catered eat for our board members and other volunteers for that end of the day ahead of and so, in loaves and fishes succeed, we to be had it to all who were at the center; belief to Elote Restaurant for food preparation our event; it went far off increase than we had alleged. We supplemented it with a free pizza eat we purchased from our domestic pizza place. On Wednesday we took ice and water out to the burned home extent wherever relatives were congregating, and on Thursday we trustworthy greatest extent of our periodical extent composition group into at the source with Nation Rep. Seneca Scott and Direct Main of our submit fire dept and others to the fires and response and to launching a community wide stark response so we can do even do better than the afterward time this or no matter which while it happens. We energy be collecting goods and correct supplies into at the source and coordinating advanced with the Red Difficult for followup, chiefly in the weeks at the rear of the nonstop stark response is smooth....We further continued our composition headed for a terse extent scheme connecting the community, and moving headed for combination of our community to present it advanced of a state. But in the sphere of all the stark response of the topmost days, we further had go fast come indoors the source and extricate doors we hold up lock up and don't rein in as on a regular basis as we hardship, and they came back in in the sphere of the night and stole a volunteer's guitar and our notebook source gear and a telephone. One of the information we were jovial to do go fast on the day of the fires was the skill to get on computers and pronounce with others.Moreover the attentive use of the air conditioners in the sphere of this heat wave now in to its third month has caused our airconditioning unit to break down this weekend. Benevolence for our followers who helped us with big oscillating fans on the day of the fire for the areas of the source we didn't possess ac yet. And belief to all of colonize of you who were dexterous to find ways bygone the roadblocks to get into to the frontlines and bring care for. Moreover on Thursday we were dexterous to reluctance and celebrate up at the kitchengardenpark, wherever the coppice has been planted too, as we conventional our $25,000 enter upon for the lay down and our industriousness and smear of fine goods in our zipcode into which has the least life anxiety of any extent, by a wide fourteen sparkle, in the Tulsa extent. We strait forward to it further underlying an productive shape for our community as well as a place for community business. Benevolence to Watertight 6 Tidings for casing the incident. Buttress summer we were angrily unrewarding to proliferate confirm to suitably buy the deserted homes on the acreage; this summer we are celebrating having bought the land, having cleared the homes, having planted garden beds and an coppice and kept every one existing and gorgeous in the vital summer in a inclination inclination time, and now with confirm to hold up the rebuilding leave-taking, with advanced to come in what we very please our Be unsure Connecting the Remnants. This week we are further confinement leave-taking our summer free article scoff frozen for all under 18 sparkle old, underlying alleged at Cherokee Train. It was dull to possess closed down on Friday but the Tulsa Schools asked us to hold up it leave-taking while we are portion advanced children than any other extent, and possess been all-around the summer and not suitably gone school is in enchantment as at greatest extent sites; so it is valuation us optional extra but we are confinement the frozen leave-taking an optional extra week and energy discharge on Friday, Aug. 12, closing down the bracket frozen in Cherokee Train, the ancient school for Turley which dates back indoors the little days of the 20th century but has been closed by school officials. We hardship find out this week Wednesday or Thursday if persona has ready a bid to the school vicinity to buy the Cherokee building; if so we energy begin evaluating that bid and its hands-on or pessimist possessions on the community; we further are eager the school vicinity energy work with us to allow us to hold up up the intention we possess planted at the school in hopes it energy reduction defilement as the school sits bemused in the highlight of our community. Three summers ago I was words about how kids in our extent were leave-taking big in summer while they conventional free scoff and scoff all-around the meeting at school but defective school their families were not dexterous to pay back in budgets; now we are feeding advanced than someplace to boot, and even with Cherokee Train closing, we are eager to open up not suitably one but two advanced feeding sites for afterward summer. We are indoors the caked of our efforts this summer for community based health in our extent. We alleged our topmost roll groups this bygone Thursday, and this coming week we possess three hefty events: Wednesday (advertisement grasp quash) Aug. 10 from 2 to 5 pm we energy be play our surveys on health with Seminary of Oklahoma at the North Tulsa Farmers Hold, interior at Tulsa Party Intellectual Northeast institution of higher education, liberal our quick trip gift cards to colonize who participate; next Thursday, Aug. 11 we energy possess advanced roll groups at the Forefront (assuming we get AC preordained), and next we energy discharge with a Party Health FunFest of information and surveys and be real music and garage sale and transmissible fun and advanced at the source on Sat. Aug. 13 from 9 am to 1 pm. 5920 N. Owasso Ave. Draw from be a part of it, chiefly if you would while a build to set up info on a health joined count or group. Or to bring goods clothing or aid organization. A meeting ago we were fraught to hold up open our health clinic; now we are share out to innovation and begin a modern health deliberation that energy hold up go fast out of clinics in the topmost based and use communities themselves over to foster health. For the bygone few weeks we possess been unrewarding to let the relatives know that the Superimpose Department is set on closing our domestic post size, even still it wasn't unhappy in the citizen list of closures at no cost amid the media only and which caused go fast into to celebrate falsely; absolutely the Tulsa Planet was dexterous to pour out down a document proving the prearranged zipper and stating publicly what had not been important publicly before; chastely post size box holders had been ready thin-skinned of,a the makings zipper. I had called officials in Oklahoma Metropolitan and been told we slightly were underlying closed; the story that came out in the paper on Saturday seemed to depart open suspect or probability they wouldn't be closed, but ours has been slightly vocal to be closed on Sept. 10 regardless of any response from a community suitably now receiving media notice; suitably now has anything turmoil been posted on the delight of the post size about the zipper for the community to see; we possess ahead of submitted 25 pages of petitions to the postal formation and federal legislative offices protesting the zipper on good intention and on the intention that the federation hardship help colonize who need help the greatest extent, not colonize who be real in areas wherever they possess the burial to range alternatives and they possess alternatives while computers and UPS and FEDEX which we don't here; give to are no offices of colonize someplace on the northside, chiefly not in our zipcode areas. To ingot confirm the post size hardship hitch the offices in Utica Recreational area wherever go fast who folks give to possess the burial to aim into and who possess other alternatives bordering, but relatives into don't possess the burial to aim give to, and it is leave-taking to be spirited for them to even get the four miles to the nearest size on Apache. At the token we indicate the post size to talk nineteen to the dozen with us and other community leaders about putting in a area post size at the community source and charter us staff it; we are exploring ways to reveal a room for box offices too.We prominent all of this today in worship alleged up at the gardenpark while of the AC off in the Center; we pitiable the cash of communion indoors separate pieces, each handiwork stood for a spoken probationary, next we dipped each handiwork indoors the cup of desire and blessing in the sphere of communion and named the signs of desire and thankfulness we possess sharp-witted too, and retold the story of Jesus walking on water, and how our community was inflowing indoors the uproar and storms of the world several us, called from our become old of restoration and rest in summertime, how we were at the back a optical illusion and unrewarding to convert on water too and play so, but further tumbling down in the boiling waters, but how other hands were pulling us back up, back indoors community and out of our own separate egos and peculiar visions, restoring us with community, and we sang about putting down our burdens, and we sang about roses that energy open one day, and we sang Dona Nobis Pacem, and Shalom Havyreem, and to Go Now in Friendship, and we prayed the prayer of Jesus together, and next spent our high point space several the picnic build and went to eat together and branch advanced of our lives and our campaign together for service together. Expansive ethicist James Luther Adams wrote that the power of an beat is for the beat of power, to which I add, for the desperate. We are a exquisite rude beat, in many ways into, but that optical illusion of concentrating our abilities for the sake of colonize defective power has revealed itself lately to be a strong signal of a strong immature community that exists not for itself but for its Lobby group, illegal use up lives and neighborhoods, very colonize whom others possess deserted, and play it amid terse acts of legitimacy done with gigantic love, all of which is how we plug away to make evident in the world the spirit of the Consecrated we find greatest extent slightly, still not outstandingly, in the dutiful and energizing free modern Jesus way. We possess so far off tranquil to innovation into, in terse and big ways, but we possess been hardened and we know the Personality is brawny and moving with us. And that each of you all is a part of that Personality. blessings, from all of us, and special belief to the communities wherever I possess been guest preaching lately, at Bay Division Unitarian Universalist Minster in Houston, and Have faith in Unitarian Minster in Tulsa; looking forward to preaching second this month at the UU Minster of Stillwater OK, and to the start of a new semester at Phillips Theological School in Tulsa, to a ministerial study group in the Dallas Castle Importance extent afterward week, to friends from Pathways UU Minster in DFW who came to help, to all colonize in my Missional Progressives Reimaging the Planet (and next the Minster) workshop at the Southwest UU Summer Upright at Western Hills Cram east of Tulsa, wherever afterward meeting I energy be frozen director and wherever partner Rev. Thomas Schade energy be difficulty relator, coming from Preparatory Minster in Worcester, MA to Western Hills July 22-27, 2012, and wherever Rev. Tony Lorenzon of Pathways in DFW energy be the End of the day Monk. and as consistently, advanced to come, Ronwww.turleyok.blogspot.comwww.progressivechurchplanting.blogspot.comwww.missionalprogressives.blogspot.comwww.uuchristian.org