Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome Wong and welcome.
It's time now for our community connection. Right here on came one the one
you trust. We have Angela and Don and study. How are we doing
today? Kids doing real well? Excited, good, very excited. We're
going to talk about something that's worth celebrating. It's called Celebrate Recovery. And
Angela, tell us a little bit about. First of all, where you
located and what's it all about. Okay, our program is nationwide, but
we are located one of the many, but we are located at the Washington
Park Mall at Victory Worship Center here in Barnesville. And don you play a
big part in this too, don't you, sir? Well, I'm just
I'm the promoter and kind of the one that the voyage of one crying in
the wilderness, but putting together programs, fundraisers for them to help promote what
they're doing in the community and the difference they're making. Tell us what you're
doing in the community, guys. The story you just got, the tip
of the iceberg is before we got on. I want to share it with
everybody. Okay, So we've taken our Celebrate recovery to a whole other level
by providing we have our meetings on Thursday evenings at five forty five, we
provide a dinner for everyone who comes and attends, and so with what we
have left over, instead of just wasting it or throwing it away, we
take it on Fridays at noon to go out and feed the homeless in our
community. And within that outreach we've been able to not only provide for their
physical needs, but also to get them on a track of celebrating recovery from
whatever their hurts, habits, or hang ups might be as well. Well.
When we find that folks are homeless, it's not just one size fits
all. There's a variety of different contributing factors, are there. Not sure
every situation and every person is different. Done we know of different ways.
I know people who built the catchphrase as well. You know it's drugs and
alcohol. But something happened before that, right, and that's usually the root
of the whole problem. Either they've lost their job, of something happened and
automobile break down couldn't afford rent circumstances in life calls us to recover, and
part of this program encourages those that are in recovery, regardless what their circumstances
are, that it is available. In recovery is the recovery from a lot
of different things. We tend to a society to paint this with a broad
brush. That's not the case as the kids, No, it's not the
case. You know, you look at someone that's recovering from catsh we don't
see what they're going through through their recovery. But in a place or position
where we allfare systems and where they're doing with the program that they're doing,
we'll be able to even reach those people. Wow. So you touch a
lot of different lives in a lot of different ways, and there are a
lot of different paths that come to you, aren't there sure, And we're
finding more and more as we are out in the field. If you would
say that a lot of the habits, which would be the drugs, alcohol
addictions actually stem from some sort of childhood trauma that's happened or even adulthood trauma.
Statistics say that seventy percent of Americans have some sort of trauma by the
time they reach adulthood. And if you don't know how to properly get through
that, it can really become a hang up in your life, and you
can be stuck in the same cycle. Trying to help people get out of
these cycles. This used to be something that people would refer to as a
person who's become broken. And what we're doing is bending that that's right,
which is ultimately the full gospel of Jesus Christ. And that's what we see.
I saw what you did, Yes, isn't it? Yes? Now?
Where can we find you? Where can we find you? We can?
You can find me at Dedicty Worship Center though at the mall. We're
there are there have shaveral different services. I'm a phone call away at any
time. I'm eligible and available for help. I am an encourager. I
leak and my tentacles go into seven areas of the ministry to where they can
get a hold of me. I can help them get a hold of the
program with an assession of what they need. Wow, that is really amazing.
We need funds, though, to keep this a float, don't we.
Yeah, that's kind of where we are right now in our juncture.
We've got a lot of folks who need help. We want to give them
the help, but we want to make sure that we can continue. Correct,
that's right, that's right. We are having a fundraiser this Saturday night
there at the church and the mall. It's going to start at six o'clock.
We're going to go till seven point thirty. It's going to be a
free country gospel music concert. I have several singers that are volunteered the time
to come and we're going to sing and we're going to just have a good
time. There's gonna be door prizes. They've got a silent auction going on.
We're gonna have a refreshment chapter the service. It's just going to be
a good toe capentine. Can we make a love offering while we're there?
You bet donations will be accepted. And if you're out there and you can't
make the service, if you have a donation, if you want to contact
me or Angelo, we will be more than happy to come and pick it
up. We're having some merchants here in town. They're doing gift certificates and
we're going out and taking them up and we're going to use them for door
prizers. Nice and then I've put together some silent auction items that we've had
donated, so lots of goodies that you can get for your wives or husbands
or something like that, just to kind of time for the holiday season.
Huh ye see, it's gonna all tidy. It is a win win win,
win, win win, win and win again situation and then and win
once more. Yes. Sure, this is what we call taking care of
the home team. Yes. And one thing that I see every morning,
I see some of the people that could probably use your help. I come
in here about three or four o'clock in the morning and they're making their track
from the highway area to downtown. Yeah. And sometimes we have conversations,
sometimes just wait. Sometimes we don't say anything at all, but you can
tell that this is a person who's probably doing the best they possibly can just
to stand up straight and keep moving. And if you ask them in a
moment if they needed help, they their pride might get in the way initially,
but you know in their heart that they do and they do want it.
Yeah. Is that what you find too? Sometimes folks kind of put
that armor out there. Yeah. Sure, there is ultimately a guard that
they put up. You know, they've and they've been in situations where maybe
people weren't so nice because they look at them differently, But we go at
it as if you Jesus pay the same price for all of us, and
they are they were at some point someone's son or daughter or baby. Still
are you know, and still are right. They're just in this spot that
they need. They encourage meant to help to get out of One family that
I became friends with, it was a family of twelve and it was medical
things that got them on the ropes. And this family lived for two years
in a tent in the woods. The kids went to school every day without
fail, continued their life and now fail never told anybody that they're living out
in the woods in a tent. And they finally, with the help of
their church, got through what they needed to get through. And every one
of those kids never forgot that experience. They weren't bitter, but they never
forgot that and they've gone out. Eight of the twelve are kind of doing
some of the work you're doing right now because they know that you're never fully
lost. You're findable. You're absolutely findable, and you have worth and you
have something to offer. Man, it's a beautiful thing that you guys do.
It's kind of like when you see somebody have that all hall moment,
like unwrapping a gift, maybe a gift from God. That's right, you
agree, when when you've been redeemed from a lifestyle of that kind of life
and you the obstacles that come up that you learn to overcome through the faith
of God and help from programs such as this, the individual help that this
program is offering to each and everyone. You know, it's hard to ask
for help. It's hard to come in and say, man, I'd like
to have this job, but I don't have any show to take a shower.
It's hard to do those kind of things. But we're coming to a
time where the community is going to have to assist those that are downtrodden,
and they're going to have to to help them get their shelf respect back up
to where they become confident in their shelf or not to make a difference in
our society. That's amazing. And if you would look at me and even
my husband Logan, you know we both spent time in prison. You never
guessed, right, So there was a time in my life where I was
at my absolute lowest point and no one believed in me. Then you know,
up until the point where I had went to prison and where God was
more available to me, you know, and I was made aware of him
and what he was able to do in my life. And then now he's
brought me this far, you know, where we can provide that to you
know, He takes everyone and brings them from nothing to something. And so
that's another part of our celebrate recovery, helping people find their identity that even
though they're where they're at, that's not where they have to stay or going
to be, and then God can turn it around and use them even to
help even more people. Don tell us again about the fundraisers so we can
keep this miraculous work going. That will be this Saturday night from six to
seven point thirty. We ask for donations, get your free concert. We
ask for things personal hygiene items. It's starting to get cold. We're going
to need some cokes, gloves, stocking gash. I myself im guilty of
having more coaches than one, and I am guilty of having more than enough.
And most of us are make the effort to come out and donate to
a group of people that need assistance and encouragement at this time of the year.
That's great, that's it the Victory Worship Center, fifty Worship Center,
the Church in the Mall. Yes, I like that. It's a good
little tag, the Church in them All. I love it all right.
Well, this has been a very eye opening conversation. It's also been rather
uplifting, too heavy at times, but it's supposed to be because we do
have to pick up and carry the load a little bit for those who can't,
and that's what we do. That is absolutely what we do. And
it's great to hear your story and don yours as well. And folks,
your story might not be written yet. And if you know somebody who's in
need maybe a little reluctant casual nudge, maybe bring them on out to the
church. This will probably be a good thing coming up on Saturday, and
maybe see what it's all about. Introduce them to a new way in the
Lord's way. I want to thank you both for being a part of our
broadcast today and it's always a pleasure to have folks on with us here on
our community connection right here on one the one you trust. We'll have a
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let's get the word out on this. Okay, thank you, thank you
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