Vision

Our vision is for community - a place where everyone is included, making a contribution and reaching their God-given potential.

Mission Statement

Oasis is committed to working in an inclusive, integrated, empowering and comprehensive way so that all people experience wholeness and fullness of life.

Ethos

In Oasis we are Christ-centred; inspired by the life, message and example of Jesus Christ through whom God’s unconditional love for all people is expressed. We are called to love God, and love others as we love ourselves. We therefore seek to work together to extend Jesus’ model of the Kingdom of God on earth by living out a lifestyle according to this inspiration.

Outcomes

• Local communities that are characterised by high levels of trust, safety, cohesion, mutual support, vibrancy, health and opportunity, and have increasing capacity to address their own issues. 

• People who are excluded from community brought back into community and finding wholeness and fullness of life. 

• The replication of models that effectively contribute to community transformation or bring the excluded into community.

Oasis USA is part of the Oasis Global family that works in 10 other countries around the world:  Bangladesh, Belgium, India, Kyrgyzstan, Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda, UK, and Zimbabwe.

Glossary of terms:-

Community: A social, religious, occupational, geographic or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society within which it exists.

Inclusion: The approach that does not alienate or ostracise people but rather gives all, equal opportunity to flourish and prosper.

Contribution: Our acknowledgement that all people have gifts and abilities and can play a part in benefiting God’s world.

Potential: The capabilities that are inherent in all people.

Poor: A term used to describe a wide range of people who do not experience life in its fullness as God intends, including those who lack materially, relationally, socially & spiritually.

Injustice: The violation of the rights of others both at a personal and corporate level.

Empowerment: The approach to people that is characterised by assisting them to take authority over their own circumstances and make their own choices rather than simply providing services or provisions.

Integrated: The understanding that our work as a whole seeks to reflect the integrated nature of life i.e. that human beings are emotional, relational, intellectual, physical and spiritual who function within communities, and wider society.

Transformation: Change for the good that brings benefit to individuals, communities and society as a whole. Transformation is a process not an end goal - it is dynamic in nature not static.