Good morning, good morning, good morning. Hand. It's type for part
two of our community connection Miss Dory Pottery in studio. How you doing,
Hey Tom, I want to invite you to an annual event. However you
can't come. Oh name, it's for ladies only. Oh I got you.
It's a girls' night out. It's a Bartlesville's Connections fifteenth annual Girls' night
Out game Night. And this is something that we've now done fifteen. This
will the fifteenth year, but we've done in my house in July and so
invite people. We kind of call it Poterosa just for the fun of it.
Invite everybody out to Potosa for a girls' night out game night. And
what we do is six o'clock, we start with desserts and people kind of
come and kind of visit a little bit and have some dessert things like that,
and then at six thirty we all gather in the house and the air
conditioning and I just want to say that in case they think they have to
be outside, they're in the air conditioning. And we kind of have it
so that there's one place in my house so we can do enough chairs and
stuff so everybody can see and hear our speaker, so we'll have a speaker,
and actually it's Michelle Cartwright. She's coming from Colorado to speak for us.
And she's just a really fun, fun, funny person and stuff too,
a neat person and Cartwright, I got yeah, yeah, so but
she's she's called holding Out for a Hero is the name of her talk.
And so anyway, she's fun, she's just a great So we look forward
to having Michelle coming to Patarosa and and speaking with us. And then after
she's done speaking, then um, we put all the chairs away and stuff
like that, put out some card tables and some chairs around it, and
then we have game night and people have their choice of what they want to
do. Um, if they want to play Bunco, if they want to
play bingo, if they want to do that creative coloring. You know,
we've got some markers and color pencils and things with those really pretty pictures and
stuff that she can sit there and visit and color. And then we also
some galzil grab a towel and sit out by the pool and just chat,
you know, just relax and um, if it's not too hot, you
know, they'll be there a lot longer than what you know, but if
it's hot, they'll be there short time. I've actually had people get in
before too, but most people just sit with their feet in the pool and
chat if they'd like to do that. But in the really fun thing in
the poolhouse is we've got line dancing going and that's your condition too out there
so that they can do that and uh, and we've have the same group
that's been doing line dancing for us for a while. Becky Eaves is going
to be there to lead it and she's excellent and the ladies just have a
really good time doing that. So you have your choices to what you'd like
to do. Um, it's just a whole lot of fun. We do
charge five dollars and that stuff for the dessert and the money to go back
to stonecrofton to bars, relays, connection and all the projects that that we
do. The desserts are fabulous, all homemade stuff that's just yeah, it's
it's it's yummy. I mean there's also type of stuff or whatever's well,
but most of it, I'll say, the good the good stuff, the
good stuff, yeah, along with punch and water and things like that too.
So but yet now we have a good time with it. We do
ask that that you make reservations ahead of time because we need to know how
many chairs to have, only people to plan for, and so you can
just call it the easiest way out till you just call us here at the
radio station and we'll take your reservation stuff. Yeah, yeah, we'll do
it. We'll get your reservation in for it. Um and invite a friend,
you know, bring a couple of friends, make it a fun girl's
time to come together and stuff too, and we'll have from high school age
gals all the way to gals who come in their walkers, you know.
I mean, it's just a really nice generational group that comes together and that
does this always um new people who've never been there before, and that's always
a lot of fun too. My job is usually as people come in,
I park them ill because we do have a lot of cars, because we'll
have anywhere eighty two hundred ladies sometimes they come, so so my job is
usually to kind of park people along the fence along the road there and then
they can kind of walk in from there. So that's that's what I do.
And we hope for a nice evening so that you know, we don't
have to dodge any raindrops and stuff, but around here nowadays we don't.
We're thankful for every raindrop we get. So if it's a rainy night,
that's okay, we'll make it work. I'm looking out to the west.
It looks like we've got a little shelf cloud maybe even coming in here right
now that could have a little rain in it, and we do that would
be a good thing. But yeah, and one other thing that we're doing
is part of it. Sometimes we have what we call an optional community connection,
and we choose a charity and people can bring things toward it, and
Salvation Army is our optional community connection this time. So we bring canned goods
or non perishable items and we'll give all those to the Salvation Army, to
their food bank and all that they do. So that's optional, but if
you'd like to bring something for that, we'll help deliver that for you to
be able to make that happen. So the connection really does a lot of
good work in the community. And you know, we talk a lot about
the fun ash BacT, yes, but there's also the powerful strength that's behind
all of the well they well, you know, there's a faith part behind
it, and we don't make any bones about it that they know that are
exactly our speaker. She's going to tell her faith story and how the Lord
has helped her get through stuff, overcome stuff, and you know, and
you can do it too type of thing is what she's saying. You know,
it's really always inspirational and encouraging and so, um, yeah, she's
she's humorous, but she also has a lot of depth to what she says
too, So now though that is special. And then we do have Bible
studies throughout the community too that we invite people to if they'd like to come
be a part of our Bible studies. Um, I didn't bring that list
with me, but um, but we've got several of them. So if
you're interested in getting into a Bible study. M The neat thing about a
lot of our studies is if you've never been in a study before, um,
it's they're easy because the page numbers from the little study guide that we
go through matches up with the page numbers or the Bible, so it'll say
like turn to John three sixteen, page seven hundred and twenty four, you
know, or whatever, so you don't have to feel like I don't know
where John is, you know, or whatever? How to you know this
is going to be awkward. No, it's just really simple. And so
if you've been in studies for forty years like some of us have been,
you know, there's a lot of depth to it. But if you've never
been in one before, it also makes it easy to flow for it.
So you know, there's we don't have teachers, we have guides. You
know, our guides lead through the study. We all do it together,
you know, we don't just teach and preach Bible study. You you actually
just go through and learn together, which is really kind of neat and kind
of fun too. We also do that in the jail. We go every
Wednesday afternoon into the jail and do Bible studies with the gals there too.
And so today's Wednesday, so this afternoon we'll have a team that goes in
and does some Bible studies here in our local jail. And then once a
month we do what we call a life lesson in the jail, and usually
it's the same day as our events that we do. So actually that afternoon
Michelle will go in and she'll share with the ladies and stuff too, and
we have some there's some kind of purpose behind it, you know sometimes and
we'll talk about forgiveness, or we'll talk about finances, or we'll talk about
generational poverty and issues and how to overcome and you know, different things too.
So we do a lot of different things with our life lesson that we
do at the jail as well. So yeah, bartle's Ville's Connection has a
lot of different components to it, and we don't have membership or dues.
Just come and come when you can, you know, and be a part
of it. There's some of us that are involved in lots of ways and
lots of parts of lots of moving pieces to it, and then there's some
that just come when they can and enjoy with us. And so yeah,
so whatever you'd like to do, we enjoy it. Invite you to come
and do that. But again that's the next thing that's coming up. I
will go ahead and jump ahead to the future because if you're not available a
week from Thursday, I don't know. If I said that it's Thursday,
July thirteenth, I say to day, Okay, that's that's the deal at
my house a week from tomorrow. But then August tenth, which is a
Thursday. We're going to have a luncheon at Heart Matters and we're calling at
the Heart of it All, and there's going to be a fun little puppet
show type of thing that the Bennets who have in your room at your Room
Ministries. Oh, trying to think of what it's called. Anyway, They're
going to do a really fun puppet show for us, the Bennets are.
And then we've got a Texan who's coming to speak to us, Shelley Templin,
and her talk is going to be Chaos needs a color chart, so
it's gonna be interesting. But the heart of it all, Heart Matters.
September is actually our guest Night and that's the once a year where we invite
the guys to join us too, and this is going to be out at
timber Oaks, which is a fun place just west of town. Yeah.
Yeah, it is so fun. And our whole theme is called Freedom Isn't
Free and we call it guest Night because men and ladies are both invited to
come to that and our topic, our fun thing that we're going to do
is gun safety and Sweet Shot on Firearms is going to talk to us about
it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're going to talk to us about
guns safety and so that should be neat. We're going to honor our veterans
that night too. Anybody that's a veteran, we want you to come so
we can honor you as well. And our speaker is going to be from
Texas and his name's Bill Fuller. He's a veteran and he's going to sing
as well as give us a nice message and stuff too. So yeah,
yeah, September seventh, that's the day. And that's actually the first Thursday
of September. It's also the same time as the fair I think's going on
to It's going to be a busy time, I know, but that's when
it worked out that we could do it. So we'll we'll be doing that
at timber Oaks on September seventh. In October, we're going to have our
spa is going to be our theme. We're calling a Friendly Furry Friends Luncheon
and October twelfth and we're gonna actually be at our Best East Side Branch Community
Room and Connie Harris from Arkansas is going to be speaking with us on painted
Colors of Hope. So a lot of neat things coming up, But things
I'm geared for right now is getting ready next Thursday for a girls' night out
and bite everybody to join us, all right, Thank you, Dori,
appreciate it. You've been listening to Community Connection