Kansas City Oasis

How many lives will YOU save January 5? 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 more than 140,000 annually to meet the needs of our local hospitals. Kansas City Oasis is hosting a blood drive Sunday, January 5, from 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on CBC's donor bus. Please give a little of your time and a pint of your blood to help us beat last year's total of 75 units! Those...

Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 a.m. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Program ends at 12:30 p.m. Featured Speaker: Tom Alonzo, Equality Kansas – Metro KC board secretary, "Latino Experience in the LGBTQ Community" Musical Guest: Sulu Moon (facebook.com/sulumoonmusic) Community Moment: Mary Lou Pick Equality Kansas – Metro Kansas City is a locally run chapter of the state's largest LGBTQ rights organization. It is committed to educating the community with the intent to influence legislation. The Metro KC chapter focuses on both local ordinances and state-level legislation. *By participating in this...

This will be one of these last opportunities to enjoy the Plaza lights this season! Brio has a great happy hour menu. Let's welcome 2020 with friends, a fantastic view, food, and drinks. *By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Oasis Code of Conduct (https://www.kcoasis.org/about-oasis/code-of-conduct/

Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 a.m. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Program ends at 12:30 p.m. Featured Speaker: Rowan Stewart, "The Problem of Billionaires" Musical Guest: Chris Foster (facebook.com/chrisfostersongs) Community Moment: Julie Randolph Rowan Stewart is the director of activism for The Kansas City Atheist Coalition and the community outreach manager for Kansas City Oasis. In 2009, he deconverted from fundamentalist Christianity and since then, spends his time speaking at churches, schools and secular forums about philosophy, atheism, and other secular issues. *By participating in this event, you agree to...

Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 a.m. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Program ends at 12:30 p.m. Featured Speaker: June Holte, Drawdown KC Musical Guest: David B. Hakan (facebook.com/davidhakanmusic) Community Moment: Julie Randolph Kansas City Drawdown Society's Mission: – To shift people’s way of relating to global warming from fear and despair to science-based hope and possibility. – To spark engagement with and a sustained commitment to the worldwide initiative to reverse global warming. – To get everyone talking about Project Drawdown. *By participating in this event, you agree to abide...

Let's get together at Mesob's new location and sample the Ethiopian/Caribbean cuisine. Special treat - Pablo Sanhueza is scheduled to perform at 8 p.m. *By participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Oasis Code of Conduct (https://www.kcoasis.org/about-oasis/code-of-conduct/).

Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 a.m. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Program ends at 12:30 p.m. Featured Speaker: Dr. Darrel Ray, "Religious Trauma, Its Roots and Its Treatments" Musical Guest: JJ Cantrell Community Moment: TBA Religious abuse is the root of religious trauma and often goes unrecognized by therapists and clients alike. Children raised in toxic environments do not know it is toxic; it just seems normal to them. When they experience symptoms later in life, failure to identify the root cause leads to inappropriate treatments. Appropriate identification and treatment...

Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 a.m. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Program ends at 12:30 p.m. Featured Speaker: Veronica Malone, "The Power of the Olympic Dream" Musical Guest: Shawn Neustadt Community Moment: Ben Campbell-Bradley Veronica Malone served as the head coach and general manager for the Kansas City Blazers Swim Team from 1975 to 2010. Some of Coach Malone’s most notable accomplishments were being named among USA Swimming’s Top 25 Most Influential People in the History of Swimming and receiving the 2001 USA Swimming Award for outstanding contribution to the...

Join us for dinner and merriment!

Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 a.m. Childcare is provided. Everyone is welcome! Program ends at 12:30 p.m. Featured Speaker: Barbara (Janie) Williams, “Be My Valentine, Madalyn: a Love Letter to Atheist Women” Musical Guest: TBA Community Moment: TBA Janie was raised Sylvania, Ohio, a suburb of Toledo. She realized early on that she was born on the wrong side of the tracks. She believed in space aliens in second grade, thanks to the National Enquirer. She was convinced that the aliens had enough space to land their spacecraft in her backyard....