OASIS CALIFORNIA

In 2008: We Had A Great PRIDE!

Bishop Marc Andrus celebrated our annual Pride Mass outside on the parade route and then came along with us - and our Pride Kazoo Band - as we made the historic march down Market Street. More photos here.

Thanks to all who helped:

The Rt. Rev Marc Andrus, Bishop of California, Presider & Preacher
The Rev. Vicki Gray, Deacon
Mr. Thomas C. Jackson, Subdeacon
Ms. Rebeca Rivera, Intercessor
The Rev. Nancy Pennekamp, Presentor of Lambeth Pilgrims

Also: The Rev. Tommy Dillon, St Aidan’s, San Francisco; the Rev. John Kirkley, St. John the Evangelist, San Francisco; the Reverend Rosa Lee Harden & Lois Williams, Holy Innocents; the Rev. Lyle Beckman, San Francisco Night Ministry; and St. Paul’s Oakland, home and organizers of the Pride Kazoo Band.

Special thanks to our 2008 Contingent Monitors!

Thanks to them we would are able to march. Our 2008 monitors include: Andrew Aldrich; the Rev. Davidson Bidwell-Waite; Robert Craig; Amy Fielder; Charles Frisbie; Trish Grima; the Rev. Teddy Knight; the Rev. Chris McManus; the Rev. Nancy Pennekamp; Josie Ramos; the Rev. Trish Ross; and Fernando Sampaio.

Lambeth, the Amendment & Beyond

This summer bishops of the Anglican Communion will meet in Canterbury England for the Lambeth Conference. Held once a decade, Lambeth brings bishops together from around the world. This summer, Oasis California is working with LGBT groups in US and UK to prepare for Lambeth. You can:

Learn more about Lambeth and our Lambeth projects at our Witness @ Lambeth site @ lambethwitness.org
Join in the Anglican Communion’s process of “listening” to LGBT people through our Letters to Lambeth web site @ letterstolambeth.org.
Support our programs by making a contribution below.

Looking beyond Lambeth we are:

Working to defeat the proposed Constitutional Amendment to ban gay marriage
Preparing for the 2009 General Convention of the Episcopal Church in Anaheim, CA.

LAMBETH: support our effort

Oasis California is working with LGBT leaders to prepare for and be present at the 2008 Lambeth Conference in Canterbury England. We need you help - please make a contribution and send a Letter to Lambeth telling your faith story. You can also send a check to us at: Oasis California, Post Office Box 7802, Menlo Park, CA, 94026-7802.

$10.00		Daily Share - buy a share in the daily expenses of keeping our website online.
$35.00		Buy internet access for Oasis for a month
$75.00		Buy a new template design for our web site.
$125.00		Media share - buy a share in the cost of distributing a news release to newspapers, TV stations and radio news programs.
$250.00		Ad share - buy part of an ad in a local LGBT newspaper.
$350.00		Pay for the postage for an Oasis mailing.
$500.00		Buy a share of a volunteer training program for the 2009 General Convention.
$750.00		Create a new Oasis California brochure in both printed and electronic form.
$1,000.00		Pay for online advertising so we can recruit people to Oasis Parishes.
$1,500.00		Publish a new brochure for Oasis California.
$2,500.00		Cover the cost of organizing a conference to improve parish LGBT ministry.
$5,000.00		Buy a newspaper ads to help us educate Episcopalians on the constitutional amendment to outlaw same gender marriages in Calif0ronia.
$10,000.00		Pay for building our capacity to inform, educate and train LGBT Episcopalians as agents of change in the bay area.

Please note: These sums are estimates of typical expenses. Oasis will combine funds donated in many categories into our budget and work on these three issues. Oasis will acknowledge all donations. Your donation to Oasis California may be tax deductable as provided by law, but check with you tax advisor for guidance.

Join the Listening Process!

LGBT Episcopalians, their friends and families can now use the web to tell their faith stories to the Anglican Communion’s Listening Process. Through Letters to Lambeth, you can tell your unique and important story of how your life and faith have been enriched by being LGB or T or by having LGBT people in your family, as a friend, or in your church. Your letter may be read at a Lmabeth Fringe Festival event during the conference. You can also help spread the word about Letters to Lambeth which was developed by Oasis California.

New site launched for those going to Lambeth 2008

If you are planning to go Canterbury during the Lambeth Conference, you should check out the Witness @ Lambeth. Launched by Oasis California, the new website is designed to help encourage a diverse array of LGBT Anglicans to go to Lambeth and converse with those who are interested in learning what our lives are like. Lambeth Updates here.