Living our values: Human Hands Solve Human Problems ** RESCHEDULED (C'mon, Mother Nature!) ** Let's celebrate Earth Day by cleaning up and brightening the area around our meeting place! Trash bags will be provided. *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. Child care is provided. Everyone is welcome! Program ends at 12:30 p.m. Featured Speaker: Debi Jackson Community Moment: Amanda Niedzwiecki Musical Guest: Beau Bledsoe – http://www.beaubledsoe.com/ Debi Jackson lives with her husband and two children in Kansas City, Missouri. She has become an advocate for transgender rights and acceptance because of her daughter. She now speaks openly about her family to provide others with a personal connection to learn about transgender youth, using her story to prove that families can be supportive of LGBT issues....
Doors open at 10:30 am for coffee and conversation. Sunday Gathering begins at 11 a.m. Child care is provided. Everyone is welcome! Program ends at 12:30 p.m. Featured Speaker: Darrel Ray, "Your SocioSexual Orientation and Its Impact on Relationships" Community Moment: Merna Solomon Musical Guest: TBA Just as we tend to have different social styles, like extroversion or introversion, we also have different sexual styles. These are rooted in personality that is influenced strongly by genetics and culture. Understanding and coming to grips with your SocioSexual Orientation can save a lot of heartache in relationships. About the speaker: Darrel Ray,...
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: John Hess, Ph.D., "The Eco Twins: Ecology, Economics, and the rules of the game" Community Moment: Darnell Hunt Musical Guest: Lauren Krum https://www.facebook.com/laurenkrumsings/ John has worked his entire career along the margins of science and art. John's science side is an ecologist and evolutionary biologist, and the medium of his art is photography, which he has used mostly to stitch the two sides together. This talk will explore the dilemma facing all of...
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: Judy Bishop, "Holy Cow – What Do I Do Now?!?" Community Moment: Susi Bocks Musical Guest: JJ Cantrell Judy received her BSN from Webster University and her BA and MBA from Baker University. She is a 20-year veteran of the Army Nurse Corp, serving from 1989 to 2009. Surprise – she was 46 when she joined the Army and 66 when she retired as a lieutenant colonel! How did she get in...
How many lives will YOU save June 24? 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 meet the needs of our local hospitals. Kansas City Oasis is hosting a blood drive Sunday, June 24, 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 collect 25 units of blood and save 50 lives!...
Our gathering for June 24th has been cancelled. Please join us on July 1st.
At Kansas City Oasis our values are "People are more important than beliefs," "human hands solve human problems," and "meaning comes from making a difference." In that spirit, we partner with Micah Ministry to help feed and clothe those in need. The Micah Ministry is a charitable organization that seeks to help anyone, regardless of race, gender, religious (or nonreligious) 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....
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: Lynne Thomson Community Moment: TBD Musical Guest: John Svoboda http://svobodaguitar.com/ Lynne is the oldest of 4 brothers and sister, all of whom were born on a farm in Alden, Iowa. The oldest of six, she has always been a care-giver and decided to pursue a nursing degree. After graduating cum laude from the Augustana School of Nursing in Sioux Falls South Dakota, she accepted her first job with Driscoll Children's Hospital in Corpus Christi,...
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: Joshua Stewart, "How to Win Every Argument: Understanding How to Change Hearts and Minds" Community Moment: Chris Hotchkiss Musical Guest: JJ Cantrell Joshua will be sharing his experience from his activism and debates, and teaching us how to have better conversations with those with whom we disagree. About the speaker: Joshua is the activism director for the Kansas City Atheist Coalition. Since deconverting from fundamentalist Christianity in 2009, he has spent years...
