Dear Friends of Oasis Fellowship:
It is August and normally we would be announcing our August
speaker to kick-off another year of Oasis Fellowship meetings. With many
of our volunteers in workplace transitions this year, we have chosen to suspend
meetings for the 2015-16 academic year. Please know that we are not
ending Oasis fellowship. Rather, the year will be used to review, renew
and expand our volunteer group and to structure our efforts so that Oasis
meetings can continue. The first five years have been blessed by God and
successful through the ad hoc service of our volunteer group. To continue
into the future, the volunteer group that makes Oasis happen needs to develop a
more formal structure that allows it to be self-sustaining and to transcend a
single group of people. We want the Oasis Fellowship gatherings to
continue to be a blessing to faculty, staff and students far into the
future.
So, we ask for your prayers and support over the coming
year. Specifically, please pray for wisdom for the current volunteers as
we plan for the future. Pray for the Lord to move in the hearts of additional
faculty and staff to help continue this ministry into the future. If you
have found the Oasis gatherings to be a blessing, please consider taking a more
active role in making the meeting happen into the future.
The Oasis volunteers will continue to meet the first Wednesday of
each month from 12 to 1 pm in room 330E Burruss. If you would like to
learn more about our plans and/or to join as a volunteer we invite you to join
us. If you have suggestions for ways that the Oasis gatherings might improve
we would welcome your input.
Sincerely,
The Oasis Volunteers
