Our History

For Connie Carlson, switching careers has never been so rewarding. Through a simple cooking class presented by Pat Kauffman, I was introduced to the Weimar Health Institute and their lifestyle. It was truly a Damascus experience. After the four-week exposure to a new way of life, I became hungry and thirsty for more and attended weeks of seminar with TEN TALENTS followed by a three-month Medical Missionary Training with Focus on Health, and registered with Clayton School of Naturopathy. Meanwhile, I was busy sharing through cooking classes, radio presentation and videotaping own programs with my husband’s help. And yet with all this I had not renounced my career in Education and School Administration.

After many years of teaching Foreign Languages in High School and College, and working as a school principal in New York first, then in Florida, I purposed to reach another audience through traveling and counselling on health restoration. Tennessee provided a natural niche for addressing lifestyle changes.

So from 2006 to present, we have been operating a lifestyle center encouraging many to recover their health using biblical principles of healing. Once the cause of the problem is determined, the desirable result will follow.

Originally Oasis Lifestyle Retreat, the Ministry was renamed Oasis Ministries because of its outreaching in Gospel Medical Missionary training activities.

Oasis Lifestyle retreat is located on a peaceful 23-acre countryside. There, you can freely breathe the fragrance of pines and cedars of the mountainous landscape. You can see yellow, red, brown and blue birds that charm your ear with their songs. You will have to look up at the line of gigantic trees and look down to admire beautiful wild flowers that blend their delicate nuances to the greenery of a spectacular foliage of shrubs and herbs. From February to October you will just enjoy the natural beauty of this hidden retreat, and praise the Creator of all things.