Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
On this icy Monday, it is time for our community connection and it's
brought to you in part by Arnold Moore and Camp Funeral Homes. And with
this here is a fellow who never says never, and I believe that now
Earl is here with his here from Lighthouse Outreach Center. Well, interesting morning,
huh right, it's another great day of the Lord made. You just
got to find the goodness in it, all right. Yeah, Well,
we've got a lot of good things that are coming up at the lighthouse.
First one, you got this impact report you want to tell us about.
I just want to celebrate God's blessing of the lighthouse. We had record giving
this last year one point two billion dollars. Usually our budgets about five hundred
and six hundred thousand. It almost doubled. Most of that is grants for
remodeling and purchasing property, so it's it's going to be used for expansion.
But it's just been a blessing. God has provided money for us to do
his work. The daily costs to operate the lighthouse about six hundred and fifty
eight dollars a day. Oh, boy, which comes to sixty nine dollars
an hour. I figured that out. So it does what do we get
a big donation. It's a wonderful thing, but it will last maybe for
a month or a few days. So it's a blessing the way God's provided
for us. We're grateful for that. We had three hundred and forty eight
adults we housed over the year, twenty six children over the year. We
have to one hundred and ninety five residents with financial assistant with getting their birth
certificates, IDs, work clothes, and prescription copays. Excuse me, things
like that. We served over forty thousand meals this last year, three meals
a day to all the residents there. And best of all, we had
thirty five individuals except Christ as our savior. That's a record for this for
a year, and we just praise God for that. That's why we're there.
That's the most important thing we do is bring people to a saving knowledge
of Jesus Christ and see their lives transformed. It really is a transformational place.
People's lives start in one way and they come out completely different. And
it's a lot of hard work and a lot of good work on behalf of
you and your staff and everybody involved, including the residents who kind of bond
together and kind of keep an eye on each other. We're going to have
a had a memorial services past Saturday. Last Saturday, we had a memorial
service to the lighthouse for a resident. She had been living there. She
had her had moved out. We're doing good and then she got kids home
and it was a very difficult time for her. And in November she seem
to me a text to just say that she was grateful for the Lighthouse and
what God did in life, and she was celebrating three years of sobriety off
drugs and that was a beautiful thing. And then she passed away right for
Christmas, and then we had our service for her at the lighthouse Saturday.
Several family divers were there as well as the Lighthouse Reds that do her.
And that's the third memorial service you've had this year, which to me shows
that the ports to what we're doing. We're here for the long haul and
lives are being changed, and you'd be ready for the next one, my
goodness sakes. We talked earlier about expansion, but it looks like things are
growing we're doing really good there. We are. One of the things we're
do is remodeling all the rooms upstairs. They've not been remodeled extensively since we
opened up, and we keep patching on them. But we're gonna redo the
floors completely with a good hard lambeded flooring, and redo all the bathrooms because
they leak sometimes and flood downstairs, and so we're just going to give a
total remodel. We put a new roof on and take off the flat roof
and put a pitched roof. That's gonna be a big blessing. So we've
got some things going. We're almost ready to start the remodeling process. And
we do do that. We're gonna display some our individuals for a few days
while their room is being redemodeled. And so we bought a house just next
door. We're going to change it into a transitional house and three or four
families can live there or several single people while their rooms being remodeled. So
that would be probably over a year we'll take to get all that done,
but we're going to be able to keep people there while we remodel the room,
so it's going to be a blessing, this is great, this is
great now. One thing that I've loved ever since the time I moved here
and about the time you started these things. It's called the I had no
idea to her. And believe me, there are people who come in for
the tour and that's what they always say. Without Phiel, I had no
idea. I got that idea from Nashville Mission. I was there for a
conference in Nashville and I saw this little brochure on their receptions desks that I
had no idea to her. I picked it up with a that's a good
idea. Because you drive by the lighthouse, you have no idea what's going
on there. It just looked like a gray building, a pretty drab looking
right now. And you walk inside. It's clean, it's bright, it
smells good. It's not like typically what you think overnight shelter would be like.
And it's a refreshing, palsy place to be. And then you get
to sit down with the residents. We have a meal, we serve and
you eat with them and they'll open up and share their story and it's exciting
to hear them tell their story, and they interact with the visitors We have
a great time with that. We've had board members become board members because of
coming on the tour and donors, and we don't ask for money at that
time. We just give you a short tour, tell you what's going on
there, and hopefully you'll catch the vision that God's doing some great things there
at the Lighthouse Man Alive. That is really something else. We also have
a benefit concert coming out. We have Blake and Jenna Boulerjack from Oklahoma City
coming. They've been at First Baptist Church here in town. They were in
Pasca at the constantin Theater about three or four months ago. I first heard
him at the Gideon's Stay convention in Alcahoma City. Wonderful young couple that love
the Lord and they're powerful singers. And they've agreed to come into a concert
for us. And it'll be March the eighth at Oklahoma Westley and the Lions
Chapel will be the smaller part of the chapel there, so limited a seating
is limited. We do have sponsorships available for any business organization we'd like to
sponsor help us pay for that. And we're looking for a great time of
inspiration. But also presenting the one Gods who get the Lighthouse. Also at
that time we'll have some testimony for Mama residents and it'll be a fun time.
You also have a little word out to all of our neighboring churches too.
We have an opportunity for people to go on a business trip. You
think of going to a missions trip. You got to get a passport.
And I just found out Mind expired in November. I got to renew Mind.
But you need a passport to go overseas, and you need to pack
your luggage and special clothing and maybe do a little language trading. But here's
a mission opportunity for your church. You don't have to go out of town.
You don't have to have a passport. You know, have to carry
a luggage across the airport, and you have to learn another language. Just
come help serve a bill at the lighthouse and you're on a missions trip.
You're serving God and you get a wonderful experience. And it's a wonderful way
for churches to get involved. We have about eight or nine churches right now
that sponsored the bill. Once a month they prepare the meal, bring it
and serve it and it helps us out a lot. It helps the church
a lot because they can see what's going on there. And we had one
a church. The principal of a school is a part of that church,
and so he was serving the meal one night and one of our kids came
through the line and saw their principal serving their bill. That was a neat
thing for them. So you get a chance to meet the people, and
some of you see working at stores in town here and you get to have
a connection there too. But it's a wonderful way to help us out because
it takes the burden office financially for meals, but also it gives a chance
for your church to reach out and do community work. Also. Er,
let's tell everybody where lighthouse can be found in case you want to stop by,
or perhaps they have a question, or maybe they just want to write
you a check. Okay, We're located fourteen eleven West Hinsley Boulevard in West
Martinsville, the corner of Bucy in the Hindsley Boulevard, and you're welcome to
come by some time. And if you want to come to the no idea
to her, just give us a call. Our phone number is nine one
eight three three six nine zero two nine, and we put you Nable on
the list so we can have a preparation for you coming for that. But
just come by and visit us. We have people come by just to drop
off clothing they donate or something like that, but also to just take a
tour. So you're always welcome with the lighthouse. Miracles happened there three day
any Errol, thank you for being with us, Thank you for appreciate it.
Alrighty, be safe, all right, thank you, all right,
all right, thank you very much. You've been listening to our community. Can