Love Fellowship

 
History
The Love Fellowship was the brainchild of a group of Children Church teachers who felt the need to study the Bible and have fellowship.  The idea was conceived due to the unique circumstances presented to the teachers: (1) Children Church takes place during Sunday School so the teachers are not able to attend their own Sunday School.  (2) Some teachers are more comfortable  speaking and listening in English.

Our first meeting was held in August, 2000.  We studied the book of Romans, Faith and how it works in our daily lives, and the Names of God using the book Lord I Want to Know You by Kay Arthur.

In September 2002, God gave our fellowship a new assignment.  Our group expanded to serve students who attend schools in the Tulsa Area: Oral Roberts University, University Language Institute, and Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology.  Attendance ramped up to as many as 40 members.  We praise God for the opportunity to share the Gospel by teaching English using the Contemporary English Version Bible.

In November 2002, the fellowship help established an English Bible Study group on Sunday to teach the Bible and English as a Second Language.

By the Summer of 2003, we have 60 members, most of whom are student pilots from various Chinese airlines including China Eastern, Hainan, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Shandong, and Xiamen.

During the summer of 2004, we had a welcoming party with our largest fellowship turn out of 120 participants including 86 student pilots from the various Chinese airlines, including Hainan, Xiamen, Shanghai, Air China, Zhejiang, Shangdong, and Sichuan.

By Fall of 2004, we served 150 student pilots: Hainan, Xiamen, Shanghai, Air China, Zhejiang, Shangdong, Sichuan, and Wuhan airlines.

In January 2005, we served 189 student pilots: Hainan, Xiamen, Shanghai, Air China, Zhejiang, Shangdong, Sichuan, Wuhan, and Shenzhen airlines.

In the first week of January 2006, 60 student pilots remained in Tulsa.  As they complete their training, they left Tulsa in groups every week.  We were very thankful to God for the opportunity to share our lives with these fine young men and women from China during their stay in Tulsa.

In February 2006, we resumed our Friday night Bible study schedule.  We use the study material Believing God by Beth Moore.  God sent us new members to join us.  At the first meeting, we had 12 members.

In May 2006, we started studying the Book of Daniel with Beth Moore's Daniel - Lives of Integrity, Words of Prophecy.  We began providing babysitting, and had 10 adult members and 5 children attend regularly.

On October 27, 2006, we began the short series When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Arming Yourself in the Age of Seduction.  Due to holidays, special programs and weather, this series of 6 lessons took a long time to complete.

In March 2007, we began the Living Beyond Yourself: Exploring the Fruit of the Spirit series.

In June 2007, we revisited the Believing God: Experiencing a Fresh Explosion of Faith series.

In September 2007, we started the Growing in Prayer series.

On January 18, 2008, we started the Trust series.

Members of the Love Fellowship can access the Members Only page for activities information.
　

And we have known and believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.  (1 John 4:16)

Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails...  (Corinthians 13:4-8)

But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.  (Corinthians 13:13)