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CAR TALK with Brad Doenges and Errol Hada · One on One With a Professional

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, welcome, welcome, welcome time
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  Speaker 1: now for card talk Brad Dungeons with the Dungeons Toyota Store,
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  Speaker 1: and you brought friends.
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  Speaker 2: Of course I did, Tom.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody likes to have a guest so they don't have
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  Speaker 3: to just listen to me, Babylon And so now come on, gods.
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  Speaker 2: In the rain this week, crazy weather.
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  Speaker 3: But I've got Errol Hotta here from the lighthouse, good
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  Speaker 3: friend of mine, and.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate you coming in today and.
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  Speaker 3: Tell us about the lighthouse and everything going on there.
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  Speaker 4: And we've had to appreciate the invitation. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Ed. Well, it's great to have you here.
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  Speaker 3: I know that you guys have a great impact on
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  Speaker 3: our community.
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  Speaker 2: And have for decades around here, and.
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  Speaker 3: You know the needs you serve really haven't lessoned in
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  Speaker 3: recent years, have they.
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  Speaker 5: It's still a big, big need and we're full almost
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  Speaker 5: all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and you know your commitment to helping those in
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  Speaker 3: our community and need the most help, I think is
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  Speaker 3: really you know what it's all about a lighthouse.
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  Speaker 2: And tell you know, some people don't know what it is.
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  Speaker 3: Tell us what your mission is and how lighthouse works.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the lighthouse was started in nineteen ninety two, Naomi
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  Speaker 5: Lanier came here from Idaho with a call from God
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  Speaker 5: to start a shelter in Bartlesville, and she came and
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  Speaker 5: Bartlesville wasn't ready for a shelter, didn't think we needed
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  Speaker 5: one because it weren't that big a city, and so
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  Speaker 5: it took some convincing and then the city began to realize, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: there is a problem, and they begin to support it.
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  Speaker 5: And the city has supported the individuals. The community of
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  Speaker 5: sealf the government has been very supportive of the lighthouse
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  Speaker 5: over the last thirty three years thirty four years now,
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  Speaker 5: and we provide housing for people, men, women, and children,
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  Speaker 5: shelter overnight, stay there long term for maybe up to
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  Speaker 5: a couple of years, to get their life turned around.
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  Speaker 5: We offer drugging out call rehabilitation. We have chapel classes.
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  Speaker 5: He teach a spiritual dimension of our lives. We have
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  Speaker 5: help them with job search, We help them get their
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  Speaker 5: health incare most people who have been living on the
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  Speaker 5: streets have neglected their health because of finances, because of
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  Speaker 5: being involved with drugs, and it's not the thing that.
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  Speaker 4: They focus on. But it's catching up with them now and.
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  Speaker 5: So we're having a lot of people that have to
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  Speaker 5: be going to appointments on a regular basis, and some
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  Speaker 5: of them have surgery to get some things take care of,
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  Speaker 5: so it's a real big issue there. Plus the mental
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  Speaker 5: health issues is a very big part of our ministry. Also,
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  Speaker 5: work with Grant and Quioaks are very good. Both organizations
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  Speaker 5: help us follow up on our residents and give.
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  Speaker 4: Them the professional help we're not equipped to do, but
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  Speaker 4: we can give them to the right person.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: And how many people can you serve it at one time?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, well, last night we had seventy seven people there,
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  Speaker 5: seventy seven me and women and children, and we've had
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  Speaker 5: as many as eighty five. And basically the factor that
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  Speaker 5: makes it fluctuate is the number of children, as maybe
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  Speaker 5: a married couple have three children, with some of them
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  Speaker 5: have five maybe, so the number of children varies are
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  Speaker 5: number more than but about eighty as a maximum adults
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  Speaker 5: we can have.
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  Speaker 4: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 2: That's just amazing.
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  Speaker 3: And of course, you know there's so much to that
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  Speaker 3: whole process. How do people get in you find out
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  Speaker 3: get into the lighthouse, how does that work?
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  Speaker 2: And what is the you know, you need to obviously have.
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  Speaker 5: A place for them people hear about the light House
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  Speaker 5: and various sources. When I interview each one, I try
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  Speaker 5: to interview everybody after they've come in.
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  Speaker 4: I asked them, how do you hear about the lighthouse.
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  Speaker 5: Some of them through a mental health association of clinic
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  Speaker 5: refer them to us. Sometimes it's a rehab program that
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  Speaker 5: they were getting out of that. Sometimes it's from the
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  Speaker 5: court system. Sometime we get a i'll question application from
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  Speaker 5: somebody in prison. Family members bring them by. Different churches
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  Speaker 5: may call and say, we've got somebody that's come by
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  Speaker 5: our church.
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  Speaker 4: They need help.
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  Speaker 5: Do you have a place for them. So it's a
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  Speaker 5: variety of sorts like that. And some people just come
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  Speaker 5: by and they've heard about the light House who maybe
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  Speaker 5: somebody on the street or a family member, and so
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  Speaker 5: they come that way too. So and they come not
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  Speaker 5: just from locally here, but they come from out of
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  Speaker 5: state sometimes too.
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  Speaker 3: Really well, we last summer we did one of the
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  Speaker 3: Lunch and Learn sponsored one of those, and that was
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  Speaker 3: such a neat event to be able to go and
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  Speaker 3: to hear the story that you're telling us, but then
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  Speaker 3: also to sit down with some of the residents there
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  Speaker 3: and talk to them and hear you know from their
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  Speaker 3: personal perspective what the what it's like, and where the
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  Speaker 3: you know, what they're working on and where they come
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  Speaker 3: from and where they want to go. And you know
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  Speaker 3: that toll uh, it's just kind of a it's a
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  Speaker 3: what we call it sparks at the dealership where it's
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  Speaker 3: that thing that kind of sparks something. And you do
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  Speaker 3: need to have a goal, yeah, and and and you
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  Speaker 3: guys are great at helping them kind of take that
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  Speaker 3: first step and then the next and keep going.
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  Speaker 5: Today is I had no idea to her. It happens
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  Speaker 5: to be today when you call me. I didn't realize
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  Speaker 5: that day. But I want to invite people. They it's
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  Speaker 5: it's that we called I had no idea to her.
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  Speaker 5: It starts at twelve o'clock and go to about one o'clock.
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  Speaker 4: You come me lunch with us.
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  Speaker 5: We give you about short ten fifteen minute tour, answer
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  Speaker 5: questions and get to see the facility.
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  Speaker 4: And we named it.
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  Speaker 5: I had no idea to her because people driving by
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  Speaker 5: our facility have no idea what goes on in there.
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  Speaker 5: When you come in the door, it's fresh, it's clean,
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  Speaker 5: it smells good, it's bright, and there's friendly people.
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  Speaker 4: There and you think at home.
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  Speaker 5: Of shelter or shelter of this type would be a
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  Speaker 5: bunch of people that are very discouraged. There's laughter, there's joy,
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  Speaker 5: and it's just a very refreshing thing. And today is
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  Speaker 5: our We haven't about once every three months, and so
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  Speaker 5: if you would like to come, just call the lighthouse
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  Speaker 5: and say.
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  Speaker 4: You're coming, or just come on in. We have about
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  Speaker 4: fifteen people signed up so far.
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  Speaker 5: But like you said, it's a good informal time and
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  Speaker 5: the residents we don't prompt them saying you need to
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  Speaker 5: talk to people.
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  Speaker 4: They just sit down there and the.
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  Speaker 5: People ask them questions and they're very open about their stories,
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  Speaker 5: even though it's something that maybe could be embarrassing or
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  Speaker 5: but they're very open to share because they want you
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  Speaker 5: to see what they came from and where they are
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  Speaker 5: right now.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the beautiful thing was that day we were there,
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  Speaker 3: I really since a feeling of pride and commitment to
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  Speaker 3: what you guys were doing, but that you were giving
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  Speaker 3: them and that whole I mean, that's such a magical
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  Speaker 3: thing to give someone who's coming from off the street
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  Speaker 3: perhaps or out of.
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  Speaker 2: The prison and needing that support.
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  Speaker 3: And really, you know, that spark to take those steps
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  Speaker 3: forward and really improve their lives.
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  Speaker 5: And if you've spent years in addiction, thirty days of
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  Speaker 5: sobriety as a milestone, and so we celebrate when people
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  Speaker 5: say I've been cleaning sober for fifteen days, for three years,
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  Speaker 5: whatever do. We celebrate that because they give them a
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  Speaker 5: sense of accomplishment and encourage me to keep going. And
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  Speaker 5: there have been people that had been there that had
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  Speaker 5: length of a significant length of sobriety before they got
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  Speaker 5: back into the addiction. So it's a starting over process
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  Speaker 5: every time you get back out of it.
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  Speaker 4: We want to celebrate that.
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  Speaker 5: And when somebody gets a job, we're very because some
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  Speaker 5: of them had difficulty getting jobs, and so when they
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  Speaker 5: get a job, we're very happy for them. And we
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  Speaker 5: don't require jobs, but we encourage them. We have people
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  Speaker 5: there that are disabled, people that are on disability, so
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  Speaker 5: people are retired, so they're not able to get job
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  Speaker 5: for health reasons, So we don't say you've.
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  Speaker 4: Got to have a job, you can't stay here.
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  Speaker 5: We try to accommodate each individual person according to their
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  Speaker 5: specific needs. But getting jobs is one of the steps
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  Speaker 5: toward recovery, and our goal is independence. Of being able
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  Speaker 5: to live on their own successfully outside of the lighthouse.
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  Speaker 4: That's great.
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  Speaker 3: And how did you get involved, Arryl? I know you've
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  Speaker 3: been doing it for a long time. What was the
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  Speaker 3: call to you?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 5: I lived in Austin, Texas for fifteen years, and in Austin, Texas,
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  Speaker 5: our church would have every three months we'd have a
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  Speaker 5: Hamburger fry downtown a vacant lot of downtown Austin, and
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  Speaker 5: we would feed about three hundred people. We brought our
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  Speaker 5: ministry team from our church, a music group, and we
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  Speaker 5: have a speaking so we'd have a service and then
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  Speaker 5: we'd have a meal for them, and that's how I
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  Speaker 5: first got started with it. And then we'd start picking
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  Speaker 5: up people from the streets to go to church, and
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  Speaker 5: we took as few as eight people and as many
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  Speaker 5: as fifty.
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  Speaker 4: Four on our bus at one time.
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  Speaker 5: So for they have a special Sunday show class for
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  Speaker 5: them and they'd go to the worship, serve for everybody else.
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  Speaker 5: So and then the Church of Feeding meal after that.
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  Speaker 5: So I've been involved with this before I came to
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  Speaker 5: Bartlesville and I saw in the paper they were starting
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  Speaker 5: a helmet shelter, and I thought I ought to go
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  Speaker 5: down and help them because I've got some experience and
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  Speaker 5: a heart for that too. And I waited a couple
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  Speaker 5: of years before I actually got involved, and I went
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  Speaker 5: down and asked about doing maybe a chapel service, and
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  Speaker 5: then I found out they could use a church to
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  Speaker 5: serve a meal. So our church started serving meals and
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  Speaker 5: I did chapel services for years, and then I was
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  Speaker 5: on the board a couple of times, and just just
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  Speaker 5: a gradual process. But as I look back over my life,
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  Speaker 5: I was an educator for thirty eight years, and I've
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  Speaker 5: worked in prison ministry, I'd work with people in drug
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  Speaker 5: an alcohol addiction, and then the street people in Austin, And.
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  Speaker 4: I look back my life. My whole life has.
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  Speaker 5: Been preparing me for what I'm doing right now, and
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  Speaker 5: it's a beautiful thing. I am very at peace with
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  Speaker 5: what I'm doing. I enjoy going to work. I look
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  Speaker 5: forward to investing in people's lives and it's very rewarding
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  Speaker 5: to know where God want you to be.
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  Speaker 4: And that's a very fulfilling part of my life. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great story.
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  Speaker 3: And of course there's opportunities for people in the community
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  Speaker 3: that might be wanting to help to do that.
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  Speaker 2: You've got an event coming up later this year.
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  Speaker 5: I know, right, We've got a big event coming up
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  Speaker 5: in October third at It be held as East Cross
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  Speaker 5: Church and the title of is Impact twenty six. We're
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  Speaker 5: naming it each year. Impact is our basic title because
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  Speaker 5: we want the community to see the impact, which means
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  Speaker 5: an effect you're having on people's lives. And without the
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  Speaker 5: community support we can do what we do. We can't
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  Speaker 5: raise enough money by selling firewood and rock and chairs
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  Speaker 5: to support that place.
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  Speaker 4: We can't do it by ourselves.
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  Speaker 5: And when people people donate their time, donate their money,
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  Speaker 5: donate clothing and groad sale items, it all helps.
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  Speaker 4: And so we want to celebrate that.
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  Speaker 5: And this year we're having one of our speakers is
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  Speaker 5: gonna be Dallas Home.
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  Speaker 4: He's a gospel.
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  Speaker 5: Singer from back when when I was growing up, a
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  Speaker 5: tremendous man of God.
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  Speaker 4: He will be speaking and also he will be bringing
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  Speaker 4: the music. So we're looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 5: And that is October the third Saturday Night at East
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  Speaker 5: Cross Church.
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  Speaker 2: Plan on that. Put that on your calendar.
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  Speaker 3: And of course there's opportunity between now and then if
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  Speaker 3: you are inspired to volunteer or donate items or I'm sure.
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  Speaker 4: Cash is.
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  Speaker 3: How do people get involved. What's the best way to
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  Speaker 3: come back to you and be coming.
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  Speaker 5: There's several ways to help out financially and also with items,
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  Speaker 5: because if you give stuff for our groadge sale, you're
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  Speaker 5: actually giving money because we sell the stuff. And then
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  Speaker 5: what we do at the end of a garage sale,
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  Speaker 5: we have so much stuff if we pack up a
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  Speaker 5: lot of it, take it over to I knowa to
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  Speaker 5: Chuff's auction and sell it there and get money from
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  Speaker 5: it there also, so we get money from the sale
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  Speaker 5: itself and then money. And then if somebody moves out
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  Speaker 5: from the lighthouse, we give them furniture, dishes or whatever
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  Speaker 5: it needs to get their apartments set up. So that
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  Speaker 5: could be several hundred dollars of expansion trying to get
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  Speaker 5: set up if you're leaving with nothing to start with.
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  Speaker 5: So we help with that. And one thing that I'm
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  Speaker 5: excited about.
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  Speaker 4: We also sell clothes by the bull.
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  Speaker 5: People donate clothes to us. We take some of the
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  Speaker 5: clothes and use them for give the residents, so we have.
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  Speaker 4: Enough for them to have.
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  Speaker 5: But we have so much who couldn't couldn't possibly use
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  Speaker 5: all of it. So we sell them by the pound
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  Speaker 5: to a company that we get twenty five cents a
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  Speaker 5: pound for purses and shoes, and like ten or fifteen
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  Speaker 5: cents a pound for clothes.
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  Speaker 4: And if the clothes are even.
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  Speaker 5: Not in wearable condition, maybe stained or torn, we'll sell
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  Speaker 5: them to them.
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  Speaker 4: They'll use that and make rags out of it. So
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  Speaker 4: it's all being used.
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  Speaker 5: And the thing I'm excited about now, we have two
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  Speaker 5: off site canisters to collect recycled clothes in now and
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  Speaker 5: we'll be getting the logo on them, will get those
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  Speaker 5: out and there'll be purple, so people see the purple
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  Speaker 5: the purple condition no matter what the condition is of
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  Speaker 5: close because we can what we can't use for our
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  Speaker 5: residents right there, we'll put in selle. And then what
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  Speaker 5: that company does, They sell them to other thrift stores
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  Speaker 5: at the wholesale price, They give some dimssions overseas, and
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  Speaker 5: then they make rags out of the others. So he
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  Speaker 5: employs a lot of people. That donation of that bag
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  Speaker 5: of clothes helps a lot of different opportunities for other
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  Speaker 5: people around the world United say, and the world actually.
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  Speaker 3: So well, and that's that's one of the thing that
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  Speaker 3: happens at the Lighthouse do a lot of the residents
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  Speaker 3: are actually working there and learn it, you know, before
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  Speaker 3: they go out.
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  Speaker 2: And work in the community they're going to.
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  Speaker 3: Some of them have an opportunity to get some habits
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  Speaker 3: and learn some skills there at the lighthouse itself.
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  Speaker 5: And most of our staff are residents at the Lighthouse,
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  Speaker 5: and we couldn't afford to do what we do if
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  Speaker 5: we had to pay full time salaries for these different places.
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  Speaker 5: But I've had a lot of people tell me that
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  Speaker 5: when we ask to be on staff, it really gave
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  Speaker 5: their self esteem a shot in the arm, and they
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  Speaker 5: begin to feel like I can help, I can give back,
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  Speaker 5: I have worth.
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  Speaker 4: I may have messed up most of.
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  Speaker 5: My life, but now I can be redeeming that and
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  Speaker 5: by helping people. And that's very rewarding to see people
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  Speaker 5: move from dependence and receiving and maybe working against good
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  Speaker 5: in their life to now being helping somebody else. And
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  Speaker 5: so I have no regrets about hiring staff. Some missions
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  Speaker 5: don't do that because of there's some built in problems
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  Speaker 5: you've got to work through, but the benefits far.
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  Speaker 4: Outweigh whatever things you got to work through. Negotiating a
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  Speaker 4: resident being on staff.
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  Speaker 3: So inspiring, and it's one of those things that a
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  Speaker 3: lot of times, you know, people that are listening may
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  Speaker 3: not ever need this. They may not, you know, run
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  Speaker 3: across it. Where are you located and how do people help?
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  Speaker 3: Where are the bends that said they can drop things?
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  Speaker 5: A lot the bins are not located yet. One will
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  Speaker 5: be at the Boy Scout recycling area, which is handy.
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  Speaker 5: You're bringing your hands there and your plastic bottles and
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  Speaker 5: your cardboard there, and then you just bring your clothes
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  Speaker 5: and put them a bin there. And then we haven't
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  Speaker 5: decided the location for that one stuffing.
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  Speaker 4: There's any business out.
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  Speaker 5: There would like to have it on their property, on
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  Speaker 5: their parking lot, just let us know. We're located at
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  Speaker 5: fourteen eleven West Hensley Boulevard, right across from the Salvation Army,
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  Speaker 5: and we're welcome visitors. If you can't come to the
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  Speaker 5: tour today but want to come by for a tour,
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  Speaker 5: just come by and we'll stop what we're doing and
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  Speaker 5: someone will show you around and give you an abbreviated
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  Speaker 5: tour of the facility. But that a lot of times
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  Speaker 5: helps a person realize this is somebody want, this is
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  Speaker 5: the ministry I want to support, and the people in
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  Speaker 5: our town want to give their money to something that's
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  Speaker 5: changing lives, not just putting a band aid on, but
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  Speaker 5: actually helping a person get their life turned around. My
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  Speaker 5: wife and I are going to call ret of Springs
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  Speaker 5: today and for the weekend, and there's a lady. We're
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  Speaker 5: going to see how our cousin lives there. But there's
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  Speaker 5: a lady that lives in call Red Springs, works for Sprouts, used.
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  Speaker 4: To be at the lighthouse.
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  Speaker 5: And she called and talks to my wife about once
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  Speaker 5: or twice a month and just tells us how she's going.
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  Speaker 5: And she said, when you come out there, she wants
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  Speaker 5: to go to church with them. We go out there
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  Speaker 5: to call on Springs. So the thing that's so rewarding
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  Speaker 5: is people making it. We've got a lady that former
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: resident of the lighthouse. She's manager of three fast food
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: restaurants here in town.
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: Another man who was working at Walmart just got a
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: promotion to be on administration there. And it's beautiful to
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: see people working outside the community now contributing and you
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: would never know they were.
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: At the lighthouse.
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: The lady that works in my doctor's office receptists is
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: a former resident at the Lighthouse, and so it's exciting
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: to see people actually moving from poverty, from dysfunction to
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: a normal living now.
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: It's beautiful, it's very refreshing.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: Does have a big impact.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: I know, you guys serve thousands of meals every year
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: and you serve, as you said.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: Up to eighty adults every day.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: And that helping people get jobs, find housing after they
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: may be at the lighthouse, you know, get connecting them
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: back with their families, right, that's an important partner what you.
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: Do about families.
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: We've had people come to the Lighthouse that DHS had
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: taken their kids away and legitimately because they were not
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: being good for their parents, they were drug addicted, and
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: they came to the Lighthouse, start going through the DHS programs,
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: the parenting programs, and DHS come visit their room and
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: see it's much better than whether it be in an apartment.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: There's safer, there's accountability there, or drug free program and
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: so they begin to work with them and we've had
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: several families get their kids back because of being at
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: the Lighthouse, and that's a very very way. We have
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: a parenting specialist, Patty Leech, who comes and meets with
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: their parents once a week.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: Each each parent meets with her.
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: Once a week, and she worked with them for maybe
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: getting their kids back or helping them with their actual training.
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: So it's a beautiful thing to see families reunited, not
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: just adults being rented the adult children.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: We've got people that is. One man he got ridnited.
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: With his daughter, hadn't seen her for years, and got
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: a phone call from her and they.
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: Got back together. And so it's beautiful what's going on there.
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: And that's part of our projecs. It's more than just
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: quitting drinking or drugs. It is getting your life established
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: with Christ and living a Christian life in the community
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: and bringing your family together.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: It's beautiful.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: Wow, just about these beeechless And every time you tell
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: me the story, it's something like, you know, we've been
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: involved with you guys for a long time. I've done
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: just Toyota and really remember that event we had on
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: the show cause remember that cause that was great. One
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: way after we built the new Toyota building, Yeah, opened
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: up the showroom to you guys. It was it was
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: a lot of fun and uh, you know, we just
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: we we definitely appreciate what you do Erol and.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: What everyone there does, and I do.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: I encourage anybody that's interested in listening to to go
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: to one of your your what they had no idea,
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: I had no idea to her events and and go
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: and experience what it's like. Because well I've supported the
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Lighthouse for a long time. That really did impact me.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: And it drove home the you know the value of
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: what you're doing, and and and and just really meeting
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: the people there and and seeing the facility just brought
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: it all together and made it really a personal passion
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: of mine. And and I'd encourage anybody that's that's interested
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: to go explore that.
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: And I think that it helps you see how much
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: alike we all are.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: You see somebody walking down the street poaching a cart
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: with all their possessions, you know, maybe a dog on top,
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: and you think with that person, you're just a hopeless person.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: But you don't know. They may have had a good job.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: And we've got people that had houses and big jobs
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: and businesses even that lost it all.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: And it could be through addiction, it could be things
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: that happened to them.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: So I've had college degree people with college degrees.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: There I've had.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: People that had a certification for different skills and it
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: just seemed all go bad, and uh, they made some
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: wrong choices and then the wrong choices just dump on
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: another one like another and then let you've got somebody
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: say here, I'll help you. Here's here's a life rope
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: to pull get you out of that.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Are you going to stay there?
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: And so there are people that if it weren't for
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: the grace of God some of the rest of us
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: to be in that same situation, because it's not because
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: they are inadequate people or they're inherently evil. It's because
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: some things happened that they may not have made the
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: right choices, but sometimes that happened to them. There are
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: people there that are out of coming out of abucy
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: home situation. You know, they need to get out of that,
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: and so this is a good safe place to do it.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: So uh.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: And some of the people were raised in drug addiction.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: Their parents gave him the drugs or had them go
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: get them for the things like that that I've very
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: blessed to not have. I had a good home and
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: so that's I think one thing that commits more committed
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: to doing this is because I know what I came
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: out of and how good it was for me, And
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: now we're trying to make up for lost time. We're
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: trying to repairent some adults and help them see there
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: is a better way, and I think helping them realize
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: it can be different.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: You get to a point and they say, well that
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: what's the use?
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: You know, But when you're there at the lighthouse and
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: you meet somebody that was in a similar situation to
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: yours and now they're doing good, that encourage you what
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: I can.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Do it too. So there's that encouragement that just happens
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: by being in a.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Culture where it's positive and it's uplifting and it's encouraging
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: and challenging to pursue excellent that be better.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Well, what a great story. We've definitely appreciated what you're doing.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Everyone.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Come out to the event today at noon at fourteen
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: eleven West Tensley and Bartlesville. You can also get more
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: information at Bartlesville Lighthouse dot org. And you know, I'm
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: happy to say you drive toyotas a.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: Little largely so we have.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: We've bought four cars from you guys so far, three
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: vans in a car and we just very appreciated of
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: that and to support you guys that and I want
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: to put in the work for hybrids. We cut our
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: gas consumptions considerably by.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: I brought a lot of not man.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: One of them gets fifty miles an hours, fifty miles
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: a gallon the car does, and the van's about thirty
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: six yeah gallon.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Amazing.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: And it's amazing because we use our vans to take
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: people to work, to take people doctor appointments, and we
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: take them sometimes.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Out of state up the Missouri.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: To court appearance that they can't get out of and
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: so we do a lot of driving with our vans.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: The car brought today it.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: Is thirty six thousand miles and I think it's two
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: years old.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: So I mean, now there's a headline this morning Toyota
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: threatens General Motors sales crown as US hybrid demand surges.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: So that you're not alone, and and the growing acceptance
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: that hybrids are a great alternative to the traditional internal
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: combustion engine, and you know, maybe America wasn't quite ready
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: for full electric And you know, the great thing about
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: a hybrid is it's not really expensive. It's a great
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: technology that's very reliable, that you know, these batteries do
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: not fail.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: You don't. You still have a gasoline engine, You've got
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: a battery that sits there with it.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: They work together to the best of both worlds.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't ever have to plug it in. We
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: still have people come in, well do I have to
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: plug it in? They I just don't understand.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: I remember the first time I drove a hybrid was
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: at the Atridutity.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: I came to pick up the.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: Car and I turned to switch on and didn't hear anything,
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: and then I asked the sail it was, I can't
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: get the things started.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: It is started, just like flipping a switch on a light.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: When you turn it starts, It starts, and it's just
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: it's existing at that point, just on the battery power
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: and when it needs the gasoline something that I.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Hadn't gotten used to it all. I mean in the
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: motor crank a few times, you.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Know, and it's something it takes a minute to get
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: used to. And of course today we've got hybrids that
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: are tuned for great fuel economy and also for power
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: and towing and you know other things that people need
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: in their vehicles. And it's uh, you know, so it's
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: a great flexible thing.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: And when is the leader.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: When we started getting the prices on hybrids, I thought, well,
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: they're going to be probably ten to twenty thousand more
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: than a regular vehicle, and we got the car for
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: less than what you get for just a standard gasine
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: engine with some more.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Features you know like that.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: So it's I was amazed that there's price should not
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: be a deterrent in getting one, and then the savings
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: is amazing.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: That's another great thing Toyota does is they put all
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: their best technology in the lowest cost vehicles. They haven't
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: stopped making low cost vehicles. Some the new car market
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: has shifted upwards. They're very expensive on average ground fifty
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: thousand dollars. But Toota, you know, still makes great cars
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: in the toyse.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: And and you know, and and with with all.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: The safety equipment and technology and hybrid systems and uh
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: hybrid pretty much across the board on every Toyota now
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: and we've got plug in hybrids, electric vehicles. It's it's
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: a it is a great product lineup. Where I just
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: wanted to let everybody know if you've been waiting for
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: wrap fours, they're just you know, where they're still in
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: super high demand and most are still pre sold, but
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: occasionally now we're starting to get one hit the lot
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: that hasn't sold, and and that's a brand new model.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: It's been very very popular, and so come check that out.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: There is one out there right now. Then you can
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: look at uh.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: We've got a great selection of Tacoma and tundra, great
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: incentives on all our vehicles, So come check it out
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: at Dungeonstoyota dot com. Or we're more importantly go out
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: to the lighthouse today at noon and and experience with
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: that what great organization is all about. And then on
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: October third, we've got the Impact twenty twenty six with
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Dallas Hall right that it will be a great event.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: I'm sure.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Anything else you need us to know about.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: I just want to thank dungeons Ford for your support.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: I want to thank the community. The community. It's wonderful
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: the way they support us now, individuals, foundations, corporations, companies, churches.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: We had a little girl that had.
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: A lemonade stand and she made seventy three dollars this
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: summer or so far this summer on the lemonade stand.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: She did it last year for us also and brought
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: that many gave it.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: To us, and that was very very impressive. And then
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: the next.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: Day a lady sent us the three thousand dollars tag.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: But both of them are very much appreciated.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: And the cool thing about that little girl, her mom
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: was in my class in the pasta when I talked
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: sixth grade dear, so it was good to meet her again.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: So it's it's I mean, people give little, people give
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: a lot, and it all works together. So we're very
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: grateful for the community support. I just I can't get
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: say enough good about the way Bartlefield supports us, not
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: just in finances but standing up for us. Because when
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: you work with people from different background, somebody's gonna get
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: upset from time to time misunderstood or maybe we made
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: a mistake and didn't do something right, and they'll go
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: on Facebook and ratt and ray. But pretty see the
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: community starts to clear up. Yeah I was there too.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: But my life has changed now.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: So, Uh, the community when they hear the Navy reports,
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: which you'll hear those, uh, sometimes they can filter through
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: that and sometimes they've called and that I heard you
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: guys did, And I said, well, here's what really happened,
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: and then clarifying there may be just enough truth to
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: the complaint that they started out all right, but then
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: they went way out of line when they started.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: That goes in life and oh yeah, business and with
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: the lightouse too.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: If you have those.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Concerns, reach out to to there, or if it's about Dungeons,
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: to reach out to me. We'll be happy to work
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: with you and solve any problem.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: I think that's that's really a great thing. And thank you,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: thank you for coming on the show.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: Appreciate letting me come here.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: The thing you do than you and obviously anytime we
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: can help let us know.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: All right, Brad, tell them everybody where.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: We can find you at DUNGEUS Toyota, which is nineteen
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: eleven Southeast Washington Boulevard. We're on the internet at Dungeustoyota
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: dot com or you can call us at nine one
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: eight three three three oh nine hundred.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: All right, the Boks.
• 27:17
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• 27:28
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• 27:31
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• 27:34
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• 27:38
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• 27:42
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  Speaker 6: This is a Fox News Alert. Two big rulings from
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• 28:08
  Speaker 6: a win for gun owners' rights advocates who challenged a
• 28:11
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• 28:12
  Speaker 7: If you have a concealed carry permit, which takes some
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: doing there, the presumption at a Hawaii law was that
• 28:18
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• 28:20
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• 28:24
  Speaker 7: things like shops or restaurants or really any private property. Well,
• 28:27
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• 28:30
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