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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome Malcolm. Malcolm.

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It's time now for our community connection
right here on Kay one, the one

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you trust, and we have the
lovely Miss Christine Dorset in here today and

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we're talking about on the Rock and
fall is in the air. That it

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is. Yeah, we get a
little festival going on here. Yes,

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it's our annual appreciation and fundraising festival
slash dinner and we love to invite the

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public to that. Well, you
know, there's always a little bit of

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an element of fun in fundraising around
here. I've noticed that it's kind of

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like a common thread here in Bartlesville. You always have fun doing it.

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I certainly have fun doing it now. On the Rock Ministries, for folks

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might not know, got a neat
little history to it. And we've been

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around while. We've been taking care
of your kids after school in a lot

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of cases, and some people are
actually going to school there. This has

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really been kind of a wild metamorphosis. It certainly has. Yes, it

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started in nineteen ninety eight by Ken
and Sandy Dowsett, who are my father

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and mother in law. I'm married
to Andy Dowsett, and they started it

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with their youth group and it was
meant to be a skate outreach, but

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it kind of morphed over the years, and so now we're an after school

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program. We have about five hundred
youth a week that come for We do

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an age segregated after school programs start
through fifth grade on Monday and Tuesday,

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high school on Thursday, and middle
school on Friday. And we do trickle

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down mentoring. And we have a
really cool teen staff program, which is

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one of my favorite things that I
get to do as I lead the team

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staff program, and so and then
that has morphed into our new location five

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fifteen Southeast frank Phillips, which people
are calling that Creamery yea and the Dreamery.

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They have the school over there and
they're helping kids in ninth grade who

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are struggling, and it sounds like
it's quite the challenge, you know what.

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It actually kind of makes sense,
the creamery and then kids rising to

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the top. It makes perfect sense, like cream Yeah, it does make

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sense. It does. And the
thing is I understand for as new as

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it is, it's taken off just
really wonderfully, I believe. So.

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I mean, it's sometimes it's hard
to tell when you're close to a project.

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But I mean, I know there's
so much support in the community for

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what we're doing, which we really
appreciate. And I also know that there

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are other helping ministries that are giving
you guys a hand because they just so

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much believe in what you're doing.
So you got a lot of good partners

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in the community. We really do, Yeah, we really do. We're

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really blessed. I think Bartlesville is
special because kind of all of us are

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interlocked and interlaced together to help the
community and to you know, nobody wants

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to see anyone fail in Bartlesville.
No only don't like especially the Christian the

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churches and Christian organizations. We really
want to see Bartlesville succeed and rise,

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and we don't want to see anyone
get lost in the cracks. That's one

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thing that's really been kind of shuper
about our community. It's like here,

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let's talk and quietly. People will
just kind of nudge folks in the right

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direction when Rock is really a place
where the kids might be getting nudged the

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wrong way, get a chance to
get back in line with really gentle care

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and just a lot of positive just
a lot of reinforcements. Oh I love

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I love that you said gentle care. I think I think that's that kind

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of hits the nail on the head
there. So you obviously did your research.

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Thank you. I talk to your
husband every now and nan, and

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I've talked to your father in law
a few times. Ye kind of got

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a little separdy. That's wonderful.
They are very special people. I mean

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they're both very dynamic, very visionaries. Ken it's such a visionary and Andy

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is just multi talented and everything.
And and then I, I, you

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know, get to work with the
staff, which is what I love to

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do. And I love working with
people, and I love figuring out where

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people fit best and so so running
the youth staff has been such a huge

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part of that. But but yeah, it's it's gentle and I think that's

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what we try to do, you
know, we try to we're definitely a

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Christian organization, but we major on
the majors and minor on the miners,

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and we just we're here to love
kids. And Andy especially it teaches our

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Camp Rock Elementary program and so his
central thesis for that is just God is

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love and all love comes from God. So if you want love, if

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you experience love in your life.
You're experiencing a piece of God through that,

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and that's a darn good way to
start a great Yeah, you know

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what, I'll tell you what.
That Bible is the greatest invitation in the

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world, and I'm tired of people
using it as a weapon. This same

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it is. It's a love letter
and a poem written to people because God

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loves us. Now, how can
we show some love to on the rock

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the ministries here with this fall fundraiser? How do we go about the helping

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so you can continue? Can we
help to others? Oh? Absolutely,

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thank you for asking. So the
Harvest Festival, which we call Under the

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Lights because we decorate our whole campus
with beautiful twinkling lights. It's going to

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be held next Saturday or this this
coming Saturday on October seventh, at six

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pm on our campus at it's the
one twenty two South Park location. So

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don't go to the creamery because there
will be no food there. You will

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be sad. But it's being catered
by Dinks and Bambinos. And now,

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while our board members and supporters do
pay a cover charge for a table to

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invite their friends to the public,
which that's who I want to invite this

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morning. It's completely free to come
and all you have to do is RSVP.

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By the end of the week,
you can contact us at staff staff

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at Rockbeville dot org and just let
us know you would like to come.

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Yes, completely free. So it's
a fundraiser dinner, but it's also an

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appreciation dinner, and it's also an
awareness dinner because we want people to understand

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what we actually do with the Rock. We used to have this dinner at

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a hotel in town and it was
great there and there was nothing wrong with

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it. But my husband and I
got the idea a few years ago we

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need to get people on our campus. Our campus is special, it's kind

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of magical, and we need to
let them see what we actually do.

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And so the Harvest Festival is fun
because we want to give you a taste

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of what our fall programs are like. Because we do a little festival for

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the elementary kits, they have a
little thing called Pumpkin Bash that they get

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to do in October, and so
we wanted to give adults an adult version

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of that. So we have a
free hot cider and hot chocolate, We

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have a free popcorn bar, and
we have free hand pies made by our

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very own Bobby Evans, who works
over at the creamery, and it's so

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fun. You really enjoy him.
And all of our teens who are on

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staff are around and they want to
give tours and they want to meet people.

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And I'll tell you, the teams
are the lifeblood if the Rock.

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Like for me, that's everything that
we do because we are giving young people

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an opportunity to have leadership and responsibilities
that they might not have in any other

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setting. That's important, especially in
today's world, because I'm kind of seeing

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the lack of that every now and
then. Yes, sir, I can

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tell you you know, a lot
of the problems that people feel like the

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Zoomer generation has, those those high
schoolers and young adults. I can say

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that none of the teens who work
at the Rock have those problems. They

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work so hard, they're dedicated,
they pour themselves out for others. We

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have a couple who've just risen to
the top, who they go above and

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beyond. You ask them to do
something and instead of saying, oh,

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I don't feel like it, or
I have something else to do, or

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i'd rather not or can you get
someone else, they say, oh,

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yeah, for sure. And then
when you thank them, they just say,

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oh, no problem. You know, they don't ever complain, and

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they just they want to serve because
they understand a lot of the teens who

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are currently working at the Rock have
been at the Rock since they were in

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elementary school or middle school. That's
part of their DNA anymore, it is,

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and so they understand the importance because
they've grown up in the program and

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so they see it. And so
we've tried to offer them as much responsibility

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as they're ready for. And so
they're actually managing sections of the Rock and

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helping manage other people and younger than
them, and they're doing an incredible job

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at it. And I just I
love seeing this because then they go on

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to do great things in their lives
and it all starts right here with on

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the Rock. Yes, sir,
good Daddy is really a wonderful way of

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explaining how this works. So,
folks, if you want to see it

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up close, it's October the seventh, but you got to get that RSVP

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in quickly, yes, sir,
all right, and what's static good staff

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at staff at Rockbville dot org.
Now you can also go to our website

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on the Rockministries dot com and that'll
give you all of the information that you

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need. There's a dinner prompt on
the front page if anyone's looking for that,

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and then also our contact page will
give you all you can get the

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phone number, you can get the
email address, anyway you need to contact

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us. Christine Dawson is our guest, and she is we're talking about the

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Fall Festival coming up on October seventh, and this is all for On the

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Rock Ministries and the best way to
understand what's going on there, if you

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haven't but maybe glanced at the website, is to get that rs VP in

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and get an up close look and
how it operates and how it how it

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really helps the young people in our
community become you know, the good adults

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in our in our community as well. And this walkthrough here, seeing is

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believing, I think, and I
think that was a wonderful idea, a

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great piece of strategy. Get folks
in, let them see what's going on,

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especially with all of our new families
that have moved into our area over

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the last two or three years.
And there's been plenty. Yes, you

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probably have heard from your kids about
On the Rock, but you yeah,

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well, you know, we're still
unpacking or yeah, we're still trying to

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figure out, you know, how
to how to navigate. You know,

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I said, you know the seventy
five, but okay, that put that

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on hold for right now and kind
of take a little interest in what's going

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on here, because this could be
a great benefit not only for your kids,

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but also for your new community of
which you've just become. Absolutely yeah,

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it's it's a good place to get
plugged in. And we have a

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lot of new families that come to
the Rock and get their kids plugged in.

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And then we even have a few
kids at the Rocks and teens who

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had gotten plugged in are now on
staff because they started out volunteer. Yeah.

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Yeah, we love to be a
place where where kids can find their

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community. And what a great safe
community it is, because you know,

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you think of all the different things
that a young person can do after school

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while mom ornat or both are still
at work, or what kind of you

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know, other things could pull a
child in another direction. I can't think

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of a better more focused direction than
on the Rock. Thank you, thank

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you so much for having me out
this morning. Well, this has been

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no problem. This is what we
do. We like to reach out and

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connect with our community and especially those
who make our community a better place to

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live. Oh well, thank you. What's the website again for everyone,

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and that's going to be www.
Dot on the Rock Ministries dot com.

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You can also Google the Rock or
on the Rock Ministries and it should pop

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up pretty easily. And then if
you'll just visit our home page you can

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see it prompt for the dinner there. We really do want to get people

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on campus because there is something special
and magical. And we had people who

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had been to the other or at
the hotel for years and finally came to

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the Rock campus for the dinner when
we shifted over a couple of years ago,

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and they were they said, this
is this is amazing. I never

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knew. I never knew, and
I wish I had a dollar for every

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time someone said I never knew what
this was really like, because I would

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I would take everyone to dinner.
It would be wonderful. Well, that's

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something else. So once again it's
October seventh. To get yours VPN and

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make sure that you come in with
your eyes wide open and if you feel

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the need to give, I'm sure
that we can arrange that absolutely give or

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get connected. We want people to
get connected. That's the main focus on

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this. Christine, thank you very
much for being here. You've been a

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great guest and a wealth of knowledge, and I'm sure we're going to get

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a lot of folks for signing up
here in the next day or two.

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Thank you so much. It's been
a pleasure. I appreciate it. Alrighty

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folks, you've been watching and listening
to our community connection right here on K

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one, the one you try