Year one: pour in. Each Community Member sets personal discipleship goals, finds a church home, and meets one-on-one with a host. The focus is spiritual growth and healing.
No one walks alone.
Oasis Discipleship Homes is a Christian discipleship program for people in a transitional season of life, most often young adults, and it includes an affordable place to live.
At Oasis Discipleship Homes, a host family lives on site, shares the table, and walks with each Community Member. Over the course of three years, Community Members grow and go: they grow in their relationship with the Lord, and then go out making other disciples.
Why Oasis exists
In 2016 our family lost Jon, a son and a brother. He had moved across the country for school, far from the people who knew him best, and there he lost hope. It was the lack of community that contributed to his choice.
Four years later, the issue of lack of community came to the forefront again. It was through Dan and Skylar's experience of deep Christian community through YWAM that they saw how many people go through life's transitions without such community, especially young adults. From that, Oasis was born.
Two hurdles
People in a season of transition, and young adults most of all, face two hurdles at once.
The first is cost. Rent takes a larger income than a new job or a fresh start can give.
The second is example. Many have never lived beside a Christian family, watched a marriage work through a hard week, or had a mentor who stayed.
Oasis answers both.
How it works
A host family on site. A Christian family lives on site, where they share meals, open their lives, pray with Community Members, and provide each Community Member with ongoing discipleship.
A monthly program fee covering housing and discipleship. Oasis provides affordable options for each Community Member based on individual need and circumstances. Oasis aids Community Members in building strong foundations both spiritually and financially, so that by the time they launch they are ready to stand firm.
Grow and go
Oasis follows a three-year rhythm.
Year two: pour out. Community Members begin to disciple others: friends, family, coworkers. They help plan community events, build their own habits of hospitality, and prepare to stand on their own financially.
Year three: launch out. Early in the third year, Community Members move into their next chapter. This could include becoming an Oasis host family. No matter what, they stay part of the Oasis family and are welcome back for years to come.
Our homes
Oasis on Orangewood.
Glendale, Arizona. Hosting Community Members now.
Our first home: two apartments in a converted barn sharing the property with the host family's house.
Hillside Oasis.
Washougal, Washington. Exploring.
We are praying for a family to host a second home. The home is already identified and available.
Partner with us
Every gift goes to people: a Bible and a welcome note on move-in day, a month of discipleship over coffee, a shared house meal, help with the program fee when life creates a gap.
Building an Oasis takes a community of partners in prayer, in giving, and in leadership.
"By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches."