# Oasis of Love **Summary.** Independent Pentecostal congregation at 303 S. Washington St, **Shippensburg, PA** (~11 miles from Chambersburg), founded **1953** by Harrison F. & Elvina E. Miller as **Deliverance Temple** (renamed "Oasis of Love" in the 1990s). Its lineage runs directly through the **late-1940s Latter Rain Revival** — the movement that pioneered the doctrines the NAR later systematized (restored apostles/prophets, fivefold offices, impartation by laying on of hands, personal directive prophecy). Oasis is therefore **NAR-*ancestral* by direct descent** rather than NAR-*networked*: a legacy hereditary-charismatic work, calibrated **soft**. ## Core Facts - **Founding lineage.** The Millers were Spirit-baptized at an Assembly of God in Hamburg, PA (1935); attended the Latter Rain-era Evangelical Temple in Reading, PA, where they were ordained and sent out (1951); first pastorate Bible Deliverance Center, Saxton, PA; Deliverance Temple dedicated 1954. - **Governance: hereditary "overseer," not network covering.** Founder Elvina Miller ("Sister Miller") received an honorary D.D. from Trinity College of Ministerial Arts (Imo State, Nigeria, 1989) and was consecrated **Bishop** by a convocation under Bishop Giacinto R. Beninate (1999); died 2016. Current senior pastor **Nancy A. Hudson** is styled "Overseer of the Oasis Churches" and self-describes as spiritual daughter of "her spiritual Mother & Founder… Bishop Elvina E. Miller" (authored *Help Her* about that relationship). Sister "Oasis Churches" in Saxton and Huntingdon (Speck family) — a family-line network, not an apostolic council. - **Team.** Co-pastors Ed & Nancy G. Schale, Ambrose & Susanne Brennan, R. Jerome Kater, Angelique & Scott Brown; minister Christy Schale. - **Practice markers.** Prophetic/healing ministry; creative-arts worship ("songs of worship, dance, pageantry"); annual conference (2026: May 22–24; guests Rev. Phil & Denise Cappuccio — "a prophet by calling… a revivalist by nature" — and Pastors George & Carolyn Dupree). Has hosted **"Apostle David Puplampu"** (Accra, Ghana; linked to Bill Hamon's Christian International network). - **International orientation: Ghana, not South Africa.** Runs the Oasis International Training Centre in **Prampram, Ghana** (Brennans); partners with **Rev. Dr. Kwabena Darko** — Ghanaian poultry magnate, 1992 Ghanaian presidential candidate (NIP, 4th, 2.9%), listed as "General Overseer, The Oasis of Love International Church" since 1996. Elvina Miller's original 1953 missionary calling was to the Gold Coast (Ghana) and Nigeria. - **Not found.** Seven Mountains/dominion language; strategic-level warfare; prosperity/seed-faith; formal apostolic covering; Bethel/IHOP/MorningStar ties; controversies or exit testimonies ("none found," not "none exist"). > [!contradiction] > **NAR-ancestral without NAR branding.** Oasis carries the *original* Latter Rain DNA — the very teachings the Assemblies of God condemned in 1949 and Wagner repackaged in the 1990s — but predates and stands apart from Wagner's network world. It is a reminder that the taxonomy's genealogy (Latter Rain → healing revival → apostolic networks) has living pre-Wagner branches: "spiritual mother"/"overseer" honor structure and prophetic presbytery practice without a single Wagner-era vocabulary item. ## The South Africa Question Courtney's field memory holds that Oasis and [[World Harvest Outreach (Chambersburg)]] once shared South African NAR connections while never connecting with each other. Research (2026-07) **could not corroborate the South African leg for Oasis** — every documented international tie is Ghanaian/West African (plus Latin America, Guatemala, Cambodia partners). The *non-connection with WHO* leg, however, is fully consistent with the record: no shared events located. Watch item: pre-web-era guest ministers (1980s–90s conference history) remain unexamined. ## Why This Matters for St. John's UCC Oasis is the oldest charismatic work in the local landscape and demonstrates the *pre-network* form of apostolic Christianity: authority personalized in a spiritual mother/overseer line rather than a distant council. Ex-members will carry honor-and-lineage formation ("spiritual daughter," "the overseer") rather than network vocabulary. ## Open Threads - Wayback Machine pass on oasisoflove.net for earlier affiliations/statements. - YouTube (UCqqqeasgpkFNFrTApIvz-rg) sermon/worship cataloging — transcripts unretrieved; worship sources unverified. - 1980s–90s guest-minister history (the South Africa test). ## Related - [[Living Faith Chapel]] · [[World Harvest Outreach (Chambersburg)]] · [[Overflow Community Church]] · [[New Apostolic Reformation]] · [[Translocal Networking, Local Isolation]]