A number of support groups meet at Boston Avenue:
Please contact our church office at 918.583.5181 if there is something we can do to better support you on your walk of life.
Postpartum Support of Green Country
Have you recently had a baby?
Are you having feelings of:
• Sadness
• Hopelessness
• Fearful thoughts
• Fear of losing control
• Exaggerated highs and/or lows
• Guilt, inadequacy, worthlessness
• Anxiety
• Inability to sleep
You can get help from our support group!
We are a group of loving, caring, non-judgmental women who meet monthly to offer support and understanding to each other. We understand that becoming a mother can bring with it intense and sometimes overwhelming feelings. We meet to share these feelings and get information about how to gain control of them so we can enjoy and bond with our newborn.
Our group meets the Third Tuesday of each month at Boston Avenue Church from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. in the Aldersgate Room.
Contact Anita Campbell at 918.865.7824 or EvaMarie Campbell at 918.699.0120 for more information, or click here to view our flyer.
Free child care is available by calling 918.699.0121.
Postpartum Support of Green Country has been providing support for new moms in the Green Country area since 2003. It is a member of Postpartum Support International (PSI) and Oklahoma Postpartum Support.
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Circle of Care - Child S.H.A.R.E. Foster Parent Support Group
If you are serving as a Foster Parent, you are providing a ministry of hope and care to children caught in life situations not of their choosing. You give so much of yourself. You give your time, your financial, your physical, and your emotional resources. Sometimes it can be too much to handle, or you may feel like you are all alone in your struggle to provide a safe and nurturing family atmosphere for these little ones who are delivered to your care. We can help.
Our group meets the Third Monday of each month at Boston Avenue Church from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Room J122 in the Jubilee Center.
Boston Avenue Church, in cooperation with Child S.H.A.R.E., is offering a place to find support for you, and others like yourself, who want to share ideas, frustrations, successes, and techniques that can instruct, support, and enrich your foster parenting experience. Please contact Candace Morton of Child S.H.A.R.E. at 918.583.9506 or 866.978.2956 or Rev. Paul Staat, Boston Avenue Director of Missions and Adult Education at 918.699.0133.
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Planning for Our Parents
Planning long-term care for aging parents can be a daunting task. Children are often faced with these decisions when parents are least able to make decisions for themselves. If you are presently working through the family challenges of long-term care for your parents, we can help you prepare, plan, and provide the focus needed to make informed decisions.
The Planning for Our Parents support group is a venue to express the fears, frustrations, and confusion involved in dealing with long-term senior adult care, as well as a way to help others by sharing positive experiences, helpful resources, and success stories. Participants learn many useful skills and resources, covering topics such as:
• Observation skills
• Effective communication with aging parents
• Caring for the spiritual well-being of all involved
• Effective care planning
• Emergency preparedness
We are also able to focus on specific issues so that outside resources can be brought in for information and advice. Our group facilitator, Dr. Mike Hopkins, has more than thirty years of experience as a professor, case manager, and consultant in health and human services with emphasis on elder care.
Our support group is open to anyone, BAUMC member or not, who could benefit from this kind of fellowship and support. Please pass the word or bring a friend along with you - new members are always welcome!
At this time, Planning for Our Parents support group has ceased meeting. Another class will be offered in Fall 2012 with possibly another support group to follow. For more information, please contact Rev. Paul Staat at 918.699.0133 or email him at pdstaat@msn.com.
Planning for Our Parents is a valuable, constructive, and healthy way to help support our parents and each other!
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"New Life" Divorce Recovery Group
Are you:
• going through divorce?
• separated?
• at any point in the process, whether it is current or even many years ago?
If you answered yes to any of the above, then please experience our group and determine if it could be helpful to you!
We are a positive group that meets to share our grief, heal our wounds, and turn our pain into a transformative experience. Our goal is to attain joyful, abundant living and newfound freedom from negative emotions.
Our group meets for 8-week sessions on Wednesdays from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. at Boston Avenue Church in Room J220. Our most recent session ended in March 2010.
Please contact Linda Alegria at 918.430.4098 for more information.
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Gamblers Anonymous
Gamblers Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from a gambling problem.
The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop gambling. There are no dues or fees for Gamblers Anonymous membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. Gamblers Anonymous is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy; neither endorses nor opposes any cause. Our primary purpose is to stop gambling and to help other compulsive gamblers do the same.
This group meets every Friday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Boston Avenue Church in Room J228. All are "open meetings" in which spouses, family, and friends of the gambler are welcome to attend and observe the meeting.
For more information regarding the Gamblers Anonymous program, please visit their website, http://www.gamblersanonymous.org/.
I've heard a lot in the news about the proposed casino to be built in Broken Arrow. Where does the United Methodist Church stand on gambling? What can I do?
The United Methodist Church opposes gambling in any form.
If you would like to support the residents of Broken Arrow who are fighting the effort to build a new casino by a neighborhood elementary school, please go to www.nocasinoba.com.
The church's position is stated in the denomination's Social Principles (¶ 163G of the 2004 Book of Discipline):
- Gambling is a menace to society, deadly to the best interests of moral, social, economic, and spiritual life, and destructive of good government. As an act of faith and concern, Christians should abstain from gambling and should strive to minister to those victimized by the practice.
- Where gambling has become addictive, the Church will encourage such individuals to receive therapeutic assistance so that the individual's energies may be redirected into positive and constructive ends.
- The Church should promote standards and personal lifestyles that would make unnecessary and undesirable the resort to commercial gambling—including public lotteries—as a recreation, as an escape, or as a means of producing public revenue or funds for support of charities or government.
Gambling, as a means of acquiring material gain by chance and at the neighbor's expense, is a menace to personal character and social morality. Gambling fosters greed and stimulates the fatalistic faith in chance. Organized and commercial gambling is a threat to business, breeds crime and poverty, and is destructive to the interests of good government. It encourages the belief that work is unimportant, that money can solve all our problems, and that greed is the norm for achievement. It serves as a "regressive tax" on those with lower income. In summary, gambling is bad economics; gambling is bad public policy; and gambling does not improve the quality of life.
—Book of Resolutions 2004, Gambling
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