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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning, Welcome welk, Welcome time
Speaker 2: now for our community connection right here on K one,
Speaker 2: the one you trust. And we have Sherry Smith and
Speaker 2: with us and usually when Sherry, when you come in,
Speaker 2: we're talking about bowls, but we're talking about maybe, you know,
Speaker 2: thinking about making the donation and kind of putting it
Speaker 2: in the ball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly right.
Speaker 4: Well, you know our wonderful fundraiser we do every years
Speaker 4: in August. Yeah, all that he goes to do what
Speaker 4: I'm here to talk about, and that's feeding people every day.
Speaker 2: And you know, there's something that's getting harder and harder
Speaker 2: to feed people every day with the costs going up.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine and how that's affecting you, well, you
Speaker 2: know the recipients.
Speaker 4: It's hard enough if you're feeding a family of four,
Speaker 4: but can you imagine feeding a family of three hundred
Speaker 4: or three hundred and fifty.
Speaker 5: You can't even imagine it. But we've got on average.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it's beginning to be an average. You know,
Speaker 4: we've increased numbers thirty to forty percent over the last
Speaker 4: year and a half two years. And you know, if
Speaker 4: you take food prices on top of that, gas prices
Speaker 4: and all the things that goes along with it, you know,
Speaker 4: it's it's a tough time. Everybody's feeling it now.
Speaker 2: Even at Agape Mission here in town, which has been
Speaker 2: around for quite a.
Speaker 4: While, almost twenty five years. Twenty five years in February.
Speaker 4: I know, it's unbelievable goes.
Speaker 5: By, isn't it quickly?
Speaker 2: But you've gone to you know, rebuild and everything else
Speaker 2: and everything, but the cause and the mission stays the same.
Speaker 3: We're feeding the hungry, that's exactly right.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, there's just more of them, and we're you know,
Speaker 4: we're seeing people and people are calling to say, what
Speaker 4: is it that I need to do in order to
Speaker 4: eat there, because they've never eaten at a mission before, right,
Speaker 4: And so we are very thankful that we have such
Speaker 4: a beautiful place to come, a clean, warm.
Speaker 3: And cool depending on the weather outside.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Uh, you know, the Good Lord takes care of
Speaker 4: us every day, and he brings the food in, he
Speaker 4: brings the volunteers in. We're always needing volunteers. So if
Speaker 4: you have a lunch hour, if you're working and you
Speaker 4: want to come serve once a week or once a
Speaker 4: month or whatever, the doors are wide open for you
Speaker 4: to come. Always tell youth groups, you know, they can
Speaker 4: go on a missions trip and they don't have to
Speaker 4: raise one penny. They don't have to buy a plane
Speaker 4: ticket or a bus ticket or.
Speaker 3: Any of that. All they have to do is drive
Speaker 3: to the west side of Bartlesfield.
Speaker 2: A little sweat equity goes a long way. You've brought
Speaker 2: some numbers. They're quite astonishing.
Speaker 3: Well it is.
Speaker 4: I just took a quick copy this morning before I
Speaker 4: left work. You know, I keep saying our numbers keep growing,
Speaker 4: but they do. In July of this year we served
Speaker 4: the most we have ever served in one month, even
Speaker 4: during COVID. Okay, and COVID was our worst time, but
Speaker 4: July we served six seven and fourteen meals. Last month
Speaker 4: was our second largest month and we served sixty two
Speaker 4: ninety one wow. So as you can see, we're extremely busy.
Speaker 4: And you know, in October, as far as our Food
Speaker 4: for Kids, we had two thousand, seven hundred and ninety
Speaker 4: six sacs that went out in October to all the
Speaker 4: schools in Washington County that we try to make sure
Speaker 4: that there is no child in that school goes hungry
Speaker 4: over the weekends.
Speaker 2: I'd sure once again for the folks, you kind of
Speaker 2: put it out there for them at the name of
Speaker 2: the program is.
Speaker 3: Food Got a mission Food for Kids program.
Speaker 2: Now they get something to eat over the weekend because
Speaker 2: these kids aren't going to go to.
Speaker 3: School, well, that's exactly right.
Speaker 5: They may or may not be food to go around
Speaker 5: at their.
Speaker 3: Home, that's exactly right.
Speaker 4: And we do over six hundred, almost six hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty sacks a week just in that program.
Speaker 3: But then we do.
Speaker 4: We do mores trying to see what our Atlas program.
Speaker 4: You know, we have one school that takes care of
Speaker 4: our it's called the Atlas program. And these are not
Speaker 4: some of them are children that not maybe are going
Speaker 4: hungry over the weekend. They are, and so we give
Speaker 4: them it's shelf stable stuff, but we give them enough
Speaker 4: stuff any day that they're not in school during the
Speaker 4: school year, they get food to eat and that's breakfast, lunch,
Speaker 4: and dinner when they're not at school. So no Rizzy
Speaker 4: does like during spring break, they had I don't know,
Speaker 4: seventy some sacks or something that went out, you know,
Speaker 4: because he's kids have to eat over the weekends. And
Speaker 4: it's not by any means in our Food for Kids
Speaker 4: program a meal, you know to say a meal, but
Speaker 4: it's something that is as nutritious as we can possibly do.
Speaker 4: Eight to fifteen items that they can eat over the
Speaker 4: weekends to keep them from not going hungry until they
Speaker 4: get back to school on Monday.
Speaker 3: Deep breakfast wow.
Speaker 4: And so you know, and we do every school in
Speaker 4: Washington County and we have guys that great guys, a
Speaker 4: team of guys that goes out and deliver sacks every Thursday,
Speaker 4: and I don't know what we do. You know, the
Speaker 4: Lord brings us our volunteers and our money, and you
Speaker 4: know we turned around and give it right back out
Speaker 4: to the people that need it.
Speaker 2: No, right now we're in a situation where we could
Speaker 2: use a little boost here.
Speaker 4: Well, this is the end of the year, you know,
Speaker 4: this is this is where you give for the year
Speaker 4: and things are taking care of at our place and
Speaker 4: you get a text credit or whatever for it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so it's a win win situation. But people doesn't know
Speaker 4: unless you tell them, you know, And we've been doing
Speaker 4: this for twenty five years, and I can tell you
Speaker 4: that it's taken more of everybody's money to live, more
Speaker 4: for gas, more for groceries. You know, our children are grown,
Speaker 4: but I can't imagine having three and four kids at
Speaker 4: home and trying to feed them, trying to go to
Speaker 4: all their stuff. And I'm still going to grandkids stuff.
Speaker 4: But you know, it costs every time you get in
Speaker 4: the door to watch a ball game, and that comes
Speaker 4: out of something.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: And so.
Speaker 4: Well, that's exactly right, and so our giving numbers and
Speaker 4: every no, it's not just us, it's every nonprofit in town.
Speaker 4: You're our donations are down due to the fact that
Speaker 4: people it's costing more to live, and when it costs
Speaker 4: more to live, you don't have that disposable income that
Speaker 4: you you know, oh, I'd like to give twenty five
Speaker 4: dollars to a gopy or one hundred dollars or whatever.
Speaker 5: Huh.
Speaker 4: And so we're all feeling it, and so we just
Speaker 4: try to come out here and remind people, Hey, a
Speaker 4: Gopy's still here. We're still doing more, feeding more people,
Speaker 4: you know, because people go, oh, well, you know, even
Speaker 4: after twenty five years, I still have people go, do
Speaker 4: we really have that many hungry people? I don't have
Speaker 4: as many anymore because now they see them walking all
Speaker 4: over town.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't have as many as I used to.
Speaker 4: But you know, we did a survey a couple of
Speaker 4: years ago, and we've used it at empty bowls. But
Speaker 4: you know, twenty six percent of the people that we
Speaker 4: feed every day doesn't even have working utilities. That means
Speaker 4: they don't have water, they don't have gas, they don't
Speaker 4: have electric, they.
Speaker 3: Just have a roof over there.
Speaker 4: At eighty four percent of the people that we serve
Speaker 4: every day make under one thousand dollars a month. Now
Speaker 4: one thousand dollars doesn't go near what it used to
Speaker 4: go a few years ago, but it under one thousand
Speaker 4: dollars a month, and that's SSI or Social Security. Seventy
Speaker 4: two percent of the people we feed it says that
Speaker 4: they have no money for food, and they have no
Speaker 4: food at home and no money to go buy any
Speaker 4: Fifty six percent said that they wouldn't need.
Speaker 3: If it wasn't for a copy.
Speaker 5: I believe that, you know.
Speaker 4: So we know that we're making a difference every day.
Speaker 4: We just want to make everybody awhere. We're still here.
Speaker 4: We're you know. I don't like to hand people for money.
Speaker 4: I don't like to be held in for money, you
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, And so I limit the time
Speaker 4: that I try to put out there. Yeah, we need
Speaker 4: money because we always need money. That's a given thing.
Speaker 4: If it wasn't for God bringing in the donations and
Speaker 4: God blessing you to be able to give, we couldn't
Speaker 4: do it. And so we want to be able to
Speaker 4: tell you you can give all year long, you can give.
Speaker 4: At the end of the year, your money goes directly
Speaker 4: into to buy food and feed these people. Because if
Speaker 4: if a copy wasn't here and in the other crisis
Speaker 4: agencies that help people through these tough times, we would
Speaker 4: have lots more crime, lots more problems with businesses and
Speaker 4: various things than we do now. Oh, I believe that,
Speaker 4: you know, for our for our little town, we are
Speaker 4: so blessed to have the nonprofits in our area that
Speaker 4: we do in churches, because if it wasn't for the
Speaker 4: churches and the nonprofits, we'd be in trouble.
Speaker 3: Because the world is hurting.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 2: We see it every day and we do and your
Speaker 2: numbers bear it out there that times are hard. And
Speaker 2: if you're doing fine, that's great, you're blessed.
Speaker 3: You're blessed.
Speaker 2: And if you're doing fine enough that you got a
Speaker 2: little lever, absolutely, let's see if we can't put that
Speaker 2: to good use, that's right. And a nice donation, you
Speaker 2: take that off on your taxes.
Speaker 5: If you're concerned about that, some people are.
Speaker 2: Because it comes from the heart, right, But how do
Speaker 2: we how do we go about setting up donations?
Speaker 4: Okay, we have a website that's called a gape bar
Speaker 4: Bartlesville dot com. You can go in there, hit the
Speaker 4: donate button. Give right Online goes through the PayPal, or
Speaker 4: you can mail us a check to Agape Mission pil
Speaker 4: box ten eighty five, Bartlesville, and the pel boxes are
Speaker 4: seven four zero zero five. Bring a check by the
Speaker 4: mission where at five five five Southwest Casts where the
Speaker 4: backyard to West Side Community Center, and either of any
Speaker 4: of those ways, we're happy to accept your donation. We
Speaker 4: send out thank you cards every month. We tell you
Speaker 4: how many we fed in that month that your money
Speaker 4: helped feed, and we thank you for that because that's
Speaker 4: the that's the way that we survive. And the United Way,
Speaker 4: of course, you know, we go through the process every year.
Speaker 3: United Way.
Speaker 4: It gives us accountability, sustainability. I'd have to be out
Speaker 4: here begging a lot more for money if it wasn't
Speaker 4: for the United Way. And this is their campaign season,
Speaker 4: you know, and trying to kick off for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4: So we encourage any and all giving.
Speaker 2: Very good, very good, and once again you serve upwards
Speaker 2: to how many a day on that real close well
Speaker 2: one undred.
Speaker 4: Well, at the end of the month we're three three fifty,
Speaker 4: the beginning of the month we're two seventy three twenty five.
Speaker 4: You know, used to be used to be one hundred
Speaker 4: and twenty five hundred and fifty. You know, it was
Speaker 4: kind of our average in the old building. But six
Speaker 4: years ago we moved into our new building and it's
Speaker 4: just gradually went.
Speaker 5: Up well, and that's to day that's increating and.
Speaker 4: So we can see thee hundred at one time. And
Speaker 4: in fact, we're planning our Thanksgiving dinner and last year
Speaker 4: we served four hundred and seventy nine on that Tuesday
Speaker 4: before Thanksgiving. Wow, so we're planning on five hundred this year.
Speaker 5: Imagine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And of course if folks want to volunteer, they
Speaker 2: can go to the website too.
Speaker 4: Hey, they need to call because we Joyce Cowen as
Speaker 4: our scheduler and our kitchen coordinator, and so she will
Speaker 4: look at her list because we have groups that come
Speaker 4: in weekly and so we don't want to boot them out,
Speaker 4: you know, even though sometimes they're like, Okay, we can
Speaker 4: have a rest this week, you know, let the people rest.
Speaker 4: But yeah, just get a hold of Joyce r iye
Speaker 4: numbers nine, one, eight, three, three, six, fifty four to
Speaker 4: ten and we can try to plug you in a
Speaker 4: time that works for us, works for you, and we
Speaker 4: would love to have you.
Speaker 2: Cherry Smith one, thank you very much for being here
Speaker 2: with you, and thank you and everybody at a gape
Speaker 2: mission for doing God's work.
Speaker 3: God is good, God is great.
Speaker 2: All right, folks, you've been watching and listening to our
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