{"id":323257,"date":"2026-11-07T19:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T19:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/323257\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T19:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T19:24:09","slug":"oasis-community-kitchen-celebrates-10-year-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/323257\/","title":{"rendered":"Oasis Community Kitchen celebrates 10-year anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Oasis Community Kitchen in Homewood celebrated its 10th anniversary on Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The coffee shop and kitchen originally opened to create a space for the community to gather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The kitchen operates in partnership with Bible Center Church to support local residents. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Their joint efforts include after-school programs, an urban farm and assistance programs for people in need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">John Wallace is the senior pastor of Bible Center Church and founder of Oasis Community Kitchen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cWe wanted to make our little piece of earth more like heaven&#8211; and I\u2019m sure there is coffee in heaven,\u201d Wallace said. \u201cSo a place for people to come and hang out, meet friends and just be. That\u2019s why we are here. The inspiration was that nothing like this existed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The kitchen is located on the 500 block of North Homewood Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Oasis Community Kitchen in Homewood celebrated its 10th anniversary on Friday. The coffee shop and kitchen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9598,2163,131033,131029,13456,131027,131028,73,75,131026,74,131031,131034,131032,131030,131035],"class_list":["post-323257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-coffee","tag-homewood","tag-homewood-coffee","tag-homewood-oasis-kitchen","tag-kitchen","tag-oasis-kitchen","tag-oasis-kitchen-homewood","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-kitchen","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-third-spaces","tag-pittsburgh-urban-farms","tag-pittsburgh-urban-gardens","tag-third-spaces-in-ptitsburgh","tag-urban-farms-pittsburgh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}