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

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in. It's time now for our
community connection right here on K one one

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do you trust and from a lighthouse
we have arrow in with us. How

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are you doing, young man?
I'm doing great. Well. You know

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what, you brought in some statistics
from a survey, and I got to

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say, this is amazing. You
did a lot of hard work here to

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talk about how folks maybe you've come
to know about the Lighthouse Outreach Center and

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how well they're doing. Kind of
a nice little report card. Really,

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it was very encouraging as I began
to get the results from the individuals about

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the length of sobriety, buying a
vehicle, those who got jobs, those

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who are getting healthcare, vision care, those who made commitmentscessary the Lord,

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and those are reading their Bible on
a regular basis. Now, it's very

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encouraging to see the way that what
we're trying to do is actually being done

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in the lives of the men and
women there. I'm reading some of these

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testimonials here and they're very compelling.
First of all, coming to the Lighthouse

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saved my life. Well, that's
a major big deal. And Lighthouse is

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also a great place. A little
more importantly, you get spiritually fed through

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the Holy Spirit more than a meal. It's the internal, it's the spirit

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to gets and talk a lot about
that. Yes, and you know people

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on the street are not there because
of the economy. It's not an economic

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issue. It's a lifestyle issue.
It's a mental health issue, it's drug

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addiction issues, it's many things like
that. And so some programs in the

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government are to give a home to
a person, give them a motel or

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a hotel or an apartment, and
then not deal with the issues to put

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them on the street in the first
place. And so we are here to

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give them a bed, a place
to stay, feed them three meals a

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day, help them get doctor's appointments, and seek employment if that's a part

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of their plan they need to have. But the spiritual is the most important,

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the most important thing we do.
It's a chapel services. We have

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eight chapel services a week, five
in the mornings and three in the evenings.

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And this is where the change takes
place, not all at once.

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Sometimes the seeds are planted and they
may leave before they actually have made that

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decision to turn the knife over to
God. But the seeds were planted,

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and it goes with them. And
if people's lives are not changed, no

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matter how many jobs they got or
how many places we private vide for them

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to stay where they can afford it
or given to them, if they haven't

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had a change in their heart and
a lifestyle change, then we're just continuing

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the problem. Well, a lot
of these people have taken all this the

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heart when you get to the root
of it all. First of all,

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with the fifty nine adults surveyed from
June sixth to the ninth, sobriety was

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a big one there. There are
folks have been a full decade clean,

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that's about eight percent. But you
know the rest have gone off to be

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with family and to restart their lives. So but I'm seeing folks who are

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there for like maybe a year have
been off drugs and alcohol. That's twenty

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five percent. That's a lot of
people from the survey they've made it a

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full year, and that's a big
deal. When you're trying to stay sober,

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you hit those markers, that's a
victory. Thirty days is the big

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break, and that's basically what some
rehab programs are at. Thirty day programs

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and they're nothing more in my opinion, than a detox because it takes more

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than thirty days. You get over
twenty years of addiction, and so the

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length of sobriety gives you stability.
But you've got to continue to maintain your

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meetings. You've got to continue to
be around good people and avoid those who

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are going to cause you maybe to
slip up. Yeah, it's really easy

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to fall back into those bad habits
because the comfortable habits, it's all you've

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known. And changes are for all
of us. And now health I noticed

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this the forty two percent of receiving
checkups and about fifty six say that they're

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able to get medical appointments, and
fifty one percent and say that you get

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their prescriptions filled regularly. Vision care
is way up there as far as that

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goes. But they say by about
seventy five percent their health has improved overall.

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And that's that's really good because you
can't stay healthy living outdoors like that

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if you don't have good nutrition away
from the elements, and the healthcare necessary.

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A lot of them, blood pressure
medicine may be the main thing they

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need to get, but the prescriptions
prescribed expired or they don't have a way

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to get to it, don't have
any money to pay for it, So

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helping them get their basic health needs
very important. And the vision care,

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we had a grant given to us
last year by a foundation for vision care

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and we have helped over eighty people
get glasses or have eye exams, and

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that's a real blasting because vision care
is very rare to get free vision care.

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You can get checkups at health clinics
and things like that, and even

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medications, but vision Claire care is
very rare, and so this has been

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a big blessing for us. And
we used all the money from this last

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grant was twelve thousand dollars. We've
got another one coming this next year.

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So that's a big blessing to people
to see them being able to see it

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and enjoy life. Speaking of being
able to see, some people been able

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to see the light lighthouse, and
I'd like to have you talk about that

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aspect number eight through the spirituality part
of the survey, because that moved me.

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When I connected the survey, I
was very amazed at the number of

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The question was if you got saved
at the lighthouse, and that doesn't mean

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at the lighthouse. It means why
you're at the lighthouse because a lot of

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them go to churches and they get
saved at the churches they go to,

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and that's wonderful. Sometimes they get
saved during a chapel service. Yesterday two

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men unusual for this many in one
day. Two men came to my office

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one after afternoon class called the experiencing
God. He had never been saved,

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that I've never been saved before.
And they was thirty eight years old,

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and he prayed ex Christ and he
started crying. He said, I haven't

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cried since I was a child.
He was put into drug trafficking at fourteen,

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had a terrible life given to him, and now he's breaking free of

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that. And then later on after
the evening chapel another man came off us

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and he wanted to turn his life
over to Christ. Also. So those

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are the ones we know about.
But since the survey of the fifty nine

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twenty twenty seven indicate they had gotten
saved and then thirty four had rededicated that

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life. Maybe they had to walk
with the Lord at one time, but

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they had walked away, they cooled
off, but now they got back with

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the Lord. So those are very
significant numbers because those are what's going to

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help them they leave the Lighthouse,
and that's that's the big thing, that's

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your foundation. Yeah, you know. And we were also talking earlier about

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many folks who find themselves in situations
that they're in for their searching for help

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and they come to your door.
Many of them are challenged with mental health

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issues. And fifty six percent self
you know, said in the survey they

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best right up. They said,
yep, I'm dealing with it and it's

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amazing. But also and seeing fifty
six percent said, you know what,

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I feel a whole lot safer now. Yeah, it's like you got some

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guard rails, You've got somebody caring
for you. And that's what the Lighthouse

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done. And mental illness is I
think one of the biggest problems in America,

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and it's closely tied to drug addiction
because mental health issues can drive a

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person into drug addiction, and drug
addiction can also cause mental health problem.

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So they're very closely tied and connected. And so it's very important that we

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and we're not doing as good a
job as I'd like to, and nobody

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else is either. We refer many
of our clients to grand mental health,

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and then many of them already are
there when they come to us, and

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we work very close and they're doing
a great job. Right now, they

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have a program and we've heard of
it called Brief Stay. They build a

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brand new house they're across from their
facility and they take families in there for

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a week and they provide food and
everything like that, provide true apportation to

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and from work into school. And
then they have cameras all throughout the house

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and they have airphones for the parents
and as a child does I mean,

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they can give them some coaching as
they luck on the camera and hear what's

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going to say, you might want
to try giving them this, so you

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might want to suggest this, And
so it gives a parent on the spot

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training. And we've had about three
families go through that. Right now we've

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got more wanting to go. Wonderful
program, highly recommended. You know,

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we're at the Lighthouse, so you're
talking about family situations. One one of

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the comments that are read here earlier
today, one of the people said,

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I grew up being abused by many
people, including family, which made me

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search for God. Found a church. They picked me up and I attended

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served and connected. Eventually I moved
and became depressed, anxious, and was

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addicted to cigarettes and more, and
then went through more abuse. When I

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got to the lighthouse, everything was
good and restored. My life was down

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one hundred percent better on the inside
as well as the owl. And they

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said, I'll be ever grateful I
have joined. Now I have peace,

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Now I have faith, I have
hope, and now I have love because

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of Jesus Christ. And that young
lady is getting me to leave the lighthouse

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in a few months or weeks,
maybe getting me to go to college and

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really get our light back on track. And so these are the success stories.

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And you know, when people leave
the lighthouse, our prayers for them

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to leave successfully. Some people leave
because they decide they don't want to be

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there anymore. Some of them have
an offer, something looks good and maybe

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good, and some of them are
ready to move out. Some of them

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had to be dismissed because they won't
follow the rules. They've done some drugs

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and while they're there. But our
goal is for them to leave successfully.

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And we don't put a time on
how long they can be there because it

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took years to get into that mess. It's gonna take years to get out

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of it. Even with God,
it takes a while to unwind some things

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and untie some things and rebuild some
things. So we're not there, you

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only have a three or four months. Some programs are limited and that may

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be the route they need to go. Some of them have in depth programs

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where but ours is pretty relaxed as
far as they can work while they're there

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and attend what classes are available when
they're not working. So we're not saying

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you have to stay there and do
classes all day only. I'm in resident

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program which are necessary for some but
as a more open freedom there for whatever

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pertain individual need might be. We've
got a special little thing coming up,

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and we're gonna get to it here
in a moment, because we're gonna take

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a commercial break and arrow we'll be
right back and we're gonna talk more about

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the Lighthouse outreach right here in Bartles. Is it time to start thinking about

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a new car, But the thought
of dealing with the large dealerships is just

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too intimidating, too confusing. There
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Tall Grass Motors doesn't play all the
confusing games. A large dealerships play

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tall Grass Motors has continually been voted
Bartlesville's best used car dealer year after year.

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Good by tall Grass Motors today and
enjoy looking at over sixty used cars,

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trucks and SUVs, all prized to
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High five in Bartlesville, ten Howel, Arnold Moore and Knee Camp Funeral Home.

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You'd have to start out giving comfort
because your role has helped that person

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walk through the worst day of their
life and they're counting on you and your

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expertise and they trust you to get
them through this. That's what we try

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to do and do exceedingly well,
to walk hand in hand with our clients

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and say, you know what,
we've been down this road. We'll help

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you down. Here's what we've learned, here's the benefit of our years and

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this. Let us help you with
this. Do you have suggestions? Our

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job is to relieve the stress so
you can grieve and you can heal.

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And that staff at seven ten South
Dewey does a tremendous job have just putting

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their arms around people and loving them
and they have one goal and that's to

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satisfy the family and that final tribute
to their loved one. It'll be all

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right. We'll walk through this together. Arnold Moore and Knee Camp Funeral Home,

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seven ten Dewey, Bartelsville. We
will walk through this together. And

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we're back with our community connection.
We're talking with Errol and he's with the

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lighthouse. I don't reach center thirty
years. I was there last Paul for

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the celebration. A lot of folks
thought that the lighthouse been here forever because

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it's been helping so many people,
and it's still very young at thirty years

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old, right, and I want
to come in. Nailmi Lanier, who

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came from Idaho to start the lighthouse. She said God sent her to Bartlesville

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to start the lighthouse, and she
was faithful. She was there for twenty

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te years. I began. I'm
the second director. I've been there for

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about ten years now, ten or
eleven years. But she gave a very

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good foundation of having the spiritual part
of an important that's the most primary thing,

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keeping the place neat and clean,
and hiring residency staff to help them

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get some support in their life,
but also to help piscal We could not

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keep the lighthouse going if we didn't
have the staff who worked for solo,

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So I'll make seventy five two hundred
dollars a week. That's their salary,

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and they could make more work McDonald's. In fact, some of them have

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to eventually quit work at the Lighthouse
to get some more money to take care

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of some other financial obligations. But
their ministry there is so important because they

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have been where the people are trying
to help, and they know what it's

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like that first day when you get
there and you see this raucio man and

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a bunch of rules, and you're
you don't know what to think. But

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they begin to help them ease into
it and help them decompress, and pretty

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soon they begin to realize this is
the best thing they've ever done in getting

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a knife turned around. Well,
and it all starts just right there at

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the heart of it, all right, it does, yes, And you

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know you can you can attack the
symptoms all day long, but until you

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get to the real root of everything. Boy, Now we for folks who

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aren't familiar or are to a degree
familiar with Lighthouse Outreach Center, you've got

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a special thing coming up here.
And yes, about every six weeks we

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have what we call I had no
idea to her, and it's a great

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idea given to us. I was
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conference with city gating sootiation, and
I saw this little postcard on the desk

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there at the National Mission and said, I had no idea to her.

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And I looked at it, and
what they do. They invite people for

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the community come eat lunch with them
and with the residence, and then we

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give them a brief ten fifteen minute
tour and no appeal for money, just

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let them know what's going on there
and they get a better picture because if

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you drive by the lighthouse, it's
an old gray building with blue trim,

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and you don't know what's going on
there. An you think, well,

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it's probably smells like a high school
gym or a rest home. But you

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walk in, it's fresh, it's
clean, it's bright, and the people

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that they're happy and it's a wonderful
experience. And that's why we came with

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the idea I had no idea to
her, because people have no idea.

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And I've had many people almost use
that same phrase when they visit with the

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residence, and the residence will open
up and they'll share their stories and it's

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encouraging and it's a beautiful thing.
And we would like to invite anybody that

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would like to come this next Thursday, a week from tomorrow, June the

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twenty second, at twelve o'clock from
twelve to one, and then you're free

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to go if you take off from
lunch from work that you're still free to

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go back to work. And I'll
be asking if you call ahead of times

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the Lighthouse nine one eight three three
six nine zero two nine and let them

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know you're coming to the tours,
so we know how many to prepare for.

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We've had up to twenty five thirty
people and it's a wonderful time.

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It gives us a good opportunity to
clean the place up we get ready for

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company. So it's it's better than
it might look before company comes. But

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what about your house? You think
the same thing? We give you the

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same type of meal as we have
and it's not soup, and how much

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it is a good meal. And
we're having pork chops this time a store

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here in town had him front sale. We're dollars sixty nine pounds and we

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bought a whole bunch of pork loin. We made an pork chops. So

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we're gonna have a great meal.
This is gonna be a good time,

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and you get to learn something too, and you're gonna get to see how

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people's lives are changed. You know. I got to see a few of

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the fellas you. I think you
were out at the sun festical, you

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know. And you have the little
rocking first. Now people, if you've

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not known, Nil also a furniture
guy made handmade stuff, and he make

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these little ebb rocking chairs for kids. And the three gentlemen the devil speaking

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to it. That was a proud
accomplishment from there, because all of a

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sudden, now they've got these carpentry
skills. They've got the skills to not

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only go abcd follow directions, but
put some art into it, and to

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really put some some real heart with
their art in making these things. Who

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knew that making a little rocking chair, but they're beautiful, yea would would

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make so much a difference in the
lives of three grown men, But it

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did. It's exciting thing. When
I had my impulsive shop here in town

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for twelve years, we made him
there. And now we're able to as

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part of a ministry to raise funds. We don't make a lot of money

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to them, but he gives us
an outlet. We also give out brochairs

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that we go to craft shows all
over to enen Stale Water, tell USA.

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We were up at a farm showing
coffee bill this year getting the word

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out because again, the people live
here in Bartlesville, lived there most of

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life, do not really know the
impact the lighthouse having this community. The

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other day, a neighbor of the
lighthouse was complaining to me because of the

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people that get put out of the
lighthouse for not falling the rules or leave

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on their own, and he said
he's had to take a couple of them

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to Tulsa, and he was upset
with that. And you know, I

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didn't say this, And sometimes you
don't say something you think it's a good

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idea. So that's a good thing. I didn't say it, but I

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thought to myself, well that may
be too But I know where seventy of

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them are right now. They're right
inside of these walls being safe. And

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so you see people walking up and
down the street and think, man,

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we got a homeless problem in Bartlesville. We do. And there's campgrounds at

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Johnstone Park and behind Dollar General over
by Arby's. There's there's camp out like

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that, but I know where seventy
people are safe tonight getting their lives turned

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around. You know. One of
the quotes that came in from one and

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say, Lighthouse has been my best
shelter I've been so far and help me

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find a purpose in life again.
Everyone is friendly, supportive. They've helped

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me how to closer relationship with Jesus
and a better understanding of who God is

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and how big his love is for
us. Lighthouse has saved me so far

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to come to a deeper understanding on
how loving and caring for one another in

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a team effort and not just a
selfish one, and that we can all

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unite in God's glory, come together
as a family. And they thank the

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Lighthouse for teaching me, you know, what a real family should be.

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Because a lot of these folks they
didn't come from you know, the Cleavers,

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right, They just weren't far from
as a matter of fact. And

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I was raised out in the country
west northwest of alv Oklahoma, on a

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farm. I didn't know a lot
of the staff that went on in the

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world because we weren't around him.
We were out there doing our work on

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the farm. Went to little Country
grade school there for eight years and very

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much isolated and protected. And I'm
so thankful that God kept me from these

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because if but for the Great God, I would be in a send.

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I would be a full blown alcoholic
if I've ever start, if I would

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ever started, because I have those
those tendencies of an addict, and so

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that helps me understand and work with
him because I know what it's like,

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except for the actual pull that they
have on him. And I've been so

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blast. So the verse of the
Bible says, too much is given,

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much should be required, and I've
been so blast. I have responsibility,

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helped by the people, and so
far so good. Let's get some folks

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out there here in a few weeks
too. I had no idea, and

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you're going to get some idea.
Okay, Hey, hey, Errol,

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thank you very much for being with
us today. Thank you. Tom has

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been already talking now and we want
to say hi to the folks at Lighted

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