Oasis Of Faith Christian Center
Helping You Prosper & Live A Victorious Life
Romans 1: 17 "The Just Shall Live By Faith"
After completing Bible school at their home church of Praise Christian Center in Pomona,
California under their Pastor and Teacher Dr. John H. Woods Jr, Pastor Harrelson completed
the Rhema Bible Training Center Correspondence School. Pastor Harrelson has been an avid
student (via Cassette Tapes & Cd's) for over twenty-five years of Dr. Frederick K.C. Price of
Crenshaw Christian Center in Los Angeles, California. It was Dr. Price and his teaching, he
says, that changes his life as well as the Lord Jesus Christ. Pastor Harrelson had known from
the time he was a very small boy that God had placed a call on his life. Though not being raised
in a Christian home, his parents had always taught them to believe in and to fear the Lord.
After accepting the Lord Jesus Christ on October 15, 1981, he returned to the Primitive Baptist
Church that he and his family frequented during his early childhood years. During this time he
hungered and thirsted for more of God and received the gift of the Holy Spirit with the evidence
of "speaking with other tongues" -- also known as "glossolalia."
Soon after leaving the Baptist Church he started attending a Full-Gospel Pentecostal Church,
where he began to teach Sunday School and come into a fuller knowledge of the power of the
Holy Spirit. It was at that time he was introduced to the teaching ministry of Dr. Frederick K.C.
Price that changed his life.
After over twenty years in the restaurant business, he and his wife Carla answered the call of
God on their lives to enter into full time ministry. One day while working in the restaurant, the
Lord spoke to him saying, "FEED MY SHEEP AND FEED MY LAMBS," according to John
21:15-17. The Lord instructed him to teach and train God's people in the Word of God, in the
same manner that he taught and trained people in the restaurant business. "Don't tell them to
live a Christian life, but rather "TEACH THEM HOW TO DO IT" were the Words the Lord
spoke into his spirit.
On August 7, 1988, Hesperia Christian Center, Inc, held it's first service at the Lime Street
Community Center, located at 16292 Lime Street, in Hesperia, California. It was four and one
half years later that they moved into their own facility where they have become one of the
fastest growing churches in the High Desert of Southern California. Today Pastor Harrelson
and his wife Carla are fulfilling the vision God has given them for the Church. Currently they
have established Oasis of Faith Bible School, which is a three year course, offered in
correspondence studies. This is for those who wish to further their education in the Word of
God; Oasis of Faith Prison Ministry Team, which goes into the local prison system and helps to
equip inmates to be productive citizens so when they are released they will never enter the
prison system again.
Pastor Harrelson is known by millions of people across America through the "Oasis of Faith"
television broadcast via cable and satellite. The Church is constantly expanding for the overflow
of people that have been coming to the services. Their ultimate goal is to bring all they can into
the saving knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ through the Word of God so they can
live a life of prosperity and victory in Jesus Christ.
On January 1, 2007, the ministry changed its name to "Oasis of Faith Christian Center"
Pastor Harrelson currently has over three hundred teaching CDs on various subjects from
"Angels to Prosperity." He has also authored a mini book entitled "Worthy of Wealth." He
enjoys spending time with his family as well as coaching baseball, fishing and traveling.
California under their Pastor and Teacher Dr. John H. Woods Jr, Pastor Harrelson completed
the Rhema Bible Training Center Correspondence School. Pastor Harrelson has been an avid
student (via Cassette Tapes & Cd's) for over twenty-five years of Dr. Frederick K.C. Price of
Crenshaw Christian Center in Los Angeles, California. It was Dr. Price and his teaching, he
says, that changes his life as well as the Lord Jesus Christ. Pastor Harrelson had known from
the time he was a very small boy that God had placed a call on his life. Though not being raised
in a Christian home, his parents had always taught them to believe in and to fear the Lord.
After accepting the Lord Jesus Christ on October 15, 1981, he returned to the Primitive Baptist
Church that he and his family frequented during his early childhood years. During this time he
hungered and thirsted for more of God and received the gift of the Holy Spirit with the evidence
of "speaking with other tongues" -- also known as "glossolalia."
Soon after leaving the Baptist Church he started attending a Full-Gospel Pentecostal Church,
where he began to teach Sunday School and come into a fuller knowledge of the power of the
Holy Spirit. It was at that time he was introduced to the teaching ministry of Dr. Frederick K.C.
Price that changed his life.
After over twenty years in the restaurant business, he and his wife Carla answered the call of
God on their lives to enter into full time ministry. One day while working in the restaurant, the
Lord spoke to him saying, "FEED MY SHEEP AND FEED MY LAMBS," according to John
21:15-17. The Lord instructed him to teach and train God's people in the Word of God, in the
same manner that he taught and trained people in the restaurant business. "Don't tell them to
live a Christian life, but rather "TEACH THEM HOW TO DO IT" were the Words the Lord
spoke into his spirit.
On August 7, 1988, Hesperia Christian Center, Inc, held it's first service at the Lime Street
Community Center, located at 16292 Lime Street, in Hesperia, California. It was four and one
half years later that they moved into their own facility where they have become one of the
fastest growing churches in the High Desert of Southern California. Today Pastor Harrelson
and his wife Carla are fulfilling the vision God has given them for the Church. Currently they
have established Oasis of Faith Bible School, which is a three year course, offered in
correspondence studies. This is for those who wish to further their education in the Word of
God; Oasis of Faith Prison Ministry Team, which goes into the local prison system and helps to
equip inmates to be productive citizens so when they are released they will never enter the
prison system again.
Pastor Harrelson is known by millions of people across America through the "Oasis of Faith"
television broadcast via cable and satellite. The Church is constantly expanding for the overflow
of people that have been coming to the services. Their ultimate goal is to bring all they can into
the saving knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ through the Word of God so they can
live a life of prosperity and victory in Jesus Christ.
On January 1, 2007, the ministry changed its name to "Oasis of Faith Christian Center"
Pastor Harrelson currently has over three hundred teaching CDs on various subjects from
"Angels to Prosperity." He has also authored a mini book entitled "Worthy of Wealth." He
enjoys spending time with his family as well as coaching baseball, fishing and traveling.
Darrell and Carla Harrelson
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