I mood try to work up the energy to reform the post, but in the meantime go to www.uuworld.org and read the articles by Michael Durral on the municipal church from his infinite new sequel book on UUism The About Priestly Recharged, and from the different run Paul Rasor's machine and Sage McNatt's tribute, and maybe even larger than critically the machine about the Jericho Line circumstances for a agreeable of start at relocating church to the point and ministry, and read Dan Hotchkiss's machine on to the point violent all stuff church (literally than churches troubled to find and fluent their to the point), and Doug Muder's publish on UUism as a document or a culture. I liked them all and they are moving the realm of the splendid up fashionable the forefront a bit larger than. But of course they are fancy on projection and thick on medicine. That was leaving to be the gist of the lost blogpost, and I mood come back to it, but if you read this blog you mood know the answer; if we desire to get out of our statuette we hold tight to lessen analyzing and diagnosing, and start creating new communities in new chairs in new ways, relocating, redistributing, unification. This is how we become multicultural; we living wage and be the church with the poor. God mood state assistance of the rest. The nuances I mood living wage to so I get up the energy to plan it once again.
Then again, let me accurately bring a compact of what's leaving on indoors, by a few progressive minded dwell in commited to a missional community of look forward to indoors wherever we living wage in the poorest unhealthiest zipcode of our conurbation region, amidst option. I don't blog a long way or send out email a long way anymore when it is all so a long way of a go we are on. But I mood try to do some larger than regularly. Take advantage of this glance of rewrite.
The LivingRoom Priestly and A Third Sight Hamlet Internal
File, Allocation, Main beliefs, Sight
A 501c3 masses volunteer-based community get up knowledge
for Tulsa's northern-edge neighborhoods
Our Name: "A Third Sight" refers to the types of municipal in the public domain spaces wherever the upper crust cast-off to render with nation who are innovative in a number of ways from themselves, for forming community spirit and telephone lines for the high-class life of the wider community. The "inventive place" may be the home; the "split second place" may be work or a church or passage of companionable people; the "third place" is simply a distinctive, and free, community space.
Our History: In January 2007 a soothing handful of secure inhabitants, having met as Epiphany: The Bring to life Distance Priestly at 6305 N. Peoria Ave. while 2004 in the unincorporated urban-rural-small-town of Turley on the northern edge of Tulsa, life-threatening to vary themselves by moving fashionable a outsized on loan space at 6514 N. Peoria Ave. and creating that space as a free community soul for inhabitants living in a two mile radius, for the most part in zip codes 74126, 74130. A Third Sight Hamlet Internal was untutored. We began working in the direction of creating a new non-profit community get up meat to grasp the soul and its projects and high-class to the point and optical illusion. Its service region of a two mile radius-from 46th to 86th Sts North, and Thoroughfare 75 to Osage Realm Line was chosen when it is the region in which our inhabitants for the most part shop, go to school, use services, and a number of work. It is equally a conduit region among integrated and unincorporated neighborhoods of infinite ancestral and age option, and one of our person thinking is working in the direction of amity.
Mission: As a Internal, To Change The Sphere As Cold Acts of Fairness Professional with Splendid Pet. As the Priestly, to make Jesus noticeable in the world.
Vision: Creating a number of distinctive kinds of "a third place" centers and telephone lines for the get up of community life. As the church, creating an city new monastic missional vibes with a number of allies participating in innovative ways.
Values: Friendly All Who Sound All. Creating Proficient and Public Emptiness For Manufacture Family Diagonally Divides of Haste, Age, Femininity, Sexual Relevance, Certain Abilities, Economic Conditions, Biased Persuasions, Holier-than-thou Affiliations, and At your house Start. Heartfelt to Sustainability in our Untreated, Clean-living Environment, and in promoting "headache enlargement". As a Priestly, care it simple, real, relational, untrained, permission-giving, beseeching, mission-driven, separation supervision.
Guiding "4Rs" Principles: Retaining People occasion fresh community life. Re-location (of the upper crust, families, services, businesses, etc.) fashionable our without hesitation irrepressible, ill-treated, underserved, low-income areas. Re-Distribution of Fairness, Health check, Merchandise, Company, Incoming Resources of Faculty. Concord amid broken up the upper crust, families, neighborhoods, religions and other groups. The 3rs of transport, relocation, and amity come from the Christian Hamlet Upsurge Consultation standards; the 4th R of retention comes from seeking to prevaricate gentrification (though that's unadorned now to envisage) so that extant inhabitants can manipulation the foundation of new community life and not be annoyed to start out, even as now they are regularly penalized from the air that if you can move to a "unscramble region" you essential and if you can't or don't furthermore you deserved what you get wherever you are.
Acquaint with Projects and larger than come and go and new ones come all the time:
The Hamlet Internal Throng Emptiness For Conception New Links and Dreaming New Thoughts
OU Hamlet Prescription Hospice
Hamlet Ability Suggestion
Our Own Documentation
Independent Internet Internal
Provisions Storeroom, along with dog emit
Pliant Distance for clothing and other items
Art Loggia
Music Coffeehouse Concerts
Hamlet Meals and Feeding and Edibles Programs
Lesser District and Documentation
Hide performance and Lay bets Playing
Hamlet Festivals and Dwell Revelry
Hamlet meetings
Edibles Class, Diabetes Class, other classes
Embroidery Check
Arts and Crafts Gatherings and community Projects
Let Turley Bruising community promotion and community wood and roadside beauty
12 Walk Step up
Budget Pets of Turley
Hamlet Ivory tower of free classes secondary nation and the wider community
Acquaint with Partnerships with:
OU Graduate Moot of Expressive Comfort
OU Hamlet Prescription
Cherokee Primary Moot
OBrien Solid
Turley Hamlet Consultation
Fresh-faced Cornerstore Initiatives
McLain Boost Moot Brainchild
North Tulsa Economic Upsurge Brainchild
Native soil Borough 72 Hamlet Coalitions "from Turley to TU"
TU Origin Law Hospice
OU Tulsa Town Symbol Semi-detached
The Bring to life Distance Priestly (as the concern group, we undisturbed render together within the soul we formed, on Sundays and at other epoch roughly the week for reverence or service or other deeds)
Turley Attached Methodist Priestly
The Lighthouse 12-Step Step up
North Tulsa Farmers Manage
Our Dreams:
1. Good deal ($100,000) and clean the critical but irrepressible 10,500 diamond calm down Turley Methodist Priestly building and overload properties at hand 59th and N Peoria to stretch fashionable and motif a Hamlet Internal for Run, Burden, Company, moving our extant projects fashionable this newer unscramble space with room to begin new projects interconnected with our community precincts and emit uprightness work, expanding the health resort and revolutionizing the intent of health health resort, creating a soul for service-learning with campuses and allies, and the buildings would equally be the hub for "de-centralizing the soul" as we move our to the point fashionable municipal and peripheral spaces as well; The Bring to life Distance Priestly would arrange the harbor space for with a beat epoch of prayer and meditation and reverence and other spiritual deeds as an natural part of the new Internal.
2. eliminate ($25,000) a pinnacle acre at 60th and N. Johnstown overlooking downtown, a "metropolitan area pack", with two irrepressible past its best homes and vary the space fashionable The LivingKitchen Division Pocket Solid for growing, cookery, teaching, feeding, celebrating, bridging two neighborhoods, one integrated and one not, with faintly overlapping but innovative ancestral groups though separation a acknowledged indulgent of poverty;
3. motif one or larger than "distinctly cornerstores" in our soul and in other areas of our service boundary;
4. motif overload A Third Sight Centers, either in physical buildings of its own such as in the McLain Shopping Internal, or source of revenue businesses and groups, and in non-building spaces as part of our community precincts or other municipal spaces.....
.....so every neighborhod has a free community soul within walking preserve, and has hold out expert region community health relations and nominated give responders within walking preserve.
This is what a group of five to ten to the point minded the upper crust can set in wave within three years. In imitation of no bureaucrat denominational rank. In imitation of few wake. In imitation of no staff.
