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Gamble. How are you doing today? Random? Doing well? Tom?
And you well? I tell you what. We've got a great weekend coming
up, so I couldn't feel any better. You've got two of your benchmark
events happening simultaneously tomorrow. We do have, absolutely we do. This is
third Saturday of the month. Therefore our Jesus Burger, our monthly outreach is
taking place. But not only that, this is our eighth annual March Against
Math Slash Fitmall event that we're bringing the two events together. We're going to
be there at the church in the parking lot. The weather is going to
be amazing for us. You read me the forecast estament go and I'm like,
yes, Lord, thank you. Sonny in seventy Folktion low Wind Sonny
in seventy thank you Lord, geez. We'll be in the parking lot tomorrow
for March Against Math event. We will start at noon. We'll have our
our get Real worship team, the Revelators. Uh will be Uh, I
like that. We'll be We'll be starting our worship set and we'll share the
word. And then Kevin Knowles, our friend Kevin Knowles, he and his
brother Michael, and and Kevin's son Arman are going to take over and the
music and they're going to play music between our announcements and our giveaways and and
uh, people we've got people that don't come up and do testimonies, give
their testimonies about their their experience of coming out of the drug addiction world.
Uh, it's it's real, Tom, It's it's tough, it's it's it's
bad news. If you've never been in addiction. And I tell people this
all the time that I know have never been in addiction. Uh, it
starts out perhaps having a good time. You know, let's party, let's
party, And it starts out that way, especially with like meth. First
couple times, I mean it's it's a rock and roll baby, I mean,
do it. But then after that it's like the devil has his claws
in you, and that third time you come into that, I mean you're
hooked already. And the way I try to explain it to people is this,
there's a it's demonic, but there's this gnawing and clawing and scratching and
digging on the inside of you that's driving you to cause you to need that
next fix. It already went beyond party. Let's have fun to an addiction
to where you will do anything that it takes to get that next fix.
Shiloh jokingly but sadly. At the same time, she jokingly says that she
pondered her mama's gold tooth when she was in her addiction. You know,
it will get that personal will. You will hurt the ones you love the
most and yet justify it some way. But what we're trying to do,
what we're trying to do get real ministries, is we have the answer.
The answer is Jesus Christ. But not only that, we have associates that
come along the side with us for rehab facilities and addiction facilities and things such
as that. So the reason that we're having this March against meth slash Fentanyl
event is so that the people of Bartlesville will know, Hey, there's somebody
out there that actually cares. Now, they may not remember all the resources
that show up for the event, but they'll remember get real ministries had something
going on, and I heard somebody say that they can help me out in
this addiction, or I heard somebody say they can help me out with a
little bit of food or some clothes, and they'll know where to come to
and then we can guide them and direct them to where they need to go.
And that has happened over and over and over and over and over and
over again. And I don't want to be like, hey, we're the
hero of the town, because we're not. We're working into conjunction with other
amazing resources here in Bartlesville. You know, we try to hold hands with
any and everyone that's trying to reach out to better Bartlesville. We have some
amazing sponsors, amazing partners. You guys here at the radio station, the
Potter family, you guys go above and beyond helping us out. Painted Horse,
Oh my goodness, the Hamburger meat that's supplied each month by Painted Horse.
I'm going to start naming names. I'm gonna forget some of the most
important people, and I'll be in trouble for doing that. But anyway,
it's an amazing event and it's open to the public. Now. Not only
not only are there going to be testimonies from people people that have themselves come
out of addictions or have had family members come out of addictions, but O
Sage Nation O Sage Indian tribe O Sage Nation is also providing Narcan, which
Narcan is the antidote if you will to overdose for fentanyl. It'll save your
life. It will save your life. And they're going to supply us with
an abundant amount of Narcan for us to hand out. Now, once again,
I want to say, this event is open to all of Bartlesville.
And you may be listening to this program you're thinking, well, I don't
have an addiction problem, nobody in my family has an addiction problem. Well
you may not have, but your family member may be hiding it quite well.
And what I want to say is this narc and everybody everyone should carry
Narkin with him, whether you're an addiction or not, because you never know.
And the great thing about narcan if you think somebody is having an overdose
episode, the great thing about narkn you can go ahead and administer it,
and it's it's a nasal spray. It's not a shot. You don't use
a needle. It's a nasal spray. You can go ahead and use it.
Even if it's not a drug overdose. It will not hurt the person.
All that does is neutralize the effects of fen exactly exactly, So it's
a win win sitch, you know. First thing you do, of course,
is called nine to one one, you know, and then administer the
narcan. But everyone needs to carry an ar can, and we encourage our
people that are living on the streets, are strung out or whatever it may
be. Everybody carries a backpack and we want to make sure that everyone has
a dose of narcan in their backpack to take care of one another. Indeed,
indeed, this is really something else. You've got the Jesus Burger where
you can feed you're telling me feed your body. You've got the worship that
will take care of feeding your soul. Yes, and then in case of
an emergency, you've got something there to take care of what needs to be
taken care of in it. Absolutely, so there's a lot of there's a
lot of upside going. Oh, yes, and clothes for the need each
other. Yes, yes, So we have a clothing ministry right across from
the church, we have a food ministry. The clothing ministry I call it
Little Dillard's Marty, and the ladies at the church. I mean you you
walk into this building and everything is organized, I mean sizes and colors and
shapes and seasons and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So the
thing is amazing how well organized it is. And then we've got the ladies
that take care of the food pantry where we hand out the food bags.
I mean, they've got everything organized. It's almost like walking into homeland or
is it homeland outdowns, Yeah, okay, safe Way, Homeland, whatever
it may be. It's like walking into the grocery store. I mean,
we've got people that have been there, have been in these addictions, have
been living on the streets. We've got so many success stories of people that
are just there to help. They want to serve, they want to help
other people get back to a sense of normality. You know, what's normal.
What's normal for me may not be normal for well, probably for anybody,
but well, you know, the thing is that. I guess it
was a couple of years ago when we were doing some publicity things at Crossing.
Second, you brought some people who had recently been in places that most
places, most people haven't been, and they are now amongst what you would
call or a society would deem the normal, and in fact highly normal and
highly functioning, and in fact they take care of some business there at the
get Real Ministries. Earned that position of a responsibility. And that's the key
phrase earned. You know, it's sad, they'll tell you they earned it.
It's sad to say, but you know, you have to prove yourself.
I'm not going to let us whosoever will walk into the ministry and have
a position. I mean, the word of God tells us to know those
who labor among you. And we have known a lot of people that are
now serving at get Real Ministries for a number of years and they are on
fire. They are on fire to yeah, and they can relate to folks
who do have problems, they can relate to folks who don't have problems.
They've been on both sides of that equation and they know where the equalizer is.
Absolutely the Lord Jesus, absolutely so that the jail ministry. We're getting
fired back up on the jail ministry once again. And and Derek Maynard,
Derek and Ergie, but Derek's going to head up the jail ministry. He
was there for he visited there for a while and they started a prayer group,
a Bible study group while he was in there, and they call it
the God Pod. And the God Pod is still continuing. So he has,
if you will, in society's eyes, I hate say that phrase,
but he has earned his way back into graces. Well, they're going to
allow him to come in now. He was once a resident there, but
they're gonna allow him to come in now and continue on with the Bible study
and the prayer group. So you know, that's just one of many,
many, many success stories. Wow, it is and it truly is.
And you know, I hope someday that folks, if you haven't heard his
testimony, you haven't heard his story, do yourself a favor and get to
a point where you can because if you know, if this fella can make
it, you can do it. So we've got another gentleman, Mario Russo.
Street Man. He was street, he was street all the way our
core now hardcore. He's from California. He's a banger and just all kinds
of things going on in his world. And he ended up at the Warning
Shelter and ended up at Jesus Burger, and we ended up. I had
ministered to him on the side for about three years and finally we got him
locked or into a place where we could minister to him. And he is
now finishing his second year reign of Bible College. Wow, yes, finish
it. He's getting ready to graduate in May from his second year of RAMA
Bible College. And I spoke to him one day at the church. I
said, Mario, I said, my friend, I see you going to
ram a Bible Institute. And he said, boy, that would be amazing.
I said not only that, I said, I can see you going
full time. Not only going full time, I said, I see you
living on the property, and I see you working there as a job.
I see your tuition paid in full. And every single bit of that has
come to pass. Wow, every bit of it. He's a student on
all the way through. But that's another success story from somebody that that was
banging in California to living on the streets here literally living on the streets and
strung out on dope to a college graduate from Rama Bible Institute. Success,
story after story after story after story going on, Oh God, all things
are possible. Now this is Saturday, and this is tomorrow, starting getting
new gat Real ministries at four eleven West fourteenth Street. It'll be Jesus Burger
and the March against meth slash Fatanol. And there's going to be free food,
free clothes, free dark can and one thing we haven't talked about yet,
we talked about the waterful music. Is my brother in music, Kevin.
No, come on, I'm on man, He's going to be taking
care of business. Yes he is. But I understand we're going to have
baptisms. Oh absolutely. It's always available at Jesus Water baptism always available at
Jesus Burger. And it's pretty amazing. You might have one or two that's
like, you know, I'm ready for this. And then once the water
baptism start, we've had as many as eighteen people line up for water baptism.
Why is water baptism important? I believe it's important because Christ and Jesus
instituted it. He said, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
So I believe water baptism an easy way to say that it's an outward expression
of an inward commitment you've made to Christ Jesus well put, and you never
know, you just never know how many baptisms will take place. Now,
it was kind of chilly last year, and we we had like eight yes,
yes, yes, when we were downtown at the Unity Square. I
mean, brother, it was cold there. My little chubby yourself was playing
a guitar, and I'm thinking, well, they got they got the tank
out there. I don't sit any here. Oh no, And by got
the eight people did and they there today they'll testify and tell you that was
the best. Absolutely speaking of our friend, most of them did that day.
Our friend Kevin Oles. I happened to come by the creamery yesterday and
I see his car there. And Kevin every day every Thursday at noon he
sets up at the creamery. Yeah, from noon to three at the creamery,
playing music and just eleven on people and and sharing he and his family,
sharing smiles and sharing Jesus with people. It was amazing. So I
stopped in vistor with him for a while, and on my way out,
I said, play me a song, piano man, and he did.
And he did play piano man. I mean, this man is amazing you
anything. Once again, folks, you're welcome and it's absolutely free. Just
just just bring an open heart, yes, in an open hand, yes.
And bring family, bring friends. You have to experience this. We
can talk about it all day long, but until you're actually there and the
spirit of God is moving you just you can't fully understand the impact that it
makes. March against meth ventanyl also Jesus Burger all in one tomorrow beginning at
noon, get Real Ministries at four eleven West fourteenth Street, Martinsville, Astor
Rando. Thank you, thank you. Tom all Right Books