All About Us Links

Welcome OU Tulsa Graduate Social Work students and also the students from Phillips Theological Seminary who will be working with us or studying us this semester, and welcome all as we start several important community development projects this year. A pivotal year for us about to start thanks to received donations for two major projects, one at the gardenpark and one at the community center, plus we are waiting word on a big low income housing initiative we are hoping to take lead on, and we will be increasing our engagement with area schools during this upcoming year. Only with your support of our all volunteer grassroots neighbors helping the neighborhood projects.

Learn more about us and share please with others these links below:

1. 1. The workshop at General Assembly which includes the slideshow and video on our MIracle Among the Ruins area and projects, along with our history and our approach to missional church. http://youtu.be/kUBVuJebUTc
   
   2. http://missionalprogressives.blogspot.com/2014/06/ministry-in-abandoned-places-3rs-of.html?m=1
   Text that went along with the workshop this summer. And A quick look at our area link http://www.turleyok.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-quick-look-at-our-area.html
   
   3. More background into our response and where it comes from and how it manifests: http://www.turleyok.blogspot.com/2014/04/who-we-arewhat-we-dowhy-summary.html
   
   4. Why we are here and needed revealed in Fall study by OU at A Third Place http://www.turleyok.blogspot.com/2013/11/why-we-are-here-and-needed-revealed-in.html
   
   5. the link of links that go into depth on our demographics and our projects and our vision and includes my lecture to the Graduate Social Work Convention at OU in Norman.
   This is a post that accumulates various other basic introduction posts about our area of the 74126 and 74130 and about our renewal efforts and partnerships and plans and visions within it. The starting point for those who would like to work with us; getting to know us. Caveat: the observations and analysis is mine; obviously others in our area have their own experiences and analysis and visions.
   
   http://www.turleyok.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-virtual-tour-of-our-area-far-north.html
   We always like to begin showing our area and immersing in it in order to understand why we do what we do and how we do it as a response to the world around us; the focus is on building up and growing the neighborhoods primarily, and only building up and growing the organization in order to accomplish the first.
   
   Our latest breakdown of demographic and ethnographic studies and the OU Turley nutrition survey of residents in our two mile radius:
   http://www.turleyok.blogspot.com/2012/09/serving-our-areaby-numbers.html
   
   An overview of the renewal vision: called The Four Directions in our area:
   http://turleyok.blogspot.com/2010/05/four-directions-initiative-tnt-vision.html
   
   A post on health responses to the life time expectancy disparity in our zipcode:
   
   http://www.turleyok.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-view-from-74126-on-health-care-after.html
   
   Based on a presentation given at OU Tulsa by members of a team from there after study time at Dartmouth.
   
   A post on educational justice and community abandonment and the proposal to focus program changes at McLain School and its feeder schools:
   
   http://www.turleyok.blogspot.com/2013/01/mclain-high-school-take-survey-get.html
   
   The comprehensive lecture given at OU on our history, our responses, our vision:
   
   http://turleyok.blogspot.com/2010/10/ou-lecture-pragmatics-of-collaboration.html
   
   6. Some recent sermons that update our work
   
   http://www.progressivechurchplanting.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-spirituality-of-missional-messiness.html The Spirituality of Missional Messiness, how to stay centered and hopeful in places of despair.
   
   http://progressivechurchplanting.blogspot.com/2014/06/what-world-and-church-needs-now.html?m=1 The missional call to move beyond our own concerns of institutional survival; why church is changing.
   
   http://missionalprogressives.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-liberal-missional-church.html?m=1 The look at why progressives need to become missional, and the missional church needs progressives.