Becoming a people of God, Making Jesus Visible in the World.
Focusing on the deeds of Jesus and not just the creeds about Jesus
Free. Simple. Organic. Incarnational. Relational. Missional.

We have created and coordinated A Third Place community center where there is now:
a health clinic by University of Oklahoma three days a week, Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays, 9 am to 4 pm.
a library of books and magazines and tapes
a free internet center and wifi
a food pantry and free meals
a donation room for clothes and household items and more
a lending library of tools and medical equipment
a Let Turley bloom community gardening group, reclaiming abandoned public spaces
a member of Oklahoma Food Coop, buy local, buy fresh, grow your own and share with others
a Saving Pets of Turley animal support group
a place to relax, meet others, chat, play games
a Turley Historical Society conversations each Third Saturday at 3 pm
a 12 step recovery group, each Saturday at 7:30 pm
a Nutrition class by Oklahoma State University each Tuesday at noon
a Sewing Circle
a place for community forums, planning, and special programs and lectures
a free music venue and coffeehouse
and more...also see www.turleyok.blogspot and www.progressivechurchplanting.blogspot.com for latest news and events.

Few in numbers, large in heart and vision. Faith wherever life happens. Doing Small things with Great Love Changes The World.

Come join us in mission; bring your passions, your ideas for changing this area and the world...

Our small circle is always welcoming; we love to meet people in mission but you are invited to come to our times of worship too.

Gatherings for worship and more will be moved to Sunday mornings beginning Feb. 8. At 10 am we will have relaxed informal spirited centering intergenerational worship with prayer sharing, lighting candles, singing and chanting to lift the heart and shape our focus, and then free and open communionon, and conversation on current topics of the soul. Then we cook a common meal together, with enough for people to take home to help their week go easier, with enough to send to some homebound folks, and enough to eat together and share the journeys of  our lives.

Wednesdays beginning Feb. 4 we will have morning prayer at 9 am, bible chat at 11 am followed by noonday prayer. 

We are free and open to all, non-creedal, following the radical spirit of Jesus' way of love and compassion and justice for all. 

Feel free to call Rev. Ron Robinson, 794-4637 or 691-3223 or 430-1150 or email to RevRonRobinson@aol.com to chat about our way of following the way of Jesus.

Go check out a three part essay on our different kind of church here, published in Small Talk, at www.spiritoflifepublishing.com, click on Newsletters and then on volume six.

Please check out some of these places to go on the web:

www.progressivechurchplanting.blogspot.com and follow many of the links there
www.turleyok.blogspot.com
www.uuchristian.org 
www.uuchristianfellowship.blogspot.com
www.tcpc.org (The Center For Progressive Christianity)
www.uua.org (The Unitarian Universalist Association)
www.ptstulsa.edu (Phillips Theological Seminary)
www.westarinstitute.org (The Jesus Seminar)

Check back as I update and expand the list here, and please send ones to me to consider listing.

Here is a link to the story online that appeared in the Wed. Nov. 1 section of the Tulsa World about our efforts at making a difference in our immediate area and on the lives of those near us, bringing hope and beauty and joy.

Enjoy the article. Pass on the link to others you know.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/CommunityStory.asp?ID=061101_Co_zm1_Turle32

 

The LivingRoom Gathering

Simple, Non-Creedal, Missional Church

Rev. Ron Robinson, 691-3223, 794-4637, 430-1150

A Third Place Center, 6514 N. Peoria Ave.,

Planting God Communities: www.progressivechurchplanting.blogspot.com

Call, email, or Check back here To See If We Have Added Gatherings at other times of the week

Beginning Feb. 8, 2009: Sundays at 10 am for intergenerational relaxed spirited worship and conversation
Followed by cooking together a common meal, sharing the meal and the journeys of our lives, and serving others

Every Second Saturday at 10 am Random Acts of Kindness and Beauty Events

WOW: Weekly on Wednesdays

Morning Prayer, 9 a.m.: A short time for midweek meditation, centering, sharing prayers

11 a.m. Bible Chat with Ron, usually using the common lectionary, see www.textweek.com

NoonPrayer: a short time for midweek meditation, centering of the soul, sharing prayers

 Here below we will begin posting short pieces about some of us serving with the LivingRoom Church. Check back as we get more stories of people up on this page:

Ron Robinson is a native and current resident of Turley OK on Tulsa's northside. He graduated from McLain High School in 1972, graduated from Northeastern State University in Tahlequah in 1976, worked as a reporter and editor for the Muskogee and Edmond newspapers, was senior editor of Oklahoma Monthly magazine, graduated from Wichita State University in Kansas with a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing degree, taught writing at Northeastern State, became a fiction writer and editor, winning a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society award for Best Novella, the Tennessee Williams Scholar in Fiction fellowship at Sewanee University in Tennessee, the Writers at Work Fellowship at Park City, Utah, and other literary awards. He started the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Tahlequah, OK, graduated from Phillips Theological Seminary with a Masters of Divinity degree summa cum laude, completed clinical pastoral education at Hillcrest Hospital in Tulsa, an internship at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa where he was ordained, and then he served as a hospice chaplain, and began the LivingRoom Church. He is the Executive Director of the national Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship.

Ron met his wife Bonnie in kindergarden at Cherokee School in Turley in 1959 and they were married in 1974 at Turley United Methodist Church. They have two daughters, Clara and Abigail, and are living in and remodelling the house and acreage where Bonnie was raised.

"I experience and participate in Christ in all kinds of free communities and relationships that foster love and justice and service to others. I believe God is known and experienced, to the extent God can be known, in freedom. Religious reality especially must be based on freedom to think, choose, question; as St. Paul says where the spirit of God is there is the spirit of liberty. For me the story of God is best revealed in the story of Jesus and those who have followed in his spirit; but the hallmark of Jesus is that he found ways to be in right relationship with others especially who were different from him, so while the particular story of Jesus is my way, it is not an exclusive way. I believe Jesus was full of God, but God is full of more than Jesus, and can be found in the stories and wisdom of many traditions, in the sciences, arts, and everyday lives of ordinary people, and in our extraordinary Creation."

"My daily spiritual practice is to meditate using the Lord's Prayer; lately I have been following the readings and daily meditations in The Rule of Benedict by Sister Joan Chittister, and I am interested in finding ways to incorporate more of the ancient monastic way of living in common service."

"I love that this community of folks always surprises me with their generosity and a fierce rebellion against the expectations and stereotypes people might have of them and of our area and how they live in radical trust and abundance; they remind me of how fun and amazing life can be when it is lived for others in the spirit of a God of resurrection and surprise, always ready to turn the world upside down."

Be sure to check out much of the thinking behind what we do at The Living Room Church by going to my blog called Planting God Communities at www.progressivechurchplanting.blogspot.com . I call it planting God Communities because it is about creating more than just relationships among new church members, and it is about more than helping people as individuals get connected to God's spirit. It is about all kinds of gatherings, and communities where love and freedom and service flourish and spread. Where two or more are gathered.....

Be a part of that online community by leaving questions and comments.