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	<title>Experience The Living Room Church</title>
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		<title>Holy Week at The Living Room Church</title>
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			<name>Living Room Church</name>
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		<updated>2007-04-02T16:59:11Z</updated>
		<published>2007-04-02T16:51:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[<FONT size=4><STRONG>This week's scheduled events are listed here. You are invited to come to all. Pick this week to change your life and help change the lives of others.<BR><BR>Tuesday, April 3, 7 p.m. Saving Pets of Turley meets in "a third place" at 6514 N. Peoria Ave. Help us help animals in our area.<BR><BR>Wednesday, April 4, 6:30 to 9 p.m. a Work Party at "a third place" community center as we get ready after Easter to open up to the public. Lots of arranging and set up to be done. Come and stay as long as you can. Brown Bag Supper welcome.<BR><BR>Maundy Thursday, April 5, 7 p.m. Special Communion Service.<BR><BR>Good Friday Service, April 6, Noon, at All Souls Church, 2952 S. Peoria Ave. Leave "a third place" at 11:15 a.m. or meet there. The service lasts less than an hour. <BR><BR>Saturday, April 7, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Party at Ron and Bonnie's. Call 430-1150 for more information.<BR><BR>Easter Sunday, April 8, 4:30 p.m. shared meal; 5:30 p.m. DVD program on "The Resurrection of Christ" featuring leading biblical scholars and theologians and conversation; 6:30 p.m. Easter Service. <BR><BR>For more see </STRONG></FONT><A href="http://www.progressivechurchplanting.blogspot.com"><FONT size=4><STRONG>www.progressivechurchplanting.blogspot.com</STRONG></FONT></A><FONT size=4><STRONG> and </STRONG></FONT><A href="http://www.turleyok.blogspot.com"><FONT size=4><STRONG>www.turleyok.blogspot.com</STRONG></FONT></A><FONT size=4><STRONG> and </STRONG></FONT><A href="http://www.thechristianyear.blogspot.com"><FONT size=4><STRONG>www.thechristianyear.blogspot.com</STRONG></FONT></A> ]]></content>
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		<title>Favorite Links</title>
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			<name>Living Room Church</name>
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		<updated>2007-01-20T16:46:00Z</updated>
		<published>2007-01-20T16:46:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[Please check out some of these places to go on the web:<BR><BR><A href="http://www.progressivechurchplanting.blogspot.com">www.progressivechurchplanting.blogspot.com</A> and follow many of the links there<BR><A href="http://www.turleyok.blogspot.com">www.turleyok.blogspot.com</A><BR><A href="http://www.uuchristian.org">www.uuchristian.org</A> and go to the links section for much more<BR>www.uuchristianfellowship.blogspot.com<BR><A href="http://www.tcpc.org">www.tcpc.org</A> (The Center For Progressive Christianity)<BR><A href="http://www.uua.org">www.uua.org</A> (The Unitarian Universalist Association)<BR><A href="http://www.ptstulsa.edu">www.ptstulsa.edu</A> (Phillips Theological Seminary)<BR><A href="http://www.westarinstitute.org">www.westarinstitute.org</A> (The Jesus Seminar)<BR><BR>Check back as I update and expand the list here, and please send ones to me to consider listing. <BR><BR>]]></content>
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		<title>Living Room Church in Tulsa World article</title>
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			<name>Living Room Church</name>
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		<category term="Let Turley Bloom" />
		<updated>2006-12-31T00:51:36Z</updated>
		<published>2006-11-09T17:17:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[<FONT size=4>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. <BR><BR>Enjoy the article. Pass on the link to others you know. <BR><BR></FONT><A href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/CommunityStory.asp?ID=061101_Co_zm1_Turle32"><FONT size=4>http://www.tulsaworld.com/CommunityStory.asp?ID=061101_Co_zm1_Turle32</FONT></A><BR><BR>]]></content>
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		<title>Tell Me About The Living Room Church</title>
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			<name>Living Room Church</name>
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		<updated>2006-12-31T00:53:07Z</updated>
		<published>2006-10-07T11:15:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman">A Different Kind of Church For Different Times<BR></FONT></SPAN></U></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: none"><FONT face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</FONT></SPAN></o:p></SPAN></U></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman">We are a simple “organic” church. We grow people’s faith doing ministry in the world, not on church committees and at spectator worship events. Our steeples are built up in lives and communities.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman">We are seeking to create a community of many small “micro churches” where our time, energy, and resources can make a big difference, instead of becoming one “mega-church.” <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman">We call it The Living Room&nbsp;<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on">Church </st1:place>not because we meet in living rooms and homes, but because we are more concerned with how people are meeting God and growing spiritually in their homes and lives than in what they do at some place called church. And when we do come together in our meetingspace for our many different times together, it is for the main purpose of making relationships and being inspired to go out into the world with hope and love and joy and service. A kind of God's Living Room. We have tended in our culture to separate everything in secular space and sacred space. Our churches should be more like living rooms and our living rooms should be more like churches. </FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman">We are a Community Church because we believe our faith calls us to work for a better world where we are, with people in the community regardless of race, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, education or income level, political opinions or any other way that people are labeled. <BR><BR><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman">We are a non-creedal free, liberal, progressive, inclusive Christian church in the historic Unitarian and Universalist traditions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Jesus’s story and spirit of love for all is at the center of our church life but we are free to explore other spiritual paths and welcome others to explore with us and work with us to make better lives and a better world. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman">We don’t all have the same ideas about God, Jesus, the Bible, Eternity. That is not only all right, but it is good. However, we all <U>respect</U> the freedom of others’ conscience, we all are <U>responsible</U> for our behavior, we covenant together to <U>respond</U> to the needs of others, and we are willing to take <U>risks</U> to be missionaries of God’s love for all, and as Ghandi said, “to be the change we seek to see in the world.” <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman">At our first site in Turley, Ok, we are involved in LetTurleyBloom!, a<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>beautification and gardening project; Saving Pets of Turley, an animal welfare project; The Living Room Coffeehouse free music venue; a library; a mower ministry; a bath ministry; providing hospitality; Free Giveaway Days; fundraising for community groups and Cherokee School; coordinating Turley Trash Off Day, Community Christmas Caroling, holiday parties, trips and times out together, and working with other community groups. With more to come.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman">We have <U>“Reel Spirituality” </U>gatherings on Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. to watch and discuss films with spiritual themes. We have monthly <U>“game nights”</U> on certain Fridays. We have a <U>“Random Acts of Kindness”</U> event each Third Saturday that begins with common breakfast at 9 a.m. and a service project from 10 a.m. to noon. These are all Open to all. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black">We gather on Sunday evenings beginning at 4:30 p.m.</SPAN></U></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"> for a common meal where people bring whatever they can for others and it always turns out to be a feast (first time visitors welcome to attend without bringing anything to add). And then we have a time of study, or service, or time of personal sharing, or worship celebration. Children also have class time together during this time learning and exploring in their own ways about some of the same topics the adults are, so families can share later and continue the learning at home. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman">We house the national offices of the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship, founded in 1945.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.uuchristian.org/"><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman">www.uuchristian.org</FONT></SPAN></A><FONT face="Times New Roman">. </FONT></SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>]]></content>
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		<title>Planting God Communities</title>
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			<name>Living Room Church</name>
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		<category term="Links" />
		<updated>2006-10-18T16:11:06Z</updated>
		<published>2006-10-06T16:20:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[<STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=3>Be sure to check out much of the thinking behind what we do at The Living Room Church by going to my church planting blog called Planting God Communities at </FONT></STRONG><A href="http://www.progressivechurchplanting.blogspot.com"><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=3>www.progressivechurchplanting.blogspot.com</FONT></STRONG></A><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=3> . 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.....<BR><BR>Be a part of that online community by leaving questions and comments.</FONT></STRONG> ]]></content>
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		<title>FYI: Faith Where Life Happens</title>
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			<name>Living Room Church</name>
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		<category term="Welcome" />
		<updated>2006-10-18T16:12:35Z</updated>
		<published>2006-10-04T12:01:00Z</published>
		<content type="html"><![CDATA[<P><FONT face=Arial size=3><STRONG>We gather at the space at 6305 N. Peoria Ave. in Turley, OK, right next to Tulsa on the north side, on Sundays beginning at 4:30 p.m. for a common meal. First time visitors are always welcome without having to bring anything to share. Others bring whatever you can that day. It doesn't matter what. We just share what we can. Doesn't need to be fancy or homemade. It all turns into a Feast.&nbsp;Like Life Itself. All are welcome. All are worthy. Around 5:30ish, we focus on our group sharing. Sometimes it is a study topic. Sometimes it is a service project. Sometimes it is personal sharing of our spiritual passions or questions. Sometimes it is worship. Children have their related time together at the same time. We also gather on Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. for brown bag or potluck and our "Reel Spirituality" movie discussion events. We don't have child care for this time yet and some of the movies are rated PG-13 or R. <BR><BR>But we really like to welcome people to be with us as we are "the church" in the community, outside the walls of a building, or when two or more of us gather together for an event, or holy conversation, or prayer, or some fun project or trip. You can find out about some of those here, or call 918-691-3223, or drop us an email at </STRONG></FONT><A href="mailto:RevRonRobinson@aol.com"><FONT face=Arial size=3><STRONG>RevRonRobinson@aol.com</STRONG></FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=3><STRONG> and we will get back with you. <BR><BR>Faith Where Life Happens....at work, in homes, in play, in service, in study, in celebration, in relationship</STRONG></FONT></P>]]></content>
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