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

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On this icy Monday, it is
time for our community connection and it's

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brought to you in part by Arnold
Moore and Camp Funeral Homes. And with

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this here is a fellow who never
says never, and I believe that now

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Earl is here with his here from
Lighthouse Outreach Center. Well, interesting morning,

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huh right, it's another great day
of the Lord made. You just

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got to find the goodness in it, all right. Yeah, Well,

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we've got a lot of good things
that are coming up at the lighthouse.

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First one, you got this impact
report you want to tell us about.

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I just want to celebrate God's blessing
of the lighthouse. We had record giving

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this last year one point two billion
dollars. Usually our budgets about five hundred

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and six hundred thousand. It almost
doubled. Most of that is grants for

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remodeling and purchasing property, so it's
it's going to be used for expansion.

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But it's just been a blessing.
God has provided money for us to do

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his work. The daily costs to
operate the lighthouse about six hundred and fifty

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eight dollars a day. Oh,
boy, which comes to sixty nine dollars

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an hour. I figured that out. So it does what do we get

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a big donation. It's a wonderful
thing, but it will last maybe for

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a month or a few days.
So it's a blessing the way God's provided

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for us. We're grateful for that. We had three hundred and forty eight

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adults we housed over the year,
twenty six children over the year. We

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have to one hundred and ninety five
residents with financial assistant with getting their birth

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certificates, IDs, work clothes,
and prescription copays. Excuse me, things

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like that. We served over forty
thousand meals this last year, three meals

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a day to all the residents there. And best of all, we had

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thirty five individuals except Christ as our
savior. That's a record for this for

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a year, and we just praise
God for that. That's why we're there.

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That's the most important thing we do
is bring people to a saving knowledge

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of Jesus Christ and see their lives
transformed. It really is a transformational place.

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People's lives start in one way and
they come out completely different. And

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it's a lot of hard work and
a lot of good work on behalf of

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you and your staff and everybody involved, including the residents who kind of bond

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together and kind of keep an eye
on each other. We're going to have

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a had a memorial services past Saturday. Last Saturday, we had a memorial

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service to the lighthouse for a resident. She had been living there. She

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had her had moved out. We're
doing good and then she got kids home

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and it was a very difficult time
for her. And in November she seem

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to me a text to just say
that she was grateful for the Lighthouse and

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what God did in life, and
she was celebrating three years of sobriety off

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drugs and that was a beautiful thing. And then she passed away right for

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Christmas, and then we had our
service for her at the lighthouse Saturday.

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Several family divers were there as well
as the Lighthouse Reds that do her.

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And that's the third memorial service you've
had this year, which to me shows

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that the ports to what we're doing. We're here for the long haul and

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lives are being changed, and you'd
be ready for the next one, my

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goodness sakes. We talked earlier about
expansion, but it looks like things are

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growing we're doing really good there.
We are. One of the things we're

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do is remodeling all the rooms upstairs. They've not been remodeled extensively since we

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opened up, and we keep patching
on them. But we're gonna redo the

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floors completely with a good hard lambeded
flooring, and redo all the bathrooms because

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they leak sometimes and flood downstairs,
and so we're just going to give a

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total remodel. We put a new
roof on and take off the flat roof

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and put a pitched roof. That's
gonna be a big blessing. So we've

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got some things going. We're almost
ready to start the remodeling process. And

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we do do that. We're gonna
display some our individuals for a few days

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while their room is being redemodeled.
And so we bought a house just next

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door. We're going to change it
into a transitional house and three or four

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families can live there or several single
people while their rooms being remodeled. So

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that would be probably over a year
we'll take to get all that done,

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but we're going to be able to
keep people there while we remodel the room,

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so it's going to be a blessing, this is great, this is

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great now. One thing that I've
loved ever since the time I moved here

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and about the time you started these
things. It's called the I had no

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idea to her. And believe me, there are people who come in for

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the tour and that's what they always
say. Without Phiel, I had no

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idea. I got that idea from
Nashville Mission. I was there for a

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conference in Nashville and I saw this
little brochure on their receptions desks that I

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had no idea to her. I
picked it up with a that's a good

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idea. Because you drive by the
lighthouse, you have no idea what's going

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on there. It just looked like
a gray building, a pretty drab looking

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right now. And you walk inside. It's clean, it's bright, it

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smells good. It's not like typically
what you think overnight shelter would be like.

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And it's a refreshing, palsy place
to be. And then you get

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to sit down with the residents.
We have a meal, we serve and

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you eat with them and they'll open
up and share their story and it's exciting

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to hear them tell their story,
and they interact with the visitors We have

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a great time with that. We've
had board members become board members because of

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coming on the tour and donors,
and we don't ask for money at that

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time. We just give you a
short tour, tell you what's going on

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there, and hopefully you'll catch the
vision that God's doing some great things there

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at the Lighthouse Man Alive. That
is really something else. We also have

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a benefit concert coming out. We
have Blake and Jenna Boulerjack from Oklahoma City

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coming. They've been at First Baptist
Church here in town. They were in

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Pasca at the constantin Theater about three
or four months ago. I first heard

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him at the Gideon's Stay convention in
Alcahoma City. Wonderful young couple that love

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the Lord and they're powerful singers.
And they've agreed to come into a concert

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for us. And it'll be March
the eighth at Oklahoma Westley and the Lions

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Chapel will be the smaller part of
the chapel there, so limited a seating

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is limited. We do have sponsorships
available for any business organization we'd like to

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sponsor help us pay for that.
And we're looking for a great time of

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inspiration. But also presenting the one
Gods who get the Lighthouse. Also at

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that time we'll have some testimony for
Mama residents and it'll be a fun time.

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You also have a little word out
to all of our neighboring churches too.

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We have an opportunity for people to
go on a business trip. You

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think of going to a missions trip. You got to get a passport.

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And I just found out Mind expired
in November. I got to renew Mind.

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But you need a passport to go
overseas, and you need to pack

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your luggage and special clothing and maybe
do a little language trading. But here's

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a mission opportunity for your church.
You don't have to go out of town.

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You don't have to have a passport. You know, have to carry

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a luggage across the airport, and
you have to learn another language. Just

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come help serve a bill at the
lighthouse and you're on a missions trip.

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You're serving God and you get a
wonderful experience. And it's a wonderful way

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for churches to get involved. We
have about eight or nine churches right now

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that sponsored the bill. Once a
month they prepare the meal, bring it

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and serve it and it helps us
out a lot. It helps the church

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a lot because they can see what's
going on there. And we had one

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a church. The principal of a
school is a part of that church,

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and so he was serving the meal
one night and one of our kids came

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through the line and saw their principal
serving their bill. That was a neat

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thing for them. So you get
a chance to meet the people, and

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some of you see working at stores
in town here and you get to have

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a connection there too. But it's
a wonderful way to help us out because

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it takes the burden office financially for
meals, but also it gives a chance

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for your church to reach out and
do community work. Also. Er,

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let's tell everybody where lighthouse can be
found in case you want to stop by,

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or perhaps they have a question,
or maybe they just want to write

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you a check. Okay, We're
located fourteen eleven West Hinsley Boulevard in West

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Martinsville, the corner of Bucy in
the Hindsley Boulevard, and you're welcome to

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come by some time. And if
you want to come to the no idea

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to her, just give us a
call. Our phone number is nine one

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eight three three six nine zero two
nine, and we put you Nable on

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the list so we can have a
preparation for you coming for that. But

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just come by and visit us.
We have people come by just to drop

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off clothing they donate or something like
that, but also to just take a

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tour. So you're always welcome with
the lighthouse. Miracles happened there three day

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any Errol, thank you for being
with us, Thank you for appreciate it.

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Alrighty, be safe, all right, thank you, all right,

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all right, thank you very much. You've been listening to our community. Can