Understanding the requested minimum donation



The Spiritual Services offered by the Tranquil Oasis Holistic Living Community include certain blessings and consecrations by ordained ministers.  Simony is a term referring to a spiritual law which forbids the exchange of temporal goods for spiritual blessings.  Our purpose is to provide you with goods and services that will help you to make your world sacred.  We also make it our goal to ensure that only the highest spiritual good is achieved through the actions of Tranquil Oasis Holistic Living Community and its providers.  Therefore we wish to make clear that the donation schedule we have listed is in keeping with the dictates of spiritual law in the same way that churches ask for donations in order to maintain facilities and provide stipends for ministers.  We operate in the temporal world so we require your assistance in maintaining our temporal-world structures and services and spiritual ministers.  Your donations help us to ensure our ability to continue to provide you with Spiritual and Holistic Services through Tranquil Oasis Community.  We never deny anyone access to spiritual services because of financial hardship.  If you are in need of spiritual services but cannot make the minimum suggested donation, we ask that you give what you can whether that be a monetary gift or a gift of your time through our many volunteer opportunities.