Greetings to all OAKS volunteers!
I would first like to thank each and every one of you for your willingness to be part of this ministry. You have been such a blessing to His Kingdom. YOU are being His hands and feet! That’s exciting! That’s why we do what we’re doing. Not to gain entry into Heaven, it’s not by works. It’s to glorify God, not us.
When you look at the OAKS website, this newsletter and hear all the stories of how God has used OAKS to touch people through the needs that have come in, you can only sit back in wonder, why us? Why Christ The Rock? Why you? It all leads back to the cross and what Jesus did for us there. It’s about forgiveness of sins and this fallen world that we live in.
I’ve heard a phrase from the lips of volunteers and from a couple people we’ve helped that really stands out in my mind. “OAKS puts flesh on Christ”. You can be proud of that. No matter what level of OAKS you are involved with. If you’re praying over the needs that come in, to sweating through a move, to giving a ride to church or a doctor’s appointment, you are putting flesh to the man who died on the cross for every person on this earth. Great job my brother’s and sister’s in Christ!
Your friend, Dean Roddy
Servant, Seek the Most High God
“God had planned something better for us that only together with us would they be made perfect.” Heb 11:40
It was last spring when God placed on my heart the desire to help people in my community. A friend of mine was on the OAKS e-mail list, and said I just needed to send an e-mail to get on the list. That was the beginning of my journey and God’s calling for me into a serving role in my community and His Kingdom.
My adventure began by sending the email to get on the OAKS list as a volunteer. Unbeknownst to me, God, who is bigger than I will ever understand, was beginning to transform OAKS from a small operation into a bigger and larger community network. Keep reading →
OAKS was contacted for an emergency move on the Wednesday before Easter a couple years ago. The woman was not a CTR member, nor did she attend CTR. Matter of fact, she told me she had not been to a church since she was a child. 
OAKS was contacted by Outagamie County Health and Human Services about an elderly woman in Appleton that the county was going to come in and clean for her once a month. In order for them to start, the house needed to be cleaned first. It was extremely dirty. I honestly had never seen a house that dirty before, we were pretty new at this ministry at this point. The county had heard about OAKS and I went in to do the assessment. The elderly woman had literally not cleaned the house in over a year. 
As she stood in what was left of her belongings after the fire had destroyed everything, she made the statement that the Lord had impressed on her heart recently not to hold on to the things of this world too tightly. Wow! Was that ever true in one of the most heart wrenching attempts to help a husband and wife who had just lost it all. Everywhere you looked, there were parts of their life scattered around and mixed with broken parts of building, next to photos of him, “back in the day”. Over there, we found broken pieces of china, and then among charred bricks and burned wood, nestled in between total destruction, a beautiful tea cup, unbroken, untouched as if someone had protected it in what seemed to be an explosion of their life all over the yard.