Oasis Community Outreach

Oasis Community Outreach Oasis Community Outreach exists to extend the extraordinary, generous grace of Jesus to our neighbors by treating individual needs with dignity and respect.

Illinois Wesleyan Track star Jack Demakis attends Charis Church while he's at IWU. That's where he learned of our volun...
12/18/2025

Illinois Wesleyan Track star Jack Demakis attends Charis Church while he's at IWU. That's where he learned of our volunteer opportunity to help paint our kitchen area over Christmas break. Jack and his mom Kelly came down this morning from Crystal Lake to finish our painting before the installation of our new flooring on Monday. Thanks Jack and Kelly for your mother and son bonding taking place today at Oasis Community Outreach. They love to paint and we love having them.

Our kitchen remodeling project is progressing ahead of schedule and should be completed before Christmas. We are extrem...
12/18/2025

Our kitchen remodeling project is progressing ahead of schedule and should be completed before Christmas. We are extremely grateful to Wm Masters, Inc for donating the services of employee Tad Donovan to do our plumbing work for our two new sinks. Tad has done an outstanding job and he's been a pleasure to work with.

Thanks to Bruce Schenkle and friends from the McLean County Sportsmen's Association for their donation of deer burger to...
12/17/2025

Thanks to Bruce Schenkle and friends from the McLean County Sportsmen's Association for their donation of deer burger to Oasis to share with our neighbors. Now's a good time to extol the health benefits of deer meat. It's extremely lean, free range and antibiotic free. Thanks sportsmen for sharing your abundance with Oasis. We're looking forward to sharing in 2026

Living generously is more than a business motto; for our Thrivent investors it's a way of life. Terry and Janie Houchin...
12/16/2025

Living generously is more than a business motto; for our Thrivent investors it's a way of life. Terry and Janie Houchin delivered the last of our Christmas groceries collected from Thrivent investors. This holiday season, Oasis has received over $9,000 in Thrivent grants to supply our Thanksgiving outreach, Joy of Giving Christmas gifts and now our Christmas outreach. All together over 100 families have been blessed with either Thanksgiving or Christmas groceries while over 50 children were supplied Christmas gifts for their family through our Joy of Giving event last Saturday. Thank you Thrivent investors for choosing Oasis to invest your Thrivent grants with us. Special thanks to Janie Houchin for organizing all of this and reminding us of the blessings of living generously.

On our last food pantry of the year, our door came off the hinges. Thanks to Nate McClintick for his help in getting ou...
12/16/2025

On our last food pantry of the year, our door came off the hinges. Thanks to Nate McClintick for his help in getting our door back on the frame and operating once again. He had some help from his son, also pictured. Thanks Nate, you're the best.

Thanks for these wonderful volunteers from Charis Church last night who shoveled snow so that we can unload our trailer ...
12/16/2025

Thanks for these wonderful volunteers from Charis Church last night who shoveled snow so that we can unload our trailer this morning with food from the Midwest Food Bank. Many hands make light work and we appreciate the many hands that helped.

Santa worked overtime today at our Joy of Giving event. Thanks Santa for brushing the snow off all our cars.
12/14/2025

Santa worked overtime today at our Joy of Giving event. Thanks Santa for brushing the snow off all our cars.

Snow could not keep Santa and Mrs. Claus and their elves away from our Joy of Giving event today at Charis Church. In s...
12/14/2025

Snow could not keep Santa and Mrs. Claus and their elves away from our Joy of Giving event today at Charis Church. In spite of a heavy snow fall, we still had a good turn out. Thanks to all who volunteered and contributed to the gifts we provided for 50 children.

Our kitchen renovations have begun! Thanks to Josh and Sarah Quiram and Martin Jager for painting. When it's all done,...
12/09/2025

Our kitchen renovations have begun! Thanks to Josh and Sarah Quiram and Martin Jager for painting. When it's all done, we'll have fresh paint, new flooring and two new sinks in our food distribution area. Looking forward to serving our neighbors in this renovated space in 2026.

Thanks for these kind words from the Wilber Group. Oasis appreciates their support. Enjoy the photos from yesterday's ...
12/04/2025

Thanks for these kind words from the Wilber Group. Oasis appreciates their support. Enjoy the photos from yesterday's appreciation lunch for volunteers, donors and friends of Oasis held yesterday at Charis Community Church

12/03/2025

Thankful for our volunteers, donors and friends of Oasis Community Outreach. Here's a video of our outreach that we put together to express our gratitude by showing community impact.

Special thanks to our Thrivent investor friends who chose Oasis to invest their Thrivent grants to fund our Thanksgiving...
11/21/2025

Special thanks to our Thrivent investor friends who chose Oasis to invest their Thrivent grants to fund our Thanksgiving outreach. This week Oasis shared Thanksgiving grocery baskets for over 50 of our neighbors who got a frozen turkey, milk, butter, stuffing mix, potatoes, vegetables and ingredients to make a pumpkin dessert. All funded through the generosity of Thrivent investors who follow the Thrivent motto to "Live Generously." Today we used the extra grant money to purchase milk, eggs and butter for our neighbors coming to our Saturday food pantry.

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1308 E. Empire Street
Bloomington, IL
61701

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Monday 9am - 12pm
Tuesday 9am - 12pm
Thursday 9am - 12pm
Friday 9am - 12pm
Saturday 9:30am - 11:30am

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