Body & Soul : yoga breathing
Body & Soul YOGA BREATHING We asked our Yoga instructor, Harvard Ave member Susan Hollingsworth, and our Fitness for Life trainer, Harvard Ave member Becky Young, to offer some suggestions of how we can stay healthy, strong, balanced while spending so much time at home. We'll share their practices and…
The Enneagram : A Spiritual Discipline of Self-Discovery
Taught most widely by Suzanne Stabile, the enneagram is growing in reach as a tool for self-understanding and realization of how your internal workings affect your external environment. You are uniquely gifted and placed in the world. Discover new ways of being you. How does who you are open…
notes for worship-in-other-ways
March 15 2020 "The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your needs in parched places..." (Isaiah 58:11) Who knew, when we began designing our Lenten worship series called 'Prepare', walking through this chapter with Isaiah, that it would take on such extraordinary meaning?! As we worship in new ways,…
worship & church in a time of COVID-19 : a pastoral letter
March 13 2020 Beloved of Harvard Avenue, Our greatest call as people of faith, as those who follow the ways of Christ, is to love. To love God, to love one another, fully and completely, with all that we are. Our leadership continues to consider how we might best respond…
a pastoral letter for health and well-being
March 7 2020 Dear Friends at Harvard Avenue, Like everyone else, we are keeping up with news as the COVID-19 coronavirus concerns evolve across the country and the world – and as of Friday, right here in Tulsa. What a lesson in connection and interdependence … and what a moment…
PREPARE {Lent/March sermon series}
'Lay down your burden.' 'Take up your cross.' In the New Testament, we take both instructions from Jesus … but they seem contradictory. How should we follow them both at once? Perhaps we can take this less as pressure and more as permission, to not do it all but to…
#prepare – daily text message prayer
Throughout the season of Lent, receive a short daily prayer, a brief spiritual discipline, a simple Lenten thought, to focus your thoughts, actions, and words for the day. This year's Lenten theme is 'PREPARE'. Prayers arrive via text message at 10:00am CST (8:00am on Sunday), beginning Ash Wednedsay (February 26)…
Much Love {February sermon series}
Put A Little Love In Your Heart. Can’t Buy Me Love. Not Enough Love In the World. In the Name of Love. Somebody to Love. Love Me Do. Crazy Love. We could go on. (And we might!) Song titles and movies and books and advice columns. So many ways to…
Vision {January sermon series}
As we considered this new year … where to begin a preaching and teaching theme this month … as we remain in a period of prayerful waiting, working, and looking ahead … truly the only word that captures it all is VISION. Yes, it is perhaps a cliché and easy…
Pregnant Pause {Advent/Christmas sermon series}
The season of Advent is intended to be a season of waiting and wonder … preparing heart and home, church and world, individuals and community, for the radical transformation of a messiah born anew. In the realities of our world, though, those weeks of December, leading to the Nativity, we…
Book Group @ Harvard Ave
Read. Discuss. Listen. Share. Learn. What could be better? Exciting selections are on the books (ha!) for the Book Group at Harvard Ave 2019-2020 discussion season. Join in ... men and women of any age are welcome! 3rd Thursday monthly 11:00am Room 217 September 19 Everyone Brave Is Forgiven .…
Outreach Update – Summer 2019
Outreach Ministry Team Lead Diana Booren, along with Community Pastor Kevin Howe, have created this quarterly update (click image below) to keep us posted on the ministries we are part of - and how to do more! Fully committed to our 'Become.' core value, discover community engagement at Harvard Avenue…
the inBEtween {August sermon series}
American sci-fi author Ursula LeGuin is quoted saying, “The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.” It is that creative tension … where anything can still happen … where all of the good can come to be … that keeps us moving…
Through the Looking Glass : our memorial windows
‘What is the world like on the other side of the glass?’ Alice wondered. Author Lewis Carroll knew that after Wonderland, there was still more story to tell: there was something beyond the glass. More than just colorful decoration, the colorful faceted glass windows in our Sanctuary (Wells Memorial Windows)…
Annual Report / Meeting + State of the Church – Jan 2019
On January 27 2019, Harvard Avenue held its annual congregational meeting to review the church's business of the past year, approve a budget for 2019, and receive the 'state of the church' address from Lead Pastor Mark Briley. That budget ($1.2million) was vetted by the Finance Team, Executive Leadership…
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