Speaker 1: Joining me for our annual visit to talk about an
Speaker 1: annual event that is super fun, the KOFA annual kids
Speaker 1: free paper target Shoot. We've got Mike Brooks Leslie Allen
Speaker 1: in the studio with us from KOFA and I want
Speaker 1: to start first of all with our little quick referral.
Speaker 2: What is KOFA?
Speaker 3: Who wants to answer that question ofa COFA?
Speaker 2: Is you move that? Mike to you?
Speaker 1: Mike, Yeah, go ahead, pull it. I know it doesn't
Speaker 1: feel like it's gonna pull, but it'll pull. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Just manipulate that bad way?
Speaker 3: Is that better?
Speaker 2: That's perfect? There you go.
Speaker 4: KOFA COFA is Christian Outdoor Fellowship of.
Speaker 3: America And what do you guys do?
Speaker 4: We do all kinds of activities for adults, families and kids.
Speaker 4: This particular event is going to be a free kid's
Speaker 4: paper turkey target shoot. Say that ten times real fast.
Speaker 4: And this is specifically for kids. Leslie Water the age
Speaker 4: group on app.
Speaker 2: Eight to fifteen.
Speaker 1: Now, wait a minute, even before you answered that, I
Speaker 1: knew the answer to that because I've done this interview
Speaker 1: with you for so many years. What year is this
Speaker 1: for the KOFA Turkey to or could shoot sixteen sixteen.
Speaker 1: How many kids do you think you guys have cycled
Speaker 1: through there?
Speaker 3: Thousands? I bet thousands of kids.
Speaker 2: I beat lesly. How does the whole thing work?
Speaker 5: So kids eight to fifteen compete for shooting at paper
Speaker 5: targets to win, and there are four age categories eight
Speaker 5: to nine, ten to eleven, twelve to thirteen, fourteen to fifteen,
Speaker 5: and so the kids in each category win, you know,
Speaker 5: have an opportunity to win a frozen turkey for Thanksgiving,
Speaker 5: and there's other prizes too, there's gift cards and it's
Speaker 5: a really cool event.
Speaker 1: So how many of the kids that come in have
Speaker 1: never shot a gun before? And by the way, these
Speaker 1: are bebguns. They're not you know, they're not going to
Speaker 1: be no cow exactly. These are small bbguns. They are
Speaker 1: like perfect, you know, starter weapons. As we say, how
Speaker 1: many kids do you think have never shot a gun
Speaker 1: when they come to this event?
Speaker 4: I would say probably a quarter of them, and a
Speaker 4: lot of parents have never shot any kind of firearm either,
Speaker 4: and they're they're intrigued and some of them actually want
Speaker 4: to try shoot the gun themselves. So, you know, we
Speaker 4: get a lot of people that are first timers, but
Speaker 4: we get a lot of experienced kids that their parents
Speaker 4: have gotten a BB gun for Christmas or their birthyar
Speaker 4: or something like that.
Speaker 1: That's impossible because they would shoot their eye out if
Speaker 1: they had done that much.
Speaker 3: Hopefully not hopefully not.
Speaker 1: Well, I loves that because this is kind of an
Speaker 1: opportunity if you are firearm curious to come out and
Speaker 1: get a little lesson on simple firearm safety about where
Speaker 1: to point the barrel and all that stuff.
Speaker 4: Well, we have hundred instructors that are teaching the kids
Speaker 4: a ten minute course of gun safety, which if they
Speaker 4: get hunter ed, they would definitely get that for six
Speaker 4: to eight hours. But this is an event that parents
Speaker 4: could actually bring the children feel safe. For the children,
Speaker 4: it's going to be a fun event and they're going
Speaker 4: to get thoroughly taught about aiming a gun, trigger pull
Speaker 4: all that stuff.
Speaker 2: Okay, Leslie, what do kids get out of this?
Speaker 5: Well, it gives them an opportunity to spend time with
Speaker 5: your parents' grandparents, aunt suckles with friends, and time off
Speaker 5: their electronics and participating in some outdoor related activities. And
Speaker 5: like you said, it's a really safe and fun environment
Speaker 5: for the kids.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry this is at the what is it called
Speaker 1: the Colloid Venture Point. That's what I'm trying to remember.
Speaker 1: I was like, I know, I know the name, and
Speaker 1: I'm trying to do this interview on memory alone, just
Speaker 1: to like test myself because i feel like we've done this.
Speaker 2: But where is this, Leslie?
Speaker 5: So the address is ten four fifty five West sixth
Speaker 5: Avenue Sweet one fifty in Lakewood. So it's it's right
Speaker 5: near Kipling and Highway six on the frontage road on
Speaker 5: the north side of the freeway.
Speaker 2: Okay, Now, what time do people need to show up
Speaker 2: to sign up?
Speaker 5: Nine o'clock so when it starts, they can show up
Speaker 5: any time, but they need to be there by twelve
Speaker 5: fifteen in order to participate in the last competition.
Speaker 1: And that is what the last window of the last portunity. Okay,
Speaker 1: and then you guys give out the turkeys the same day, yes,
Speaker 1: just in time for Thanksgivings. Now, if you had repeat winners,
Speaker 1: I've never asked you that before.
Speaker 3: We have. And it was a couple gals, you know,
Speaker 3: young gals.
Speaker 4: Obviously their parents are very much involved in the shooting.
Speaker 4: But yeah, two sisters, different age groups, one twice.
Speaker 1: So somebody just asked on the text line an interesting question.
Speaker 1: Do you have to be a Christian to participate?
Speaker 4: No, so it's open to anybody. We were trying to
Speaker 4: get kids off their electronics. Man, that's really important, so no,
Speaker 4: just come down have fun. We have a rock climbing wall,
Speaker 4: we have archery, we have a crass room so kids
Speaker 4: can be kids that hang around together. Parents love what
Speaker 4: they're seeing, whether their children. I know it's indoors, but
Speaker 4: it's an outdoor event.
Speaker 2: Now in a.
Speaker 1: Bigger picture, how does the Christian Park come in INTOKOFA?
Speaker 4: Well, we're very family oriented and we like having families
Speaker 4: do stuff in the outdoors. And God created the world.
Speaker 4: We want them to enjoy it. We don't hit you
Speaker 4: on ahead with a twenty pound Bible or anything like that.
Speaker 4: We just want people just to enjoy what God's created.
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead and get signed up. The day of
Speaker 1: this is super fun. Somebody's going to win an eighteen
Speaker 1: to nineteen pound frozen turkey.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: I was joking with a friend of mine and he
Speaker 1: was having chat GPT helping make his Thanksgiving list, and
Speaker 1: chat GPT said, oh Christmas, Eve.
Speaker 2: Go to the store and get your roast.
Speaker 1: And I was like, are you kidding me, Especially with
Speaker 1: an eighteen or nineteen pound turkey, you gotta.
Speaker 2: Have time to let it thaw. Gotta let it though.
Speaker 1: What are some of the other events you guys do
Speaker 1: during the year, In case people want to find out more,
Speaker 1: I put a link to Kofa's website and I just
Speaker 1: thought some of the stuff coming up was.
Speaker 2: Kind of cool.
Speaker 4: Okay, So we just got done with the men and
Speaker 4: Women's l Hunt, which was very successful. We have events
Speaker 4: starting after well, we have a breakfast first Saturday every month.
Speaker 2: At Golden Corral, Oh, very nice.
Speaker 4: And we have events for families. For example, we do
Speaker 4: Dutch oven, we do ATV rides, we have survival classes.
Speaker 3: What else do we have?
Speaker 5: Least self defense archery for kids, b begun practice for kids, A.
Speaker 1: Little bit of everything. And that's kind of what I
Speaker 1: wanted to make the point. It's not just about shooting,
Speaker 1: but a lot of it is outdoors and hunting and
Speaker 1: stuff related. Now, did we talk about the Golden Corral
Speaker 1: free meal?
Speaker 2: Did we talk about that?
Speaker 3: Well, let's talk about that.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about are all your sponsors?
Speaker 4: Okay, So Golden Coral, the one in Sheridan, those children
Speaker 4: that come will twelve and under, we'll get a certificate
Speaker 4: for a free breakfast at Golden Corral, and so you
Speaker 4: just have to come down. We'll stamp the certificate. Kids
Speaker 4: can go enjoy the events and have fun. We got
Speaker 4: Mile High Graphics, which has been incredibly good to KOFA.
Speaker 4: They have wrapped our trailers, given us Brochers banners. It's
Speaker 4: been really good. And now Culver's is coming on board
Speaker 4: with us.
Speaker 3: I love culver the one in Lakewood, right, Leslie, Yes.
Speaker 1: If I have to choose junk food, I am choosing Culver's.
Speaker 3: Rights is amazing.
Speaker 2: She's kurds anyone GE's curls.
Speaker 1: Mike Brooks, Leslie Allen from KOFA, thank you for coming
Speaker 1: in today to talk about the event. It's going to
Speaker 1: be another barn burner. It is this Saturday at Colorado's
Speaker 1: Adventure Point in Lakewood on six Avenue between near Kipling
Speaker 1: and Highway six on the Frontage Road. I also put
Speaker 1: a link to their website on the blog, so if
Speaker 1: you're driving you don't remember any of it, just go
Speaker 1: to mandy'sblog dot com and look for that. I appreciate
Speaker 1: you guys coming in again and I'll see you next year.
Speaker 3: Thank you Mandy,