Life Together

“The risen Christ eats. Indeed he makes a point of doing so publicly. ‘They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate it before them.’ Eating in the presence of God is our future. Food will be part of the renewed creation. Food is not left behind with the resurrection. References to a future feast are not just metaphors for our future existence. Our future is a real feast.” -Tim Chester, A Meal with Jesus

A key component of Oak Church’s Sunday morning ministry is a weekly potluck to nourish all attendees physically, socially, and spiritually. All are invited to partake and everyone who is able is encouraged to generously bring enough food to feed not just your self or your own family but plenty to extend hospitality to strangers and visitors.

One of the first things we did as a new church was to plant a garden. This garden signifies the hope, healing, and hospitality in and through Christ we long to experience and express. It also represents our rootedness in Lakewood and will doubtlessly provide many opportunities for creative collaboration, care, and feasting.

We gather each Sunday evening at 5:00pm to tend to the garden. All are welcomed! Contact Nancy Breslin with questions.

Jesus once told a story likening the Kingdom of Heaven to a tiny mustard seed that then grows into maturity in size and stature for the sake of the “birds of the air.” It is our hope that Oak Church exists throughout the week, scattered as Mustard Seeds, growing as small local kingdom outcroppings, places where God’s reign and rule is present, groups of people growing in hope, healing, and hospitality in and through Christ together, little enclaves that provide shade, safety and flourishing to our neighbors around us, colonies of the kingdom where we grow closer to each other and to our King.

Click here to hear the The Kingdom is Like…A Mustard Seed (sermon on 9/20/15).

Contact Rachel Breslin to find a group.

“To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.” -Karl Barth

Each week we gather on the front steps of Oak Church, hot or cold, rain or shine, to pray for our neighbors and each other. We long together that God’s Kingdom might come and his will be done, in Durham as it is in Heaven. Aided by Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, we gather from 7:30am-8:15am on Wednesday mornings to hear God’s Word. All are welcome and coffee (and sometimes a pastry) is provided.