Kansas City Oasis

How many lives will YOU save December 6th? Community Blood Center (CBC) is the primary supplier of blood for local hospitals and has been serving Missouri and Kansas hospitals for more than 50 years. CBC needs to collect 580 pints of blood every day and over 140,000 annually to meed the needs of our local hospitals. Kansas City Oasis is hosting a blood drive Sunday, December 6th, from 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. on CBC's donor bus in the back (gym) parking lot of the community center. Please give an hour of your time and a pint of your blood...

Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 am. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Featured Speaker: Twyla Dell, Ph.D "What Santa Knows About Evolution & You Should Too" Community Moment: TBD Musical Guest: TBD Santa knows the four stages of evolution that you may not know. Twyla Dell Ph.D. will share these four hallmarks of change over time and answer such questions as these: Did evolution end with the dinosaurs? Or with early man? Or is it still going on? Does it only apply to the physical world or can we see it...

Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 am. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Featured Speaker: Dean Long, "An Introduction to Positive Psychology" Community Moment: David Ricks Musical Guest: TBD An Introduction to Positive Psychology: Its History, Its Research and How People Benefit from Positivity We all experience moments or periods in our lives of joy, engagement, love and serenity. But, they come and go. The key is to experience a greater number of these positive moments, and less negative ones. We need negative moments in order to maintain a realistic and beneficial...

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...

Join your friends for dinner and good conversation. We will have a private room. Say you're with 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: Helen Stringer, M.S.- executive director of KC Oasis Community Moment: Ben Bradley Musical Guest: Quinton About our featured speaker: Shortly after obtaining a bachelor’s degree in pastoral studies, Helen Stringer came to realize she could no longer support any religious ideologies. She redirected her passion for community and helping others by working as a center director and counselor for a local nonprofit that assists young families in crisis. Simultaneously, she completed her master’s degree in human services...

Join your friends for a relaxed day of fun and games. Your hosts Leslie and Luke Beardall will have some snacks, but encourage you to bring food and drink as well. Guests should bring board games they’d like to share with the group. If the event gets a high RSVP count, you might consider asking your host about bringing chairs/card tables. Kids are welcome and the home is child friendly, even for the youngest ones. A dog and cat do live in the home. There is driveway parking and street parking. There are some stairs to enter the house, and...

Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 am. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Program ends at 12:30PM Featured Speaker: D. Rashaan Gilmore Community Moment: Josh Laws Musical Guest: Camille Elaine

Join us for lunch at McCoy’s in Westport! 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!

Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 am. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Featured Speaker: Jase Heap "Remembering Our Enlightenment Heritage" Community Moment: Michaelyn Eberhart Musical Guest: Clearly Guilty Jason D. ("Jase") Heap is the national coordinator for the United Coalition of Reason based in Washington, DC. He has an MDiv from Brite Divinity School (Texas Christian University), a master’s in history and religion from the University of Oxford, and post-graduate certification from Sheffield Hallam University. He taught philosophy, psychology, religious studies, personal/social/health education, and other subjects in the UK’s state-maintained schools...