2 host churches sought for summer's Project Transformation

Two urban churches--one in Tulsa and one in Oklahoma City--are being sought as host sites for summer’s Project Transformation (PT) literacy day camps for elementary students. A camp’s daily components include rotations of reading, computers, recreation, and arts-and-crafts; and breakfast, lunch, and snack, explained Lindsey Bryan, executive director of the United Methodist program. PT provides training prior to the camps. ...

Project Transformation - Host church wanted in OKC

A volunteer reads with a young Bartlesville camper. Project Transformation (PT) is seeking a church site in the Oklahoma City metro to host one of its literacy day camps in 2012. Each summer, these United Methodist-supported camps at...

Child trades worry for wonder

Jordan Love helps a child with a spray-paint project during Project Transformation at Moore-First UMC. Project Transformation is a summer literacy day camp for underserved children. From June 6 to July 28, mentors and volunteers helped 488 elementary students through reading, computers, arts-and-crafts, music and theater, field trips, and enrichment activities.  By JORDAN LOVE, Project...

Read all about it

An AmeriCorps intern, right, encourages four girls, who sang and danced during a Project Transformation talent show at Moore-First UMC. By the numbers: Total campers—462 ...

Project Transformation -Welcoming a new leader and a new site

Bryan The new year brings a new leader and addition of a new site church for Project Transformation, a United Methodist literacy program for elementary-age children in Oklahoma. Lindsey...

Project Transformation - Literacy program concludes another chapter

Left: Two youngsters select books to read in the library of OKC-Sunny Lane United Methodist Church, one of the eight Oklahoma sites that hosted the eight-week summer day camps called Project Transformation for elementary students. Photos by Amelia Ballew ...

Organizations branch out to boost awareness of child abuse

Photo by Aloise McCullough Ashleigh Sorrell Rose, left, and Tod Bryant prepare a blue-ribbon display.   By Aloise McCullough Two UM-related organizations are raising knowledge about child abuse by participating in "Building a Blue-Ribbon Tree." April is Child Abuse Prevention Month in Oklahoma. In 2007, the state reported 13,100 confirmed cases of child abuse...

Project Transformation needs you to read this

Volunteer Linda Flood reads with a young camper at OKC-Chapel Hill church during Summer 2008. The church will host Project Transformation again this year, and seven other churches will be host sites, too. ...

Start at home

  Marsha Lyons shepherds children to their lunch at Martin Luther King Elementary. Three Quayle church members serve lunch to Project Transformation interns. Standing are, from left: Delois Webb, Dorothy Thomas, and Hannah Allen. Photos by Amelia Ballew Host churches play important roles for kids By Aloise McCullough and Amelia Ballew Marsha Lyons has been living in northeastern Oklahoma City and attending her neighborhood church, OKC-Quayle UMC, for 20 years. She has been...

Project Transformation, Summer reading camps planned

 Katy Oard, Project Transformation intern, plays outside with campers at Rose Hill UMC in Tulsa in 2007.  Project Transformation will begin its seventh summer of ministry on June 9 at seven sites - in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Bartlesville. The series of literacy day-camps is sponsored by Oklahoma Conference. This is Bartlesville's first summer to host the program, said Ashleigh Sorrell, project director. Oak Park and Bartlesville-First churches are the project sites in that...

Project Transformation

Ashleigh Sorrell, left, and Teranne Williams New Year brings changes for ministryProject Transformation officials are announcing several changes in the United Methodist-related ministry that bonds volunteers, college-age interns, and urban elementary children. Funds to expand The new year brings new funding from Boeing, the Kaiser Foundation, and the Wegener Foundation, announced recently by Director Ashleigh Sorrell. These new sources of funding will allow Project Transformation to...

Book fair assists reading ministry

Project Transformation (PT) has teamed with a bookstore for a fund-raising event on Dec. 1 in Oklahoma City. The holiday book fair will be held from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. that Saturday at the Barnes & Noble store located at N.W. 63rd and May Avenue. The Oklahoma United Methodist ministry helps urban children improve their reading skills. About 500 youngsters participated in the summer 2007 camps, hosted by UM churches in Oklahoma City and Tulsa. At the event Dec. 1, shoppers can support...