OASIS Youth Programs
YOUTH GROUP Friday 4-5 pm
OASIS TEEN NITE Friday 5-10 pm
TEENAGER BIBLE STUDY Wednesday 5:30 - 7 pm + SUNDAY 10:30 - 11:30 am
VOLLEYBALL Monday 6-7 pm
Every Friday night 5-10 pm the gym is open for teens 12 years 'n up and young adults to come and play basketball, pool, video games, or just to hang out with their friends. At 7.30 pm we close down for devotions and dinner. We believe here at the "Rec" we have more to offer to the community than simply fun and food or just another place to spend your Friday night - for some of our teens this building might be the only place where they are safe from drugs, violence, and other dangers of their daily lives. OASIS wants to give them a time to breathe free and enjoy, and hopefully find the presence of God.
In addition to that, we started to open up from 4-5 pm for Youth Group. Still trying to figure out a more successful way to really get some one-on-one time with our teens, we thought playing board games together might do the trick - and sure enough here we go and get some whooping! :-) Usually it's a lot of fun and we do get to know each other a lot better...
OASIS TEEN NITE Friday 5-10 pm
TEENAGER BIBLE STUDY Wednesday 5:30 - 7 pm + SUNDAY 10:30 - 11:30 am
VOLLEYBALL Monday 6-7 pm
Every Friday night 5-10 pm the gym is open for teens 12 years 'n up and young adults to come and play basketball, pool, video games, or just to hang out with their friends. At 7.30 pm we close down for devotions and dinner. We believe here at the "Rec" we have more to offer to the community than simply fun and food or just another place to spend your Friday night - for some of our teens this building might be the only place where they are safe from drugs, violence, and other dangers of their daily lives. OASIS wants to give them a time to breathe free and enjoy, and hopefully find the presence of God.
In addition to that, we started to open up from 4-5 pm for Youth Group. Still trying to figure out a more successful way to really get some one-on-one time with our teens, we thought playing board games together might do the trick - and sure enough here we go and get some whooping! :-) Usually it's a lot of fun and we do get to know each other a lot better...
New Year's Eve Lock-In for teenagers 12'n up
December 31, 2011 - January 1, 2012
As every year, New Year's Eve came around with lots of opportunities to get in trouble: Partying, drunk driving, and gang fights are one way to make it into 2012 - or not... :-( Once again, we were privileged to offer our teens a better way: A safe and fun place to spend the night - and hopefully start into the new year with Jesus in their lives!
Activities for the Lock-In included a live quiz show, "Family Feud", devotion time, various tournaments (mario kart, pool, video games, etc.), open gym for basketball, a strong man competition, and a relay race. Of course there also was plenty of pizza and pop!
We truly enjoyed having our friends from Watertown, SD come over and help us bring this event together. They have been a great and faithful blessing over the last years, and this time no snow storm was out there to try and stop them from coming again! :-)
Activities for the Lock-In included a live quiz show, "Family Feud", devotion time, various tournaments (mario kart, pool, video games, etc.), open gym for basketball, a strong man competition, and a relay race. Of course there also was plenty of pizza and pop!
We truly enjoyed having our friends from Watertown, SD come over and help us bring this event together. They have been a great and faithful blessing over the last years, and this time no snow storm was out there to try and stop them from coming again! :-)
SROM Wilderness Youth Camp
August 6-12, 2011 Leon & Mary took a handful of teenagers down to the beautiful Medicine Bow Wilderness area in the Rocky Mountains near Laramie, WY. Under the skilled and dedicated leadership of their SROM-guides, they spent the first three days rock-climbing and learning the basic skills of living in the wilderness. The remainder of their trip was spent backpacking and mountaineering through the backcountry. According to their excited testimonies, the camp was life-changing to all of them! If this sounds interesting to you too, please check out the SROM website http://srom.org/
Basketball Tournament at the courts
It has become a tradition - a good one! Every June when our friends from Watertown, SD come around they help organize a basketball tournament for the local youth which attracts participants and spectators from the whole area. This year we had altogether 16 competing co-ed teams, but as the saying goes, "There can be only one"... Check out the pictures to see who the proud winner was!
"Fire on the Mountain" Youth Camp
Again our youth camp took place at Camp Kinship in cozy log cabins homes nestled into the secluded backcountry of the beautiful Black Hills - that means a whole weekend away from cell phone signal, tv, and big city Rez life. :-) Despite those challenging circumstances (or because of them?), our teenagers enjoyed the camp a lot, and almost everybody came home saying, "We'll be back!" We also met with other youth groups and leaders from Pine Ridge Rez and Rosebud.