Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome. It's time now for our community connection right here on K one, the one you truston. It's being brought to you in part by Arnold More and Nick Camp Funeral Home. And today we're talking about a really big shoe, as Ed Sullivan would say from BE the Light min Mission and BE Monthly Magazine. We have Keith and Christie McPhail and Grace Fast is going to grace our green space. Yes, it is this Saturday, coming up at five thirty
right out there at the Green Space. And we're excited Mothers Day weekend. We always do it on Mothersday weekend and so we're looking forward to this year. It's going to be. This is our third one. So we're excited about who's coming. And yeah, Chrissie, who is coming? Oh? We got great, great group of guys. Consumed by Fire is three brothers from Wagner, Wagner, Oklahomas just right down the road. They have you heard their new song and it was coming up the charts. I think it's
up at number six now. So they are coming up and they are the sweetest boys. I call them boys. I'm sure they're grown men. But anyway, they're they're boys to us. And then seventh time down. They have been around since I think two thousand and twelve. They've got a lot of hits. But again they're Kentucky from Kentucky, Kentucky boys. But they have been so great to work with. They're ready to come up here and give their testimony, they said, and just meet people and put on a
really good show. And we got some local boys, kayleb and Aaron. I think I've heard of them. Yeah, most people have heard Kayleb Bord and Aaron Boyd. I always keep bugging him about he's guitar. He had this one for sale and he finally got rid of it before I got my wallet out. A's been playing that guitar and singing great songs for me. Any your guitar player, Yeah, well I pick it up, okay a prose. Well, yeah, we're excited that we'll have food trucks out there.
We've got chick flames gonna be out there. We've got all kinds of food of truck's gonna be out there, pizza, hot dogs. Yeah. Um, we have to bring up the elephant in the room. Yes, as if we hear the pitter patter of rain, Yes on the roof in case of a rain delay, are just rain, Yes, we are going to be indoors. So the show will go on one way or the other, one way or the other. Yeah, we've got to decide by Friday, by tomorrow, by moon. Um. But there's a twenty five percent
chance. It's been dropping for the last three days. Yeah, and so it says twenty five percent chance. So because we hate to pray not for rain, we need the rain. We all we don't want to be but one pray not for rain. We need the rain because just three o'clock, no rain. Can we have a little gap there, yes, just a few hours, little more effect their part? Yeah, you know, yes,
because we are thankful for the rain, Yes we are. And so that's that's a big deal because it's a whole different atmosphere being inside of the communion than whether being out on the green space. So if it's twenty five percent chance we're going to have it outside, well, very good. I liked this. I liked this. Now you have a mission. It's called
be the Light. And I first heard of this. It was actually a city counselor Billy Rome brought it to my attention back when it was not raining, but it was bitterly cold home and you guys created a shelter situation. For those who need tell us a little bit about it. Well, we've been we've had a woman shelter opened, and we've we've we've teamed up with Rando and Shiloh Gamble over the last three years. And so this year,
which was last year, we wanted to have our own building. So we were out looking for our own building and to do a shelter because we knew it was going to get cold. And so we were approached by a gentleman whose sister had a building on the west side of town. We didn't see the building yet, so we go over and look at the building. It's the old hospital building on Virginia. Yeah, you can't miss it. It's
pretty good size. It's sixty four thousand square feet. And so when we walked into this building, the back of the building has a big gem thirty four hundred square foot gym, and we're like, this is perfect, this is perfect, this is what we need. The bathrooms right down the hallway, blah blah blah. And so but she said, I cannot lease it to you for any amount for a dollar or fifty cents unless you're a nonprofit,
and at that time we were not a nonprofit. So that was the last October we went and started the nonprofit paperwork, and then Christie got online about a week or later, a week later, and it said if you did not submit your nonprofit by October seventeenth, they would take four to six months. Well that would be today and so that wouldn't have worked, but God's good, and twenty days later we got our certification that we're a nonprofit. Oh wow, twenty was miracle number one, number one, because we
knew the cold was coming. Yeah. Yeah, And this last Christmas, during Christmas Week, it's when we had the shelter open. That was our eleventh shelter that we've opened up over the last three and a half year. So you know that's for us. Our hearts go out to the ones. This is our community problem right now, and so so be the Light Mission. Now. We decided we have this building, it's grown into something bigger.
We're going to be open full time and there's four phases because as you said, it's a big building and we're going to start we're taking a little bit of it at a time, and where we aren't going to be like some of the other places here in town. We have a little bit different approach in that if you want to stay with us and you want shelter and a meal and your shower, you know, access to all these things,
you're going to work, but you're going to work on site. This building also has a thirty two hundred square foot workspace, and so we're teaming up with other businesses in the community, for example, Image First, not United Linen anymore. Image First. Simple things like they're bringing us their bags with the draw strings in it that you return your laundrey in or your you know,
your table cloths or whatever. And because they said, these strings come out and we rather than pay our employees hours and hours to restring hundreds of bags, can we bring the bags to you. And that can be a job for someone, you know, to help someone see like, we don't know what you can do yet work wise. We know it's hard to find something. Let's start with some small things. Let's just build your confidence,
give them a purpose, give you you know, something to do. So they're gonna have to work three hours a day we're going to provide the jobs and we're going to go from there and then hopefully connect them with some other jobs. You know, that's what we've done, like with Raindo and Shiloh. There are other people in the community. They're great that once we have someone ready, they'll take them on and hire that. I'm sure they will.
Yeah, you know, this is a great way to get someone, you know, reacclimated, yeah, to normalcy because sometimes you know, when you you become lost, yah, and this is something that we use in family discussions, right, Yeah, you become a little lost and you kind of forget things, and you kind of forget the routine of what it's like to be where you were. And this is a great way to you know,
re reboard you right well. And when you're sort of well with other lost people that are kind of still taking from you, you can't catch up. And so you know, Keith has been as he's talked about many times, you know, a next Copaine atic I was almost for six months led to my car, and you know, I've been through all the abuse, child abuse, sexual abuse, So growing up, I've seen a lot of
things happen and so for me, my heart just goes. You know, it's ironic, not ironic, but you know, we work together with the monthly magazine and then we do the shelter together, husband and wife, and you know, she grew up a whole lot differently than I grew up. But for us, you know, it's we're gonna have twenty beds for men, six beds for women, and then also a section in there that we can do families. And so that's the first Basically we'll always be a shelter,
a warming center that will always be there. But that's the first phases. Twenty beds for men's, six beds for women, and then after that there's a men's program that we're going to start up there where they actually live. They pay us to live there, and then when they go through classes. So when you first get to the mission, you're going to have a hot shower, you're going to get new clothes, you're going to get two
hot meals, and then you're going to meet with a care coordinator. And then that care coordinator will yeah help you just we find out what your needs are, what your story is, and then we can help us us you know, mental health, drug addiction, I mean, all the things you know, all the things that might be going on, and I think, like to finish what you were saying originally though, because of the struggles he's been through, because of the struggles I've been through, completely different, you
know, lives in a child. We have a just a sincere connection when we see these people and we just see him out wandering around, We're like, there's a story and we just want them to know, like life is hard, and we do get that, honestly, and you know, but God's good and he can bring you to the other side, and we just want to try to help fill the gap, fill that void. So because there's a big gap right now, tom Oh, it's a huge give me
everybody sees it now. It's just now on the west side of town anymore. It's it's all over Bartlesville. It's everywhere. I often say howdy as I'm coming up down stairs to work for someone, you know, who's just kind of looking for a place to sit down and take a little bit of
a rest and everything and have a conversation a little bit. And I'm also finding out that there are a lot of families, intact families who are like what happened two paychecks and you're out of a house, and you know, and they've never thought there's a million, one and a million chance at that whatever happened to them, and here they are they are. You know that there's some members out there that can scare a lot of people. You know,
there's a thing called pit the government puts out people in transition. We have over six hundred people in Bartlesville under that pit, people in transition. That's a lot. That's a lot. That's the latest study. And then also this is the one that really hurt, it touches me, is that we have over two hundred and twenty four kids from pre K to twelfth grade
in the school district. They're homeless. I believe that living couch to couch, living with an aunt here, living with the grandma, living in the car with her parents, that is unacceptable for Bartlesville just is Yeah, it's unacceptable for any community. But it's one of those things that if you're not aware of it, you probably won't be aware of because these folks don't really want you to know that. You know, there's a pride thing going on there too. But the help is needed, it is, well, we're
gonna take a quick break. We're gonna come back with Keith and Christie and we're gonna talk a little bit more about Grace Fast just a moment after these words from Arnold Moore and DeCamp Funeral Home on K one, the one you trust? How does Tim howl at Arnold Moore and DeCamp Funeral Home. No, he's done a good job. After a funeral, I'll come in. I say, guys, great job. We really hit that out of the
part today. The family was well pleased. And that's the phrase right there, when a family member tells me, you made this experience so much easier than I thought it was going to be. Thank you. That is the high five moment right there. And then six months later you run into them in a store or a restaurant and they come up to you and shake your hand, put their arm around your hug and say, this is our funeral director. He helped us so much when dad died. He is a nice
guy. His staff is so compassionate and so caring. They did a great job. That is the ultimate experience. They've had time to grieve a little bit and reflect on what you've done, and they come in and they're still on cloud nine because you help them pay tribute to someone they really cared about. It'll be all right. We'll walk through this together. Arnold Moore and the Camp Funeral Home seven ten Dewey, Bartlesville. We'll walk through this together.
And welcome back, Welcome back to our community connection right here on K one, the one you trust. We're talking with Keith and Christie McFall and there with be the Late Mission and be monthly magazine. And also they are the producers of Grace Fast coming up Saturday. That yeah, Grace Fast, Grace Fast on the Green. You know, we started Grace Fast three years ago, Tom And the first and most important reason for us was to have
soul saved, to bring people to the Lord. That's always our first goal and it will always be the first goal, and we'll always be free. We want a community concert. It's gonna be uplifting, it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be for the family. You bring your lawn chair out, you bring a blanket out. There's there's games for kids out there that we
get from the library. This is just a lot of stuff and by gosh, it's not gonna rain, and we're gonna have it outside and We're gonna be so excited because you know this is this is gonna be a great concert. These guys really rock out. We have a lot of great sponsors. Oh oh yeah, we'll do that because you can't do it without spawn.
And let's just read them off real quick. DSR, Sutterfield Financial Group, Patriot Auto Group, First Westland, Truity, Old Baron's House, get Real Ministries to house at film, all those real health and rehab comforty hands not medical resorts being monthly and Keller Williams and also you guys K one Radio there you go, Yes, happy to help. This is really going to be a great, great experience. I don't want to say it's going to be a great show because everyone knows it is, but it's going to be a
great experience. People get moved at these things and they get moved into a much better place and a much better direction. They do thank you, And
I think our community needs that right now. A lot of communities need to come together more and so we're just there's just you know, if there's just something to be said about a community event where a families can just you know, come out and it's free and the kids can just run around and play and other moms are watching kids, and you know, like he's to be like we were talking about, you know, we missed those good old days.
Do you know? The two years before Tom that we did Grace Fast, we always donated the money to the Journey Home, and so over two years we donated twenty one thousand dollars to the Journey Home. This year it's going to be for us, Be the Light Mission. So we're hoping to raise ten thousand dollars again this year for our mission. I'm sure you get it. I'm sure you will. We're praying you know how this town works. If there's a sincere need, people sincerely get if we are the most
getting community really are. But I want to thank you very much, and also if you need to know anymore, you can contact Keiths and Christie Yet Be the Light Mission. War it be monthly magazine, yes, and you have a Facebook page. Is probably kind of lighten it up right now because you've got a lot of things going on with the artists that. Yes, yes, we did a lot of hits, aren't you we do? Yeah, you go to be monthly bottles of a monthly magazine for Facebook, and
we have our own page there on Bargelo Monthly magazine. A lot of people are yeah, they're sending Nate, They're like tagging other people, you know, don't miss it. Here one of the most shared videos you'll ever seeing right days, right now. It really did right now, So we love it. We love it. Did that. We also shared a blooper that we did not put out, but we did. We put it on TikTok, but we didn't put it on that. It took to make that video.
It was about thirty takes. I don't know what happened. It was one of those days. Yeah, we've had twenty three thousand people look at that. You know, we are b Monthly. We have followers in every state in thirteen countries around the world. So anyway, we we just want to have people come out and enjoy the night, listen to some great Christian music and good fellowship. All right, once again, the time it's at five thirty this Saturday. All right, we'll see you there at the Green.
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