Tuesdays · 9:30 AM
Tuesday Morning Study
The big one: forty or so women in the front rooms, a short teaching, then tables of eight. Free childcare for little ones under five.
Hannah's Circle · Tulsa
Come sit with us on Tuesday.
Women from about forty Tulsa churches meet in a 1928 bungalow on 15th Street to study, pray and keep each other company through every season.
Three ways to start
- Come to the morning studyTuesdays, 9:30 AMTen weeks in 1 Samuel this fall. Childcare in the back rooms, coffee on the stove.
- Find a smaller circleAny weekSix to ten women who meet at the same time every week, mornings or evenings.
- Ask for a mentorOnce a yearAn older woman to meet with twice a month for a year. We'll make the introduction.
Why Hannah
She prayed so hard the priest thought she was drunk
Hannah, in the first chapter of 1 Samuel, wanted something she couldn't have and said so out loud, in the temple, to God. The priest misread her. God didn't.
We named the circle after her in 2009 because most of us had been somewhere like that: waiting, grieving, misunderstood, or just tired. What helped was other women who didn't flinch.
We aren't a church. We're women from Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, Pentecostal, Anglican and non-denominational congregations who meet in a house that a widow named Delores Kemp left us in her will. Your church stays your church.
Circles
Small enough that someone notices when you're missing
Every circle has six to ten women and two leaders. Come twice before you decide.
Thursdays · 6:30 PM
Thursday Evening Circle
For women who work days. Soup at 6:30, study at 7, home by 8:30.
2nd & 4th Mondays · 7 PM
The Waiting Room
For women walking through infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth or a long adoption wait. Small and confidential.
Wednesdays · 9:30 AM
Little Ones Circle
For mothers of children under five. Coffee, a short devotion and an hour of honest conversation while the nursery team takes the kids next door.
First Saturday · noon
Widows' Table
Lunch in the dining room for women who have lost a husband, whether last month or twenty years ago.
1 Samuel 1:15
I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.
From the circle
In their own words
I came the Tuesday after my husband's funeral because my daughter drove me. I've come every Tuesday since. That was six years ago.
I'm a nurse on day shift. The Thursday circle is the only Bible study in Tulsa that starts after I get off work and feeds me.
My mentor has four grown kids and has never once told me what to do. She just asks the question I was avoiding.
This fall
On the calendar
Oct13
Study week 6: Hannah's song
9:30 AM · Front rooms
1 Samuel 2:1–10. Bring a friend; childcare is open.
Oct24
Fall work morning
9:00 AM · The garden
Bulbs in, leaves out, kolaches from Sharon's bakery.
Nov7
Widows' Table: Thanksgiving lunch
Noon · Dining room
Turkey, dressing and the good china. Bring a photo if you'd like to.
Nov10
Last study of the fall
9:30 AM · Front rooms
Abigail, and a potluck brunch to close.
Dec5
Advent evening of prayer
6:30 PM · Whole house
Candles in every room and a prayer station in each one. Come and go.
Nothing in that category this month.
The Tuesday note
One short email each Tuesday morning
The prayer list, the week's passage, and one paragraph worth reading twice.
Read by 1,140 women
- PrayFor Joyce's surgery on Thursday, and for the Moreno family
- Read1 Samuel 1:19–28, before week 5
- Save the dateThe spring retreat opens for beds on January 12