Oak Life Updates: Community Meal Thursday!
 
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A Dreamer & A Community Meal

On Sunday we continued our conversation called "OG's of the OT: Subversive stories and snapshots from the Hebrew Bible" by exploring the life of Joseph.  As Leslie walked us through some of the different stages of his life (an incredible story BTW), we were encouraged by God's promise in our lives.  After each life stage of Joseph's life, Leslie gave us some practical ways to engage including a gratitude exercise, scripture, and songs. We're so fortunate to have so many amazing people within our community who share their faith and voice with us.  Like most weeks, our discussion was streamed on our Facebook page here.   This coming week we'll be learning about an often forgotten character from one of the most important sections of the Old Testament, Pharoah's daughter. Our hope is that wherever you're at on your journey, we'll be able to travel together!  Also, there is a church-wide community meal this Thursday at Chapter 510!

As always, there are lots of other things going on beyond Sundays, so be sure to read below:
Things Going on In and Through Oak Life:

ROOTS:

Oak Life Community Meal this Thursday May 17th: One of the values of Oak Life is Deep Community. Our aim has been to be a church that not only worships together on Sundays but is also continually becoming more of a family throughout the week.  With that in mind we're throwing a community meal pop-up gathering on May 17th at 7:00pm at Chapter 510.  There will be food, conversation, and community.  Click here for the Perfect Potluck link:  https://www.PerfectPotluck.com/MBZQ8363

Oak Life Children's Ministry input needed:  The Oak Life Leadership Team is thinking through how it can best serve families with the resources we have and we need your input!  If you are a part of Oak Life and have kids or are interested in helping to get our children's ministry started,
please take a moment to fill out this survey.

Ballot Party: Andrew and Leslie are hosting a gathering to get informed on the upcoming election.  It'll be at Leslie's place on Sunday June 3rd at 1pm.  To RSVP or for more info email Andrew: andrewqcheng@gmail.com

Prayer Team Forming: One thing we've experimented in the past with is post-service prayer.  We're currently looking to restart this idea and form a team of folks who can make themselves available to offer prayer to anyone who might need it after our Sunday gatherings.  If you're interested in being on this team, let us know!

Volunteering at Oak Life:  Pretty much everything that happens in Oak Life is a result of folks from the community participating in making us what we are.  We're currently in need of some more volunteers in areas like music, coffee, set up, and media.  If you're rooted at Oak Life we hope you'll commit to volunteer on one of these teams at least once every other month or so.  If you'd like to volunteer or get more info email Greg: greg.oaklife@gmail.com

Life Groups: Meet at various times throughout the week. Currently our Winter/Spring season is in session but if you're looking for info on a group, email back and we'll do our best to get connected.  Also, if you'd like to start a group, let us know!

Generosity Towards Oak Life: Oak Life's roots and branches depend on the generosity of it's community members.  If you'd like to practice financial generosity towards Oak Life, which pays for our rent, staff, and ministry expenses- you can do so online through our website here.   There are options to give on a one-time, monthly or periodic basis.   If you have any questions regarding financial stuff at Oak Life you can send an email to the team: finance-team@oaklifechurch.com

Baptisms: Baptism is a beautiful way to outwardly show an inward faith in Jesus.  We're working on scheduling a baptism up at Lake Temescal soon, so if you'd like like to learn more about Baptism, just email us back!


Facebook Group:  Got a prayer request or community event you'd like to share?  Join our Facebook Group to keep the conversation going.  Also, most Sunday's we live stream part of the service!


BRANCHES- 

Third Sunday Giving Update:  Once a month we give away our entire offering to a local group or cause and it's been super encouraging to see the ways we've been able to join in good work in our community.  This month Oak Life gave $518 to Covenant House who serve homeless young people in the East Bay.  If you'd like to learn more about their work, click here.  If you'd like to watch a thank you from some of our third Sunday partners click here.

Project Peace Day of Service: Throughout the year Oak Life joins hundreds of other folks in the area for Days of Service with Project Peace. The next one is 9am on Saturday June 2nd, at Garfield Elementary. RSVP here mark your calendars!


Homeless Community Support: Oak Life is connected to a local camp community and we're always looking for donations to bring our friends.  Current needs include: bottle waters, clipper/bart cards, packs of socks, cold meds, and gift cards.  If you'd like to donate, just bring something in on a Sunday and we'll deliver it that week.

Social Justice Team:
We‘re steadily building momentum on our first project! (details to come) We‘ve also been developing relationships with other social-minded organizations including, OCO, LavaMae, and The Interfaith Council of Alameda. Our current focus is around how we can work toward impacting the housing crisis in our community. If you'd like more info you can contact Greg who will be helping to facilitate: greg@oaklifechurch.com



Other Stuff?  Got ideas for other ways we can serve our community?  Want to start a new group?  Interested in organizing a hike our outing? Oak Life is a community led church- so let's make it happen.  Just shoot us back an email.




That's all for now!



Grace and Peace, 


Greg Steward


Oak Life Church
www.oaklifechurch.com
Sundays 10AM at The New Parkway Theater
474 24th St, Oakland, 94612
Twitter / Instagram: @oaklifechurch

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