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 chrust, and we are going to have a very special event coming up this week. It's see seventy third Annual National Day of Prayer. Dorry Potter is with us. Tell us a little bit about what's going on. Is like a lot of praying, a lot of praying. Yes, this
is an annual event. It's actually a national event as well. There'll be a lot of different National Day of Prayer services and Prayer meetings throughout the country. I'm trying to think of the year seventy three years the country has been doing the National Day of Prayer officially. We've been praying for a long time
before that of years. But here in Bartlesville we have an internenominational committee that puts together the event every year that we just have a pro service that we can come together from all different churches and come together as a community and pray for our community in a lot of different ways. And so it really is a special time. There's no cost, there's no reservations. Just come and it's actually tomorrow night. It's Thursday at six point thirty at Heart Matters.
Heart Matters is known as the former Canteen building or the former Mutual Girls Club. It's on Price Road right by the fire station there, and so we invite you to come parking back, walk in the back entrance and join us for praise and worship at six thirty. The prayer time actually starts at seven, and we'll again have some community leaders that are leading us in several different
divisions of prayer. The praise and worship is going to be led by First Wesleyan Churches Praise and Worship Team. Every year we have a different team that leads us in that and we appreciate they're volunteering to do that for it this year. And then at seven o'clock we'll have a welcome and a a prayer by Penny Meadows, who is the director of Heart Matters and so we appreciate being there and she will open us up. We'll have the Pledge of Allegiance
to the Flag that's led by the Ramona American Legion. We'll have a prayer of repentance that's led by Rando and Shiloh Gamble from Get Real Ministries. Family will be prayed over by Quinn and Becky Shipper. The military will be prayed over by Ramone and Cheryl Barboa. Churches will be prayed by Dwight Shipman, and then Mike and Paula Dunlap will pray about the workplace and businesses and that
type of thing. Kevin and Kerry Aickleberry will be praying for education. Carrie works in the educational system here and so we appreciate them leading out on that. Government will be prayed over by Roger and Donnas Skelly. Art, Media and entertainment we prayed by Jony Elmore, and then our National Day of Prayer
every year there's a different prayer that's written specifically for the Times. And deb Cook, who I actually co chair this committee with and I thought she was maybe going to be here today but maybe something came up for but she will be leading us in the National Day of Prayer. Reading that we do.
We'll sing God Bless America as a congregation and that'll be led by Penny Meadows, and then our closing prayer will be Father John O'Neill from Saint John's Catholic Church, Saint John before the Latin Gate, and so again a variety of community members who will come together, both clergy and lay people to pray for our community, pray for our nation and the different needs that we have. So it's very simple to explain. It doesn't take a lot, but it's
something that's very important and we truly believe in. Invite everybody to come, bring your families, you know, children are welcome to come as well as adults, and just make it a special prayer time. You know, a nation, a world, and even a block on where you live. Ever needed a prayer today? Exactly, exactly. There's just so much going on in different things trying to divide us. I think this is probably the best
solution I can think of right now at this point in time. Well, and it's start to get things going and we we appreciate getting getting to do it. And what Every year there is a national theme that the National Committee, there's a national task force that you know, puts together a theme every year and does some materials for it so people are unified and the same type
of thing. And the theme this year is on tewod Samuel twenty two, twenty nine to thirty one, and it's lift up the word, Light up the world, So you know as we lift up his word, as we focus on him, the world will be a much brighter place. Boy, I tend to agree we need that's like this the lightest not darkness. Light he is. He has a God of light. So that's that's kind of the scoop on it. It's it's very simple National Day of Prayer celebration.
Everybody is invited to come and again six thirty for praise and worship. Seven o'clock is the prayer time. We're usually done seven forty five ish, you know, something like that too. So yeah, just come, bring your friends, invite somebody to come with you, and just make it a special time together. How long have we been doing this locally out at Heart Matters. We've been to Heart Matters now maybe like I want to say, three
or four years, you know, maybe something like this too. You know, I've been on this committee now for twenty five years here in Bartlesville, ever since I moved to town with maybe twenty six or seven years. And we've done it in a lot of different fashions. You know. Before you got here too, we've been at the Community Center during COVID, we were outside at Unity Square, we were blessed to have that facility so we could be outside and still have it, you know, and we couldn't really meet
inside at that time. And we've done things at the park. We've had prayer walks, We've had rallies where we had like emergency vehicles and kind of some of our first responders kind of all get together and we had them. And then we also had a time too, So we've done it in several different ways. We've had it at noontime downtown we'll be easy for people to
come to. We've done it in the evening that way. You know, I just tried to find when was kind of the best time for the community to come together, and we really have come to the conclusion that the evening is probably a little bit easier for people to be able to do that. So that's why, you know, we do that. A lot of churches have said, you know, hey, come and you can do it at our church, but we stay away from that because we do want it to
be inter denominational. We don't want people to think that it's just one church that's that's putting this on. We appreciate all the churches coming together and praying together for our community. So we try to find a location that is affordable as in free for us to come because we don't have a budget for this.
This is just a committee that comes together, but also a place that you know, people will feel welcome to come and pray and kind of a welcoming environment for a prayer that not going to get a lot of interruptions and things like that. It is it is heart matters. Our whole goal is really to uh to expose Internet issues and pornography and how trafficking and things like that can come over the Internet and all and and with all a christ centered
basis to it as well, because that's again the answer. I might just take a minute here to talk about Bars Relays Connection if I've got a couple of seconds here. Barrs Relays Connection. A week from tomorrow. A week from Thursday, we'll have our annual expo. And our expo is the time where we come in the evening and feature women's businesses and so we're going to be actually at the fair grounds this year in Dewey. We've never done it
at the Fairgrounds and Dewey, but but we're doing it there. They they're trying to get the rift done and the ceiling done in time for us to be there, but we are, We are going to be there, and it's a week from Thursday, like I said, and from five thirty to six thirty they'll be browsing of booths. It's a women's business expo, and so women's businesses. We usually have twenty five to thirty women's businesses that set up booths, so we're browser booths from five thirty six, do you a
little shopping, a little visiting, you know that type of thing. And then at six point thirty we'll have our dinner which is catered by Sterlings, and then our program. Our speaker who was coming from Kansas City. Her name's Karen blanket Ship and she's been here before as a little different talk.
This time, she's going to talk about journaling and how journaling can really help you in organizing your life and your thoughts and recalling things and focusing at things and all and just of course it's going to be christ centered as well too, that what she does. So anyway, we encourage anybody who would like
to come to the Women's Business Expo. We might still have room for you if you'd like to have If you're a woman who has a business and like to have a booth, go ahead and give me a call here at the office and I'll get you in touch with how to have a booth. But we do need reservations too, because it's costs and things like this. So we have to have exact numbers for our catering, and it is sixteen dollars a person for the food and for the program, and so anyway that we
need to have the reservations by Tuesday at noon. So again, if you call me here at the station, I can help you know how to get your reservations for that. But it's a great time. We have a lot of fun. Bring some of your girlfriends, make it a great girl's night out and come to the Women's Business Expo sponsored by Bartlesville Ladies Connection. Well great, what an invitation. We're going to get out at the Fairgrounds. Fairgrounds this year, new place. Well, yeah, this is gonna be
nice. You're gonna have plenty of room, exactly, we will have space. We'll have space the story. Thank you for being with us today, my pleasure. Thank you. All right, take care, We've got more coming up right here on K one, the one you trust,