Christian Churches New Jersey-Oasis Church NJ
August 19, 2009 by David
(8.18.09)-Oasis Church is a New Jersey Christian church in the making, and I am really excited about what God has done so far. Sorry this update has taken so long, but as a tent-making church planter, my time with Oasis is limited to less than 15 hours per week. But right now as I write this, I am so overwhelmed with gratefulness for our TEAM and all the blessings of the last few months.
New Jersey Christian Church Summer
Update and Needs
- Where do I begin? Well, some dude I met in person only twice wrote us a little check for $90,000 because we communicated our vision to him, and he believed in us and our mission to compassionately share Jesus with hurting and hungry people here in Union County and all around the world! Mark, I want to thank you, and with Jesus’ help we will not disappoint!
- We completed the Alpha course in late June 2009, and came out with four (4) healthy Connect Groups that have kept steam up through the Summer. I can’t believe we are getting over 40 people coming out weekly on a Sunday night for 2 hours in the dog days of Summer! I also can’t wait till we shift to monthly Sunday morning gatherings to see how many folks we can reach at that time.
- After Alpha we challenged people to join our Launch Team in this crazy but thrilling New Jersey Church plant experience. I got tears in my eyes because it was so amazing to see these people, many still not believers, excitedly putting on Oasis T Shirts, wanting to become part of something big right here at the beginning. The end result is that we more than quadrupled our Oasis Launch team coming out of the Alpha Course. We are slowly discipling these people to become committed followers of Jesus.
- Don’t think this has all been a bed of roses. We still have a ton of needs, and I’m hangin’ on to Jesus for dear life because I have no time. For starters, we are still “piss pot poor” as church plants go, and we’re short on Christian leadership for our systems, as most of our people are either pre-Christian or brand new believers.Additionally, although our launch date is still a ways off in 2010, we still need a worship leader who can play guitar, sing and be able to connect with Jesus and people in a passionate way. If any of you guys know of anybody like this, can you please give us a holler? Thanks.
- Over all, this stuff (starting a church from scratch) is hard work, and not for those who lack faith, or can’t deal with the rejection and weekly ups and downs. In fact my advice to anyone desiring to plant a church is to get his head examined…unless he knows God has really called him. Otherwise, chances are he will end up in the nut house from a nervous breakdown, go bankrupt or both. I’m not planning on doing either, but I could sure use your prayers. Mathew 11:28 and out.
Locate a Church in NJ
September 1, 2008 by David
Each month over 20,000 people Google “locate a church” in their quest to, well, locate a church that’s best for them. In fact, many of our guests at Oasis-Church-NJ are looking to locate a church in NJ for that exact reason. So how does one locate a church that will meet their particular needs? It’s not as easy as some people would suppose to locate a church in New Jersey, because there are only so many good evangelical churches in these parts, and not all within a decent driving distance. However, the following simple “locate a church” tips may help you save you time and stress in your search for a church in New Jersey.
Locate a Church Steps
- Before you begin to physically locate a church, you should know for certain what you are looking for in a church. Reading these articles: Find a Church Guide and Church Search Tips will help you in this important first step.
- After you have chosen what kind of denomination or non-denominational church you desire to locate in your area, we suggest an online Google, Yahoo or MSN search using keywords such as “locate a church directory”, or simply “NJ church directories”. Oasis-Church-Nj.com even has little church directory by NJ towns to get you started.
Have other “locate a church” tips you would like to offer others. Feel free to share it here!
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Church Search Tips for Finding Good NJ Churches
June 9, 2008 by David
This week’s post on church search tips on how to search for good NJ churches is really an addendum to last week’s find a church guide. Many people are on a church search in NJ for a variety of reasons. Here are the top reasons we feel people are presently searching for a church in the NJ or NY Metropolitan Area:
Top 4 Reasons for a NJ Church Search
- The church search is taking place because of an impending or recent move to good old New Jersey (are they crazy or just masochists?) For many, part of the stress involved in all that involves moving is searching for a new church family.
- Perhaps the folks are on a spiritual journey looking to find more meaning in this thing we call life, and figure a church search is a way to accomplish this.
- A church search is taking place because the person has had a re-awakening and is now looking to connect with other Christians after avoiding church for years.
- The person involved in a new church search is a church hopper who got ticked off at the pastor, elders, people, music, color of the baptismal robes or all of the above at the last NJ church attended, and are looking for greener pastures elsewhere.
May I speak the truth in love for moment? If you are on a church search on account of one or more of the first 3 reasons given above, why gosh darn, we’d love to have y’all! However, if you fall under ‘church search reason #4′, why don’t we both save ourselves some time and stress and have us help you search for a good Bible believing, Spirit-filled church elsewhere other than Oasis?
Why do I say the above? Well you see, our vision at Oasis is all about compassionately introducing Jesus and His love to tens of thousands of hungry and hurting people here in NJ and all around the world, and chances are you’ll sooner or later end up getting pissed off at at us too for the way we go about fulfilling the Great Commission. So why not part as friends before we end up up giving each other agida, okay? No hard feelings? Great.
How to Search for a New Church
What you can do to help your church search:
- Pray for the Lord’s guidance and wisdom (Prov. 3:5,6; James 1:5) as you Church search
- Google “church search websites and directories” and see what comes up
- Church search by demographic location starting with the towns in your local area.*
- Ask other trusted believers where they go, or what church they would recommend
- Read our previous post on how to find a good NJ church
Over all, if you recently were on a church search in NJ, and have any other tips you would like to offer on how to find a local church, you can help others by sharing them here.
* For example NJ churches in my local area include those towns from Middlesex and Somerset Counties:
Middlesex County
- Carteret
- Cranbury
- Dunellen
- East Brunswick
- Edison
- Highland Park
- Jamesburg
- Metuchen
- Middlesex
- Milltown
- Monroe
- New Brunswick
- North Brunswick
- Old Bridge
- Perth Amboy
- Piscataway
- Plainsboro
- Sayreville
- South Amboy
- South Brunswick
- South Plainfield
- South River
- Spotswood
- Woodbridge
Somerset County, NJ
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