Nfluence Church: the Oasis plant of 2004

FIRST MEETING OCTOBER 2004 · FIRST SUNDAY SERVICE, EASTER 2005 · 14719 STATE ROAD 23

The congregation at 14719 State Road 23 tells its own story whole, and it begins in Ohio: in the late 1990s Louie Weber, a former professor at Kentucky Christian College, left the Bible-college classroom to plant a church in his hometown of Wauseon, Ohio, and to train ministers inside the local church instead — the congregation named itself Oasis, meeting first in the spring of 1995. Lucas and Krissy Miles, then serving a church in Granger and asking questions about the Holy Spirit that their own tradition did not welcome, met Weber at a Christ In Youth conference in 2001, moved to Wauseon in 2002 for the ministry training school, and came home commissioned to plant an Oasis church in Granger. They held their first church meeting in Michiana in October 2004, and launched the first Sunday morning service on Easter Sunday of 2005. In 2007, in the church's account a surprise succession, Weber asked Lucas Miles to succeed him as president of the Oasis Network of Churches, and Miles moved the network's headquarters from northwest Ohio to Granger — the designated place becoming, for a network of churches, a seat of government. In 2015 the local Oasis Granger Church and the Oasis Network merged into one ministry under one umbrella, "The Nfluence Network," and the Granger congregation worships today as Nfluence Church at 14719 State Road 23, Sundays at 9 and 11 a.m., with a childcare center on the same campus. The building's own prior life is part of this ground's record and is cross-referenced, not smoothed over: 14719 State Road 23 is the address the press gave the Harris Prairie Church of Christ in 2007, and the older congregation's removal from it is the open question printed in that congregation's entry above.

Sources:

1. Nfluence Church, "Our Story" (nfluencechurch.org), read first-hand — the Weber and Wauseon course (1995), the Mileses' 2001 meeting and 2002 move, the October 2004 first meeting, the Easter 2005 first Sunday service, the 2007 network presidency and the headquarters' move to Granger, the 2015 merger into the Nfluence Network, and the church's address and hours at 14719 IN-23.
2. Harris Prairie Church of Christ entry above — the 2007 address record for the same building, and the open question it raises.