Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome
in. It's time now for our community connection right here on K one one
do you trust and from a lighthouse we have arrow in with us. How
are you doing, young man? I'm doing great. Well. You know
what, you brought in some statistics from a survey, and I got to
say, this is amazing. You did a lot of hard work here to
talk about how folks maybe you've come to know about the Lighthouse Outreach Center and
how well they're doing. Kind of a nice little report card. Really,
it was very encouraging as I began to get the results from the individuals about
the length of sobriety, buying a vehicle, those who got jobs, those
who are getting healthcare, vision care, those who made commitmentscessary the Lord,
and those are reading their Bible on a regular basis. Now, it's very
encouraging to see the way that what we're trying to do is actually being done
in the lives of the men and women there. I'm reading some of these
testimonials here and they're very compelling. First of all, coming to the Lighthouse
saved my life. Well, that's a major big deal. And Lighthouse is
also a great place. A little more importantly, you get spiritually fed through
the Holy Spirit more than a meal. It's the internal, it's the spirit
to gets and talk a lot about that. Yes, and you know people
on the street are not there because of the economy. It's not an economic
issue. It's a lifestyle issue. It's a mental health issue, it's drug
addiction issues, it's many things like that. And so some programs in the
government are to give a home to a person, give them a motel or
a hotel or an apartment, and then not deal with the issues to put
them on the street in the first place. And so we are here to
give them a bed, a place to stay, feed them three meals a
day, help them get doctor's appointments, and seek employment if that's a part
of their plan they need to have. But the spiritual is the most important,
the most important thing we do. It's a chapel services. We have
eight chapel services a week, five in the mornings and three in the evenings.
And this is where the change takes place, not all at once.
Sometimes the seeds are planted and they may leave before they actually have made that
decision to turn the knife over to God. But the seeds were planted,
and it goes with them. And if people's lives are not changed, no
matter how many jobs they got or how many places we private vide for them
to stay where they can afford it or given to them, if they haven't
had a change in their heart and a lifestyle change, then we're just continuing
the problem. Well, a lot of these people have taken all this the
heart when you get to the root of it all. First of all,
with the fifty nine adults surveyed from June sixth to the ninth, sobriety was
a big one there. There are folks have been a full decade clean,
that's about eight percent. But you know the rest have gone off to be
with family and to restart their lives. So but I'm seeing folks who are
there for like maybe a year have been off drugs and alcohol. That's twenty
five percent. That's a lot of people from the survey they've made it a
full year, and that's a big deal. When you're trying to stay sober,
you hit those markers, that's a victory. Thirty days is the big
break, and that's basically what some rehab programs are at. Thirty day programs
and they're nothing more in my opinion, than a detox because it takes more
than thirty days. You get over twenty years of addiction, and so the
length of sobriety gives you stability. But you've got to continue to maintain your
meetings. You've got to continue to be around good people and avoid those who
are going to cause you maybe to slip up. Yeah, it's really easy
to fall back into those bad habits because the comfortable habits, it's all you've
known. And changes are for all of us. And now health I noticed
this the forty two percent of receiving checkups and about fifty six say that they're
able to get medical appointments, and fifty one percent and say that you get
their prescriptions filled regularly. Vision care is way up there as far as that
goes. But they say by about seventy five percent their health has improved overall.
And that's that's really good because you can't stay healthy living outdoors like that
if you don't have good nutrition away from the elements, and the healthcare necessary.
A lot of them, blood pressure medicine may be the main thing they
need to get, but the prescriptions prescribed expired or they don't have a way
to get to it, don't have any money to pay for it, So
helping them get their basic health needs very important. And the vision care,
we had a grant given to us last year by a foundation for vision care
and we have helped over eighty people get glasses or have eye exams, and
that's a real blasting because vision care is very rare to get free vision care.
You can get checkups at health clinics and things like that, and even
medications, but vision Claire care is very rare, and so this has been
a big blessing for us. And we used all the money from this last
grant was twelve thousand dollars. We've got another one coming this next year.
So that's a big blessing to people to see them being able to see it
and enjoy life. Speaking of being able to see, some people been able
to see the light lighthouse, and I'd like to have you talk about that
aspect number eight through the spirituality part of the survey, because that moved me.
When I connected the survey, I was very amazed at the number of
The question was if you got saved at the lighthouse, and that doesn't mean
at the lighthouse. It means why you're at the lighthouse because a lot of
them go to churches and they get saved at the churches they go to,
and that's wonderful. Sometimes they get saved during a chapel service. Yesterday two
men unusual for this many in one day. Two men came to my office
one after afternoon class called the experiencing God. He had never been saved,
that I've never been saved before. And they was thirty eight years old,
and he prayed ex Christ and he started crying. He said, I haven't
cried since I was a child. He was put into drug trafficking at fourteen,
had a terrible life given to him, and now he's breaking free of
that. And then later on after the evening chapel another man came off us
and he wanted to turn his life over to Christ. Also. So those
are the ones we know about. But since the survey of the fifty nine
twenty twenty seven indicate they had gotten saved and then thirty four had rededicated that
life. Maybe they had to walk with the Lord at one time, but
they had walked away, they cooled off, but now they got back with
the Lord. So those are very significant numbers because those are what's going to
help them they leave the Lighthouse, and that's that's the big thing, that's
your foundation. Yeah, you know. And we were also talking earlier about
many folks who find themselves in situations that they're in for their searching for help
and they come to your door. Many of them are challenged with mental health
issues. And fifty six percent self you know, said in the survey they
best right up. They said, yep, I'm dealing with it and it's
amazing. But also and seeing fifty six percent said, you know what,
I feel a whole lot safer now. Yeah, it's like you got some
guard rails, You've got somebody caring for you. And that's what the Lighthouse
done. And mental illness is I think one of the biggest problems in America,
and it's closely tied to drug addiction because mental health issues can drive a
person into drug addiction, and drug addiction can also cause mental health problem.
So they're very closely tied and connected. And so it's very important that we
and we're not doing as good a job as I'd like to, and nobody
else is either. We refer many of our clients to grand mental health,
and then many of them already are there when they come to us, and
we work very close and they're doing a great job. Right now, they
have a program and we've heard of it called Brief Stay. They build a
brand new house they're across from their facility and they take families in there for
a week and they provide food and everything like that, provide true apportation to
and from work into school. And then they have cameras all throughout the house
and they have airphones for the parents and as a child does I mean,
they can give them some coaching as they luck on the camera and hear what's
going to say, you might want to try giving them this, so you
might want to suggest this, And so it gives a parent on the spot
training. And we've had about three families go through that. Right now we've
got more wanting to go. Wonderful program, highly recommended. You know,
we're at the Lighthouse, so you're talking about family situations. One one of
the comments that are read here earlier today, one of the people said,
I grew up being abused by many people, including family, which made me
search for God. Found a church. They picked me up and I attended
served and connected. Eventually I moved and became depressed, anxious, and was
addicted to cigarettes and more, and then went through more abuse. When I
got to the lighthouse, everything was good and restored. My life was down
one hundred percent better on the inside as well as the owl. And they
said, I'll be ever grateful I have joined. Now I have peace,
Now I have faith, I have hope, and now I have love because
of Jesus Christ. And that young lady is getting me to leave the lighthouse
in a few months or weeks, maybe getting me to go to college and
really get our light back on track. And so these are the success stories.
And you know, when people leave the lighthouse, our prayers for them
to leave successfully. Some people leave because they decide they don't want to be
there anymore. Some of them have an offer, something looks good and maybe
good, and some of them are ready to move out. Some of them
had to be dismissed because they won't follow the rules. They've done some drugs
and while they're there. But our goal is for them to leave successfully.
And we don't put a time on how long they can be there because it
took years to get into that mess. It's gonna take years to get out
of it. Even with God, it takes a while to unwind some things
and untie some things and rebuild some things. So we're not there, you
only have a three or four months. Some programs are limited and that may
be the route they need to go. Some of them have in depth programs
where but ours is pretty relaxed as far as they can work while they're there
and attend what classes are available when they're not working. So we're not saying
you have to stay there and do classes all day only. I'm in resident
program which are necessary for some but as a more open freedom there for whatever
pertain individual need might be. We've got a special little thing coming up,
and we're gonna get to it here in a moment, because we're gonna take
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we're back with our community connection. We're talking with Errol and he's with the
lighthouse. I don't reach center thirty years. I was there last Paul for
the celebration. A lot of folks thought that the lighthouse been here forever because
it's been helping so many people, and it's still very young at thirty years
old, right, and I want to come in. Nailmi Lanier, who
came from Idaho to start the lighthouse. She said God sent her to Bartlesville
to start the lighthouse, and she was faithful. She was there for twenty
te years. I began. I'm the second director. I've been there for
about ten years now, ten or eleven years. But she gave a very
good foundation of having the spiritual part of an important that's the most primary thing,
keeping the place neat and clean, and hiring residency staff to help them
get some support in their life, but also to help piscal We could not
keep the lighthouse going if we didn't have the staff who worked for solo,
So I'll make seventy five two hundred dollars a week. That's their salary,
and they could make more work McDonald's. In fact, some of them have
to eventually quit work at the Lighthouse to get some more money to take care
of some other financial obligations. But their ministry there is so important because they
have been where the people are trying to help, and they know what it's
like that first day when you get there and you see this raucio man and
a bunch of rules, and you're you don't know what to think. But
they begin to help them ease into it and help them decompress, and pretty
soon they begin to realize this is the best thing they've ever done in getting
a knife turned around. Well, and it all starts just right there at
the heart of it, all right, it does, yes, And you
know you can you can attack the symptoms all day long, but until you
get to the real root of everything. Boy, Now we for folks who
aren't familiar or are to a degree familiar with Lighthouse Outreach Center, you've got
a special thing coming up here. And yes, about every six weeks we
have what we call I had no idea to her, and it's a great
idea given to us. I was in Nashville at the Mission there during a
conference with city gating sootiation, and I saw this little postcard on the desk
there at the National Mission and said, I had no idea to her.
And I looked at it, and what they do. They invite people for
the community come eat lunch with them and with the residence, and then we
give them a brief ten fifteen minute tour and no appeal for money, just
let them know what's going on there and they get a better picture because if
you drive by the lighthouse, it's an old gray building with blue trim,
and you don't know what's going on there. An you think, well,
it's probably smells like a high school gym or a rest home. But you
walk in, it's fresh, it's clean, it's bright, and the people
that they're happy and it's a wonderful experience. And that's why we came with
the idea I had no idea to her, because people have no idea.
And I've had many people almost use that same phrase when they visit with the
residence, and the residence will open up and they'll share their stories and it's
encouraging and it's a beautiful thing. And we would like to invite anybody that
would like to come this next Thursday, a week from tomorrow, June the
twenty second, at twelve o'clock from twelve to one, and then you're free
to go if you take off from lunch from work that you're still free to
go back to work. And I'll be asking if you call ahead of times
the Lighthouse nine one eight three three six nine zero two nine and let them
know you're coming to the tours, so we know how many to prepare for.
We've had up to twenty five thirty people and it's a wonderful time.
It gives us a good opportunity to clean the place up we get ready for
company. So it's it's better than it might look before company comes. But
what about your house? You think the same thing? We give you the
same type of meal as we have and it's not soup, and how much
it is a good meal. And we're having pork chops this time a store
here in town had him front sale. We're dollars sixty nine pounds and we
bought a whole bunch of pork loin. We made an pork chops. So
we're gonna have a great meal. This is gonna be a good time,
and you get to learn something too, and you're gonna get to see how
people's lives are changed. You know. I got to see a few of
the fellas you. I think you were out at the sun festical, you
know. And you have the little rocking first. Now people, if you've
not known, Nil also a furniture guy made handmade stuff, and he make
these little ebb rocking chairs for kids. And the three gentlemen the devil speaking
to it. That was a proud accomplishment from there, because all of a
sudden, now they've got these carpentry skills. They've got the skills to not
only go abcd follow directions, but put some art into it, and to
really put some some real heart with their art in making these things. Who
knew that making a little rocking chair, but they're beautiful, yea would would
make so much a difference in the lives of three grown men, But it
did. It's exciting thing. When I had my impulsive shop here in town
for twelve years, we made him there. And now we're able to as
part of a ministry to raise funds. We don't make a lot of money
to them, but he gives us an outlet. We also give out brochairs
that we go to craft shows all over to enen Stale Water, tell USA.
We were up at a farm showing coffee bill this year getting the word
out because again, the people live here in Bartlesville, lived there most of
life, do not really know the impact the lighthouse having this community. The
other day, a neighbor of the lighthouse was complaining to me because of the
people that get put out of the lighthouse for not falling the rules or leave
on their own, and he said he's had to take a couple of them
to Tulsa, and he was upset with that. And you know, I
didn't say this, And sometimes you don't say something you think it's a good
idea. So that's a good thing. I didn't say it, but I
thought to myself, well that may be too But I know where seventy of
them are right now. They're right inside of these walls being safe. And
so you see people walking up and down the street and think, man,
we got a homeless problem in Bartlesville. We do. And there's campgrounds at
Johnstone Park and behind Dollar General over by Arby's. There's there's camp out like
that, but I know where seventy people are safe tonight getting their lives turned
around. You know. One of the quotes that came in from one and
say, Lighthouse has been my best shelter I've been so far and help me
find a purpose in life again. Everyone is friendly, supportive. They've helped
me how to closer relationship with Jesus and a better understanding of who God is
and how big his love is for us. Lighthouse has saved me so far
to come to a deeper understanding on how loving and caring for one another in
a team effort and not just a selfish one, and that we can all
unite in God's glory, come together as a family. And they thank the
Lighthouse for teaching me, you know, what a real family should be.
Because a lot of these folks they didn't come from you know, the Cleavers,
right, They just weren't far from as a matter of fact. And
I was raised out in the country west northwest of alv Oklahoma, on a
farm. I didn't know a lot of the staff that went on in the
world because we weren't around him. We were out there doing our work on
the farm. Went to little Country grade school there for eight years and very
much isolated and protected. And I'm so thankful that God kept me from these
because if but for the Great God, I would be in a send.
I would be a full blown alcoholic if I've ever start, if I would
ever started, because I have those those tendencies of an addict, and so
that helps me understand and work with him because I know what it's like,
except for the actual pull that they have on him. And I've been so
blast. So the verse of the Bible says, too much is given,
much should be required, and I've been so blast. I have responsibility,
helped by the people, and so far so good. Let's get some folks
out there here in a few weeks too. I had no idea, and
you're going to get some idea. Okay, Hey, hey, Errol,
thank you very much for being with us today. Thank you. Tom has
been already talking now and we want to say hi to the folks at Lighted
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