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: Josh Hyde "Online Privacy, Security, and the No Good, Very Bad Internet" Community Moment: Sue Nolen Musical Guest: The Errands EVSSL? CAPTCHA? DDoS? 2FA? WTF? Every day, it seems more and more like the Internet is a wretched hive of scum and villainy where everyone is trying to find new ways to steal your identity and money. Thankfully, it's not hard to keep yourself safe from these threats. In this talk, we'll explore some of the underlying...

Bring the family and join us for another happy hour! Parents with young kids (and people who don't mind kids) are invited to enjoy a family-friendly wine, beer, or whatever-you-fancy happy hour. EVERYONE is welcome, whether you have kids or not! Please bring a snack and a bottle of your favorite wine/beer/whatever to share. Games are welcome, too! Melanie and Clay’s house has plenty of street parking and room for friends – the more the merrier! They have dogs and cats; the dogs will be out of sight, but the cats are friendly, so plan accordingly if you have allergies....

Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 am. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Featured Speaker: Sergio Moreno "Born Again Buddhist: A journey of belief and disbelief through five books" Community Moment: Dr. Darrel Ray Musical Guest: Mark Lowry About the feautred talk: After being raised evangelical and completing a degree in ministry, Sergio walked away from the faith and spent many years as an atheist. Longing for a spiritual practice that would not compromise his intellectual convictions, he eventually found his way to Buddhism. As he tells his story, he focuses on...

Monthly Midtown/Downtown Lunch Group Join us for lunch at Winstead’s on the Plaza. 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....

Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 am. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Featured Speaker: Dr. Kendyl Gibbons "Secular Miracles" Community Moment: Ashley Gunter Musical Guest: TBD "Secular Miracles" The holiday season belongs to all of us, free thinkers and non-believers as much as anyone else. Miracle is a word for what happens in the human heart, when it is opened and transformed, not for a special category of things that happen in the world. Consider the stories that have grown up in our culture about Christmas. Anything can be a miracle,...

Join us at the Blue Moose in Prairie Village for a drink (or a few) and food, if you like. They have a lot of options, including wine, beer, and some really delicious cocktails. They are reserving a space for us in their sun room. When you get there ask for Kansas City Oasis and they will direct you to where we are. If you have questions or if are concerned you won't know anyone at the event get in touch with James Wartell. Leave the kids with a sitter; this is our monthly adult happy hour. We'll see you...

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...