What's New With Tapestry

Today we spent hours together talking, learning, and praying through what it looks like to build strong families. Greg Gunn and Family Vision Ministries led my family and our Tapestry families through a Family I.D. seminar. In my opinion this was not a typical family I.D. session. I was humbled to experience God walk a [...]

Throughout the past 2 years we have recognized and encountered the ongoing food shortage in our tapestry neighborhood. We have tried various avenues to aide our families in obtaining their basic food needs. However, the end of the month continues to be a critical time in the lives of our families. Food is low, resources [...]

As the warm air ushers in Spring we are preparing our hearts and our land for new life. Last night we began a series of creative outlets to begin to walk through a workshop called Family I.D. We began by allowing our girls and ourselves the opportunity to “dream.” For many of them life has [...]

Our community group at Skyline OKC has been collecting dollars for a change over the past few weeks. A pretty basic concept. Drop a dollar in the bucket and throughout the week they will listen for needs in our community and meet those needs. Throughout the past week we were slammed with needs at Tapestry. [...]

We knew the snow was coming in. Our weathermen were saying it was going to be a hard hit. This weather event taking place on the 1st day of the month was near catastrophe for many families who are faced with food shortages at the end of every month. Not only were they already barely [...]

This weekend my sister, brother-in-law, and I got to enjoy the city of Austin, TX as we worked alongside the Hatmakers and Austin New Church in a city-wide extravaganza called Serve Austin Sunday. We saw hundreds of volunteers being poured out to serve all throughout their city. Inner-city classrooms were getting a makeover, community gardens [...]

This week our resource center is taking a new shape. We knocked down a wall that was used to divide the center  in half  in an effort to create more space for our community and our after school programs. What  a difference it has made! There is a lot of life that happens in this [...]

Below is a recent Blog posted written by my good friend Robin Storch. I loved it so much I wanted to share it here with you… God’s Ways Aren’t Very American Some days you have encounters with God that leave you thinking. The kind of thinking that leaves your brain in a slushy mess, but [...]