Location & Schedule

LOCATION 

Life on Fire 2014 will take place Friday Feb. 28 to Sunday Mar. 2 at The Welcome Table Community Center where the A Third Place Community Foundation, www.turleyok.blogspot.com and The Welcome Table Missional Community, www.progressivechurchplanting.blogspot.com, and the national Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship, www.uuchristian.org are located at 5920 N. Owasso Ave., Turley/Tulsa OK 74126, and the gathering (meals and programs) will also be held at the Turley United Methodist Church, 6050 N. Johnstown Ave., both just six blocks from one another. The Welcome Table Community Center is one of the  community renewal properties of the A Third Place Community Foundation in the Tulsa McLain High School area of North Tulsa and the unincorporated community of Turley adjacent to the city limits of Tulsa and six miles north of downtown along N. Peoria Ave. The Foundation serves a two mile radius from 46th St. North to 76th St. North and Highway 75 to the Osage County Line. The service area is a part of the Cherokee Nation. The Foundation also operates the Welcome Table KitchenGardenPark and Orchard across from the Turley United Methodist Church, 6005 N. Johnstown Ave.

In keeping with the spirit of our conference, and mindful that we wish this to be as economically accessible as possible, conference participants should plan to bring sleeping bags or air mattresses with them, and we’ll bunk in the church/community center and we are hoping to arrange home hospitality.  Simple healthy meals will be provided.

The Welcome Table Center, a project of A Third Place Foundation

5920 N. Owasso Ave., one block west of N. Peoria Ave., Turley/Tulsa OK  74126.

Phone: 918-691-3223 or 918-794-4637

We recommend carpooling to Life on Fire. We will try to work with you to transport you to and from the airport or bus terminal in Tulsa if you are using those options.

SCHEDULE

This is tentative schedule; some locations and times will change or be filled in.

Off and on throughout the gathering the Artist-In-Residence will be helping participants who wish to create a mural at the community center where the building was vandalized, and at the United Methodist Church during programs, a table will be set up for participants to make "spirit boxes" to take home with them, reflective of their time in the gathering and their hopes for their places. 

Friday, Feb. 28: Sparking The Fires

• 10 am on…arrivals at The Welcome Table Communiity Center for check-in, sign-in begins, settling in, orientations, options of missional movies, tours of missional sites.
• 3 pm lifeonfire14 leadership meeting at Turley United Methodist Church
• 4 pm opening reception, connections, upstairs at Turley UMC
• 5 pm Dinner downstairs at Turley UMC
• 6 pm Opening Worship upstairs in the Sanctuary of Turley UMC
• 7 pm Sparking The Fires: A Panel on Missional 101 by local practitioners. Sanctuary of TUMC
• 8 pm Breakout conversations with panel members: in rooms upstairs and downstairs
• 9 pm Free time for conversations and more in spaces not reserved for Sleep at The Welcome Table Center

Saturday, March 1: Sharing The Fires: UnConference

• 8 am Breakfast at The Welcome Table or in the community.
• 9 am Morning Prayer/Orientation to Day’s Events, upstairs meeting room of The Welcome Table Center.
• 10:00am Serving in the Community Center or GardenPark or out in Community.
• Noon Lunch at TUMC
• 1:30 to 4:30 pm: Rotating Small Groups for Discerning, Dreaming, Doing, TUMC
• 4:30 pm: Sharing What we Learned, What Has Energy, Sanctuary TUMC
• 5:30pm Dinner, downstairs TUMC
• 7 pm Spreading The Fire: small groups as they have emerged on taking next steps at home; how to do a LifeonFire where you are. Sharing in large group. TUMC
• 8:30 pm closing worship circle, Sanctuary TUMC
• 9 pm Free Time, organize Partying Out Together, Sleep

Sunday, Mar. 2

• 8 am Breakfast, The Welcome Table or in the community
• 9 am to Noon: Worship Opportunities in the wider area
• Packing up
• 12:30 pm Lunches out Together (we will have sign up opportunities throughout the gathering)
• 2 pm Optional Missional Movies and/or Trip to "Turley Hill Runestone Trek" with residents.