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February brings Valentine’s Day. For many people  it’s a day created by commercialism. A day for the purchase of roses, cards, dinners, candy, and stuffed animals. For others it’s a depressing day of one too many rejections, subpar relationships and and unrealistic expectations. Still for others, it’s a way of life, not a day lived out once a year but a love banner to be played out over their lives.

The bible reminds us that we need to practice Agape love. Love without expectation or condition. Love that merely loves for the sake of love. For humans it seems so unattainable. In a world that does for others according to what they themselves are getting, it seems counter-intuitive to do any more than what is being done for us. Yet, if we would put forth the effort of extravagant love, God love, we’d obtain exactly what we thought we’d been missing. Agape love is above feelings. Agape love even loves the unlovable. As followers of Christ it is our duty to love one another even when it looks seemingly impossible.

Can you find it in your heart to love without reason? To simply love another human being because that is the expectation and the law that God has placed before those of us who follow Christ? Can we love because God loves us and put aside the warmies we expect to get when love happens? Can we find a place where we have no expectation of getting anything other than the satisfaction of knowing we loved when we didn’t have to?

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Monique Tobias is baptized!

We started this year off in rare form! A 21 day fast where we prayed corporately for the vision of the church, for each other, and for our community. In the midst of this, we launched a three day revival service where Apostle Reegis Richard came to visit and the Holy Spirit showed up in a big way, providing us with a prophetic encounter. We must have stirred the devil up because his minions decided to break into vehicles as we sat in worship service. Only he miscalculated a community who prays and fasts together because our congregation was not moved by it, we continued to pray and fast and awake to the possibilities we have this year!

Bobby Bettencourt is baptized!

As if that wasn’t enough, we topped it off with the first two baptisms of the year. Pretty great for the first few weeks of January, but of course that isn’t how we roll, we move with the cloud and right now it’s moving quickly, so we also launched a second worship opportunity on Saturday evenings at 6:30 p.m..

We are gearing up for The Art Of Marriage, a marriage conference on February 10-11.

There is so much to be grateful for and so much forward motion that we can’t help but be excited! God is good and who would we be if we weren’t people whose ultimate faith is in Him? We move, breathe and have our life in Jesus and we know there is much more ahead of us!

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Each Tuesday we gather for corporate prayer. If you have a prayer request, please let us know. We’d be happy to hold you up in prayer!

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In 2009 we opened a thrift store. Our goal was two-fold. The first was to be able to help those in our community who needed a hand up. The second was to offer good usable products to those in our community who liked to shop for bargains. We have been working diligently on both these goals for two years now.

Our community has gotten behind our work and we’ve been able to do some amazing things not just for Los Banos but for the world. From this store, we have just last month donated 340 coats and jackets to Coats for Kids. We’ve handed out food baskets, fresh fruit and vegetables, household goods, appliances, furniture, clothing and more. We’ve helped other ministries, and have sent missions to other countries, as well as disaster relief to those areas hit in storms here in the United States. Oasis RMA has been a blessing.

So 2011 brings along another blessing. We are moving to a new location. One three times the size that we have been in. It’s a daunting task but one that we are blessed to be able to make. So please pray for us as we move to to 947 Pacheco Blvd. It’s located right next to JCPenny. We’ll be all moved in by the first of January. We look forward to serving you from there!

Would you covenant together with us and pray for a smooth transition? We’d truly appreciate it!

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New Oasis iPhone App Coming Soon

Here at Oasis we are excited to announce that we will soon be launching our new iPhone application

This application will contain features such as; Times and Location, Map to Oasis, Links to our website Facebook, and Twitter accounts, you will also have immediate access to our Events, and Blog, and so much more…

We will also be working on future developments to bring you access to our weekly live streaming of our service, and access to our Service Archives

so keep an eye out for our launch and be one of the fist people to get the New Oasis iPhone App.

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Wow, there are some exciting things happening at Oasis, we are proud to announce that our new website is finally up! We are still fine tuning some areas of the site so we ask that you check back periodically to see what changes have been made.

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Tuna for us is an American staple. Most of us like tuna sandwiches. How many of us got tuna sandwiches in our lunch boxes as kids?

So could you hear us jumping for joy when we got a call that 8,000 lbs of tuna were available? We immediately thought of how it could impact Haiti, only where would can openers come from? God is good though! The tuna was in packages and already seasoned with lemon pepper! Over 14,000 meals. Hallelujah! So this past Thursday it was loaded on a truck along with 20,000 pounds of clothing and household goods to go to missions!

We are a little church, in the poorest county of California but we are doing our small part of something big called Kingdom work. That blesses me deeply. You don’t even know! I don’t often post here how many things we do but I’m going to start because I want to encourage all of you who read this blog to do your small part.

The day before Mother’s Day we went out the poorest neighborhoods of our city and went door to door.

“Hi, I’m from Oasis, I have some kid’s multivitamins, some school supplies, toys and senior joint health supplements. Could you use some? No, no, there is no cost, we just want to be a blessing and help out. No, we aren’t asking for a donation but do you need prayer for anything?”

An elderly woman said she had prayed for the exact joint health supplements we had. She said they helped her so much but at $18.99 a bottle she could not afford them on a fixed income and had to cut them out of her budget. We gave her six months worth. A small part of something bigger.

Today we gave a bed to a pregnant woman who was sleeping on the floor. Yesterday we gave a dresser to a family who had nothing to put their clothes into. Little things. Perhaps insignificant in the scheme of things but Jesus said, in as much as we did this for others we did this for him. Why does that make me cry? It blesses me so!

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