Three buildings. Three neighborhoods. One mission. Church On The Move is a family of three non-denominational churches serving the Tulsa, Broken Arrow, and West Tulsa areas of Oklahoma, gathered around a single purpose: to introduce people to the real Jesus. Since 1987, this church family has grown from a single Sunday School bus outreach into one of the most recognized congregations in northeast Oklahoma, with weekend services at campuses in Tulsa, Broken Arrow, and West Tulsa, plus a school, a coffee shop, and a year-round missions network that reaches as far as Cambodia and South Africa.
Three Campuses, One Family
Church On The Move meets in three locations across the Tulsa metro. The Tulsa campus sits at 1003 N 129th E Ave near I-244, where the Oneighty Building houses student and young adult ministry. The Broken Arrow campus is in the heart of that city at 1205 E Kenosha St, and the West campus gathers at 7314 W 41st St in West Tulsa. Each campus runs its own services, staff team, and kids and student environments, while sharing the same teaching, beliefs, and overall mission.
Service times vary by campus. The Tulsa campus meets Saturday at 5:00 PM and Sunday at 8:30, 10:00, and 11:30 AM. The West campus meets Saturday at 5:00 PM and Sunday at 8:30, 10:00, and 11:30 AM. The Broken Arrow campus offers Saturday services at 4:00 and 5:30 PM, and Sunday services at 8:30, 10:00, and 11:30 AM. A live stream of the Saturday 5:00 PM and Sunday 10:00 AM services runs on the church's online platform, as well as on YouTube Live and Facebook Live.
For first-time visitors, the Tulsa campus includes Fulfilled Coffee Lab, a coffee shop and bookstore inside the building that is open to the public Monday through Friday from 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM, along with a playground. The Broken Arrow campus is home to Laurannae Baking Co., a coffee shop and gathering space open Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM, and an open-to-the-public playground. These are not just amenities; they are part of how the church describes itself as a space for the community, not only for Sunday.
The Willie George Era and the Whit George Years
Church On The Move was launched in 1987 by Willie George, a children's minister who, at the age of 20, had begun an outreach using Sunday School buses and quickly became known for getting the attention of rowdy, unchurched kids. In 1982, he created a nationally broadcast children's television program, The Gospel Bill Show. When he started the church in Tulsa, he wanted to build a local congregation where youth and children's ministry would be showcased, and that identity has never left.
Out of that vision came two signature ministries: Dry Gulch USA, a children's outreach, and Oneighty, the student ministry. Today, Willie George still serves as Founding and Teaching Pastor alongside his son, Whit George, who has been part of the church since it launched. Before becoming Lead Pastor, Whit led the church's Creative team for more than a decade. He holds a Master's Degree in Ministry and Leadership from Wheaton College and is known for a teaching style that he describes as vulnerable and direct. He and his wife Heather have raised five children. The two-pastor arrangement, father and son, has become one of the defining features of the church's identity and a quiet answer to the church's own belief that it is not a church built on one personality.
What the Church Believes
Church On The Move takes theology seriously and holds to the historic Christian orthodoxy, summed up by St. Augustine: "In essentials, unity. In non-essentials, liberty. In everything, love." The church teaches that the Bible is God's Word, accurate and authoritative, and that God exists eternally in three co-equal Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Members affirm the virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus, and that salvation is by grace through faith in Him, not earned by works. The church teaches that the Holy Spirit is actively at work today and that a personal prayer language is available to those who have received Him.
On human identity, the church teaches that mankind is made in the image of God as male and female and that marriage is between one man and one woman. The church also looks forward to the Second Coming of Christ, when He will return in glory to judge the living and the dead.
Worship That Takes the Arts Seriously
Worship at Church On The Move is contemporary in style and high in production value. The church has a long-standing conviction that God is a beautiful God and that worship environments should reflect that. Music is treated as a doorway to the transcendent rather than background noise, and the church invests in original songs and skilled musicians. Each campus has a Worship Pastor who leads weekend services, and the Oneighty Worship team records its own music, available on Spotify and Apple Music.
Services typically include extended musical worship, a Bible teaching from one of the pastors, and communion on designated weeks. Baptisms are scheduled on set weekends throughout the year, and guests can sign up in advance. The Oneighty students run a separate worship set at their Wednesday services.
Kids on the Move: Where It All Started
Of all the ministries that grew out of Willie George's original vision, Kids on the Move is the one that still defines Church On The Move. The children's ministry serves newborns through fifth grade at every weekend service, and it is treated as a frontline ministry rather than a side program. The church teaches that kids need the gospel the same as adults, not just character lessons, and the team designs every weekend around seven foundational truths: that kids can trust God's Word, that God created everything, that God is good, that Jesus came to save sinners, that the Church is God's family, that they were made to become like Jesus, and that God's Spirit lives inside of them.
Kids on the Move is divided into three age groups: Nursery for newborns through 2 years, Preschool for ages 3 to 5, and Elementary for kindergarten through fifth grade. Check-in happens at kiosks in the lobby; parents can create a family profile in advance to speed things up. Every volunteer has passed a background check and is trained in the ministry's safety procedures, and the church enforces a two-adult female bathroom policy. Outside food and drinks are not allowed in classrooms.
At home, Kids on the Move supports parents with a steady stream of free resources: coloring pages, memory verse card packs, and an entire YouTube channel of music videos, Bible story videos, and a daily prayer challenge for kids. The Broken Arrow campus also hosts Kid's Story Time every other Wednesday at 10:30 AM, an open event where parents and toddlers gather in the lobby for a story, a few games, and coffee from Laurannae next door.
Oneighty Students: 6th Through 12th Grade
Oneighty, the student ministry, is the second pillar of the church's identity. It serves students in 6th through 12th grade with a Wednesday night service at 7:00 PM at all three campuses, plus a weekend middle school program called Jhi, which meets during the adult services. Doors open at 6:30 PM, and each campus has its own venue: the Oneighty Building in Tulsa, the Broken Arrow campus, and the West campus. Service typically ends around 8:15 PM.
At Oneighty, the goal is simple: students get to have fun, worship God, hear teaching that speaks to their stage of life, and find adults who care about them. Small groups are built into the ministry, and students are encouraged to find a place to serve in the church rather than only attend a high school weekend service. The church explains that students are only on campus for a tiny fraction of their year and that parents have the greater influence, so the Oneighty team puts significant energy into parent resources: book recommendations, YouVersion reading plans, counseling referrals, and an open line to the youth staff.
Oneighty also runs its own Girls Brunch events, student baptism nights, and summer activities, and a student missions program called COTMU Year One is available to high schoolers as well as adults.
Young Adults in the Oneighty Building
The Young Adults ministry, sometimes called COTM YA, serves 18- to 29-year-olds, both single and married, and meets on Monday nights at 7:00 PM in the Oneighty Building at the Tulsa campus. No childcare is available at these services, but the ministry also runs a network of dinner parties hosted by couples and singles in their homes across the Tulsa area, from Owasso to South Tulsa to West Tulsa, where young adults share a meal, play games, and walk through life together. There is no charge and no formal commitment; the idea is simply to make a large church feel like a small one.
COTMU: A Two-Year Discipleship School
One of the more distinctive ministries at Church On The Move is COTMU, a two-year adult discipleship program. COTMU Year One is a 30-week class that lays a theological foundation, walking through the story of Scripture, the history of Christian doctrine, and how to engage today's cultural moments with discernment. COTMU Year Two is a 30-week ministry and leadership experience that focuses on integrating discipleship with daily life and developing lifelong spiritual health. Both run on a school-year schedule with holiday breaks, beginning in mid-August, and both meet at different campuses on different days and times so that working adults can find a fit.
COTMU Bible Studies are shorter classes that train participants to read and study the Bible for themselves, with weekly homework and discussion. Tuition for Year One is $399 and for Year Two is $499, with payment plans available. Childcare is provided on Sunday mornings at the Tulsa campus. The teaching team includes Blake Zimmerman, Casey Shirley, and Angela Ekstrum, all with master's-level theological training from Western Seminary.
Brotherhood, Daughters, and the Next Move On-Ramp
Church On The Move runs two adult community ministries that operate across all three campuses. Brotherhood is the men's ministry, a community of men from every walk of life who gather around Christ as their model of manhood. Each campus hosts a monthly Brotherhood Breakfast, and a monthly Brotherhood Dinner rotates through the locations. Daughters is the women's ministry, gathering women from every background and stage of life for encouragement, fellowship, and teaching, with monthly Daughters Dinners at each campus.
For anyone wanting to take a first step, the church runs a monthly gathering called Next Move at each campus. Next Move is a meal with the pastors, a tour of the building, and a chance to ask questions about the church. The discipleship team calls it the on-ramp to the church family and says it can take the place of dozens of one-off conversations about how to get involved. After Next Move, most newcomers are pointed toward a small group, a serve team, or a baptism class.
Small Groups and Midsize Groups
Small groups are the primary engine of community at Church On The Move. Groups meet in homes, offices, and coffee shops throughout the greater Tulsa area on different nights of the week, and they focus on building relationships, studying the life and teachings of Jesus, and applying Scripture to everyday life. Groups run in semester-based cycles of six to twelve weeks, with built-in breaks.
Midsize groups, by contrast, gather 30 to 100 or more people in a class-style format. They meet weekly at one of the campuses or off-site and focus on shared interests, marriage, in-depth Bible study, spiritual formation, or sports. The Rooted Discipleship journey is one example, a 10-week group that walks through what it means to be rooted in Jesus. Both small and midsize groups are listed in an online group finder that filters by campus and type.
Outreach and the Compassion Offering
Outreach is woven into the church's identity, not parked at the edge of it. Church On The Move describes itself as hands-on and boots on the ground with local nonprofits in education, incarceration, adoption and foster care, and community development. Through the annual Compassion Offering, the church has raised more than $10 million since 2017 to support more than 85 partner ministries. Featured partners include One Hope Tulsa, Place of Refuge Global (an orphanage in West Africa), The Spring (a domestic violence and trafficking shelter in Tulsa), and both Broken Arrow Public Schools and Union Public Schools, where the church helps support homeless and food-insecure students and provides after-school Homework Helpers space.
Through its God Behind Bars partnership, Church On the Move brings its services into two Oklahoma prisons: Dr. Eddie Warrior Correctional Center and Dick Conner Correctional Center, and volunteers are needed to help make that happen. Other partners include John 3:16 Mission, Tulsa Hills Youth Ranch, Hope is Alive, Convoy of Hope, Care Portal, and Global Messengers.
Locally, each campus runs a Serve Day several times a year, where the whole church heads out into the community for a day of hands-on projects.
Missions Across Five Continents
For 2027 and beyond, Church On The Move runs mission trips to five long-term partners around the world:
- New Hope Eurasia in Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine, where the local church network runs medical clinics in marginalized Roma communities, restoration camps for women who have escaped trafficking, food distributions, and Bible translation into languages that have never had Scripture before. COTM nurses have served over 1,400 people in a single week in Romania.
- Hope Family Church in George, South Africa, pastored by Clifford Sheldon and Natashja Kitching. COTM teams join them for evangelism, prayer walks, street cleanups, kids programs, and youth-led facility cleanups, and the partnership has been active since 2022.
- La Fuente Ministries in Tepic, Mexico, a church network with an orphanage and Bible school, where COTM teams help with food distributions for low-income kids, build relationships with families, and serve alongside local leaders. The partnership began in 2017.
- Caminodevida Church in Lima, Peru, led by Taylor Barriger, son of the founding pastor Robert Barriger, who originally met Willie George at conferences in the early 2000s. COTM teams help with a free wheelchair mission, house builds for families in extreme poverty, food banks, street missions, and medical clinics.
- ICF Church in Siem Reap, Cambodia, pastored by Eddie and Bethany Roach, where COTM teams support relational outreach, community events, painting and facility projects, creative classes, and a daycare program that keeps vulnerable families together and helps prevent trafficking.
Todd Walker, the church's Missions Director, frames each trip as a discipleship step that includes learning, community, and practice, not just a one-off good deed. Trips are unveiled in the fall and team preparation begins in the new year.
Lincoln Christian School
Church On The Move is closely tied to Lincoln Christian School, a Pre K through 12th grade Christian school that shares the church's mission of introducing the next generation to Jesus. The school emphasizes godly character, academic excellence, and extracurriculars, and operates with its own hiring and admissions. COTM hosts joint job postings for both organizations, and the two share leadership and vision, even while the school is a separate entity.
What to Expect on a First Visit
Church On The Move describes itself as a safe place to explore faith, where worshipers and doubters sit side by side and where tough questions are welcomed. The dress code is whatever makes a guest comfortable; services are casual and contemporary. The first step most newcomers take is filling out a visit form online so the church can text directions, parking details, and kids' classroom information.
On arrival, greeters point first-time families toward Kids on the Move check-in, which takes about five minutes. Worship services typically run just over an hour. After service, the Fulfilled Coffee Lab at the Tulsa campus and Laurannae Baking Co. at the Broken Arrow campus are popular gathering spots, and the playgrounds at both campuses are open to the public. For anyone wanting to learn more, Next Move gatherings happen monthly at each campus, and the pastors and ministry leaders are available to talk after services.
For those who cannot attend in person, the Saturday 5:00 PM and Sunday 10:00 AM services are livestreamed online, and past messages are archived and available as podcasts, including a Spanish-free English feed on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, plus three campus-specific podcasts and the In Motion podcast for deeper conversation on topics like doubt, money, parenting, and spiritual formation.
Generosity, Stewardship, and the Money Conversation
Generosity is treated as a spiritual discipline at Church On The Move, not a fundraising tactic. The church teaches that the first 10 percent of income, the tithe, funds the ongoing ministries of the church, while a separate Compassion Offering each year goes to local and global partners. A third bucket, called Expansion or Missio Dei, funds building improvements and ministry expansion. Giving is available online, through text, and in service, and the church maintains a giving FAQ, podcasts, and blog series on money, stewardship, and contentment to walk members through the theology behind the practice.
Crisis Help and Counseling Referrals
For those in crisis, the church keeps a current list of vetted local resources covering counseling, addiction recovery, domestic violence, suicide prevention, food and shelter help, transportation, and veterans services. The list is published and updated regularly, and the church staff line (918-234-5656) is staffed for after-hours pastoral emergencies.
Church On The Move is, at its heart, a multi-generational church family that has spent nearly four decades introducing kids, students, adults, and whole neighborhoods in the Tulsa area to Jesus. With three campuses, a Pre K-12 school, a two-year discipleship institute, a global mission network, and a culture that takes both theology and the arts seriously, it remains one of the most distinctive non-denominational church families in Oklahoma.