Christian Support Group Meetings Location:
Asbury Church
6767 South Mingo
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Enter North Entrance – Room 2319
This second-floor room is accessible in north lobby by stairway or elevator.
Round Table Support Group Meetings
September–May | 2026–2027
For 25 years, Tim and Nancy Reside, through Bright Tomorrows, have supported adults living with mental health concerns as well as the family members and friends who care for them. This fall, Bright Tomorrows will move from a workbook-based format to a more natural, peer-facilitated Round Table support group experience.
The Round Table format offers a safe, faith-affirming space for honest conversation, shared lived experience, encouragement, and practical support.
Meeting Schedule at a Glance
| Group | Who It’s For | When | Time |
| BTSG Round Table | Adults with mood disorders and co-occurring anxiety disorders | 2nd Thursday of each month | 7:00–8:00 PM |
| BTFG Round Table | Adults with mood disorders and co-occurring anxiety disorders | 3rd Thursday of each month | 7:00–8:00 PM |
What Is Changing?
- Two Distinct Spaces: We will host two separate monthly gatherings—one dedicated entirely to adults navigating mood disorders and co-occurring anxiety disorders (2nd Thursday BTSG = Bright Tomorrows Support Group), and one dedicated entirely to our incredible support partners and caregivers (3rd Thursday BTFG = Bright Tomorrows Family & Friend Group).
- “Round Robin” Dialogue: Rather than working through chapters, at the ROUND TABLE we’ll use therapeutic question decks of cards to encourage natural, real-time conversation.
- Your Voice, Your Experience: Everyone will have equal opportunity to share, reflect, and exchange ideas. Rather than simply following a curriculum, you bring the wisdom of your own lived experience. Facilitators will help guide and manage the conversation.
Note: You will never be pressured to respond or interact. Participation is always your choice.
What to Expect
Education about diagnoses, tools, and resources will remain part of the group, but the Round Table will focus primarily on sharing lived experiences—whether living with a diagnosis or supporting a family member or friend who is.
No advance reading or preparation is required, and you do not need to bring anything. Note-taking materials will be available if you would like to record helpful ideas or resources.
Why Support Groups Matter
For individuals facing major, ongoing mental health challenges—and for their support partners, family members, and friends—it is important not to face these difficulties alone. Support groups offer a meaningful safe-zone setting where people with similar experiences can talk openly and feel heard and understood.
Healing-Recovery
Healing-recovery focuses on whole-person health and wellness. It recognizes the connection between mental, physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual well-being and supports individuals in living meaningful lives, even when symptoms continue.
Because chronic conditions may not always allow a complete return to a “pre-illness” state, healing-recovery is understood as an ongoing process of growth, support, and resilience.
About the Facilitators
Tim and Nancy Reside lead the Round Table groups with decades of personal and professional experience. Their perspective has been shaped by navigating mental health challenges in their marriage, including Tim’s bipolar disorder diagnosis, and by consulting with and coaching hundreds of people facing mental health concerns. Married since 1971, they have walked through mental health challenges together since 1979.
As a couple, they have learned not only to survive adversity, but to grow through it with resilience, empathy, and self-discipline. Click here for biographical and credential information.
Available Support Group Videos
Bright Tomorrows offers an eighteen-session video series, Behind the Headlines, on its website at https://brighttomorrows.org/support-group-videos/.
Produced over nine months, the series draws from Tim and Nancy Reside’s decades of support group facilitation. It provides practical guidance, educational content, coping strategies, and helpful resources for individuals experiencing mental health challenges and for the family members and friends who support them.
Sign-In and Participant Health Requirements
Those with mental health challenges do not need a doctor’s release to attend. However, these participants must have a mental health care provider and be current with their providers’ treatment prescriptions and be sufficiently stable for a support group setting. Participants of both Round Table groups are required to read and sign an Advise/Consent Form.
Advise/Consent Form
The Advise/Consent Form is not a clinical contract. This is a peer support group, not group therapy, and Tim and Nancy serve as facilitators, not clinicians or therapists.
The form asks each participant, together with the facilitators, to respect confidentiality, confirm shared information with their own medical providers, and understand that confidentiality may be broken only if someone poses a threat to themselves or others.
No Rush
To give you time to review the document, ask questions, and make an unhurried decision, forms will be provided at the first meeting you attend. A signature is required only if you choose to return for a second session.
Cost
Bright Tomorrows is supported by freewill, tax-deductible donations from those who benefit from or appreciate its work and ministry services. Churches and para-church organizations are also welcome to consider including Bright Tomorrows in their benevolence budgets.
In addition to donations given in person or by way of postal service, donations can be made online. Simply click on the blue and yellow DONATE button on this website for instructions. In order to ensure that cost is not a prohibitive factor, we do not charge for our services.
Disclaimer
The focus of Bright Tomorrows’ programs is two-fold: (1) to provide a safe environment that is informally structured, faith-affirming, hope-inspiring, and educational; and (2) to promote supportive communication among brothers and sisters in Christ who share common experiences, challenges, and concerns.
Bright Tomorrows does not recommend or endorse the use of any specific treatment or medication. Individual group participants must assume responsibility for consulting with their physicians and mental health care providers (psychiatrists, therapists, medical doctors, etc.) regarding medications and treatment protocols.
While all information offered by Tim and/or Nancy Reside, including discussed and suggested coping strategies and skills, are offered in good faith, each recipient is advised that they need to assume personal responsibility for verifying the validity and applicability of such information and/or suggestions. Again, individual group participants should consult with their medical and mental health care providers.
Research-Based Support for Peer Support
The group, Peers for Progress: Peer Support Around the World, observes that research-based evidence supports the assertion that peer support is a critical and effective strategy for ongoing health care and sustained behavior change for people with chronic health challenges. ¹
The Depression Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) has more than 450 support groups for people with depression or bipolar disorder. They have discovered that…
- DBSA support group members for over a year had lower hospitalization rates in the past 12 months. ²
Bright Tomorrows has been facilitating a support group for adults with bipolar disorder or major depressive disorder since 2001. During these years we have observed the same trend identified by DBSA.
Grace Alliance (Mental Health Grace Alliance), whose materials Bright Tomorrows utilize, in their preliminary research through Baylor University Psychology Department, demonstrates that faith-based, psycho-educational, tool-providing, and community-style support groups like those sponsored by Bright Tomorrows inspire hope, reduce symptoms, enhance recovery, and restores personal faith. ³
Sources: (1) Google: Peer Services and Supports – NAMI; Google: Science Behind Peer Support | Peers For Progress; Research Analysis: Google: Sustained Outcomes of a Peer-Taught Family Education Program on Mental Illness and Google: Peer Support for Persons with Co-Occurring Disorders and Community Tenure: A Survival Analysis; and (2) Depression Bipolar Support Alliance (https://www.dbsalliance.org/); and (3) Mental Health Grace Alliance (https://mentalhealthgracealliance.org/)
Bright Tomorrows Support Group Mission Statement
Bright Tomorrows is dedicated to promoting mental health and assisting those who are struggling with mental illness and mental health-related concerns toward healing-recovery as a lifestyle.
Our mission is to offer ongoing support that reflects the compassion of Jesus Christ to individuals struggling with the bipolar or unipolar disorder by…
- Investing help
- Inspiring hope
- Informing to equip and empower
To check on cancellation or update notices, feel free to call our Information Line at 918-744-5761.
Thank you for your inquiry.
If you have further inquiries, feel free to email the President of Bright Tomorrows, Tim Reside.
A simple e-mail form is provided on our Contact Us page
To check on cancellation or update notices, feel free to call our Information Line at 918-744-5761.
Thank you for your inquiry.
If you have further inquiries, feel free to email the President of Bright Tomorrows, Tim Reside.
A simple e-mail form is provided on our Contact Us page