Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
It's time now for our community connection right here on K one, the
one you truston. It's being brought to you in part by Arnold More and
Nick Camp Funeral Home. And today we're talking about a really big shoe,
as Ed Sullivan would say from BE the Light min Mission and BE Monthly Magazine.
We have Keith and Christie McPhail and Grace Fast is going to grace our
green space. Yes, it is this Saturday, coming up at five thirty
right out there at the Green Space. And we're excited Mothers Day weekend.
We always do it on Mothersday weekend and so we're looking forward to this year.
It's going to be. This is our third one. So we're excited
about who's coming. And yeah, Chrissie, who is coming? Oh?
We got great, great group of guys. Consumed by Fire is three brothers
from Wagner, Wagner, Oklahomas just right down the road. They have you
heard their new song and it was coming up the charts. I think it's
up at number six now. So they are coming up and they are the
sweetest boys. I call them boys. I'm sure they're grown men. But
anyway, they're they're boys to us. And then seventh time down. They
have been around since I think two thousand and twelve. They've got a lot
of hits. But again they're Kentucky from Kentucky, Kentucky boys. But they
have been so great to work with. They're ready to come up here and
give their testimony, they said, and just meet people and put on a
really good show. And we got some local boys, kayleb and Aaron.
I think I've heard of them. Yeah, most people have heard Kayleb Bord
and Aaron Boyd. I always keep bugging him about he's guitar. He had
this one for sale and he finally got rid of it before I got my
wallet out. A's been playing that guitar and singing great songs for me.
Any your guitar player, Yeah, well I pick it up, okay a
prose. Well, yeah, we're excited that we'll have food trucks out there.
We've got chick flames gonna be out there. We've got all kinds of
food of truck's gonna be out there, pizza, hot dogs. Yeah.
Um, we have to bring up the elephant in the room. Yes,
as if we hear the pitter patter of rain, Yes on the roof in
case of a rain delay, are just rain, Yes, we are going
to be indoors. So the show will go on one way or the other,
one way or the other. Yeah, we've got to decide by Friday,
by tomorrow, by moon. Um. But there's a twenty five percent
chance. It's been dropping for the last three days. Yeah, and so
it says twenty five percent chance. So because we hate to pray not for
rain, we need the rain. We all we don't want to be but
one pray not for rain. We need the rain because just three o'clock,
no rain. Can we have a little gap there, yes, just a
few hours, little more effect their part? Yeah, you know, yes,
because we are thankful for the rain, Yes we are. And so
that's that's a big deal because it's a whole different atmosphere being inside of the
communion than whether being out on the green space. So if it's twenty five
percent chance we're going to have it outside, well, very good. I
liked this. I liked this. Now you have a mission. It's called
be the Light. And I first heard of this. It was actually a
city counselor Billy Rome brought it to my attention back when it was not raining,
but it was bitterly cold home and you guys created a shelter situation.
For those who need tell us a little bit about it. Well, we've
been we've had a woman shelter opened, and we've we've we've teamed up with
Rando and Shiloh Gamble over the last three years. And so this year,
which was last year, we wanted to have our own building. So we
were out looking for our own building and to do a shelter because we knew
it was going to get cold. And so we were approached by a gentleman
whose sister had a building on the west side of town. We didn't see
the building yet, so we go over and look at the building. It's
the old hospital building on Virginia. Yeah, you can't miss it. It's
pretty good size. It's sixty four thousand square feet. And so when we
walked into this building, the back of the building has a big gem thirty
four hundred square foot gym, and we're like, this is perfect, this
is perfect, this is what we need. The bathrooms right down the hallway,
blah blah blah. And so but she said, I cannot lease it
to you for any amount for a dollar or fifty cents unless you're a nonprofit,
and at that time we were not a nonprofit. So that was the
last October we went and started the nonprofit paperwork, and then Christie got online
about a week or later, a week later, and it said if you
did not submit your nonprofit by October seventeenth, they would take four to six
months. Well that would be today and so that wouldn't have worked, but
God's good, and twenty days later we got our certification that we're a nonprofit.
Oh wow, twenty was miracle number one, number one, because we
knew the cold was coming. Yeah. Yeah, And this last Christmas,
during Christmas Week, it's when we had the shelter open. That was our
eleventh shelter that we've opened up over the last three and a half year.
So you know that's for us. Our hearts go out to the ones.
This is our community problem right now, and so so be the Light Mission.
Now. We decided we have this building, it's grown into something bigger.
We're going to be open full time and there's four phases because as you
said, it's a big building and we're going to start we're taking a little
bit of it at a time, and where we aren't going to be like
some of the other places here in town. We have a little bit different
approach in that if you want to stay with us and you want shelter and
a meal and your shower, you know, access to all these things,
you're going to work, but you're going to work on site. This building
also has a thirty two hundred square foot workspace, and so we're teaming up
with other businesses in the community, for example, Image First, not United
Linen anymore. Image First. Simple things like they're bringing us their bags with
the draw strings in it that you return your laundrey in or your you know,
your table cloths or whatever. And because they said, these strings come
out and we rather than pay our employees hours and hours to restring hundreds of
bags, can we bring the bags to you. And that can be a
job for someone, you know, to help someone see like, we don't
know what you can do yet work wise. We know it's hard to find
something. Let's start with some small things. Let's just build your confidence,
give them a purpose, give you you know, something to do. So
they're gonna have to work three hours a day we're going to provide the jobs
and we're going to go from there and then hopefully connect them with some other
jobs. You know, that's what we've done, like with Raindo and Shiloh.
There are other people in the community. They're great that once we have
someone ready, they'll take them on and hire that. I'm sure they will.
Yeah, you know, this is a great way to get someone,
you know, reacclimated, yeah, to normalcy because sometimes you know, when
you you become lost, yah, and this is something that we use in
family discussions, right, Yeah, you become a little lost and you kind
of forget things, and you kind of forget the routine of what it's like
to be where you were. And this is a great way to you know,
re reboard you right well. And when you're sort of well with other
lost people that are kind of still taking from you, you can't catch up.
And so you know, Keith has been as he's talked about many times,
you know, a next Copaine atic I was almost for six months led
to my car, and you know, I've been through all the abuse,
child abuse, sexual abuse, So growing up, I've seen a lot of
things happen and so for me, my heart just goes. You know,
it's ironic, not ironic, but you know, we work together with the
monthly magazine and then we do the shelter together, husband and wife, and
you know, she grew up a whole lot differently than I grew up.
But for us, you know, it's we're gonna have twenty beds for men,
six beds for women, and then also a section in there that we
can do families. And so that's the first Basically we'll always be a shelter,
a warming center that will always be there. But that's the first phases.
Twenty beds for men's, six beds for women, and then after that
there's a men's program that we're going to start up there where they actually live.
They pay us to live there, and then when they go through classes.
So when you first get to the mission, you're going to have a
hot shower, you're going to get new clothes, you're going to get two
hot meals, and then you're going to meet with a care coordinator. And
then that care coordinator will yeah help you just we find out what your needs
are, what your story is, and then we can help us us you
know, mental health, drug addiction, I mean, all the things you
know, all the things that might be going on, and I think,
like to finish what you were saying originally though, because of the struggles he's
been through, because of the struggles I've been through, completely different, you
know, lives in a child. We have a just a sincere connection when
we see these people and we just see him out wandering around, We're like,
there's a story and we just want them to know, like life is
hard, and we do get that, honestly, and you know, but
God's good and he can bring you to the other side, and we just
want to try to help fill the gap, fill that void. So because
there's a big gap right now, tom Oh, it's a huge give me
everybody sees it now. It's just now on the west side of town anymore.
It's it's all over Bartlesville. It's everywhere. I often say howdy as
I'm coming up down stairs to work for someone, you know, who's just
kind of looking for a place to sit down and take a little bit of
a rest and everything and have a conversation a little bit. And I'm also
finding out that there are a lot of families, intact families who are like
what happened two paychecks and you're out of a house, and you know,
and they've never thought there's a million, one and a million chance at that
whatever happened to them, and here they are they are. You know that
there's some members out there that can scare a lot of people. You know,
there's a thing called pit the government puts out people in transition. We
have over six hundred people in Bartlesville under that pit, people in transition.
That's a lot. That's a lot. That's the latest study. And then
also this is the one that really hurt, it touches me, is that
we have over two hundred and twenty four kids from pre K to twelfth grade
in the school district. They're homeless. I believe that living couch to couch,
living with an aunt here, living with the grandma, living in the
car with her parents, that is unacceptable for Bartlesville just is Yeah, it's
unacceptable for any community. But it's one of those things that if you're not
aware of it, you probably won't be aware of because these folks don't really
want you to know that. You know, there's a pride thing going on
there too. But the help is needed, it is, well, we're
gonna take a quick break. We're gonna come back with Keith and Christie and
we're gonna talk a little bit more about Grace Fast just a moment after these
words from Arnold Moore and DeCamp Funeral Home on K one, the one you
trust? How does Tim howl at Arnold Moore and DeCamp Funeral Home. No,
he's done a good job. After a funeral, I'll come in.
I say, guys, great job. We really hit that out of the
part today. The family was well pleased. And that's the phrase right there,
when a family member tells me, you made this experience so much easier
than I thought it was going to be. Thank you. That is the
high five moment right there. And then six months later you run into them
in a store or a restaurant and they come up to you and shake your
hand, put their arm around your hug and say, this is our funeral
director. He helped us so much when dad died. He is a nice
guy. His staff is so compassionate and so caring. They did a great
job. That is the ultimate experience. They've had time to grieve a little
bit and reflect on what you've done, and they come in and they're still
on cloud nine because you help them pay tribute to someone they really cared about.
It'll be all right. We'll walk through this together. Arnold Moore and
the Camp Funeral Home seven ten Dewey, Bartlesville. We'll walk through this together.
And welcome back, Welcome back to our community connection right here on K
one, the one you trust. We're talking with Keith and Christie McFall and
there with be the Late Mission and be monthly magazine. And also they are
the producers of Grace Fast coming up Saturday. That yeah, Grace Fast,
Grace Fast on the Green. You know, we started Grace Fast three years
ago, Tom And the first and most important reason for us was to have
soul saved, to bring people to the Lord. That's always our first goal
and it will always be the first goal, and we'll always be free.
We want a community concert. It's gonna be uplifting, it's gonna be fun.
It's gonna be for the family. You bring your lawn chair out,
you bring a blanket out. There's there's games for kids out there that we
get from the library. This is just a lot of stuff and by gosh,
it's not gonna rain, and we're gonna have it outside and We're gonna
be so excited because you know this is this is gonna be a great concert.
These guys really rock out. We have a lot of great sponsors.
Oh oh yeah, we'll do that because you can't do it without spawn.
And let's just read them off real quick. DSR, Sutterfield Financial Group,
Patriot Auto Group, First Westland, Truity, Old Baron's House, get Real
Ministries to house at film, all those real health and rehab comforty hands not
medical resorts being monthly and Keller Williams and also you guys K one Radio there
you go, Yes, happy to help. This is really going to be
a great, great experience. I don't want to say it's going to be
a great show because everyone knows it is, but it's going to be a
great experience. People get moved at these things and they get moved into a
much better place and a much better direction. They do thank you, And
I think our community needs that right now. A lot of communities need to
come together more and so we're just there's just you know, if there's just
something to be said about a community event where a families can just you know,
come out and it's free and the kids can just run around and play
and other moms are watching kids, and you know, like he's to be
like we were talking about, you know, we missed those good old days.
Do you know? The two years before Tom that we did Grace Fast,
we always donated the money to the Journey Home, and so over two
years we donated twenty one thousand dollars to the Journey Home. This year it's
going to be for us, Be the Light Mission. So we're hoping to
raise ten thousand dollars again this year for our mission. I'm sure you get
it. I'm sure you will. We're praying you know how this town works.
If there's a sincere need, people sincerely get if we are the most
getting community really are. But I want to thank you very much, and
also if you need to know anymore, you can contact Keiths and Christie Yet
Be the Light Mission. War it be monthly magazine, yes, and you
have a Facebook page. Is probably kind of lighten it up right now because
you've got a lot of things going on with the artists that. Yes,
yes, we did a lot of hits, aren't you we do? Yeah,
you go to be monthly bottles of a monthly magazine for Facebook, and
we have our own page there on Bargelo Monthly magazine. A lot of people
are yeah, they're sending Nate, They're like tagging other people, you know,
don't miss it. Here one of the most shared videos you'll ever seeing
right days, right now. It really did right now, So we love
it. We love it. Did that. We also shared a blooper that
we did not put out, but we did. We put it on TikTok,
but we didn't put it on that. It took to make that video.
It was about thirty takes. I don't know what happened. It was
one of those days. Yeah, we've had twenty three thousand people look at
that. You know, we are b Monthly. We have followers in every
state in thirteen countries around the world. So anyway, we we just want
to have people come out and enjoy the night, listen to some great Christian
music and good fellowship. All right, once again, the time it's at
five thirty this Saturday. All right, we'll see you there at the Green.
Thank you very much for being with us here on Community Connection. I simply