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Oasis Adventist Church youth director

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  • Praise in the Park, An End-of-the-Summer Outreach—Oasis Style

    December 01, 2004, by Bruce Biggs, Bruce Biggs
    "Why not have church in the park some Sabbath?” thought a father as he ate lunch with his daughter in the park. A few months later, that father was working as the youth director for the Oasis Church in Boise. He presented the idea to the church as...
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