Oasis Fellowship would like to announce that the speaker for the April 15th meeting will be Mr. Minnis Ridenour. Mr. Ridenour’s career at Virginia Tech spans three decades, beginning in 1974 as the university’s Budget Director and Chief Business Officer, later serving as Vice President for Finance until his promotion in 1987 as Executive Vice President. In 2001, he was promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and served in this role until his retirement in 2005. Minnis has remained affiliated with Virginia Tech as Senior Fellow for Resource Development and as an Affiliated Faculty member in SPIA.
Since his retirement, Minnis and his wife, Louise, have been involved as volunteers with mission projects in the local community as well as internationally where they are leading an effort to develop programs in theological education to prepare pastors and church leaders for the United Methodist Church in the post-communist countries of Europe and the Balkans. In addition, Minnis and Louise have devoted time to programs which assist families at risk and street children in Kiev, Ukraine.
Come on out and enjoy the fellowship, worship, and message that will be based on our theme, “His Hands, Our Hands.”
