WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.879 --> 00:00:08.119 Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome Wong and welcome. 2 00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:12.720 It's time now for our community connection. Right here on came one the one 3 00:00:12.759 --> 00:00:15.839 you trust. We have Angela and Don and study. How are we doing 4 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:21.960 today? Kids doing real well? Excited, good, very excited. We're 5 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:27.399 going to talk about something that's worth celebrating. It's called Celebrate Recovery. And 6 00:00:27.480 --> 00:00:30.239 Angela, tell us a little bit about. First of all, where you 7 00:00:30.399 --> 00:00:34.920 located and what's it all about. Okay, our program is nationwide, but 8 00:00:35.039 --> 00:00:38.960 we are located one of the many, but we are located at the Washington 9 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:44.520 Park Mall at Victory Worship Center here in Barnesville. And don you play a 10 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:47.200 big part in this too, don't you, sir? Well, I'm just 11 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:54.399 I'm the promoter and kind of the one that the voyage of one crying in 12 00:00:54.439 --> 00:01:03.320 the wilderness, but putting together programs, fundraisers for them to help promote what 13 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:07.159 they're doing in the community and the difference they're making. Tell us what you're 14 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:11.120 doing in the community, guys. The story you just got, the tip 15 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:12.359 of the iceberg is before we got on. I want to share it with 16 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:18.200 everybody. Okay, So we've taken our Celebrate recovery to a whole other level 17 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:23.719 by providing we have our meetings on Thursday evenings at five forty five, we 18 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:27.719 provide a dinner for everyone who comes and attends, and so with what we 19 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:30.519 have left over, instead of just wasting it or throwing it away, we 20 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:34.760 take it on Fridays at noon to go out and feed the homeless in our 21 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:40.319 community. And within that outreach we've been able to not only provide for their 22 00:01:40.359 --> 00:01:45.200 physical needs, but also to get them on a track of celebrating recovery from 23 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:48.799 whatever their hurts, habits, or hang ups might be as well. Well. 24 00:01:48.879 --> 00:01:53.879 When we find that folks are homeless, it's not just one size fits 25 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:57.280 all. There's a variety of different contributing factors, are there. Not sure 26 00:01:57.359 --> 00:02:04.159 every situation and every person is different. Done we know of different ways. 27 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:09.879 I know people who built the catchphrase as well. You know it's drugs and 28 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:15.280 alcohol. But something happened before that, right, and that's usually the root 29 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:23.280 of the whole problem. Either they've lost their job, of something happened and 30 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:32.919 automobile break down couldn't afford rent circumstances in life calls us to recover, and 31 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:40.479 part of this program encourages those that are in recovery, regardless what their circumstances 32 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:46.840 are, that it is available. In recovery is the recovery from a lot 33 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:51.159 of different things. We tend to a society to paint this with a broad 34 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:54.360 brush. That's not the case as the kids, No, it's not the 35 00:02:54.400 --> 00:03:00.639 case. You know, you look at someone that's recovering from catsh we don't 36 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:07.919 see what they're going through through their recovery. But in a place or position 37 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:14.199 where we allfare systems and where they're doing with the program that they're doing, 38 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:19.439 we'll be able to even reach those people. Wow. So you touch a 39 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:22.240 lot of different lives in a lot of different ways, and there are a 40 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:24.879 lot of different paths that come to you, aren't there sure, And we're 41 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:30.520 finding more and more as we are out in the field. If you would 42 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:35.280 say that a lot of the habits, which would be the drugs, alcohol 43 00:03:35.319 --> 00:03:42.479 addictions actually stem from some sort of childhood trauma that's happened or even adulthood trauma. 44 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:49.280 Statistics say that seventy percent of Americans have some sort of trauma by the 45 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:53.680 time they reach adulthood. And if you don't know how to properly get through 46 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:58.199 that, it can really become a hang up in your life, and you 47 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:00.960 can be stuck in the same cycle. Trying to help people get out of 48 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:05.240 these cycles. This used to be something that people would refer to as a 49 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:11.719 person who's become broken. And what we're doing is bending that that's right, 50 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:15.600 which is ultimately the full gospel of Jesus Christ. And that's what we see. 51 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:21.160 I saw what you did, Yes, isn't it? Yes? Now? 52 00:04:21.399 --> 00:04:27.240 Where can we find you? Where can we find you? We can? 53 00:04:27.279 --> 00:04:31.800 You can find me at Dedicty Worship Center though at the mall. We're 54 00:04:31.839 --> 00:04:39.319 there are there have shaveral different services. I'm a phone call away at any 55 00:04:39.399 --> 00:04:47.720 time. I'm eligible and available for help. I am an encourager. I 56 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:56.800 leak and my tentacles go into seven areas of the ministry to where they can 57 00:04:56.839 --> 00:05:00.879 get a hold of me. I can help them get a hold of the 58 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:05.160 program with an assession of what they need. Wow, that is really amazing. 59 00:05:06.279 --> 00:05:09.720 We need funds, though, to keep this a float, don't we. 60 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:12.240 Yeah, that's kind of where we are right now in our juncture. 61 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:14.879 We've got a lot of folks who need help. We want to give them 62 00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:16.439 the help, but we want to make sure that we can continue. Correct, 63 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:23.040 that's right, that's right. We are having a fundraiser this Saturday night 64 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:27.839 there at the church and the mall. It's going to start at six o'clock. 65 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:30.519 We're going to go till seven point thirty. It's going to be a 66 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:39.480 free country gospel music concert. I have several singers that are volunteered the time 67 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:43.519 to come and we're going to sing and we're going to just have a good 68 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:46.920 time. There's gonna be door prizes. They've got a silent auction going on. 69 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:51.480 We're gonna have a refreshment chapter the service. It's just going to be 70 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:56.040 a good toe capentine. Can we make a love offering while we're there? 71 00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:01.079 You bet donations will be accepted. And if you're out there and you can't 72 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:06.439 make the service, if you have a donation, if you want to contact 73 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:12.839 me or Angelo, we will be more than happy to come and pick it 74 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:19.920 up. We're having some merchants here in town. They're doing gift certificates and 75 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:25.160 we're going out and taking them up and we're going to use them for door 76 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:30.399 prizers. Nice and then I've put together some silent auction items that we've had 77 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:33.079 donated, so lots of goodies that you can get for your wives or husbands 78 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:36.120 or something like that, just to kind of time for the holiday season. 79 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:40.600 Huh ye see, it's gonna all tidy. It is a win win win, 80 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:45.399 win, win win, win and win again situation and then and win 81 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:48.600 once more. Yes. Sure, this is what we call taking care of 82 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:55.319 the home team. Yes. And one thing that I see every morning, 83 00:06:55.639 --> 00:06:59.160 I see some of the people that could probably use your help. I come 84 00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:02.560 in here about three or four o'clock in the morning and they're making their track 85 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:09.199 from the highway area to downtown. Yeah. And sometimes we have conversations, 86 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:14.680 sometimes just wait. Sometimes we don't say anything at all, but you can 87 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:18.839 tell that this is a person who's probably doing the best they possibly can just 88 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:24.680 to stand up straight and keep moving. And if you ask them in a 89 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:28.279 moment if they needed help, they their pride might get in the way initially, 90 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:30.800 but you know in their heart that they do and they do want it. 91 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:32.959 Yeah. Is that what you find too? Sometimes folks kind of put 92 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:36.879 that armor out there. Yeah. Sure, there is ultimately a guard that 93 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:41.399 they put up. You know, they've and they've been in situations where maybe 94 00:07:41.399 --> 00:07:46.240 people weren't so nice because they look at them differently, But we go at 95 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:49.279 it as if you Jesus pay the same price for all of us, and 96 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:55.319 they are they were at some point someone's son or daughter or baby. Still 97 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:58.600 are you know, and still are right. They're just in this spot that 98 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:01.839 they need. They encourage meant to help to get out of One family that 99 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:07.920 I became friends with, it was a family of twelve and it was medical 100 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:11.800 things that got them on the ropes. And this family lived for two years 101 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:16.519 in a tent in the woods. The kids went to school every day without 102 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:22.560 fail, continued their life and now fail never told anybody that they're living out 103 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:28.000 in the woods in a tent. And they finally, with the help of 104 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:33.159 their church, got through what they needed to get through. And every one 105 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:37.799 of those kids never forgot that experience. They weren't bitter, but they never 106 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:41.440 forgot that and they've gone out. Eight of the twelve are kind of doing 107 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:46.600 some of the work you're doing right now because they know that you're never fully 108 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:54.720 lost. You're findable. You're absolutely findable, and you have worth and you 109 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:58.519 have something to offer. Man, it's a beautiful thing that you guys do. 110 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:01.080 It's kind of like when you see somebody have that all hall moment, 111 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:05.159 like unwrapping a gift, maybe a gift from God. That's right, you 112 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:15.919 agree, when when you've been redeemed from a lifestyle of that kind of life 113 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:24.320 and you the obstacles that come up that you learn to overcome through the faith 114 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:33.000 of God and help from programs such as this, the individual help that this 115 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:37.799 program is offering to each and everyone. You know, it's hard to ask 116 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:43.120 for help. It's hard to come in and say, man, I'd like 117 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:46.480 to have this job, but I don't have any show to take a shower. 118 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:50.039 It's hard to do those kind of things. But we're coming to a 119 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:58.519 time where the community is going to have to assist those that are downtrodden, 120 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:03.919 and they're going to have to to help them get their shelf respect back up 121 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:09.799 to where they become confident in their shelf or not to make a difference in 122 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:15.759 our society. That's amazing. And if you would look at me and even 123 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:22.159 my husband Logan, you know we both spent time in prison. You never 124 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:24.159 guessed, right, So there was a time in my life where I was 125 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:31.480 at my absolute lowest point and no one believed in me. Then you know, 126 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:35.159 up until the point where I had went to prison and where God was 127 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:39.080 more available to me, you know, and I was made aware of him 128 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:41.559 and what he was able to do in my life. And then now he's 129 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:45.600 brought me this far, you know, where we can provide that to you 130 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:50.120 know, He takes everyone and brings them from nothing to something. And so 131 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:54.519 that's another part of our celebrate recovery, helping people find their identity that even 132 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:58.600 though they're where they're at, that's not where they have to stay or going 133 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:03.320 to be, and then God can turn it around and use them even to 134 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:09.039 help even more people. Don tell us again about the fundraisers so we can 135 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:13.559 keep this miraculous work going. That will be this Saturday night from six to 136 00:11:13.639 --> 00:11:20.679 seven point thirty. We ask for donations, get your free concert. We 137 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:26.039 ask for things personal hygiene items. It's starting to get cold. We're going 138 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:31.919 to need some cokes, gloves, stocking gash. I myself im guilty of 139 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:37.159 having more coaches than one, and I am guilty of having more than enough. 140 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:45.840 And most of us are make the effort to come out and donate to 141 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:50.919 a group of people that need assistance and encouragement at this time of the year. 142 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:56.039 That's great, that's it the Victory Worship Center, fifty Worship Center, 143 00:11:56.159 --> 00:12:00.320 the Church in the Mall. Yes, I like that. It's a good 144 00:12:00.360 --> 00:12:03.639 little tag, the Church in them All. I love it all right. 145 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:07.960 Well, this has been a very eye opening conversation. It's also been rather 146 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:13.440 uplifting, too heavy at times, but it's supposed to be because we do 147 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:16.480 have to pick up and carry the load a little bit for those who can't, 148 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:20.000 and that's what we do. That is absolutely what we do. And 149 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:26.759 it's great to hear your story and don yours as well. And folks, 150 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:31.039 your story might not be written yet. And if you know somebody who's in 151 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:37.759 need maybe a little reluctant casual nudge, maybe bring them on out to the 152 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:41.799 church. This will probably be a good thing coming up on Saturday, and 153 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:46.440 maybe see what it's all about. Introduce them to a new way in the 154 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:52.519 Lord's way. I want to thank you both for being a part of our 155 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:58.240 broadcast today and it's always a pleasure to have folks on with us here on 156 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.480 our community connection right here on one the one you trust. We'll have a 157 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:05.720 little story on this on the website here in just a little while, and 158 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:11.879 we will also have the video playing on Facebook Live if you guys need it 159 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:15.559 for anything that you want to pass along on on your meet, your social 160 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:18.399 media. It's all free, so you guys can do it, and let's 161 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:22.960 let's get the word out on this. Okay, thank you, thank you 162 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:24.840 very much. Stay tuned, folks, We've got coming up for you. 163 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:28.720 The news from CBS plus our local news will give you an update on the 164 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:31.480 weather. We're going to tell you how warm ITT's going to be today and 165 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:33.120 how cold it's going to be tonight.