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Post Its..............

Post It!  That was our action step to the invitation during our message this past weekend.  I know most of you were there and probably posted the names of those you know who do not know Christ as their Savior and Lord.  We did not just Post the Names on the wall of our Lobby, but we committed to pray for them.  As you can see in the pictures below, our staff did just that this week following our Staff meeting.  We are committed to continue to pray for your friends, loved ones and acquaintances.  I hope you will find time when you’re at Oasis to do the same.

As an Oasis Member, I am asking you to remember these names and be praying with us each time you pass by them.  I wanted to share a few verses that clearly give us our reason and purpose to pray and to see others come to Christ.

We Pray for those needing salvation!

Romans 10:1 – “Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved.”

We Pray because God desires ALL to be Saved!

1 Timothy 2:1-6 – “ ¹ I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone— ² for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ³ This is good, and pleases God our Savior, ⁴ who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. ⁵ For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ⁶ who gave himself as a ransom for all men—the testimony given in its proper time.”

We Pray because God answers the prayers of Godly people!

James 5:16 – “Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.”

We Pray because we NEED Boldness in order to proclaim the Gospel clearly and to open doors to witness!

Ephesians 6:19-20 – “¹⁹ Pray also for me, that whenever I open my mouth, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel, ²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should.”

Colossians 4:3 – “And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains.”

We Pray because we need Wisdom in how to share and when to share the Gospel to unbelievers!

James 1:5 – “If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.”

We are to Pray that the Big Harvest of Souls would have more of us Sharing and Reaping it!

Matthew 9:37-38 – “Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. ³⁸ Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

There are many reasons to pray for those who need Christ.  I might come back to this since there is so much more I would like to share.

My heart is so burdened that there are hundreds, literally thousands we know as an Oasis Family who need the Lord.  I am sooooooo, sooooo burdened that I am faithful and you are faithful in inviting them to Christ and in praying for them.  We don't save.  We can’t save.  But God has put us here to share.  My prayer is that the Post-It Notes won’t be the final step, but just the first step in Praying for, then sharing with our loved ones and friends the Good News of the Gospel -- Christ Crucified, Buried and Risen!   Good News.

Let’s Pray, then Share it.

Deep "V" T-Shirts & To Cut or Not To Cut!

To all our extended Oasis Family I am sharing our Pastors Weekly Email with you . Have a great weekend.

 

If you missed last week's services you missed some of the most powerful worship services we have ever had at Oasis Church. It was a fantastic start to our new series, "All are Welcome Here". You also missed our discussion of me wearing a Deep "V" neck T-Shirt. Now before you stop reading, if you watch the video of the service online you will hear the whole story. That's all I will say here. Ben also suggested I needed to change my hair style during the message we were teaching together. I almost popped him one right in front of hundreds. But I restrained myself. We had suggestions on the cards that said they agreed that I needed to cut it all off like "Pastor James" - the bald look and someone else said wear it Mohawk style. OK, how in the world could all that happen in the first message of the series? But it did. So I guess I'm taking suggestions of what new hair style I should adopt? What say you? I'm bored with this one anyway?

This week we continue the series "All Are Welcome Here" and I can't wait to finish the Pembroke Strategy. It is going to be another great weekend. Don't miss it. If you haven't tried our Saturday night service, come out at 6 p.m. Same great music and messages. Last Saturday night we had the largest attendance in at least 3 years. It was awesome. I hope to see many of you. Our 10:30 and noon were full and overflowing! It would be great to see some of you at the Saturday night or Sunday morning early service at 9 a.m. BTW, just a reminder: did you know we serve Communion every week at Oasis Church? At 8:45 a.m. prior to the early service, we have a Communion Service led by our pastoral team. We also serve communion the first Saturday night of each month during the Saturday service. This week on Saturday we will be serving Communion, the first of the new year.

Discover Oasis is this Sunday. If you have not registered you can go online now (click on "event sign-up") and do so or put how many in your family will be with us at church this weekend. It's this Sunday at 1:30 following our noon service. There is a FREE complimentary lunch for you and your family. Our pastoral team will share with you not only all there is to know about our ministry but how you can become a member of Oasis Church or get more involved. There is no obligation to join. I promise we have never and will not this weekend hard sale you to join our church. We lay out who we are and if you want to join, "All Are Welcome Here" . We will give the scoop of how to do so. I hope to see you this Sunday. It's about an hour and a half including the meal time. There is child care for nursery through elementary. 

Holy Land Tour 2012 is fast approaching. If you have not picked up a brochure and registered you need to this week. The brochures will be in the Information Center in the lobby. All the details are in the brochure including the toll free number to call to get your questions answered and to register. There are only 30 Airline tickets reserved and enough rooms for 30 so you need to act fast. Once it's full there is no guarantee you will get to go this year with us. It will be trip of a lifetime. Tonia and I invite you to go with us, April 29-May 9th. No trip, cruise or vacation you will ever take will even come close to being as life changing as this as we walk in the steps of Jesus and the great men and women of the Bible. Check out the Live announcement about the trip I made in December right now for more info.

Have a great weekend and I hope to see you at Oasis as we celebrate "All Are Welcome Here" .

Guy Melton

Sr. Pastor/Founding

Oasis Church of South Florida 

P.S. As I do most weeks, I want to remind you that a very importatnt part of our Worship is our giving back to God His tithes and our offerings. The bible says it's the Lord's Tithes, we return them to him. We get to keep 90%. That is awesome. He will bless the 90% you keep more than if you steal the other 10% that is His and try to keep it for your own needs. Try it. I guarantee He will provide. I have lived it for more than 40 yrs. You can give online now, 24/7.

 

 

Israel Tour 2012

                                       

   Check out the video I did in preparation for the trip.  

http://t.co/eg7wJKqp

Go, Slow or No!

Go, Slow, NO!  That almost sounds like a stop light.  There are three colors and all give a very clear direction of what we should do as drivers.  It’s not always so easy as a Red, Green,  or Yellow when we are praying to God and waiting for His answer.

 

I can tell you, after all these years though, I am learning to see what light it is.  I'm slow, but I'm learning!  Just this morning before I got out of bed I prayed and there was one specific new prayer request I prayed, and within 30 minutes of getting out of bed and checking my emails God had answered it with a "Green" Go!

 

I can tell you I prayed other prayers this morning for which I have literally been praying for years, and God has said either “Slow”, with the Yellow, or “NO” -- at least up to this point.  I’ve learned when I'm not really sure, to ask Him to slam the door if it’s not His will.  Be prepared if you pray that … if the door slams!  I would rather have closure than to keep wondering. That's just me.

 

In case you feel you’re alone in this wondering thing and are asking yourself and God why no Answer, or why the “NO” Answer, then take a look at a few people in the Bible who we might learn from.

Briefly check out:

 

* Elijah in I Kings 19:4

* Elizabeth and Zechariah in Luke 1:6-7, 1:23, 1:34, 7:27 and the whole passage.

* Job 1:6-12, 4:7-9 BTW with friends like that who needed any enemies?

 

The lack of what we see as answered prayer is not necessarily always because of sin in our life.  James 4:3;  I Peter 3:7

 

There is a lot more I want to say here.  Maybe I’ll continue this thought next week on some of the reasons it happens and also how to respond when it’s not a clear “Green for Go”.

 

First Pastors Email of 2012

For our friends who are extended Oasis Family not living in South Florida I wanted to share with you an update of what is going on this first week of 2012 and a recap of Christmas. I hope you are having a great new year so far. God bless and have a great weekend.(Below is our email to our local family)

 

Dear Extended Oasis Family,

 

 

Happy New Year! Welcome Back everyone. We have missed many of you who were away during the holidays on much deserved vacations. You are back just in time for one of the most important message series we have ever had at Oasis Church. "All Are Welcome Here" begins Saturday night at 6 p.m., and all three services Sunday, 9:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and noon.

 

I know you might have heard me say similar and it might be true, but I really don't remember a January when I was more excited about the upcoming year ahead for our Church. We have had many banner years. We have had many successes and many blessings. I mean, it doesn't take much to see how God has blessed this young church. But really, I believe this year has the makings of a year we will be talking about for years to come. We aren't going to WOW or try to dazzle you, although we might along the way a few times, but what we are going to do is focus like a laser on what we are called to do like never before. We are beginning that FOCUS this weekend as we begin this new series.

 

I keep thinking about the illustration I heard years ago about legendary NFL coach Vince Lombardi. Each season before the pros would begin a new football season he would hold up a Football and say, "this is a  Football!" He would remind them of the most basic truths of what their goal that year would be. While they were the premiere football team of that era, Green Bay Packers, (ironic the Pack is back.) the coach still realized it all went back to the basics.

 

Even more so Jesus was always taking His team of rag-tag disciples back to the basics; helping them keep their focus on the goal line the prize. That is what this series is all about. Taking the Mission and focus of Jesus and makiing sure we are aligned with it. I'm telling you I am so stoked for this weekend and this month, I wish it were here right now. And the year 2012. Strap on your seatbelt, it's going to be a wild ride. In a good sense!

 

I want to close with something I shared with our Pastor's Prayer Partners yesterday in their weekely email. (BTW, if you are not part of our Prayer Team at Oasis, you can email me at guym@visitoasis.org and I'll share with you how you can join this powerful ministry.) The last four January's I had to come back from Christmas and realize we had to cut budgtets, cut staff, lay off employees and cut ministries due to the recession and how it was affecting Oasis Church. I am so excited to share with you this 5th January I do not have to do this. God has blessed us so much the last 5 months that we are not making cuts this winter and we are actually planning to begin to do some ministry we have not been able to do in recent years. So let me share some things we have to be thankful for during Christmas.

 

Will you join me today in thanking God for His blessings and the answered prayers?

*  We don't have the counts yet, but I am sure we had in excess of 40,000 guests to our light display and other Christmas events during December. We might have even had more. This is with losing 3 nights to rain when the lights had to be shut down. This has been an amazing month!

 

* I am thanking God for the 100's who came out to volunteer for Christmas at the Oasis this year.  While you can always use more and there are still many who missed the opportunity to serve others, we had more volunteers this year than I have ever seen. The way our teens came out multiple nights blew me away. Our Community Groups came out. Our Women's Ministry and every other ministry in the church did an incredible job. Thank God for all our volunteers!

 

* Thank God with me for the key Staff Leaders who led us this year and have been working all year to prepare for December. They have been awesome. “Pastor Christmas” - James Brown, Coordinators Luann Willix, Garfield Lowe, and Nativity Display Director, Debby Brown -- Thanks to you guys for leading all of us in a great Christmas!

 

* I am thankful that not one injury or electric shock took place during the set-up or the display. As Pastor, this is always a major concern of mine, and I praise God that no one was hurt!

 

* I thank God for those who served and blessed the 2 homeless families we housed during December.

* I am thankful to God for all those who generously gave the 800 “Operation Christmas Child” boxes to Haitian children and who gave toys to Sheridan House single parents…and on and on it goes. For Collide young adults who raised funds for a well in Africa. For our teens who ministered to the homeless in Miami and to His House ministries.

 

* While we don't yet know what our final Christmas Offering was, I know our offerings have been great in December; and we not only met our regular ministry budget but exceeded it because of the giving of our Oasis Families. I thank God He led us to give 1/2 of our Christmas offering away this Christmas. Can’t wait to begin to do that! I also am grateful that for the first time in five years, during our first four months of the new ministry Budget year which began September 1, we have actually received more in offerings than our budget. This is going to allow us to do even more ministry as we move into 2012. While the recession has not ended and we still have many hurting people, I think in spite of it, His people have been generous and obedient anyway. I thank God for this. Last week I heard our Online Giving for the final week of the year actually exceeded our giving during the services. It was amazing. That means even when people aren't here they are remembering their obedience in giving back to God. God is good!

 

P.S. You can continue to give online right here 24/7, and if you still want to give toward our Christmas Outreach offering or Bike For Haiti, you can do that online also.

P.S. 2 We have Christmas Take down this Saturday from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Would you join myself and our staff in taking down lights and displays this Saturday morning? If you can't stay the whole time then it's fine to come as long as you can. If you need more info about the Linwood Ross Memorial service this Saturday you can go here to our Oasis Church Facebook page and get the information.

 

I love you guys and can't wait to see you this weekend. Remember no matter who you are, "All are Welcome Here".

 

Guy Melton

Sr./Founding Pastor

Oasis Church 

 

BIG Announcement Saturday Night Live online

Dear Extended Oasis Family; (this is the weekly email sent to our local family. There is an important announcement at the bottom you might be interested. Merry Christmas) I HAVE A HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT TO TELL YOU ABOUT WHICH I’LL BE BRINGING LIVE THROUGH OUR INTERNET CAMPUS ON SATURDAY NIGHT. I’LL SHARE IT DOWN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE.   Whoaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! Is Christmas really just 10 days away? How could this be? Unbelievable! But true. I’m sure by now if you were here last weekend and heard the message you are prepared and have planned ahead! Right! Ok, if not, there is always next year. Remember in our Series, from Week #1 "We are Rich" Yes we are. Week #2- Preparation and Planning is important. (Check both out on our Video Podcast at www.visitoasis.org)  Week #3 in our "One for the Books" Series will be another practical yet powerful truth from the Word about how to make this the Best Christmas Ever. A record Breaking Christmas! Not much time to make it that. See you this weekend. 6 live opportunities: 4 at our Pines Campus, and 2 on our Live International Internet Campus @ Visitoasis.org   "Christmas at the Oasis" has been incredible the first 2 weeks. The best is yet to come though. Even though our "Guinness World Record Nativity Display" is put away for another year we have sooooooooo much more to bring your friends to for the next 3 weeks. This weekend, Friday - Sunday, is the last weekend of the Live Nativity with the live animals and the drama by our Surge/Youth. Lights are on 6 p.m. – 10 p.m. every night. Ice Skating Rink is open every night through Christmas beginning Friday night. Don't miss out on the opportunity to skate on a 22nd Century Ice Rink and Snow every night. Thanks to all the volunteers and for those who brought your nativities again this year. I know it’s a lot of work, but so worth it when THOUSANDS GET TO SEE THEM and experience Live Music while reliving the Christmas Story.   Start inviting your friends and Family to our Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services. We have 7 to choose from Next Weekend. Christmas Eve Candlelight Services are at 5 p.m., 7 p.m., 11 p.m. Christmas Morning 10:30 a.m. and Noon. (We will not have a 9 a.m. service Christmas day or New Years day).  For those traveling, there will be two Christmas Morning services with our Live International Internet Service 10:30 a.m. and Noon. (All services are identical. More details in your bulletin this Weekend)   Christmas outreach and Mission Offering has three more weeks to raise our goal of $100,000. (Over and above our Tithes and regular offerings.)  This year 50%, 1/2 of the offering is going to our Missions Partners here locally and internationally. I am praying each one of us will give the Largest Gift this Christmas to the Lords work. I can’t think of a better place than Oasis Church. You know us, you know our ministry and you know how hard we work at being good stewards at spending the Lord’s monies given by you and me. You can go on now and give your Christmas offering here. You can also use the special Christmas Offering envelope you have been given and will receive this weekend at church again. You can add it to your regular envelope with your tithe and mark "Christmas” on the other line.  Your gift each Christmas is what allows Oasis Church to touch 50,000 people in our Community. I don’t know of any church in our South Florida area that touches so many in such a personal way right on our property. It’s amazing. It’s all because of your giving. If you want to give some each week, you can break up your Christmas Giving through December 31st.   NOW FOR THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT. THIS SATURDAY NIGHT AT 7:07 P.M. I WILL BE ANNOUNCING THE DATES OF OUR ISRAEL 2012 TRIP.  For those who WATCH live you will have a chance to Register Early and save $50.00 and to find out how you can get an application this weekend. We only have 50 limited Applications for this weekend. The first ones that pick them up and register have the best chance of getting the Early bird discount. But you have to be Listening Live!  I will be making the Announcement LIVE on our internet Campus at www.visitoasis.org, just click it on and go to WATCH NOW! You can remain anonymous or you can get on the chat and ask questions and ill try to answer them live right then and there. If I can't answer them, I'll get back to you. 7:07 P.M., this Saturday Night. All details, Dates and Cost will be given in this LIVE Broadcast I am doing following our Saturday night 6 p.m. service.  Space is limited since we can only reserve so many airline seats and hotel rooms. What a great Christmas gift. Tell Santa that is what you want for Christmas. Or tell the IRS man to rush your tax refund this Winter so you can go on this Trip of a Lifetime. And if you ask anyone who went last year they will tell you it will change your life.   P.S. Just a reminder if you have not given the Lord His Tithes and your offerings this week you can go online right now or 24/7 and do it. Do it NOW! God bless you and thanks to the hundreds of you who give to the Lords work here at Oasis. I am so grateful to be your pastor and have the honor of pastoring a generous people.   Guy Melton Senior / Founding Pastor Oasis Church of South Florida

"Occupy Pembroke Pines " Rallies this Saturday and Sunday

 

Dear Oasis Extended Family; I want to invite you to join me for the "Occupy Pembroke Pines" Rally this weekend. We will gather at the corner of S.W.14th Street and Flamingo Road. There will be 4 different Rallies so pick your time! Saturday 6 p.m., Sunday 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m., and noon. Our purpose is to disrupt traffic, jam parking lots and spill out into the streets. We want to create some havoc and let Pembroke Pines and Miramar know we are fed up with the status quo and we as the 1% are coming after the rest of you 99%. This could get ugly! (Our Oasis Family makes up about 1% of Pembroke Pines and Miramar; there is lots of territory to take!) Ok, so this is a little confusing, but honestly this is what Jesus told His disciples to do. "Occupy till I come" In Luke 19:13 we find in the Parable Jesus sharing this very principle through the land owner in the story. Later He told His disciples to Occupy, to GO, Go everywhere and be Radical, tell my Radical story. Disrupt the status quo. This is still our mission. There is no better time of year to Occupy the corner of 14th Street and Flamingo Road than Christmas. Christmas is in full gear even though not a light is lit yet. Please make sure you are "Occupying” these various opportunities to not hurt, burn down, or defame others but to bless them, to give to them and to share the Love of Christ with those in So Broward and North Dade. Check out all the ways below we can Bless our Community this Christmas Season. *Operation Christmas Child Shoe Boxes. Congrats to Kids World for leading the effort to give 700 + Haitian Children a Christmas gift this year. You guys are awesome. The stories I am hearing are killers. Love them. Keep sharing them. And Kudos to our Teens in Surge who on the spur of the moment last Friday night at their meeting took another 40 Boxes to fill. You guys Rock!   *Hundreds of Spots are open to Occupy various parts of our Property during December and our Christmas Light Display, Live Nativity and World Record Nativity Display.  Just as it takes hundreds to block and disrupt the streets of New York City, it takes hundreds of us as Oasisers to fill all the areas where we will bless up to 50,000 people during December.  Please Sign Up, fill out the volunteer insert.  Pick one up at the service (Occupy Rally) this weekend.   *Bring your Nativities! Once again it will take us all if we are going to Jam and take over the entire Oasis Auditorium and surrounding rooms with Nativities this Christmas. Someone asked me this week if we were going for the Record again this Year! I say, are you kidding me?  NO!  We have the Record! It’s someone else’s role to break our record. But we want to have hundreds, actually several thousand again. We can’t do it without YOU! Whether you can bring one or 100, please pull them out of the attic. It’s time anyway. You are getting ready for Thanksgiving, and that means you are pulling down the Christmas too. So put them by the door and this weekend we will tell you when and where to bring them.     *Christmas Worknights are now Monday - Thursday, 6 p.m. - 10 p.m. We are in a sprint to have everything ready for Light up Friday Night, December 2. You guys are doing great. We need more of you each night to Occupy this property and jam it full of lights and displays. No experience necessary. Saturdays from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. you can come down to work also. Our Lay Pastors came out as a group last Saturday to hang lights.  These guys are incredible. Thanks guys!   *Sponsor a Display for Christmas at the Oasis! Brochures are still available at the Information desk or online here! This along with our Annual Christmas offering is the only way we are able to offer this "World Record” Winning display to up to 50,000 people each year. For as little as $350, you and your family or your business, civic group can sponsor a display . Check it out now and please consider sponsoring one this week. You have until December 31, to make the donation.      *"Stories - Everyone Has one"!  If you are able to attend just one week in November, this weekend better be it. The story you will hear will rock you and you will be moved. I am not exaggerating! You need to hear this. It is powerful. Just wait and see. Praying God does some incredible work through Kai's Story this weekend. Don’t miss it!     *That’s it for now. So much more but got to let you go! See you at "Occupy 14th Street" this weekend.   If you can’t make it to the Rally in person, join us on the web at our International Internet Campus live services at 10:30 and Noon. Invite someone to join you! Maybe a friend or family member from another country. Love to hear stories of those joining us from around the world. And here at home too!   See you this weekend!   Love you guys,   Guy Melton Pastor Oasis Church

You are not alone..........

As it has been many times as I read Oswald Chambers devotional of 100 years ago, God blew me away again. It was not something I didn't already know but, that I needed to be reminded of. Let me share with you a paragraph out of yesterdays "My Utmost for His Highest" devotions.

 

We realize that we are energized by the Holy Spirit for prayer; and we know what it is to pray in accordance with the Spirit; but we don’t often realize that the Holy Spirit Himself prays prayers in us which we cannot utter ourselves. When we are born again of God and are indwelt by the Spirit of God, He expresses for us the unutterable."

 

Yes, when we think we are praying alone, we are not! The Holy Spirit is actually interceding for us to the father. He is God within us. You are not alone. When we carry burdens too heavy to bear He is in us and with us. He is empowering us and He is interceding on our behalf.

 

Just as you and I are interceding on a human level for those in Oasis Church who have requested our prayers each week, He then takes their prayers and ours to the throne of God. Is that not cool? Just sit and think about that for a minute. It will blow your mind that God is actually in you, interceding for you and me. 

 

Check out the passage in Romans 8:26-27 and Acts 4:23-31 and especially check out verse 31 and what happens when we pray. Let me encourage you to take time in your busy schedule. If you do not plan it, it will not happen. Can you imagine the power in us just waiting to Intercede for us?  It’s such a waste when I get so busy in a given day to not plug into God in me. Let’s tap into the role of the Holy Spirit in our Prayer life today. He can and will do amazing things in us.  

 ( Adapted from Prayer Partners weekly email)

Breaking news from Oasis, Grandma got run over.........

Dear Extended Oasis Family,

 (This is our latest Email to our local Oasis Family. I know we have hundreds of friends , family and former Oasis Families scattered around the US and around the world and wanted to give you our latest updates with all that is  going on around Oasis Church during this incredible time of Year) 

Yes, its time for "Thistle Hair the Christmas Bear" and "Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer" again. Two of my all time favorite Christmas songs. Actually I love all Christmas songs. Actually I love All Things Christmas! Actually I love Christmas at the Oasis the Most though!  Christmas is in the air. It was actually a little "Nippy" today and we are seeing Christmas all around us. Not just at the stores. Tonia actually told me that our downtown Hollywood actually had their poles lit already, wow, they even beat Oasis Church!

 

As we prepare for Christmas I want to share some things happening around Oasis Church. This is the time when the activity really Ramps up. So mark these things down. Put them in your smart phone calendar, set the alarm/alert so you don't forget all the opportunities this season. What I love about Christmas at the Oasis is that it is mostly about giving. Giving of ourselves, giving of our resources and giving love to our community. After all Christmas is about Giving. God gave His Son, Jesus Gave up Heaven and so on and so on. So now we have a chance to give.

 

This is your last weekend to turn-in your boxes for OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD.

 

Women's Ministry is leading the way in Giving: This week is the last weekend to bring food for the Sheridan House Thanksgiving Baskets for Single moms. Anyone can bring food and drop it off in the lobby in the "grocery basket".

  

Our Women's Ministry is also gearing up for our Homeless week during December 12 - 17 when families who are homeless are housed in our church, fed and loved on all week. If you want to be a part of that week email Debby Brown debbyb@visitoasis.org  or Sophia Kennedy sophiak@bellsouth.net

 

Guinness Book of World Records presents the Worlds Largest Nativity Display here at Oasis Church. Just in case you haven't heard we broke the "Guinness World Record" for displaying 2,150 Nativities last year. This is still surreal to me. What an accomplishment, Debby Brown and all of you who loaned your nativities had in this. This year we are celebrating that Record by once again displaying hundreds of our displays. Don't miss the "PLAQUE" that we now have displayed in the Lobby with our World Record.  Now lets all bring our Nativities back this year. We need everyone to participate.  You can begin dropping off your nativities November 29 – December 1 anytime from 9 a.m. – 8 p.m. in the auditorium.  All the details will be in the bulletin this weekend.

 

Hundreds of Opportunities are available to be a part of the Largest Christmas display in South Florida. Don't miss the opportunity to sign up for many things this Christmas. From hosting during the Nativity display, homeless week, parking lot during the light display , setting up displays, stringing lights, and tons of other things. You will have an insert with all the details and opportunities this weekend at all services.

 

Sponsorships Available for Christmas at the Oasis.  This might be one of the most critical parts of this email this week. We can’t do Christmas at the Oasis without having folks like you and me who sponsor this month long outreach of love to our community. We have sponsorships available from $350 - $5,000. For as little as $350 you can sponsor a small light display. It cost up to $50,000 each year to present this incredible ministry which is only about $1.00 a person when you consider we have between 45,000-50,000 people come through. That doesn't include thousands who drive by and see the lights but don't drive through. It is an amazing opportunity to be a Part of Something huge. Please pick up the sponsorship form this weekend at the info booth in the lobby and turn it in. It can be donated anytime between now and December 31st. But we need the form now so we know how many sponsors to count on. Please consider being a Sponsor this year. This is a very worthy cause.

 

Christmas Work Nights, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Morning Workdays are going on every week through the end of December.Pastor Christmas, James Brown, his chief Elves Luann Willix and Garfield Lowe are here virtually every night. But the Tuesday and Thursday nights are crucial to finishing up all the preparation. This past week they had 20 people out working on Tuesday, that is awesome. But we can use more. Consider coming out anytime between 6:00-10:00 pm to help out. No experience needed. Food provided. Can’t beat that deal. 

 

"Everyone has a Story", What's Yours? continues this weekend. Last weekend kicked off with Ken McCord. Wow, we had tons of comments about how much God used Ken’s Story to challenge each of us. This weekend I will be introducing you to two more incredible people with stories that will Rock You! They are that awesome. But people just like you and I. Don't miss this weekend. I want to ask some of you Sunday morning types to join me on Saturday night this week. Saturday is growing and really is buzzing. Come try it out. Every person who attends Saturday night is actually opening up a seat on Sunday morning for a new guest. You open a seat in Kids World and you free up a parking space in our parking lot for new folks to attend. Many of the new attenders will find Christ and have their lives changed forever. Try out this Saturday night 6:00 PM. Ill see you there    

 

While there is so much more I want to share with you I am already maxed out in words. What's new? See you this weekend.

 

 

P.S. Don't forget to "Test God" this week by bringing His Tithes and your offerings to church as we worship Him in giving back what He has blessed us with. You can even go online nowand give and do it 24/7. It’s easy and fast. Try it. Oh, and its safe and secure giving by doing it online. It’s been incredible to hear the stories of those who for the first time are tithing. Check out this story on our Oasis Church of South Florida Facebook page of what God did in this person’s life. Powerful.

 

  

Guy Melton

Pastor

Oasis Church

 

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Lifetime TV , Balancing Act show interviews Bike for Haiti

Attached is the link to the Lifetime TV show the Balancing Act which featured our Bike for Haiti , ride raising funds for the Haitian Peoople. 

http://www.thebalancingact.com/story/?id=3480

 

You can also find out more about Bike for Haiti at our Website www.bikeforhaiti.com