Our wandering around northern Oklahoma brought us to Tulsa
where the tourism brochure suggested seeing a church on South Boston Avenue
near downtown. The Methodist church here
was built in 1929 in the Art Deco style and is quite unique. So much so that has also been designated to
be a National Historic Landmark.
We found it on Saturday and chose to attend services there
on Sunday. It is quite a building, but a
choir of about 50 youth was even more impressive.
Now, after a whole week off, we found the possibility of
boredom setting in, so we have gone back to work. The Oak Park Retreat center in Perkins
Oklahoma had been slowly going to pieces for many years, until a new owner (a
local Methodist Church) bought it about this time last year. They had a group of Nomads work here last
fall, and some of them told us that Oak Park will have lots of work available
for quite some time. We contacted the
minister and asked if they could use some help for 4 days this week. He was very excited to have the offer of
help. We are doing our first “Drop In”
project here this week.
We met with Larry, who is our contact at the retreat center,
on Sunday. He asked us to unpack 250 new
folding chairs and paint some of the rooms at the center during our 4 days here. Their rooms look a lot like hotel rooms with
a bedroom and bathroom/shower. We’ve
been able to do one room & bath per day with a goal of getting 4 rooms
done.
They are very grateful and we’re
so grateful we can help out. Pastor Max
had us over for dinner on Monday night and then took us out for lunch on
Wednesday. We’ll be able to attend his
church for Maunday Thursday services which we’re looking forward to.
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