Virtual Oasis Fund Drive Tops $100,000
The virtual Oasis Fund Drive has ended and we would like to thank all of our generous donors who helped us top $100,000. Over $60,000 was received from our donors and coupled with the $40,000 match from the Central Valley Opportunity Fund, over $100,000 was raised for our life transformation program, Hope for Men and Women. The funds raised in this fund drive will provide housing, meals, counseling, and classes for the men and women in our faith-based program. Our faith-based program is dependent solely on your donations. Through these gifts, you are directly impacting the lives of men and women and helping them to turn their lives around. Men and women who have been incarcerated, and have spent time on the streets, and suffering from addictions, have now found new life in Christ, are taking jobs, and becoming independent, as many of them are being reunited with their families. Together, we are changing lives and reducing homelessness in Merced County.
Learn more about our faith-based program, Hope for Men and Women, click here.
Virtual Oasis Fund Drive
Join us, between May 15-30, for our virtual Oasis Fund Drive. Together, we are changing lives and reducing homelessness in Merced County. Our goal is to raise $80,000 for our faith-based, Hope for Men and Women program, to keep this program going throughout the year. During our presentation, you will learn more about who we are and what we do. Get informed and feel inspired. Your donations are making a difference.
Presentation available Saturday, May 15, at 9am. Get informed and feel inspired. Watch it here.
A Passion for Restoring Lives
2020 Mission Statistics
Have you ever received an unexpected gift?
Have you ever received an unexpected gift? In those moments you’re overjoyed and overwhelmed - and certainly humbled. When God the Father gave the world His Son, humanity received a gift we certainly did not deserve. Our gracious Lord orchestrated the most wonderful and awe-inspiring delivery for the gift of His Son.
But when the set time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir. Galatians 4:4-7 (NIV)
Because of the grace of the Father through Jesus, we can have a new life. The gift we receive is not just carols and candlelight. We are given the offer of adoption by the Father. We are invited into His “forever family”. We can become His children. The gift we have been given by God the Father through Jesus provides us with the opportunity for new life. Now that’s a Merry Christmas!
Pastor Joel Dorman
First Baptist, Merced
