• Birthday of Annie Besant, TOS Founder

    Our gratitude and reverence to the founder of the TOS, Annie Besant, on her 173rd birthday October 1. May your life continue to inspire us and be the light we follow.

  • Ways to Stay Healthy

    Here are some resources that might help. We hope you take advantage of them. And we are always here to help. Feel free to email us at info@theoservice.org for any questions or concerns you may have.

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  • What Does Helping Others Mean to You?

    The TOS wants to know “What does helping others mean to you?” Not your definition, but why do you help others? What makes you volunteer? How has it changed your life?

    We are hoping to collect videos of people answering these questions. But if you feel shy about being on a video (camera phones are great and easy…hint hint!), we welcome you to send us an audio recording of what helping others means to you. If you send us either a video or audio, please also send us permission to use it as part of our outreach. We are intending to put together various clips as an introduction to the TOS to be used in lodges and study groups.

    We thank you in advance!

  • Latest Issue of For the Love of Life

    The 2017-2018 winter issue of For the Love of Life is available to read for free online. This edition revolves around ethics. The editorial staff would like to thank its readers for all its support. Physical copies are available by request.

Latest News

“Earth Day: Honoring Our Native Lands” with Billie Tope Tate’

Saturday, April 17, 2021
11 am CDT

Join us as we explore the sacredness of nature and give thanks to our Mother Earth with teacher and healer Billie Tope Tate’. Billie Topa Tate' is the founder of MSI Wellness Center in Evanston, IL. She is Mescalero Apache and is dedicated to "Creating a Sacred Place One Person at a Time" through the indigenous native teachings of her teachers. Topa Tate’ has lectured and taught at Northwestern University, The Cancer Treatment Center of America, and more. Her work has been published by several magazines, and she is the author of several meditation recordings as well as several recently published books. She is dedicated to being of service to anyone who is seeking wellness, mindfulness training, and spiritual growth.

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Featured Project

Our Sacred Unity with Nature

Our Sacred Unity with Nature
A Webinar Series

Join us on May 1, 2021 at 11 am CDT as we continue our discussion about the Native lands we live on and our sacred relationship with Mother Earth. Part II of our series will explore teachings from the book Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

On June 12, 2021 at 11 am CDT we will present part III of our series with an interactive session on the extraordinary life of trees, the “standing beings” of our planet. Come join us as we explore teachings from the Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben.

To register for these free interactive events, please email us at info@theoservice.org

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President's Blog

Sticking to Our Guns Is Not the Answer

by Ananya Sri Ram Rajan

The recent shootings in Atlanta, Georgia and Boulder, Colorado bring us back to the conversation about gun legislation and why assault weapons are so easily accessible to anyone over eighteen years of age. In this year alone, there have been thirty-five mass shootings in January and forty-one in February. While not all of these mass shootings were carried out with an assault weapon, the fact is that the ability to obtain a gun and the use of it is a much easier way to kill someone than with any other weapon.

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Love’s Cup Overfloweth

January 18, 2020

At the time of this writing, the Australian bushfires still continue. More than one hundred bushfires are still burning, over 12 million acres of land (the size of Vermont and New Hampshire combined) has been destroyed, and many species native to Australia are on the brink of extinction due to the vast loss. If the animals have not lost their lives in the fire, their natural habitat can no longer provide them food and water which means they will eventually die from starvation unless they are rescued. Read more about Love’s Cup Overfloweth

We Are All Wounded Healers

January 18, 2020

Relationships can be difficult for many people. So much of what we see in the media today shows that many humans have an easier time relating to animals than to other humans. There seems to be an inability among individuals to understand why others do not see the world the same way and frustration ensues as each person tries to get the other to do so. Tactics of blame and shame slip from lips to defend personal points of view and it is done so often, it is not even realized. Read more about We Are All Wounded Healers

TOS Work and its Activities

September 29, 2019

We thought we would take the opportunity to let you know what the TOS has been doing in the last nine months. As many of you know, our fiscal year runs from April 1 to March 31. Our budgetary meeting this year was done in April. We disbursed over $15,000 in grants to various projects that fell into line with the objects of the TOS. More information about those grants will be in our annual appeal letter. The sum of $5,000 was kept aside to help in our outreach program so that the TOS can visit various lodges and study centers in the US without the financial burden being placed on them. Read more about TOS Work and its Activities

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