Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 2: It is time now for our community connection right here
Speaker 2: on K one, the one you trust.
Speaker 1: Errol is in here from Lighthouse Outreach and.
Speaker 2: Errol by golly, it's always a good day when you
Speaker 2: show up here because you usually got some pretty darn
Speaker 2: good news.
Speaker 1: It's good to be able to share. I appreciate the opportunity.
Speaker 1: You brought a friend too, brought Lewana Allen with us.
Speaker 3: She's a volunteer and a donor at the lighthouse, and
Speaker 3: so later on the program we have her share a
Speaker 3: little bit what it means Sara, why she does what
Speaker 3: she does.
Speaker 2: First of all, lighthouse has been going strong for a
Speaker 2: good long time, a little over what thirty thirty about
Speaker 2: thirty three years, thirty three years now. But the times
Speaker 2: when they start getting a little challenging for the rest
Speaker 2: of us, it get really challenging for the Lighthouse, and
Speaker 2: we kind of need a little leg pick me up,
Speaker 2: don't we.
Speaker 3: Right, And this is something I've never done before, has
Speaker 3: gone on the radio asking for funds for the lighthouse.
Speaker 3: But I'm on the Homeless Task Force here at the
Speaker 3: City Council, appointed this last few months ago, and according
Speaker 3: to the police report, there's thirty five to forty five
Speaker 3: homeless people outside of the lighthouse are not being.
Speaker 1: Sheltered, but we have eighty there at the lighthouse.
Speaker 3: Over half the people they are homeless and Bartlow being
Speaker 3: sheered at the lighthouse three meals a day, place to
Speaker 3: stay warm, a bed for laundry, facilities, transportation to and
Speaker 3: from doctors and appointments. So we're helping about eighty people
Speaker 3: a day right now at the Lighthouse.
Speaker 2: And what you've done is you've got a pretty good
Speaker 2: success rate there turning people around and getting them back
Speaker 2: into society. You got some numbers you'd like to share.
Speaker 3: I know that we last year from Impact Report, like
Speaker 3: ninety six of our people that last year found work,
Speaker 3: you obtained housing, this is important.
Speaker 1: Twenty three renited their family.
Speaker 3: A lot of times there's a disconnect with the family
Speaker 3: because they pulled away from the family or the family
Speaker 3: pulled away from them, and some of them being rennited
Speaker 3: and that's beautiful. We've had kids actually given back to
Speaker 3: their parents through DHS by their parents being at the
Speaker 3: Light House, and that's a beautiful thing when that you
Speaker 3: reunification takes place. But it costs us last year seventeen
Speaker 3: hundred and eighty six dollars a day to operate the lighthouse,
Speaker 3: and that we have to have that much money every day.
Speaker 1: And we have a budget shortfall.
Speaker 3: Right now, and it's about ten to fifteen thousand dollars
Speaker 3: a month short, and we have a little savings. We
Speaker 3: had about fifty thousand left, but if we take out
Speaker 3: fifteen to twenty thousand a month the next two to
Speaker 3: three months, that's all gone. And then we head into
Speaker 3: the dry summer seat and giving typically windows down anyhow,
Speaker 3: So we're really trying to make some changes and the boarder.
Speaker 3: We looked at our budget about six months ago and
Speaker 3: the projected amount of income hasn't been as high as.
Speaker 1: We were expecting.
Speaker 3: And so you've got two problems in your budget doesn't
Speaker 3: amount either cut experienses or increase income. Okay, you look
Speaker 3: at cutting expenses. Okay, utilities are pretty much established. Even
Speaker 3: though we go on hutting off lights and things like that.
Speaker 3: You got eighty people, it's going to not make much difference.
Speaker 3: And then the water bill is higher because we've got
Speaker 3: more people there. And so we looked at, well you
Speaker 3: maybe cut staff. Well, everybody there is doing all they
Speaker 3: can for a little. They're being paid and that if
Speaker 3: we do relay off some people, that means somebody else
Speaker 3: has got.
Speaker 1: To do more work or else that job doesn't get done.
Speaker 1: We don't meet that need.
Speaker 3: So we're looking the other option is increase income and
Speaker 3: that's what we're trying to do.
Speaker 2: Well, you've gotten some really nice donations here recently, you packed,
Speaker 2: you just got one this week.
Speaker 3: Last week we got a ten thousand dollars check and
Speaker 3: that was wonderful when we weren't expecting it, totally out
Speaker 3: of the blue, and that was wonderful. And then you
Speaker 3: start sitting on the math at seventeen hundred dollars a day,
Speaker 3: that would last five and a half days.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: So the big check was wonderful, very much appreciated. But
Speaker 3: the expenses are such and we're trying to be very
Speaker 3: frugal with what we do. We get food from the
Speaker 3: food bank and places like that, so we have not
Speaker 3: much money we've spent for food, but other expenses we
Speaker 3: can't do much about.
Speaker 2: Hey, you got a great track record there. How can
Speaker 2: people invest in the Lighthouse so that we can keep
Speaker 2: things going well?
Speaker 3: If right now we're needing about one hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 3: to finish out the year September thirty, first end of
Speaker 3: our fiscal year. And I'm sure there's somebody right now
Speaker 3: listing that could write a check for one hundred thousand dollars and.
Speaker 1: Solve that problem.
Speaker 3: But that's not what we're asking for because if one
Speaker 3: person pays the whole amount, only one person gets blessed.
Speaker 3: But if for people we gave twenty five thousand apiece,
Speaker 3: there'd before people blessed because the Bible said it's more
Speaker 3: blessed to give them receive.
Speaker 1: Oh it is.
Speaker 3: And then you take a little further, if one hundred
Speaker 3: people gave one thousand dollars, one hundred people get blessed.
Speaker 3: So when you break it down into I believe people
Speaker 3: in Bartlesville want to give their money.
Speaker 1: Where lives are being changed.
Speaker 2: They do.
Speaker 3: There's so many opportunities and so many organization and ministries
Speaker 3: calling for you're helping your support, and that's why we
Speaker 3: want to try to let you know we're using the
Speaker 3: money wisely and carefully and lives are being changed.
Speaker 1: And that's why I brought Luanna with me. She's a volunteer.
Speaker 3: I wanted to share about being a volunteer, what that's
Speaker 3: meant to her, and then also why she is a
Speaker 3: donor also at the White House.
Speaker 4: Luenna, Well, I've been volunteering for over two years and
Speaker 4: it has changed my life. God has just given me
Speaker 4: such love and compassion for the residence that it's just
Speaker 4: been such a blessing to go there and be with
Speaker 4: the residence, to visit with them, to hear their stories,
Speaker 4: help with lunch, and excuse.
Speaker 1: Me helping with lunch.
Speaker 4: Each person that goes through the line, I get to
Speaker 4: see them face to face and speak to them, and
Speaker 4: I think that's really important for them to be recognized
Speaker 4: as a person not being transparent, but being seen and loved.
Speaker 4: And that's what I see at the Lighthouse is loved
Speaker 4: every day being manifested through the employees. And I know
Speaker 4: what God has done for me in the time that
Speaker 4: it's just been such an overwhelming I can't even begin
Speaker 4: to express what it means to me. And I totally
Speaker 4: believe in the support financially because I see the change
Speaker 4: that has happened in people's lives. So if you want
Speaker 4: to give your money someplace that is really being used,
Speaker 4: I can promise you we are using it for God's
Speaker 4: glory to help people, to minister to them, to meet
Speaker 4: the needs that they have, to get them back out
Speaker 4: into society. And so I just really ask you to
Speaker 4: help us, and God will bless you beyond your wildest
Speaker 4: dreams the way He has blessed me.
Speaker 2: One of the things you said before we went on
Speaker 2: the air was I'm witnessing love.
Speaker 4: And action, Love and action exactly.
Speaker 2: And then that's truly what it is, erl that you
Speaker 2: couldn't have asked for a better person to testify today.
Speaker 1: She's gonna blessed us.
Speaker 3: She came to us a couple of years ago and
Speaker 3: wont to where she could help, and we'll usually with volunteers.
Speaker 3: Serving in the kitchen is one way to get started,
Speaker 3: and he gives you something to do physically, but also
Speaker 3: contact with the residents.
Speaker 1: And then she just expanded from there.
Speaker 3: I see LouAnn sitting in the lounge talking to ladies
Speaker 3: and listening to the ladies mainly, and they need somebody
Speaker 3: they can talk to to. And so this is, like
Speaker 3: she said, seeing as a person, not just as assisting
Speaker 3: or in some case a nuisance. And that may be
Speaker 3: viewed that way as we look at people that are
Speaker 3: homeless sometimes.
Speaker 2: Wow, how can we help? Do we just drop by
Speaker 2: and write you a check? Or can we do that,
Speaker 2: buy the mail or how do you.
Speaker 3: Perform There's a variety of ways. You can write a
Speaker 3: check and mail it in our mailing addresses, Box one
Speaker 3: twenty four, Bartlesville, Oklahoma. You can come by bring the
Speaker 3: check in person. We'd love to visit with you, or
Speaker 3: there are options.
Speaker 1: Through PayPal and some things like that.
Speaker 3: Just call the office and ask for If you want
Speaker 3: to do it over the phone, there's the ways we
Speaker 3: can get that also.
Speaker 1: But whatever it can be done.
Speaker 3: Maybe you want to in your Sunday school class take
Speaker 3: an offering for the lighthouse is Sunday? Just something about that,
Speaker 3: just a spontaneous thing like that. But every little bit helps.
Speaker 3: We have we have a direct mail every month. We
Speaker 3: get letters from people give to or three hundred dollars
Speaker 3: some people. We got a man up in Sedan, Kansas sins.
Speaker 3: It's a dollar bill every month and that helps out.
Speaker 3: And so every bit helps, every little bit in every
Speaker 3: large amount, so very grateful and we really want to
Speaker 3: be accountable to God for using your money you give
Speaker 3: to us.
Speaker 2: Wisely Outreach Center they asking for your help. They don't
Speaker 2: do that very often. In fact, this is the first
Speaker 2: time I can remember. So, folks, if you got a
Speaker 2: little extra, let's put it to good use. Let's put
Speaker 2: some love and action with Thank you, thank you for
Speaker 2: being with us here. All right, folks, you've been listening
Speaker 2: to our community connection on K one.