Kansas City Oasis

Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 am. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Featured Speaker: Author Vickie Stangl "Etta Semple: How Freethinkers Haunt America's History & Future" Community Moment: Daniel Higgins Musical Guest: Eems About Vickie Stangl: Like Etta Semple, Vicki Stangl is a passionate advocate for women and church-state separation. As the founder and president of the Great Plains Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, she is dedicated to educating citizens about the dangers of religion in government. Stangl began her love of policy and politics while...

KC Oasis Youth Bonfire Party Come join Oasis parents and teens age 13-17 for a bonfire at Marlys’. Marlys has plenty of space for fun, as well as parking. A parent should accompany their child/children to this event. Bring chairs and your marshmallow fork; marshmallows and paper products will be provided. Marlys has a keyboard to share, and all are welcome to bring musical instruments. Finally, since it’s the week before Halloween, feel free to dress up- and get prepared to share ghost stories around the fire. Those who have RSVP'd will be sent the address the day before the...

Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 am. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Featured Speaker: Nicholas Segura "A Pecha Kucha" (NicholasSegura.com) Community Moment: Amanda Kauer Musical Guest: Bill Morris (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IiVezkgQXw) Nicholas Segura is the owner and lead creative of Somos Agency and specializes in Hispanic marketing in the Kansas City area. He also runs an ethnic model agency. In 2013 he was awarded the U.S. Small Business Administration Minority Small Business Champion award for his work to help minority and women businesses grow. He’s a self-taught photographer and videographer. He’ll be sharing...

Join KC Oasis as we help feed and clothe those in need at Micah Ministry! The Micah Ministry is a charitable organization that seeks to help anyone, regardless of race, gender, religious (or non-religious) affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, or any other trait - as long as they could use some help, the Micah Ministry is there to help them. The Micah Ministry operates in a way that’s a bit different from traditional support organizations. They feed those who seek their services with a restaurant-style waiting operation: volunteers take drink and food orders and deliver the food to them, providing seconds...

Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 am. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Featured Speaker: Lois Bugg Shadrick Community Moment: David Ricks Musical Guest: JJ Cantrell Join us for a workshop with Lois Bugg Shadrick at 1pm in the Tony Aguirre Community Center Gym. Everyone is welcome! (After our Sunday Program).

Join your friends for dinner and good conversation.

Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 am. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Featured Speaker: Joshua Stewart "The Bible is Not a Fairytale: the New Testament as History" Community Moment: Joshua Hyde Musical Guest: Sa Vaunts Joshua will be sharing with us how modern scholars glean historical facts from the New Testament and debunking some of the popular myths surrounding Christian scripture. About our featured speaker: Joshua Stewart is an atheist activist and freethinker who deconverted from fundamentalist Christianity in 2009. His entire childhood and early adulthood were steeped in Christian Evangelical...

Join us for lunch at Waldo Pizza. Please RSVP for headcount. If we’re a large group, we may be at more than one table, since many casual venues don’t take reservations. If you arrive and don’t recognize any faces, message Mark Dixon or ask the host/hostess. The Monthly Midtown/Downtown Lunch Group meets approximately once a month for lunch in the midtown/downtown area (Waldo, The Plaza, Westport, KU Med area, Downtown, SW Boulevard, River Market, etc). The location will change each month based on suggestions. In general, we’ll be looking for low- to medium-priced venues. Please join us!

Join your friends for a relaxed day of fun and games. Your hosts Helena and Brian plan to provide a Mexican buffet, but feel free to BYOB and other snacks. Guests should also bring board games they’d like to share with the group. Helena has plenty of seating, but if we get a high RSVP count, you might consider asking her about bringing chairs/card tables. There is driveway parking and street parking. There are some stairs to enter the house, and no ramp. The address will be sent out prior to the event. Please message Stacy Leonard or James Wartell...

Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 am. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Featured Speaker: Micah W. Kubic, Ph.D. "The Movement is Now" Community Moment: Kate Laws Musical Guest: TBD In the popular imagination, the civil rights movement is something that ended decades ago – with the passage of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act. Despite the efforts of generations of civil rights activists, our country has yet to rid itself of pervasive racism, which has kept people of color at a stark disadvantage throughout history, and continues to do...