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Name of church Quail Springs Church of Christ
City Oklahoma City
Website www.quailchurch.com
What's the worship music like? (Contemporary, hymns, long, fast, loud etc?) 1st service: contemporary with a band. 2nd service: contemporary/hymns acapella
What's the speaking like? (Old school Bible, culturally relevant, by video etc?) Intellectual from the Bible...and culturally relevant
What's the childcare like? Excitement and small groups
What's your favorite thing? community
What would you change? Just one service instead of two
Can I wear jeans? Oh, yes.
Name of church: Wildwood Community Church
City: Norman
Website: www.wildwoodchurch.org
What's the worship music like? Contemporary with a talented band, along with the occasional hymn. The music is great, and often very moving.
What's the speaking like? Extremely bible-based. Culturally relevant, power point presentation style, occasional video. Makes you want to take notes.
What's the childcare like? Great. Wildwood has a lot of young families, so there are lots of kids of all ages. The facilities are excellent, and a new children's wing is in the works.
What's your favorite thing?
- Strong biblical teaching
- Wonderful Sunday School classes that are a great place to make friends
- Fantastic bible studies (the Thursday morning Women's Bible Study is amazing - people from other churches are welcome to attend.)
- strong children's, youth and college minitries
What would you change? The services are somewhat long, so Sunday School and Worship service make for a long morning.
Can I wear jeans? Definitely - it's a college town! You can also wear your "Sunday Best" (although you don't see many suits and ties). This church is a great mix of contemporary and traditional.
Name: CommonGround Church
City: Tulsa
Website: Commongroundchurch.tv
Worship: Contemporary
Speaking: Biblically grounded, but very culturally relevant.
Childcare: Great Childcare! Smaller class sizes and truly amazing volunteers.
Favorite thing: It's truly a community feeling. It's kinda like "Cheers" once you go a few times everyone knows your name.
What would I change: Our location. Right now we're meeting in a school, but we'll be moving in a few months.
Can I wear jeans?: Yes, our pastor encourages it, and he wears jeans while he's speaking.
Name of church: Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA)
Website: www.redeemertulsa.org
What's the worship music like? Blend of old and new.
What's the speaking like? Rock-solid, biblically based. Not topical, generally inductive study. Will make you think and squirm and bring you face to face with grace every Sunday.
What's the childcare like? Simple. We meet in a school (we're a young church), so things are no-frill, simple, safe and well managed.
What's your favorite thing? What my pastor says every Sunday morning (paraphrasing): "We're a church that believes that you have been more affected by sin than you think you are, but you're more loved and forgiven than you ever thought you could be."
What would you change? Wish we had a building of our own.
Can I wear jeans? Definitely.
Um, sorry...that last one (Redeemer Presbyterian Church) was Tulsa, and I think I left that off.
Name: Lifechurch.TV Tulsa Campus
City: Tulsa
Website: www.lifechurch.tv
Worship: Loud, Engaging and Awesome, Today's Christian rock and worship music.
Speaking: Craig Groeschel Senior pastor uses satellite feeds to multiple campuses on huge video screens. Lots of video and interactive note taking. All biblical relevant and relates to todays world.
Childcare: Classes all the way down to Infant.
Birth - 1 year : Starry Night
: Let there Be Light
13mo - 23mo: The Garden
2yr: Under the Sea
3yr: The Jungle
4yr: The Ark
5yr: Crosstown
1st Grade - 4th GR: Toon Town
5th - 6th: Fuse
7th - 12th: Switch
Favorite thing: Its the first time a church community has driven me to seek a closer relationship with God. I feel that everything is relevant that I am learning. Its very casual dress and hard to find hypocritical people. Love it.
What would I change: Would love to see us grow faster. To see more people become fully devoted followers of Christ.
Can I wear jeans?: Yes, our pastor encourages it, and he wears jeans while he's speaking.
LifeChurch.tv OKC Campus
www.lifechurch.tv
Our worship is off the chain. We have visitors call it "the concert part" but I totally connect to God through it too. No matter which of the 12+ satellite campuses you go to, you'll definietly find an A+ metrosexual on stage.
The speaking is fabulous. No matter who you are or what you're going through, God will speak to you through Craig Groeschel's messages. I've been in church my whole life and his messages (and the teching team speakers') challenge me every week.
Childcare? My favorite quote from a kid is, "You call thsi a church?" Our triped out kids' environments wage a full-scale war against the world's influence on kids. We're leading kids to be fully devoted followers of Christ even when they drag their parents along for the ride.
My favorite thing is the people. There's a small group of people you'll love somewhere at LifeChurch. People who will be real with you and grow with you.
The only thing I'd change is for sideline people to get crazy passionate about being a part of it. We're on that track though.
You can wear jeans, shorts, coveralls, pretty much anything that covers the essentials. The bass player was barefoot last week.
Name of church: LifeChurch.tv
South Oklahoma City!
City: Oklahoma City
Website: www.lifechurch.tv
What's the worship music like? (Contemporary, hymns, long, fast, loud etc?): Holy moley, our praise and worship is amazing. JT Murrell and Carrie Blevins rock out with some amazing contemporary worship that gets your pulse going, gets your blood racing and puts you in the mindset of praising the Creator of the universe like never before. And yeah, we're kinda loud.
What's the speaking like? (Old school Bible, culturally relevant, by video etc?): We see Craig Groeschel every week via satellite.
What's the childcare like?: LifeKids is amazing. Your kids will get brightly colored rooms decorated with large cartoon murals depicting Bible stories and God's creations. Every room has age appropriate play time, crafts and worship set to a video that's interactive. The LifeKids volunteers are so committed and excited to work with the kids every Sunday.
What's your favorite thing?: My favorite has to be our campus leadership. They find time to make you feel so important and special even in a church this size. That is a seriously large task and they do it well.
What would you change?: Ummmm . . . Nothin?
Can I wear jeans? Heck, yes! Or shorts . . . I believe Pastor Craig's only dress code is: "please do."
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Name of church: Agora the Marketplace, Tulsa
Website: www.agoratulsa.com
Worship: On saturday night - one guitar player. On sunday morning there's a full "band" if you will. But, we believe that all of life is worship -- not just the stuff you do on Sunday mornings to get it out of the way for the week.
What's the speaking like: it's more like teaching, no preaching. Jeff talks about a topic, we take a break to go get coffee and doughnuts, and then we pass around a mic for a contextualize it session where you can talk if you want to (there's only about 40 of us on a given sunday, about 20 on Saturday nights)
What's the childcare like: we have a separate room for the children, but you can keep them with you if you want. No age groups.
What's your favorite thing: the people hands down. We are a very tight nit community. If you feel burned by the church, or you've been let down, or even if you've never been in one you'd feel right at home. It's very postmodern.
What would you change: absolutely nothing. I'll never find another place like it.
Can I wear jeans: nobody dresses up, in fact that's out of the norm. We sit on couches and drink coffee while he's talking and while we're talking. It's more bistro-style.
Name of church: Edmond Church of Christ
City: Edmond
Website: http://edmondchurchofchrist.com/
What's the worship music like? A capella hymns. Paperless hymnal style projection as well as song books. You are probably not going to hear anything that you hear on the radio. No worship team. Someone will stand at a podium and conduct and everyone sings. I know that it's not for everyone but I feel much more involved in this type of singing than in churches that have a choir or band. Music in the chapel during the college class is more up to date, no songbooks, no musical notation on the screen, still no instruments though.
What's the speaking like? The different ministers have their own styles and it's hard to know one week to the next what to expect. It can be dry and boring or incredibly moving. It tends to be very culturally conservative.
What's the childcare like? There are a lot of very young kids. I would guess that there are more preschool aged children than high school aged. There are at least 12 kids in my son's 3.5-to-4 year old classroom and at least 10 in my other son's 6-to-12 month classroom but there were only 7 kids in the kindergarten class that I subbed in last week. They use stickers on their backs to keep track of the preschool kids and stickers and pagers for the babies. There is a nursing mothers room but not a 'training' room. During service there are separate nurseries for crawlers and walkers and after communion there is a 2 year old play time and a 3 year-to-2nd grade bible hour. There are lots of opportunities to work in the children's ministry and if you go to bible class they'll give you multiple chances to sign up every quarter.
What's your favorite thing? The classes. In service you can feel like just a face in the crowd but if you go to a class they are so welcoming and encouraging. Classes are generally divided up into ages and stages so you'll find lots of people going through the same issues that you are.
What would you change? I wish there were more interactions between the young adults and the elder Christians...we have so much to learn from those who have been most of the way down the long road and we have probably the highest concentration of them of any CoC in OKC and we waste the opportunity!
Can I wear jeans? You wouldn't be the only one, but you would be in the minority. Most of the jeans wearers are in the college side of the balcony or the high school side of the balcony. There is a very strong representation of the older community and they often wear suits and ties. The young families are more likely to be in button ups and khakis. The minister almost always wears a suit.
(and we've visited Quail Spring CoC when we had a young baby because their second service starts at 11:15 and sometimes that's as early as we could have everyone up and ready...the sermon was wonderful, the childcare was acceptable, we always ran into people we knew from when we were in college, but you have basically missed lunch time and are seriously hungry by the time you get out of there!!)
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