Host a home

Every Oasis home has a host family at its heart: a Christian family who lives on site, opens their home and their table, and walks with each Community Member through a season of growth.

Ask about hosting

What is a host family?

A host family lives at an Oasis home, beside the Community Members, and shares daily life with them: meals around the table, prayer, the work of keeping a home, and the hard weeks as well as the good ones. Many Community Members have never lived beside a Christian family or watched a marriage work through a hard week. A host family lets them see it up close.

At Oasis on Orangewood, the Stephens family is the host family. Meet them.

What hosting looks like

One-on-one discipleship. Meet with each Community Member at least every other week, using a discipleship study your home chooses, such as Experiencing God by Henry Blackaby.
Goals. Help each Community Member set goals for faith, career, education and finances, and look back at them together every other month.
An open table. Share meals, Bible study, prayer and worship nights, and neighborhood outreach, alongside trusted local churches.
A shared home. Keep the home safe and welcoming, and lead the work everyone shares in caring for it.
Grow and go. Walk with each Community Member through the three-year rhythm, then send them off well.

How Oasis walks with you

Host families do not serve alone. A host family from outside Oasis serves under the oversight and mentorship of Oasis's leadership, who pray with you, meet with you, and help with the questions that come with opening a home.

Through our Host Family Sponsorship, partners can help a host family at a new Oasis home with its housing costs, so the family can be more present.

Who we are praying for

We are praying for Christian families who:

love Jesus and want to make disciples in their own home
share the faith in our Statement of Faith
have a heart for hospitality, and for people in a season of transition, most often young adults
belong to a local church and are glad to work alongside it

Some host families open their own home in their own city. Others may move into a home Oasis has found, like Hillside Oasis in Washougal, Washington, which we are exploring now.

Not sure yet?

Asking does not commit you to anything. Tell us a little about your family below. We will write back, and if it seems a fit, we will set a time to talk and pray together.