Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome Malcolm. Malcolm.
It's time now for our community connection right here on Kay one, the one
you trust, and we have the lovely Miss Christine Dorset in here today and
we're talking about on the Rock and fall is in the air. That it
is. Yeah, we get a little festival going on here. Yes,
it's our annual appreciation and fundraising festival slash dinner and we love to invite the
public to that. Well, you know, there's always a little bit of
an element of fun in fundraising around here. I've noticed that it's kind of
like a common thread here in Bartlesville. You always have fun doing it.
I certainly have fun doing it now. On the Rock Ministries, for folks
might not know, got a neat little history to it. And we've been
around while. We've been taking care of your kids after school in a lot
of cases, and some people are actually going to school there. This has
really been kind of a wild metamorphosis. It certainly has. Yes, it
started in nineteen ninety eight by Ken and Sandy Dowsett, who are my father
and mother in law. I'm married to Andy Dowsett, and they started it
with their youth group and it was meant to be a skate outreach, but
it kind of morphed over the years, and so now we're an after school
program. We have about five hundred youth a week that come for We do
an age segregated after school programs start through fifth grade on Monday and Tuesday,
high school on Thursday, and middle school on Friday. And we do trickle
down mentoring. And we have a really cool teen staff program, which is
one of my favorite things that I get to do as I lead the team
staff program, and so and then that has morphed into our new location five
fifteen Southeast frank Phillips, which people are calling that Creamery yea and the Dreamery.
They have the school over there and they're helping kids in ninth grade who
are struggling, and it sounds like it's quite the challenge, you know what.
It actually kind of makes sense, the creamery and then kids rising to
the top. It makes perfect sense, like cream Yeah, it does make
sense. It does. And the thing is I understand for as new as
it is, it's taken off just really wonderfully, I believe. So.
I mean, it's sometimes it's hard to tell when you're close to a project.
But I mean, I know there's so much support in the community for
what we're doing, which we really appreciate. And I also know that there
are other helping ministries that are giving you guys a hand because they just so
much believe in what you're doing. So you got a lot of good partners
in the community. We really do, Yeah, we really do. We're
really blessed. I think Bartlesville is special because kind of all of us are
interlocked and interlaced together to help the community and to you know, nobody wants
to see anyone fail in Bartlesville. No only don't like especially the Christian the
churches and Christian organizations. We really want to see Bartlesville succeed and rise,
and we don't want to see anyone get lost in the cracks. That's one
thing that's really been kind of shuper about our community. It's like here,
let's talk and quietly. People will just kind of nudge folks in the right
direction when Rock is really a place where the kids might be getting nudged the
wrong way, get a chance to get back in line with really gentle care
and just a lot of positive just a lot of reinforcements. Oh I love
I love that you said gentle care. I think I think that's that kind
of hits the nail on the head there. So you obviously did your research.
Thank you. I talk to your husband every now and nan, and
I've talked to your father in law a few times. Ye kind of got
a little separdy. That's wonderful. They are very special people. I mean
they're both very dynamic, very visionaries. Ken it's such a visionary and Andy
is just multi talented and everything. And and then I, I, you
know, get to work with the staff, which is what I love to
do. And I love working with people, and I love figuring out where
people fit best and so so running the youth staff has been such a huge
part of that. But but yeah, it's it's gentle and I think that's
what we try to do, you know, we try to we're definitely a
Christian organization, but we major on the majors and minor on the miners,
and we just we're here to love kids. And Andy especially it teaches our
Camp Rock Elementary program and so his central thesis for that is just God is
love and all love comes from God. So if you want love, if
you experience love in your life. You're experiencing a piece of God through that,
and that's a darn good way to start a great Yeah, you know
what, I'll tell you what. That Bible is the greatest invitation in the
world, and I'm tired of people using it as a weapon. This same
it is. It's a love letter and a poem written to people because God
loves us. Now, how can we show some love to on the rock
the ministries here with this fall fundraiser? How do we go about the helping
so you can continue? Can we help to others? Oh? Absolutely,
thank you for asking. So the Harvest Festival, which we call Under the
Lights because we decorate our whole campus with beautiful twinkling lights. It's going to
be held next Saturday or this this coming Saturday on October seventh, at six
pm on our campus at it's the one twenty two South Park location. So
don't go to the creamery because there will be no food there. You will
be sad. But it's being catered by Dinks and Bambinos. And now,
while our board members and supporters do pay a cover charge for a table to
invite their friends to the public, which that's who I want to invite this
morning. It's completely free to come and all you have to do is RSVP.
By the end of the week, you can contact us at staff staff
at Rockbeville dot org and just let us know you would like to come.
Yes, completely free. So it's a fundraiser dinner, but it's also an
appreciation dinner, and it's also an awareness dinner because we want people to understand
what we actually do with the Rock. We used to have this dinner at
a hotel in town and it was great there and there was nothing wrong with
it. But my husband and I got the idea a few years ago we
need to get people on our campus. Our campus is special, it's kind
of magical, and we need to let them see what we actually do.
And so the Harvest Festival is fun because we want to give you a taste
of what our fall programs are like. Because we do a little festival for
the elementary kits, they have a little thing called Pumpkin Bash that they get
to do in October, and so we wanted to give adults an adult version
of that. So we have a free hot cider and hot chocolate, We
have a free popcorn bar, and we have free hand pies made by our
very own Bobby Evans, who works over at the creamery, and it's so
fun. You really enjoy him. And all of our teens who are on
staff are around and they want to give tours and they want to meet people.
And I'll tell you, the teams are the lifeblood if the Rock.
Like for me, that's everything that we do because we are giving young people
an opportunity to have leadership and responsibilities that they might not have in any other
setting. That's important, especially in today's world, because I'm kind of seeing
the lack of that every now and then. Yes, sir, I can
tell you you know, a lot of the problems that people feel like the
Zoomer generation has, those those high schoolers and young adults. I can say
that none of the teens who work at the Rock have those problems. They
work so hard, they're dedicated, they pour themselves out for others. We
have a couple who've just risen to the top, who they go above and
beyond. You ask them to do something and instead of saying, oh,
I don't feel like it, or I have something else to do, or
i'd rather not or can you get someone else, they say, oh,
yeah, for sure. And then when you thank them, they just say,
oh, no problem. You know, they don't ever complain, and
they just they want to serve because they understand a lot of the teens who
are currently working at the Rock have been at the Rock since they were in
elementary school or middle school. That's part of their DNA anymore, it is,
and so they understand the importance because they've grown up in the program and
so they see it. And so we've tried to offer them as much responsibility
as they're ready for. And so they're actually managing sections of the Rock and
helping manage other people and younger than them, and they're doing an incredible job
at it. And I just I love seeing this because then they go on
to do great things in their lives and it all starts right here with on
the Rock. Yes, sir, good Daddy is really a wonderful way of
explaining how this works. So, folks, if you want to see it
up close, it's October the seventh, but you got to get that RSVP
in quickly, yes, sir, all right, and what's static good staff
at staff at Rockbville dot org. Now you can also go to our website
on the Rockministries dot com and that'll give you all of the information that you
need. There's a dinner prompt on the front page if anyone's looking for that,
and then also our contact page will give you all you can get the
phone number, you can get the email address, anyway you need to contact
us. Christine Dawson is our guest, and she is we're talking about the
Fall Festival coming up on October seventh, and this is all for On the
Rock Ministries and the best way to understand what's going on there, if you
haven't but maybe glanced at the website, is to get that rs VP in
and get an up close look and how it operates and how it how it
really helps the young people in our community become you know, the good adults
in our in our community as well. And this walkthrough here, seeing is
believing, I think, and I think that was a wonderful idea, a
great piece of strategy. Get folks in, let them see what's going on,
especially with all of our new families that have moved into our area over
the last two or three years. And there's been plenty. Yes, you
probably have heard from your kids about On the Rock, but you yeah,
well, you know, we're still unpacking or yeah, we're still trying to
figure out, you know, how to how to navigate. You know,
I said, you know the seventy five, but okay, that put that
on hold for right now and kind of take a little interest in what's going
on here, because this could be a great benefit not only for your kids,
but also for your new community of which you've just become. Absolutely yeah,
it's it's a good place to get plugged in. And we have a
lot of new families that come to the Rock and get their kids plugged in.
And then we even have a few kids at the Rocks and teens who
had gotten plugged in are now on staff because they started out volunteer. Yeah.
Yeah, we love to be a place where where kids can find their
community. And what a great safe community it is, because you know,
you think of all the different things that a young person can do after school
while mom ornat or both are still at work, or what kind of you
know, other things could pull a child in another direction. I can't think
of a better more focused direction than on the Rock. Thank you, thank
you so much for having me out this morning. Well, this has been
no problem. This is what we do. We like to reach out and
connect with our community and especially those who make our community a better place to
live. Oh well, thank you. What's the website again for everyone,
and that's going to be www. Dot on the Rock Ministries dot com.
You can also Google the Rock or on the Rock Ministries and it should pop
up pretty easily. And then if you'll just visit our home page you can
see it prompt for the dinner there. We really do want to get people
on campus because there is something special and magical. And we had people who
had been to the other or at the hotel for years and finally came to
the Rock campus for the dinner when we shifted over a couple of years ago,
and they were they said, this is this is amazing. I never
knew. I never knew, and I wish I had a dollar for every
time someone said I never knew what this was really like, because I would
I would take everyone to dinner. It would be wonderful. Well, that's
something else. So once again it's October seventh. To get yours VPN and
make sure that you come in with your eyes wide open and if you feel
the need to give, I'm sure that we can arrange that absolutely give or
get connected. We want people to get connected. That's the main focus on
this. Christine, thank you very much for being here. You've been a
great guest and a wealth of knowledge, and I'm sure we're going to get
a lot of folks for signing up here in the next day or two.
Thank you so much. It's been a pleasure. I appreciate it. Alrighty
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