Rev. Geri Carder

Oakland Center for Spiritual Living (OCSL) is a 501(c)3 Religious Non-profit Corporation.
Unless otherwise noted, all contributions will be applied to our general operating fund.
Thank you for your contribution to the Oakland Center for Spiritual Living.

Donor Designated Donation Policy

For contributions given to Oakland Center for Spiritual Living for a preferred/designated use or ministry – we would endeavor to apply the funds to the preferred program or ministry; however, the Center reserves the right to broaden or alter the gift’s preferred/designated purpose and use at our discretion if the gift’s original purpose no longer meets the Center’s needs or best serves our mission.

For example, such determination may be made in the event the designated purpose has already been achieved, the ministry is no longer viable, or the donation no longer fits the scope of our mission or needs. If a contribution is put in a designated fund for a specific purpose, any contribution received over and above the amount needed for that purpose will be placed into the general fund for operating expenses.

Any inquiries or proposal regarding a specific large contribution being legally restricted can be submitted to the Board of Trustees.

Thoughts for Contemplation

There is an Infinite Law of the Spirit, or Law of Life, which tends to multiply our gifts, because in so doing It multiplies Its own experience, Its own pleasure, Its own fruition.  Ernest Holmes

When I chased after money, I neve had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.   Wayne Dyer

From time immemorial humankind has fought and struggled to survive. Throughout history the belief in “not enough” has dominated the minds and the behavior of the majority of human beings. It is the illusion that you are separate from the source of your abundance that gives birth to a belief in not enough.  Dennis Merrit Jones

Abundance is the causative principle of more than enough, and prosperity is the exquisite effect. The question is, which one do you tend to focus more fully on: the cause or the effect? As we shall discover, we can’t have one without the other. The secret to life lies in knowing which one comes first and giving that our primary attention

As a universal principle, abundance is omnipresent and therefore available to us every moment of the day; the challenge is that we are not always present and available to abundance.  Dennis Merrit Jones