Dear Fellow Travelers,

Southminster has been on a spiritual journey for well over 60 years, devoting its life energy to the Brookside community and to the larger community of Tulsa. Throughout these 60 years, this congregation has responded to the changing context of ministry in creative and exciting ways. 

Southminster now faces one of the greatest changes in the context for Christian ministry, and also faces one of its greatest challenges to respond both faithfully and creatively.

"This will be the most inviting construction project in our history."

I cannot begin to tell you how excited I am about this campaign. When I came to Southminster in September 2004, this project was not even on our radar screen. When the amazing gifts presented themselves, I spent considerable time thinking and praying about what all this might mean for all of us. It was time well spent. I have come to the realization that this building effort, this act of imagining a new future, is where God has led us both.

Imagine that we are a new church start, and we have the opportunity to build a facility for our time and place. We have the opportunity to put in place a facility that will embody our commitment to do ministry here in ways that address the rapidly and breathtaking changes going on around us. What an opportunity!

We are envisioning together, imagining as God’s people a facility that will open our doors to young families, youth, and the Brookside community with opportunities to engage them in conversation about faith through the creative use of recreation, education, and mission that only this kind of multi-purpose building can do. We will continue to engage our seniors with a facility that will allow them to have a spacious, inviting, and, well-constructed place to exercise, to fellowship, and to receive health care.

"We are building for the next generation of Southminster so that our tradition of mission and ministry can continue in new and exciting ways."

This will be the most inviting construction project in our history. It is a mission commitment to our community and to the future of Southminster as the heart of Brookside. We are imagining together a space where all of our neighbors can gather, from the very youngest to the oldest. We are envisioning a place where we can play, discuss pressing issues, and meet in fellowship in a building designed for these purposes.

This project is the most ambitious one in our history, but also the most other centered in that same history. We are building for the next generation of Southminster so that our tradition of mission and ministry can continue in new and exciting ways.

What an opportunity to build for the future of our church and our community. What an opportunity to participate in a vision that looks beyond what we can see and do, and takes us to a place that we can only imagine.

If you have any questions about the nature or purpose of this stewardship campaign, please feel free to contact me and I will happily discuss with you and, if necessary, direct you to the leadership team member most qualified to visit further. You can reach me at the church office 743-4427 or via email shaun@southminstertulsa.org.

Peace,

Sam