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When we talk about planting seeds of faith, it's rarely about actual gardening – yet the metaphor perfectly captures what happens through community outreach. Our conversation weaves through the extensive preparations for our annual Easter egg hunt, revealing both the logistical challenges (who knew 18,000 eggs could create such planning complexity?) and the deeper purpose behind this community tradition.

The Easter egg hunt, now in its fifth year, has become our church's most recognized community event. As we sort through colored plastic eggs and coordinate sectioned-off areas by age group, we're actually creating something much more meaningful – an opportunity for children and families to connect with our church in a welcoming environment. "These kids aren't going to remember that we didn't have hot dogs and water," one member points out. "They're going to remember getting muddy in the field, grabbing the eggs, and getting little Jesus figures in their Easter eggs."

Beyond the hunt, we explore our "Cupboard of Hope" emergency food pantry, which addresses a critical gap in traditional assistance programs by providing not just food, but essential personal care items like soap, shampoo, and deodorant. "You can't afford your groceries? You definitely can't afford the extra toothpaste," reflects a member, highlighting how this ministry preserves dignity alongside meeting basic needs.

The thread connecting all these outreach efforts – from Easter egg hunts to Lenten services to food assistance – is the concept of planting seeds that may take years to grow. We may never see the full impact of these community connections, but we continue faithfully cultivating relationships and creating space for spiritual curiosity to take root.

Have a need for emergency food assistance? Contact us at 740-922-1564 or join us for our Easter egg hunt on April 12th at noon at 1943 North Water Street Extension. Every interaction is an opportunity for new growth in our community.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Yeah, but what are you looking up, dawn?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
I was just trying to see if I had the Linton.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Oh, like where it's at tonight.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Tonight is at Newport .

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Oh, is it out in Newport tonight?

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Are they Methodist?

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
So is that their global?

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
So Corey, is he there ?
He's got two churches right.
He's got the Midvale one andthe Yerkesville one.
Do you know?
Does anyone know?

Speaker 2 (00:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
The pastor that was here.
I know he's got two.

Speaker 5 (00:41):
Yeah, I think he did the Newport one, does he Okay?

Speaker 1 (00:44):
It's not Newport.
It might be.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah, I think it is.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Okay, do we know who's preaching at Newport?

Speaker 2 (00:53):
tonight.
That's why I was trying to findthe schedule button.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
No, I don't know?

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, I meant to look at some point.
This week my brain's just beengoing like 100 miles a minute
and then I think of somethingand oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Do you write it down?

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, and if I yeah, that's the thing I'll write it
down, and then you forgot whereyou put it.
Well, not that I don't forget it, like.
But then I'm like, why did Ijust write that down if I'm
never going to go?
Look at it?
Like I write it down and thenit sits on the refrigerator, I
pin it up on there and then it'sbecause I think, ok, if I write

(01:33):
it down like mentally I'mwriting it out, moving my hand
maybe that'll do something.
No, it doesn't.
What's anything new this week?
Oh, we should say michael's nothere.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
yes, right, if they haven't figured out and you see
what, except in an award anaward of some sort, yeah, for
being outstanding in the fieldin the field in the cornfield.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yeah, in the field.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
In the field In the cornfield.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
For the railroad association.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah, railroad festival.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, is it considered an association or
just like the board, like what Idon't know?

Speaker 3 (02:20):
He's on the railroad board.
Right yeah, railroad board,railroad committee.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Committee.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Committee, committee.
That might be what I'm thinkingof.

Speaker 5 (02:29):
yeah, he's the prez prez he does a good job, though
oh, I bet I mean he really does,I'm sure I keep trying to tell
him you live in janayton nowit's time to focus your time.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, and thoughts there on yeah, firework festival
yeah or even well, this youcould, he can pencil it.
Pencil it in somewhere on hiscalendar.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
That's what he told me, but it's gonna have to be a
real thin like alicia, the clerkat janet, and I think she
stepped down from handling the5k every year so he could just
step on and do that.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Just plan that real quick I don't think he would do
that, because yeah, we want todo one for the railroad festival
, and he doesn't want to oh, no,we need to find somebody to
organize it.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
That's did them before you know what I thought
was always a great idea, what?
Having a 922K Isn't thatbrilliant, like instead of a 5K,
because they have 10Ks, I meanit will basically be a 10K.
No, yeah it would be a 922K.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
A 9.22.
Yes, a 9.22.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
And you could have the bike trail Like oh, I've
already thought this out, somaybe I'm that person, not right
?

Speaker 5 (03:48):
now, though not this year.
Why don't you just add that tothe party right?

Speaker 1 (03:51):
the parties, the wedding, the bachelorette
weekend yeah well, poor cooper Iknow he's getting neglected.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
Yeah, no wonder he's pointing his finger.
It's so funny because he's sotiny, he is.
Just walking around Walkingaround pointing that finger and
telling you all about it.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yep, oh, he does, he really does.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
One of God's greatest gifts.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 5 (04:18):
Enjoy everything.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yes, it's crazy how fast it's going, it goes very
very fast.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
I just like, oh like, just ask us ours are 32 and 30.
Yes, I know I'm like oh I betgeez my granddaughter's gonna be
11, then I've got onegraduating from high school and
a junior, you know I've alwayslike.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
I've always thought it would go fast, like because
my sister's 10 years youngerthan me, so I can remember Cindy
being pregnant, I can rememberher coming home, but I didn't
think it would be this fast.
You know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh, it's fast yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Especially then, once they start getting into sports
and band and nonstop.
Oh yeah, Then you have no time.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
It's soup and sandwich.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, at 9, 10 o'clock, 9 o'clock at night
right, been there, done that,know all about it.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Weekends, baton Dance Go to Cleveland Clumble it,
clumble it, clumble it.
Well, that's clear.
Or Columbia Go to ClevelandColumbo Columbo Well, that's
close to Cambridge.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Or Columbia that's a suburb down there.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
That's close to Cambridge.
It's kind of like in between.

Speaker 5 (05:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well then the next generation.
They don't go there, they go to.
Where do we go?

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Louisville Kentucky, mm-hmm Florida, mm-hmm South
Carolina.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (05:47):
They can't just stay in the state.
Then they got to go yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Well, that's what makes it fun, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
And expensive and expensive.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah, not only the outfits.
And then you know the lessons.
Yeah, and then the traveling,and then the hotel.
Well, and then like know thelessons, yeah, and then the
traveling, and then the hotel.
Well, and then like the foodwhen you're at the hotel, the
gas, yeah, yeah, I wouldn't wantto do it now.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
I mean that'd be way too much.

Speaker 5 (06:22):
But it was enjoyable.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Well, we were kind of talking about extracurricular
activities, so I guess thiscould kind of lead into our
topic kind of okay, kind of yeah, it's just like kind like our
not events, what do you callthat um?
Services yeah services that wedo here.
So we've got the Easter egghunt we'll talk about.
Yeah, it's coming up.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
How many eggs have we got?
315?

Speaker 5 (06:50):
million 18,000.
There's way too many.
It was packed at my house.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, I still have.
I sent a picture in our youngadult group.
So I have a coffee table andtechnically the top comes off of
it and you could put blanketsin it or something, but I've
just never put anything in it.
So I put the eggs in there,like they're still in the bags
and stuff.
But I'm like, hey, out of sight, out of mind, so I'm gonna keep

(07:16):
them right there in the coffeetable.
So when I'm scrolling here andyou know, I'm like, oh crap, I
see the, the eggs.
I better do those instead.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
So yeah.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
It is coming up fast.

Speaker 5 (07:28):
I had to bring mine in, and then I had to bring in
the candy that wouldn't fit inthe eggs Yep.
Because they fit in my bellyYep, that's fine, yep.
I'm like driver's like you gotto get them out of here.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
I'm like, yeah, I but can you remember how many eggs
we started with the first year?
Was it 1,000?

Speaker 3 (07:46):
No, we had a couple thousand, did we?

Speaker 1 (07:48):
Like 3,000, maybe, yeah, maybe yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
See now we've seen how we're mowing the back 40.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, the back 40.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
But you know it takes a lot.
It's definitely extended.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yeah, are we looking at like 20,000?
, 20?
I it takes definitely extendeda lot, yeah, are we looking at
like 20, 20, I want to say yousaid 18 000.
What did we do last year?
I don't remember it was morethan that was.
It had two, yeah, had both foursquare helped last year I want
to.

Speaker 5 (08:14):
Oh, that's right, that's right I'm thinking we did
close to almost 20 000 eachchurch, I was thinking, but I
don't hold me to that.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
Do you remember Nick?
It was a lot.

Speaker 5 (08:25):
It was a lot I was thinking yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
I was between like 30,000.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
Yeah, it was a lot of eggs Put them in a golf cart.
Yeah, drag them out, yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
It's fun, kids enjoy it.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
Yeah, yeah, it's a good time.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
That's what that's.
April the 12th yes, saturday at12.
It'll start at noon and we'renot doing like hot dogs and
chips this year right just doingcookies and drink little snack
foods, yeah, um, now.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
So I've never been to one yet.
Shame on me, because I had toalways work them.
Well, not work them, but workon a saturday.
Um, so do we do the Easter egghunt like the actual hunt before
the story, because he'll kindof talk about the Easter story.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
I think he did that first last year, last year.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yeah, okay, that's smart.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Kind of because it gives the kids something to do.
I don't know if he's going todo magic this year again or not,
I don't know.
That's right.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
He didn't mention it.
But.
And then there'll be thegiveaway, there'll be the
baskets.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
I'm not sure what all we're giving away this year.
They'll do that after.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, when everybody comes in Now for each age group
there's like per se, like agolden egg, right that gets the
prize of that age group Winner.
Winner chicken dinner.

Speaker 5 (09:46):
Yes, okay.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah, Now how many age groups do we have?
Do we know or what they are?

Speaker 3 (09:53):
Well, we got the little guys, little little, our
preschoolers.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Little Cooper.
Yeah, cooper and JJ.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
Yeah, cooper and JJ, I was thinking there was, at
what, at least four differentgroups.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Like zero to three or zero to two.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Two, three, four or five, Five to seven, five to
eight and then, nine to 12, andthen maybe one more, 12 plus or
something yeah 12 plus to my age.
I mean we're going out to getsome eggs this year, yeah.
I don't know.
I've run over a few last yearwith the color People didn't get
it A few that got left behind.

(10:29):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (10:30):
Rosalyn was so funny last year and she didn't get
very many eggs because she hadto stop and see what she got in
each egg.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
So she would find one and open it and move on to the
next one and open it.

Speaker 4 (10:49):
That's, and open it and move on to the next one and
open it.
That's funny.
Yeah, I remember the first yearI did it, uh, I think I was in
that, like I don't know if itwas a 9 to 12 or 10 to 12,
whatever it was, but there was abunch of rowdy boys.
They're raring to go, you know,and it was like wait, you gotta
wait because you know we do onegroup at a time, yeah, and
they're kind of pushing andshoving and I'm like you know,

(11:09):
all right, it says you know, Ican't disqualify you flaunting
his authority, I don't want tosee any pushing, I want to see
any shoving he took thatvolunteer badge to a whole new
level.

Speaker 5 (11:27):
Yes, yes.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
I could tell they were already at each other.
Just waiting.
It's like you can't bedisqualified and one kid goes
really.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yep, we've got officials, they're watching.

Speaker 5 (11:40):
See, that's your door .
You should have opened, you canbe disqualified from heaven.
Yeah, that's your door.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
You should have opened you can be disqualified
from heaven if you don't.
Yeah, that's true, really.
So we do age groups atdifferent times.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
I believe.
So, yeah, don't we release oneof them.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Well, you let the little kids go out and then,
like the, oh and aren't theysectioned off, didn't?
Last year weren't theysectioned off for each group?

Speaker 1 (12:05):
okay, it's in the ground we have I knew it was
sectioned off, I just wasn'tsure how.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Yeah yeah, yeah, we'll stake everything off and
we rope everything and then putthe ages yeah, set up yeah,
groups and then get that waypeople as you can, and yeah,
that way the volunteers knowwhere they're supposed to go,
yeah well, I volunteered insidelast year.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
That's smart.
And it did rain.
I thought it did rain last year.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
It was a good place for me to volunteer.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah, didn't it clear up just in time?

Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yeah, but it was nice when everybody went outside.

Speaker 5 (12:36):
But it was so funny because the slugs didn't like
the rain.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
They crawled in the eggs, that's right, I forgot
about that they're so gross.
Don't worry, they don't eatmuch.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
They don't like chocolate yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
Last year I had to police again, but this time I
was policing the pop and watertable and I had to make sure
that nobody was coming up there,doubled up, doubled up or was
getting to before we got started.
You know, it's like the adultswere harder to control than the
kids.

Speaker 5 (13:13):
They are Well.
I think they had kids gettingcoffee.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
It's like no, you do that Michael's like you're in
charge of guarding the pop andwater.
I'm like, okay, I'm like you'rein charge of guarding the pop
and water.
I'm like, okay, I'm like how doI approach this?
Because you don't want to berude or mean, but at the same
time, it's like you gave me ajob to do.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah, because we had an X number.
Yeah, we did and we had a lotto turn out.

Speaker 5 (13:38):
This year would probably be wise if we don't put
that out until we're ready tolet it happen Out until we're
ready to let it happen.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
You better make a little steel cage, this little
hole that you slide through.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah, limit one.

Speaker 5 (13:58):
Exchange a pink egg for yours Purple.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
So is Michael, always the head honcho.
I know he doesn't like to bethe head honcho for it.
For what?
Like?
Whenever people are like, hey,what should I be doing?
Like, who is giving the orders?

Speaker 5 (14:15):
Michael Michael.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
Michael yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Because he has in his head how he wants it.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
I can see that, yes, yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
It's just like mowing .
He has got to be a certain way.
This is the way I want it done.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
I get that.
Yeah, I like my mowing done acertain way as well.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
And if it's not done his way, he gets a little ouchy.

Speaker 5 (14:36):
Yeah, oh, I'd be going out there doing figurines.
How's this what you?

Speaker 3 (14:40):
wanted.
He really went ballistic whensomebody used the big mower on
the front yard and turned andkind of.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Oh, yeah, awesome.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Yeah, I heard about that for two weeks, wouldn't be,
though I didn't do it.

Speaker 5 (14:56):
Wasn't you that did it, I know better.
Hey, just make sure when youmow around the flowerbed you're
blowing the grass away from theflowerbed, so you don't get
missed.
On all row, I do.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
I do Trust me.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
One of the boys were mowing last year.
One of the young boys I don'tremember which one it was who
was mowing Easton or?

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Emmett.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
And so I went over and I said to Emmett I said,
buddy, when you're mowing by theflower beds, you got to turn
that mower that directly.

Speaker 5 (15:28):
The thing is they should be mowing with the bagger
on.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah, I never thought about that.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yeah, you know, but I mean that's.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah, and then empty the bag when it's yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yeah, yeah, because you can, oh yeah, and if
somebody mows and don't emptythe bag you hear about that too,
Wasn't me Tell them hey, freehelp, you better be grateful.
We have someone that they'regoing to mow the grass in the
front.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yeah, and I can see why he would like want things
done a certain way.
Yeah, because it makes theappearance done a certain way?

Speaker 5 (16:02):
Yeah, because it makes the appearance.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
And not to mention even for the Easter egg hunt.
I feel like it is our biggest.
I feel like a lot of peopleonly know us because of the
Easter egg hunt.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (16:14):
Yeah, so it's almost like our Super Bowl, not to
mention it's a lot of people andthey're all out in an open
space where everything can getout of control really quickly,
fast If things and they're allout in an open space where
everything can get out ofcontrol really quickly.
Yes, fast, yeah, yeah, Ifthings aren't done a certain way
.
I have the right people incharge.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
For sure yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:30):
Everything can get out of hand real quick.
Go south real fast.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
Well, especially From down to the parking the parking
the field is wet because Aprilis, you know, march or April is
always wet and rainy, and it's afield that holds water, so it's
going to be a disasterregardless.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
I have no idea what to expect until the day.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
The day yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
You know the best part of the back, the back 40?
Being dry.
It's almost back to the endwhere the baseball diamond was.
You don't remember that.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
You remember that I know what you're talking, where
you're talking, though, yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Clear.
You don't remember that.
You remember that.
I know what you're talking,where you're talking now.
Yeah, clear, clear.
Yeah, that's actually thedriest.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Like where the tree line is kind of yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
This way you know where that?
Have you been all the way tothe back, Mm-mm?
Well, there's an old rottenfence post there.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
And from there about three quarters of the way to the
tree and three quarters of theway this way to the front.
It's pretty nice, it's nice anddry, even when it rains.
Probably because there shouldbe a baseball field there, as

(17:41):
there was.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
There should be one again Years ago.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yeah, I didn't play there.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
I think my dad played there.
My wife be one again Years ago.
Yeah, I didn't play there.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
I think my dad played there, my wife did but, I
didn't, I was, I was uh, I don'twant to say being a heathen I
thought that's where you'regoing but you know well then
what?

Speaker 2 (18:06):
we're having an easter sunrise service on easter
, easter sunday yeah, we'rehaving breakfast too, and
breakfast with breakfast and wehad.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
We had breakfast last year too.

Speaker 5 (18:17):
And then the service will follow that at 10?

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yeah, I think he said normal time.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Yeah, and there's enough time in between.
You can almost take a nap.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, or you can go home and change your clothes, or
whatever it is, oh no, I can'tgo home and change my clothes,
it's too far.
Oh, you know, because when mykids were young we came to
Sunrise Service and the kids intheir pajamas.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
When my kids were young, we came to sunrise
service and our kids in theirteam in their pajamas.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
When our kids were young, yep, where we went to
church was it close it was yeah,it was in port washington, so
probably about the same distanceyeah, about six miles yeah, six
miles from the house, but itwas always cold.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
You were always freezing generally, so I can
remember going um on top of thehill at my grandma's church it
was.
It was technically for saintpeter's, like lutheran church,
but it was literally like herher house from the church is a
few valleys over, but like fromher house to where they had the
sunrise service, it was right ontop of the hill.

(19:16):
So, yeah, we would just go inour pajamas.
So yeah, so pretty though too.
Like so pretty with thathillside and seeing that come up
and the cross being there, yeah, yeah, as far as breakfast, do
we know what we're having?

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Breakfast food I don't know that Pastor Holly has
asked for anything specific.
No, I think she was.
We did what casseroles?

Speaker 5 (19:43):
last year she was thinking like breakfast and
casseroles and you know, likeyou're saying Pastries, yep,
pastries and stuff.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
Easier things.
Yes, because I mean it'll be abusy morning for everyone, you
know.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
So you know, yeah, so I mean, that's what we did last
year.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
I just assume that except I'll be doing my easter
sunrise service in florida.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
So oh, darn, oh I really feel for you.
I don't.

Speaker 5 (20:08):
She just like hunched over, like please don't hit me,
please don't hit me, that wassarcasm who am I gonna talk to
at six o'clock in the morningbecause she won't want me
calling her on vacation, Michael.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Oh yeah, she's like nah, that's at 6.30.
Go past Holly since she'sretired.
No, I ain't calling her 6.30either she's, like I, retired
for a reason Sleep in.

Speaker 5 (20:32):
She made me laugh.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
She said that Dave the other morning didn't let the
dog out when before he left towork, so the dog was up there
bugging her to get up.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
He's like well, you're home, now you can let him
out mine, you don't.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
It doesn't make any difference what they know what
time it is.
They don't care if it's sundayor monday morning yep 4, 30
that's how my neighbor's dog.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
It's 4 30 but they have to walk him in the cemetery
because I'm it's a rescue dog.
He has some issues, I don'tknow, but he's very, very, very,
very needy.
But they're walking in thecemetery at 4 30 in the morning
so their dog can go pee.
I'm like like every singlenight.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
I'm like uh-uh ain't nothing, they never gonna hurt
you, right?

Speaker 2 (21:25):
it's all dead probably know that they're out
there walking every morning yeah, yeah, that's true, except I
just told everyone.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (21:39):
Jarvie lets Smurf out at 4.30, but he'll one up again
about out again when I get up.
And sometimes I put him outjust because I don't want to
hear him bark, yeah, but go barkoutside.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (21:50):
Because I'm going to listen to it in here.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
Yeah, you don't forget about him, do you?

Speaker 5 (21:54):
No no.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
I just open the door and go.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Mine has a doggy door .
She lets herself in and outnice listen, you'd never forget
him, because one tell you he isa foo-foo dog.

Speaker 5 (22:04):
He does not like to be outside, doesn't matter if
it's warm it doesn't matter ifit's cold.
He wants back in as soon ashe's done and he jumps and hits
that door continuously, boom,boom until you let him back in.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
And he jumped so well that he broke one of my windows
that Dawn had to repair for me.
Dog didn't get hurt, did he?

Speaker 5 (22:27):
No, that was my biggest fear.
Dawn's like she sends me apicture.
She's like hey, was yoursunroom window like this when
you went to work?
I'm like no.
I'm like is the dog okay?
She's like no, no he's fine,there's we.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
I've never really realized it, but like our side
door sometimes doesn't latchwhen you shut it.
I'm like making something lastnight and I hear the door.
I'm like, wait a minute, I lookout.
Cooper is out on the freakingside door.
I'm like, or the side porch,and there's not a lot of porch
there at all.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
No, I was like I'm like get back in here, wait till
he lets the dog out.
He's out there pointing thisbird is it a bird or is it a
duck, or is it a?

Speaker 1 (23:13):
squirrel.
Oh, he's been obsessed withlike the bunnies.
Like because all the bunniesfor easter, like all those
little cute decorations.
And we saw a bunny atherschberger farms.
He could care less.
He was like disgusted with itbecause it was like a real bunny
.
I was holding it and thisthing's like going insane, like
trying to jump off of myshoulder and I'm like here, you
want to pet it?

(23:33):
He's like no, we don't need nobunnies, let the thing go.
I was like basically sitting onthis girl's lap just waiting
for her to be done with thebunny and they're like let's put
the bunny back so someone elsecan take a turn.
I'm like I'll take it.
And then cooper didn't wantanything to do with it.
Yeah, all right.

(23:55):
So we covered the the Easteregg hunt pretty thoroughly,
right.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
Yep, we did say what day and time it is right.
Yep.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
It's April 12th.
April 12th.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
At noon, at noon yeah .

Speaker 1 (24:07):
I don't know our address off the top of my head
1943 North Water Street NorthWater Street Extension, new York
, new York, new York New.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
York, new York, I think Ohio.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
I think it's 1943.
If you're nearby, stop on in.

Speaker 5 (24:19):
Yeah, united States.
For our ones that are in othercountries, yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
However many of you there are out there.
Yeah, 1943.
So we talked about that.
So now let's talk about Lentenservices.
How many do we have left aftertonight?

Speaker 2 (24:43):
three there's tonight the 9th and the 18th on Good.

Speaker 5 (24:47):
Friday where's the one on Good Friday?

Speaker 2 (24:49):
at Good.

Speaker 4 (24:51):
Friday is at Denison.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Foursquare with Dave Pastor Dave Bryan or Dave Bryan
is the speaker Bryan like B-RB-R-Y-A-N.
Dave Bryan.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Is it the same time that they've been like seven?
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Tonight Rod Phillips at Newport, Methodist.

Speaker 5 (25:15):
That's the Four Square Gospel Pastor right.
That's the Denison Four.
That's the Four Square GospelPastor right.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
That's the Denison Four Square.
Denison Four Square, yep.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
April 9th is at Euricsville, presbyterian with
Matt Davis.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
I don't know him either I don't know that one
either.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
And April 18th, on Good Friday, dave Bryan at the
Four Square in Denison.
So those are our Lentenservices.

Speaker 5 (25:39):
I don't think it's nice how the community comes
together and does that, I do too.
The different denominations andthey come out and support yeah
Church that's being held at.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Yeah, and then usually afterwards there's a
little Dinner or something, andI would have stayed last.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
You know, when we had ours.
But Cooper Chase posted apicture and said something and I
would have stayed last, youknow, when we had ours.
But cooper chase posted apicture and said, got kicked out
of church and cooper's sittingin the car like, tried, like
eating this straw, or somethinglike, oh my gosh.
But if it wasn't for him youknow it's his bedtime, so like,
but I would have stayed at eight.
You know, like just, there werea lot of people and and people

(26:18):
really did stay a lot longer athours.
At hours.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
Yeah, I was surprised the number that did stay, but
Pastor Holly always has tablesset up.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
She always makes it very inviting.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
It's always beautifully decorated yes, and
very welcoming.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
People want to stay.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
Yeah, and we've got the room for it.
You know like I've been to someplaces where it gets crowded
like if they're doing it in thebasement or something you know.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Yes, well, some were just in the foyers.
Yeah, oh yeah, the foyers oftheir church, yeah, what?

Speaker 3 (26:49):
were you saying I won't say Okay.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
So explain what's different between a Lenten
service and just a regularSunday service.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
They have an agenda that they're—.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Trying to push.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Well, like 40 days of .
Jesus is fast before Easter,yeah, yeah, so they're focusing
on—everybody's got to— I thinkeverybody has a verse that
they're given.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
Yeah, and then they have to get their—.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Like Pastor Holly's verse was Pastor Holly's sermon
or their teaching from thatverse?
Yeah, because Pastor Holly'swas the thief on the cross.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
That was what her sermon was it's almost like the
buildup, the teaching yeah, likethe first one was Father.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
Forgive them, it doesn't give me the verses, but.
And then Pastor Holly's wastoday, I will be with you.
And then Nicole Bache, atDenison Presbyterian was woman.
Behold your.
That's all it says, though.
But there was woman, beholdyour.
I can't think right now.

(27:59):
Cory that preached here was whyhas thou forsaken me?
And then tonight is I thirst onthe ninth father into your
hands.
And on good friday, it isfinished, so the build-up of
yeah.
And on Good Friday, it isfinished, so the buildup of.

Speaker 4 (28:17):
Yeah, so the messages are not random, they all stand
around, they all kind of gotogether.
Yes, yeah, yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah, what was the first one?
If you have it pulled up,Father forgive them.
Okay, I was just trying to seeif it was like a good transition
.
Yeah, it seems.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
I don't know who gives those out.
I don't know who figures it out.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
The pastoral association.
Probably yes.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Because they meet what monthly or quarterly anyway
?
Monthly, monthly, monthly orquarterly anyway.
Monthly, monthly, like once amonth.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
I mean because it's time for us to reflect on our
Christian life and our faith andto deepen our faith.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
A lot of prayer and fasting, some giving.
We should be generous and begiving.

Speaker 4 (29:20):
We had what?
Over 150 people here.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Yeah, yes, mike said he counted 162,.
I believe.

Speaker 4 (29:28):
Would you say most of those people are from other
churches, or are we gettingpeople that are thinking about
coming to church?
I'd say or normally don't cometo church, but somehow do come
out to the services.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
Yeah, I think a lot of them were associated with
other churches yeah yeah, yeahyeah, I don't really think we
had people that were searchingfor a new yeah I think they were
just other.
Yeah, goers like.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
It's always funny when chase knows everyone from
the community like, and whetherhe likes to or not like, people
just know him because, and youknow, normally it's always like
we'll be in myrtle beach orsomewhere and I see probably two
or three people.
Never fails he's like you know,everyone.
But that night he was like oh,that's so and so, and that's so

(30:19):
and so.
I'm like oh, you know, likeyeah.
There were definitely a lot ofpeople from the community like,
yeah that's cool yeah it is it's.

Speaker 5 (30:30):
They had to bring out extra chairs yeah, yeah, we
were seated for 150.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Do we know how many?
We ended up?
How many extra?

Speaker 2 (30:38):
ones we put out.
Well, I don't know, but PastorMichael said he counted 162.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
162 actual people.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
That's awesome.

Speaker 5 (30:46):
Yeah, very nice turnout yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:50):
Would it be a good place for somebody to start, if
they were thinking about comingto church?
Would a Lent service besomething that would?

Speaker 3 (31:02):
I think maybe if they heard all of the messages.

Speaker 5 (31:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
But just to hear one, I don't.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
If you haven't been a regular church member or heard
the word I don't.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
I don't know how I would have felt about it.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
Yeah, prior to being yeah yeah, that to be my first
experience especially like even,like you know, we made sure
that the music wasn't too muchfor people, or like chase was
like this song this song I'mlike chase, we got it, we got,
we've got some presbyterians.
No offense, you know what Imean, but we're just all
different, you know.
So our music is usuallyfast-paced.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
And loud.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Yes, we are loud, yes .

Speaker 3 (31:45):
When I was standing there at the back door I did
hear a lot of comments fromlegacy members that they enjoyed
the worship.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
Yeah, I enjoyed it?

Speaker 1 (31:57):
Yes, I think we.
Yeah, it was.
It was definitely.
Yeah, I mean, well thoughtthrough, you know.
And yes, there was.
There was one song thateveryone knew um.
I can't think of what it was.
Can you guys think what?
We only did across did we dothat one yeah did we it was the
last song then, yeah, that'swhat it was, yeah, yeah yep like

(32:21):
I.
I feel like that song likepeople.
They kind of forget they know it, but then once it turns on
they're like oh, yeah, yeah,it's automatic, yeah yeah, yeah,
but I think if it was and Ifeel like people that are
searching for a church, maybemaybe even searching for a
church and plus new to faith,you know what I mean Like maybe

(32:42):
that wouldn't be the best, but Ialso don't feel like they would
the true flavor of the church,yeah, and I don't feel like Well
, you're not having that churchas regular pastor.
Yeah exactly and like I don'tthink they would even have a
desire.

Speaker 5 (33:05):
Like they would kind of be like well, what's a lenten
service, I'll just wait for anormal service.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, yeah, it's um.
It kind of made me chuckle whenpastor holly was doing her
service that she got um pastorjohn stevens's church, that is
also pentecostal.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
That's where I came from.

Speaker 5 (33:19):
She might have made some head rules in her church.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Yeah, yeah, but even like that, like she broke the
ice from doing a joke you know,yeah, yes, Whatever works.
Yeah, yeah, going to differentdenominational churches?

Speaker 3 (33:43):
and preaching is it different?
Oh, I bet you know it's.
I mean, you can, you can, youcan have a message, but then you
have to kind of read it's likeit's like entertainment, you
have to kind of read the crowdand see how far you can actually
go with what you have.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Because for Pastor Holly she started out pretty
quiet, a little meek and quiet,but then, before you knew it,
she was really giving it, shewas her little one come out,
that little one mighty yeah.
Yeah, because what Pastor JohnStevens said after she was done,
she was calm and quiet and thenshe wasn't.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
The explosion.

Speaker 5 (34:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:29):
I think it'd probably be the worst thing you could do
is try to change what you do,right, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Yeah, like they're asking you to be there to be who
you are yeah, you have to.

Speaker 5 (34:43):
But I think every church is receptive because, yes
, it's all differentdenominations, but they work
together.
We're all trying to get to thesame place.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
Some of us take a little bit of a different route,
and I said that was it lastweek, and Michael's like, well,
most of us.
What else were we going to talkabout?
Our cupboard of hope, yeah,cupboard of hope, yes.

Speaker 5 (35:15):
Stage.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
Beth, stage Beth of hope.

Speaker 5 (35:21):
Yeah, covered of hope .
Yes, that is our stage, bethstage.
It's our three-day emergencyfood pantry.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
That we have here.
That was your vision.
You started it, your littlebaby.

Speaker 5 (35:27):
Yes, yes and uh.
I not only want to, you know,fill their bellies, but I also
want to feed their souls.
There's so many in this areaespecially that do need help.
Oh yeah, and my goal, you know,was to help in that area.
A lot of the bigger pantries,you know they can only, you know

(35:49):
, go every so many months orwhatever.
And the cupboard of hope youcan come every 30 to 35 days
providing we have the food.
Cupboard of hope you can comeevery 30 to 35 days providing we
have the food.
Yeah, because, as a big fan, asthe big pantries have
government grants and yeah, likewe don't have that.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
We don't have that.
We're just church donated.

Speaker 5 (36:05):
We're just all church donations, so some months we're
better stocked than others, butI will say that we have a
faithful, faithful group here atthe church that does keep their
shells full.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
Now that brought up a good question Could we ever be
a government-funded oneeventually?

Speaker 5 (36:25):
I think eventually, if we grew to that point, we
could be yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
And part of my vision was not only I try to throw
some personal products in there.

Speaker 5 (36:42):
You know soap, shampoo, toilet paper, garbage
bags the things that people alsoneed those and yeah, we just
don't think about and yeah yeahabsolutely and those are one
things that um the large foodpantries, they don't.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
They can't get that with the money that they get
that that money has to be gearedtowards almost like food stamps
you can't afford to buy yourgroceries?

Speaker 4 (37:04):
you definitely can't afford the extra toothpaste, the
personal items, the garbage,yeah I was talking to somebody
about that today.
I say just never made any,because I was listening to um
rfk jr talk about oh, yeah, youknow what he's doing.
And I said, and he was talkingabout this very thing, and I'm
like it just doesn't make anysense that somebody can go out
and buy Pepsi on food stamps,but they can't get a bar of soap

(37:27):
, they can't get detergent, theycan't get deodorant.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
Can't wash your laundry.
It does not make any sense, no,right.

Speaker 5 (37:32):
It doesn't yeah, so it's.
And some of these people, youknow, I mean maybe they have a
job interview and they need thatdeodorant yeah for sure.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
I need that hairbrush yeah, so that they can look
presentable to go in because alot of people don't choose this
right and like they're trying toget this job to get out of this
rut.
But hey, I, you know, you know,don't have this deodorant.
And like, hey, I will say,yesterday I tried this new spray
deodorant and I was with mysister after work.

(38:06):
I'm like, oh, and I know shewould have told me the truth.
I'm like I tried this new spraydeodorant and like I can smell
myself.
Like can you smell me?
And she's like no, but I'm likeyou know, here I was I think it
was midday and I'm like, oh, mygosh, I can start to smell
myself.
Oh, no, I won't buy this again.
I'm like it's only 1 o'clock.
I've got until 5 o'clock.

(38:27):
Like please don't smell me.
But yeah, because it's like youknow you don't want to.

Speaker 4 (38:33):
That impression, especially a first impression
for a job, yes, well, and Ithink you got to think about
young people, like they can'thave good habits when they don't
have it.
Yeah, exactly, yeah, like likeI said, the children.
They should be able to havethose things and if they don't
have it, they can't practicethose good habits.
Exactly right, they won'tdevelop those things.

(38:54):
So, yeah, that's more importantthan I mean because I managed at
the grocery store and I'd seepeople coming through with we'd
sell back.
Then you could get like four12-packs for 10 bucks.
Sure, yeah, yeah and peoplewould just load up their carts
full of Pepsi.
Yep when it's on sale and theyhave kids and you're thinking
man, they can't get.
You know, you can tell theyneed shampoo.

Speaker 5 (39:14):
Mm you can tell they need shampoo and they're not
getting it.

Speaker 4 (39:17):
Yeah, it just never made any sense to me.

Speaker 5 (39:21):
Yeah, so uh, you know , our food boxes are pretty much
the same every time.
I keep a very um simple menuand it makes it easier for the
people that do donate.
Yes, so we can consistently.
Otherwise, you get, and Idon't- mean this, that I don't
appreciate that.

(39:41):
Yeah, otherwise you get amixture of things.
Yes, you're in there trying toput meals together.
Meal with all these different.
I totally, I totally understandthat so it just works easier
keeping yes very basic very yesand then they also um.
We work with a local grocerystore here and we have vouchers
that they get a gallon of milk,a dozen eggs, A dozen bread.

(40:01):
A dozen bread.
Yeah, it's probably cheaperthan a dozen eggs.
Right now, they get a dozeneggs, a gallon of milk and a
loaf of bread, and then theybill us monthly for it.
Now, who is that?
It's Makos.
That's what I thought.
That's nice.
Yeah, and sometimes they bill usevery two months, you know.
If it doesn't hit $100, I thinkthey hang on it to the next

(40:25):
month Probably.
So yeah, you can call thechurch phone number if they need
it and I don't have that numberor you can on Facebook you can
go to the organic church andthere's an application you can
fill out.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
Yeah, there's a, not a.
Is that a link or like a tab?
I guess a tab on our website.
Yeah, um, yeah, trying to thinkwhat, what else with it?

Speaker 4 (40:55):
is this your first experience doing something like
this?

Speaker 5 (40:58):
No, I actually um when I went to the church um
light in the Valley andnewcomers town, I did one down
there.
Um that one got very large,very fast.
Yeah, that's all very fast.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
Yeah, I was going to say you can, you can tell you've
done it before, cause you youknow what, you, what needs done
and we did that one.

Speaker 5 (41:15):
We were open every Tuesday.
It wasn't necessarily theystill got three days worth of
food.
It wasn't necessarily emergencybasis.
We were just open every.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
Tuesday.

Speaker 5 (41:24):
And some Tuesdays we would run out of food and we'd
wonder how we were going to havefood for the next Tuesday, and
God always provided alwaysprovided and I had a wonderful
friend at that time that sheworked at the homeless shelter
and like when she would getoverflow and they just had too
much that they couldn't getthrough.
Yeah, she'd call me and bringme stuff Nice.
It was always like she alwaysknew yes.

(41:44):
And then I had anothergirlfriend at that time that did
coupons, so she would be youknow, hey, I got these.
You know, stock up on this, andwe did a lot of that.
What's your?

Speaker 1 (42:02):
phone to stock up on this and and we did a lot of
that phone number.
Oh okay, the phone number is740-922-1564.
Yeah, and you know, you guyshave even delivered.

Speaker 5 (42:08):
We have people.
It's not something.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
It's not something we prefer, right, it's not
something we really market, youknow but there has been some
incidents where we've had toyeah, because you want, we want
to help them.

Speaker 5 (42:19):
Yeah, you know and um it, just um.
I mean, I know I trust god, butit's just a little scary.
I want to make sure that, ifthat is happening, that there is
oh, yeah, always a man yep,that's smart delivery, did you?

Speaker 1 (42:34):
we had someone that was interested in West Lafayette
, right, was that you who endedup?

Speaker 5 (42:39):
I did take one to.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
West.

Speaker 5 (42:40):
Lafayette and I normally would never go that far
but God just really laid it onmy heart.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
To do yeah.

Speaker 5 (42:48):
I mean, the woman was so honest with me.
She said you know it's the endof the month, we're broke.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (42:53):
I have gas to come get it, but my husband will
never have the money.
There won't be.
There's no money to get moregas for my husband to get to
work the rest of the week.
Yeah, and they were very, veryappreciative and you know we
serviced them, put the food downand, you know, talked with them
and, yeah, you know we haven'theard from them since but yeah,
we planted that seed.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
Right, right, planted that seed right, right, and you
planted that seed absolutelyyep, yep and even you know,
maybe, maybe, maybe you plantedup more seeds than you know,
like maybe they told theirfriends like hey, you know, or
they're you know?
Maybe they told their kids, orsomething like yeah, you know,
hey, guess what?
Guess what just happened to me,you know.
And then they told them likeand they don't know that.

Speaker 5 (43:34):
Very, very appreciative yeah, yeah so it's.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
It's a little slower taken off than the other one,
but you know it's all in god'stiming yep we are reaching the
people he wants us to reachquestion are we do we know if
we're going to market that atthe easter egg hunt?

Speaker 5 (43:55):
I don't know, but Would that be a very good idea?
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
Yep, because don't?
And that's another thing.
Do we have Easter bag likehandout bags of some sort, or am
I thinking of something else?

Speaker 2 (44:07):
Not that I know of.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
Okay, there was something that we Maybe I'm
thinking of like the back toschool bags, but or maybe it's
Do you put anything in the boxes?
Yes, okay, that's probably whatI'm thinking.

Speaker 5 (44:22):
They get information about our church and church
service.
I usually have a little bookletI think it's from the Daily
Bread that I get and I'll putone of those in there.
I just ordered some trackstoday, yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
I mean even just I don't know having a QR code
somewhere, you know.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
How did those work?

Speaker 4 (44:49):
Well, you need to be able to find your phone first.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
First, we got to find your phone.

Speaker 3 (44:53):
It's in my truck on the charger because it was dead.

Speaker 4 (44:58):
That's not going to do you any good.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
I'm trying to think how else you could advertise
that there.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
It's not an ink flyer .

Speaker 5 (45:07):
I have a flyer up at the hospital.

Speaker 4 (45:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (45:09):
For some reason our hospital is excited to put the
bulletin board back by theemployee time clock instead of
maybe out in the emergency roomwhere people really need to see
it.
Emergency room yes, in theworld.
So you know, that is um.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
You know we've posted them at different places yeah,
um, I'm thinking like, how arewe going to advertise it at the
easter egg hunt?
You know what I mean, I think,and we have.

Speaker 5 (45:36):
We have to do it somehow, just have to tell
people about yeah, tell.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
Tell that during his.
Yeah, that's true, when he hasthe stage yeah, when they're
getting ready to give out theprizes.

Speaker 5 (45:45):
Yeah, yep, and I have to say too about the Easter egg
hunt this year because of thecost of things and that we were
worried whether we were going tobe able to do that or not.
And we did get some generousdonations from the Railroad
Festival.

(46:05):
They give a donation and thenEmber Complete Care gave a
donation.
That's awesome.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
I wondered how we pulled through.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
Yes, that definitely made it possible, yeah because I
don't think if it would havebeen for that, I don't think we
would have been able to do it ifwe hadn't gotten those two
donations.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
we had that wish list but like it wasn't even did,
did we like fulfill that wishlist?
Do we know?

Speaker 5 (46:28):
I think we got some, some of the items off of that
off the amazon.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
But then I think we found out that they could get
things at sam's club, so muchcheaper, a lot cheaper, yeah, um
, so I think that you know withthe money that yeah, it was a
lot cheaper, a lot cheaper, yeah.

Speaker 5 (46:40):
So I think that you know, with the money that was
donated, I think a lot of thatcandy was purchased through that
.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
Yeah, I think a lot of the basket stuff was gotten
through that.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
Yes, yeah.
Yeah, I didn't realize it costso much to put that on.
Yeah, I mean, we were talkingwhat $6,000?

Speaker 1 (47:04):
Yes, I didn't realize it either.
I think it was like my lastyear on council.
Do you remember Nick going over?
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (47:12):
You know honestly, I don't think we ever really
discussed it yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
We just did it, we just did it, did it.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
Yeah, we just did it.
We just did it did it.

Speaker 4 (47:20):
Yeah, we just did it, yeah and uh.
So I was kind of shocked myself, yeah, whenever, when he said
that, I was like, wow, you knowyou don't think about, you
really don't fill some eggs, ohyeah and we've already got the
eggs.
We keep the same eggs right,right, no, they're.

Speaker 5 (47:33):
Well, those are new eggs we bought last year when
they went on sale yeah well andhonestly like like last year's,
though, they needed to go homewith the kids, because there was
no putting them back together.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
Well, and like you know, like I've probably I think
I have like 500 eggs right nowand like there's no candy to, so
I'm going to go buy candy, solike it's more than $5,000 or
$6,000, because I'm sure I'm notthe only one that's doing that.
You know what I mean.
I still have eggs that can becooked.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
Make sure you take one of the eggs with you for
sure, and tell us so you canmake sure the candy fits in
before you buy it.

Speaker 4 (48:08):
Yeah, do the math.
I mean, like a bag of candy,say 300 pieces, you might be
around $15 to $20.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
At least Depending on what you buy.

Speaker 4 (48:18):
yes, so times that times whatever 20 000.

Speaker 5 (48:22):
Yeah, oh yeah, because like yeah those boxes on
amazon they were like 50 a boxand it was like what?
Five?

Speaker 1 (48:29):
pounds plus the, plus the skittles or the big things
that you can't even use anyway.
So like then you're not, likethose things are just like
disqualified, basically lastyear?

Speaker 2 (48:39):
I mean, didn't they even give bikes last year?

Speaker 5 (48:42):
yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, I don't know well, anyhow that
I remember since I've been here.

Speaker 4 (48:49):
We've given bikes and yeah, yeah, those were all
donated and the huge chocolatebunnies yeah well then to do the
hot dogs and the, you know, thesoda water but now we went with
just the cookies and cookiesand juice this year.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
That's why we're doing it after lunch, so that
try to save.

Speaker 5 (49:10):
You know that money, the money and um yeah, and
they're just financially I don'tthink we were in a position to
do the bikes and that unlessthey were yeah right and then
that makes it hard because youhave to have one almost for
every, every age yeah, age groupyeah, so like four or five get
a boy and you got a girl's bikeright, you know, yes, so then
you're like then it's hard tofind a unisex bike.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
Like yes yeah, so, and then what other than that we
have our sunday services at 10am and our Wednesday night
services after Lent is going tomove up to six o'clock.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
OK.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
So our Wednesday nights will with Pastor Holly
will be at six.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
I'm trying to think Is there any other outreach that
we this podcast Shameful plug?
We're doing our job.
Yeah, well, that's a good point.
You know, Michael told us thatwe should pray about it.
We don't know what that has inmind so we would like everyone

(50:10):
to pray for this podcast.
I feel we're small, but we aremighty.

Speaker 4 (50:15):
I like to think that I don't know.
We're right around three yearsnow.
Yeah, I think we started it.
I don't know, we're rightaround three years now.
Yeah, yes, I think we startedit.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
Right around this time.

Speaker 4 (50:23):
Yeah, yeah.
So yeah, we've been doing itfor three years, and who would
have thought I?

Speaker 1 (50:26):
know, yeah, seriously , like we just were like, well,
let's just, let's try it, let'ssee how it goes.
We're having a hard time comingup that's our problem.

Speaker 4 (50:46):
I know I'm telling you I'm gonna throw that one
that I have today, anger, anger,michael, because yeah, well, we
always like things to just kindof be loose, throw things out,
but we might have to get alittle more discipline.
That's what I was gonna say.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
Three years, yeah, and you do so much you can yeah,
and if anyone has an idea ontopics or you know, because
there's no handout, whenever yousign up for a podcast, they're
not like, hey, here you go,here's your handout.
Like no, we, we come up with iton our own.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
You guys are great on the spot, but I need time to
think yeah, I can see that.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
I just feel like I was doing that, but then I would
get out of the conversationbecause I'm like, hey, I gotta
make sure I'm saying what I want.
Like I would look at my notesand like oh, I gotta throw this
in here.

Speaker 4 (51:21):
I'm like I don't know .

Speaker 1 (51:22):
And that's just my perfectionism being annoying,
you know.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
I'm glad somebody's a perfectionist.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
Well, I'm not, I try to be.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
Well, at least you try.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
My poor husband will just say that.

Speaker 4 (51:39):
I think the main thing with all of the things
that we do is that you knowwe're planting a seed.

Speaker 1 (51:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (51:46):
For everything that we do.

Speaker 4 (51:48):
So, even like the Easter egg hunt, you know, yeah,
we can't do all the big thingsthat we want to do.
We kind of had to tone it down,but at the end of the day, it's
still about planting the seed,which we'll do.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
And that's the thing.

Speaker 4 (52:00):
Like these kids aren't going to remember that we
didn't have hot dogs and water,or hot dogs and doritos.

Speaker 1 (52:04):
They're going to remember getting muddy in the
field, you know.

Speaker 4 (52:07):
Grabbing the eggs and getting little jesus's in their
easter egg, you know and Ithink for a child it takes
coming year after year afteryear yeah, like that could be a
tradition for people to seedplants the seed in their head.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
Yeah, I was a kid, this is what we did.
I remember going there.
Yes, yeah, yes.

Speaker 4 (52:24):
And then that's where things will grow for them.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (52:26):
It'll be something as simple as that.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
Yeah, and it's been what.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
This would be the fifth year, yes, fifth, I think
it's the fifth, I think he wassaying I want to say I remember
him saying I remember somethingabout, but I can't believe it's
been five years because I didn'twant to do it the first year.

Speaker 3 (52:48):
Yeah, and it's been his idea He'll say oh, we're not
doing it again.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
And then he doesn't again.
He's his baby.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
Yeah, well, yeah, somebody will mention it.
Mm-hmm, yeah, somebody justplants that seed in his head,
yeah.

Speaker 5 (53:03):
But I think though, too.
I mean, you can explain to thechildren yeah, you're looking
for Easter eggs, but you know,an egg represents new life.
Yeah, you know, yeah, andthat's what Christ gave us when
he died on that cross.
He gave us a new life becausehe took on our sins, otherwise
we would never have thatopportunity to go to heaven.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
I kind of had a thought when I think, when Corey
was preaching last week.
But when you get baptized, whenpeople say you always come out
of the water like a new person,I was like, yeah, like the
wintertime, everything dies.
But when you get baptized, thenit's springtime, you're a new

(53:44):
little leaf, that's just greenand, you know, glowing, right
yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
Yep Springing up with new life, mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (53:55):
And I don't know what the biblical timeline was for.

Speaker 4 (53:58):
Easter.

Speaker 5 (54:01):
But if you look around at Easter, there's so
much new life, All your littlebaby lambs calves.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
So much the little chicklets.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
Spring has rebirthed everything Right.

Speaker 2 (54:14):
All of those flowers popping up out of the ground,
everything coming into bloom.
Your flower beds look beautifulout there.
Ms Dawn, they're looking good.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
I couldn't see them.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
You've got to get that surgery past your larger
Little kittens start popping out.

Speaker 3 (54:33):
I do crazy.
You get my eyeballs.

Speaker 5 (54:35):
And you're driving still.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
Yeah, it's on autopilot.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
It knows its way, it knows its way that truck knows
its way.
Oh, believe me, it's a choresometimes.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
Seriously, yeah, pray for Pastor.

Speaker 3 (54:48):
Roger.

Speaker 5 (54:50):
And his safe travels.
So they'll do the measuring onFriday, and then do you have a
surgery date.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
Yeah, the 21st and then the—.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
Second one's in.

Speaker 3 (54:59):
Second one's the 12th Of May Of May.
They wanted to do it in twoweeks, but that week, later on
in the weekend, we'll be goingto North Carolina.
Oh, okay, so I didn't want tobe driving.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
One eye yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
Well, I only have one and a half eyes anyway, Most
people have two.

Speaker 3 (55:30):
I got one and a half.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
How.

Speaker 3 (55:35):
When I had that stroke, it killed the top part
of the nerve on this eye, solike if I close this eye and
look at you, I only see likefrom the top of your head to
maybe your mouth.

Speaker 4 (55:52):
So you're a jolly Roger.

Speaker 3 (55:53):
Yeah, I just don't have the patch.
I'd like to be a jolly rancher.

Speaker 1 (56:04):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (56:07):
And not the candy.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
Outstanding in the field.
Yeah, now I'm picturing Michaelas a jolly rancher in the field
.
Oh, no.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (56:24):
No, he's a Laffy Taffy Banana nut bread.

Speaker 1 (56:28):
I was going to say banana, banana nut bread.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
Well, Well, it was Pastor Michael's turn to pray.

Speaker 3 (56:39):
I do believe you prayed that I thought about that
when I was sitting here.

Speaker 5 (56:45):
And guess who's sitting in his seat.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
Yeah, but I did this today, guys, and you did such a
fine job.
Oh crap, I can't remember.
Do you remember?

Speaker 4 (56:55):
I forgot the button again.

Speaker 2 (56:56):
If you don't know where the music is, just start
to pray, it'll be all right.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
Eeny meeny miny, I think it's B.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
Well, before we start , to prey.

Speaker 5 (57:05):
I will have kittens eventually for you no not for me
.

Speaker 4 (57:10):
Margie said Give them away for Easter, all you little
kids out there don't have akitten, put them into a little
basket.

Speaker 5 (57:16):
She is awful skinny.
She comes back and eats, butthen she goes back to wherever
she had them.
She did not have them at myhouse, but I figure by the time
they're old enough to startlooking for food.
She'll be bringing them.

Speaker 3 (57:28):
That's when I'm going to pack them up and bring them
to Margie.
You should have mentioned atthe Margie that you have some
newborn kittens if she wouldlike to have one Well.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
Margie listens, maybe that could be mentioned at the
Easter egg hunt as well.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
There you go, we'll bring in the kittens.
We'll have a box of freekittens.

Speaker 4 (57:46):
You know what happens to a pirate when they get
captured.

Speaker 3 (57:51):
I can't swear on me this.
That's a penalty.

Speaker 4 (57:55):
Penalty is death Nick did you hear me?
What.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
You could have a box, a cardboard box, saying free
kittens at the Easter egg hunt.

Speaker 4 (58:02):
You're welcome, my genius.

Speaker 1 (58:04):
Right.

Speaker 5 (58:05):
She would never let that happen, I know.

Speaker 1 (58:09):
She'd have an application right there Like hey
we're doing in-personinterviews.
Background check, fingerprintedright here, right now.

Speaker 4 (58:20):
But we can give away kittens, we'll even color them
pink and blue and green.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
Green and yellow Pastel colors.

Speaker 3 (58:32):
It'd be like the chicks, just like the little
chicks yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
They sell Uh-huh, wow , genius, yeah it is genius.

Speaker 4 (58:40):
We're just waiting for them to start walking.
They get up and they're shakingaround.
They're starting to open theireyes.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
Oh yeah, she put us in pictures, I think yeah we had
three, so you have six.

Speaker 5 (58:52):
No, I don't know how many I have.
She had them away from thehouse.
She's still pretty wild.
If she's on the porch and I goout to feed her, she runs off
the porch.

Speaker 3 (59:04):
But as soon as you put the food down and you go
back in the house, she'll comeback.
Will she come back if you'restill out there and you put the
food down?

Speaker 5 (59:13):
She'll stay at the edge of the porch.
She'll run completely off now,but she'll stay at the edge of
the porch.
Now, him, he's all beat up andbattered and I'm tending to his
wounds as he recoups on thebench, Because he gave away the
house Because he gave away thehouse, you know, and he's
probably thinking the womandon't even use it.
I brought her here so she'dhave a nice workplace.

(59:35):
Now she's not even here.

Speaker 4 (59:38):
Yeah, so I've been informed that we're keeping mama
and at least at least one oneat least one, and now we're
putting up a brand new fence.
We've been meeting with swissvalley fence and uh, we'll be
putting up a fence in the nextfew weeks to uh make sure that
all the kittens are like safeand sound.

Speaker 1 (59:58):
That's good.
Like white vinyl.
Do you know?

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
That would be nice yeah.
Nice touch on the house, ohyeah, Nice touch.
Nice touch on your wallet too,I'm sure.
Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (01:00:09):
And one more thing to mow around.

Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
Right and weeding Weeding.
You put one of them slatted up,or this way, this way, vertical
up, or this way, this way,vertical, vertical horizontal
the solid yeah

Speaker 4 (01:00:26):
yeah, and of course she, you know, explained to the
guy.
Now he tried to explain to her.

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
There has to be like a two or three inch gap at the
bottom you know, because, yeah,with the ground and put chicken,
put chicken wire there, and she, she's already caught.

Speaker 4 (01:00:41):
Look, I'm doing this because of cats.
That fence has got to be closeto the ground so they can't
crawl under it.

Speaker 5 (01:00:46):
Yeah, wait till you get the reading all around.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
that I would love to see the look on the guy's face.

Speaker 5 (01:00:51):
So I don't have to use their electric collars
anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:00:55):
They'll be throwing cats over the fence.
We'll just see our car pull up.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
They'll be throwing cats over the fence.
We'll just see our car pull up.

Speaker 4 (01:01:05):
One of my patients in Newcomerstown.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
the house next to them has a really nice gray
vinyl fence.
Oh, it's very nice.
Is it like a charcoal gray?

Speaker 4 (01:01:13):
I don't know if we can get gray or not.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
Oh, it's probably, it's very nice, I really like it
.

Speaker 5 (01:01:19):
Now we put that white up halfway around.
We were going to go all the wayaround and I had this why are
you going to spend that muchmoney putting it in the backyard
?
Who sees it in the backyard now?
I'm looking at like, why didn'tyou finish it?
He's like um, I think you saidnot to waste the money he's just
trying to listen for once,listen he, he's been really good
because we've had major majorwater issues.

Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
Oh no.

Speaker 5 (01:01:43):
So the bathtub was leaking, or the plumbing to it,
and there's no way to get to it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
Is it in a crawl space?

Speaker 5 (01:01:53):
No, it was something with the shower adapter and
whatever.
But when they put that newbathroom in that bathtub shower
piece is all one and they builtit so you couldn't get to it and
Jeremy's like I don't know whythey wouldn't do it.
I said I'll tell you why,because they were older like us
and when they fixed it we're notgoing to have to worry about it

(01:02:13):
.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
Exactly Somebody else is going to have to worry about
it.
Yeah, they're like, it looksnice, but we're not going to
have to worry about it.

Speaker 5 (01:02:21):
So he ended up having to cut a hole in it to get to
it.
Got it fixed and then he brokesomething, so then it was
leaking again.
I'm having a meltdown because Ican't get my hot bath.
I soak in the tub for an hour.
I can hold on.
I said here, get this fixed.
I'm coming to your bathroomDoor's open.

(01:02:42):
So I get home and he's like thewater's shut off, it's still
leaking.
I'm like, okay, I put a bucketdown there, so just get your tub
filled, and then holler andI'll shut it off.
He spoiled me and allowed thepipes to leak so I could still
fill my tub.
That's nice, that's nice but itis fixed now.
But what a mess, and I don'twant to remodel a bathroom no,

(01:03:07):
no, we really need to get.

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
We only have you know , I wish I knew a plumber to put
another bathroom.
We need, yeah, and we have roompossibly for the bathroom
upstairs.
The only thing is is where itwould be.
Is the plumbing like it wouldhave to go through the dining
room wall, like somethingoutrageous.
You know what I mean and likeit, yeah, we can do it.
It's just going to be adisaster, like when we I don't

(01:03:34):
know, and and it's not ourforever home, so maybe, maybe,
we'll just stick it out untilthat time comes.

Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
I grew up with one bathroom with five of us.
Yeah, yeah, yeah you'll be fine.

Speaker 5 (01:03:45):
Yeah, I.
He was like, well, y'all did,we ought to just get you one of
them walk-in tubs.
He said.
Eventually he's like you're notgonna be able to get down in
the tub, you know, when you getolder, right.
And he's like if we're gonnaremodel it, we might as well do
it.
And I'm like I said that's forold people.
The more I think about it I'mthinking, oh, it's just like
your little hot tub right therein the bathroom and you get the

(01:04:06):
you can get this power jets inthat, oh yeah, and those, oh
yeah.
It'd be like a indoor jacuzzi orindoor hot tub, but if you
check the price on those, it'snot something we're going to do
this year.
I can tell you that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
Anywhere from $5,000 to $12,000, whatever you want to
spend.

Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
Well, didn't Michael say it's also like when people
sell a home like people, like adown, not a downgrade, but like
they don't.

Speaker 5 (01:04:32):
Most people.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
They're like oh yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:04:34):
My son, unless they are.

Speaker 1 (01:04:45):
If you do that, I'll never be able to sell that house
.

Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
Yeah, I'll be dead I don't care like you're still
getting money of some sort fromit or not.
Yes, yes, I'll be dead.
It'll be your problem.
You'll have to spend your moneyto remodel the bathroom before
you sell yeah oh, darn, justdon't put 30 grand in it.
Yeah, yeah, really.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
I heard someone I think I heard on the radio today
.
Someone had, like, when he was,you know, nearing the end of
life, he was figuring out hisplans and stuff for like the
funeral and everything, and Iguess he had gotten like a
casket that was like covered instickers and then, because he

(01:05:22):
wanted everyone to laugh likeand you know like, have a good
time while he's like I don'twant them to just be crying all
day and and I think they endedup putting something on the um
on the coffin that it was justlike his nickname or something.
I'm like that was kind of smart.
Like I've never really heard ofsomeone doing that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
My father-in-law wanted tomato plants Really
Instead of flowers, and you know, guybs found tomato plants.
It would not have been theseason for tomato plants.

Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
Oh my.

Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
They got tomato plants.
That's really neat For him.

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
That's cool, uh-huh.

Speaker 5 (01:06:02):
Yeah, I like that We've had a wild night from
Easter egg hunt, let's serve it.
Tomato plants Tomato plants Atthe funeral home.

Speaker 2 (01:06:06):
At the funeral home Kittens, kittens Electric fences
.

Speaker 1 (01:06:11):
We hit all the toppings.
Right, yeah, we did, we suredid, and some we always do
though.

Speaker 5 (01:06:20):
Yes, I was going to say what's any different from
tonight.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:06:23):
Last night or the night before, yeah, time before,
week before, months before,year before.

Speaker 4 (01:06:32):
Well, our podcast should show up in every category
.
It really should, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:06:38):
We just have to have that Margie moment every time.

Speaker 4 (01:06:41):
Yeah, oh, it's been a moment.

Speaker 5 (01:06:45):
Are you having to bottle feed these kids?

Speaker 4 (01:06:47):
No, Mama's doing a great job.
Yeah, she's been in the boxwith them the entire time.

Speaker 5 (01:06:52):
Are they inside or outside?

Speaker 4 (01:06:54):
They're in our downstairs bathroom.
Yep, it was the only place inthe house I could get some peace
.

Speaker 1 (01:07:03):
Now you can, now you can, I felt that the Cooper is
banging on the door because hethinks I'm brushing my teeth.
I'm like I'm peeing.
Let me go.
You'll never have a momentalone in the bathroom again, and
that's why I need anotherbathroom.

Speaker 4 (01:07:22):
So yeah, they're growing, they're doing good.

Speaker 5 (01:07:25):
He will find you.

Speaker 1 (01:07:26):
Oh, I know it will only be a matter of.

Speaker 4 (01:07:29):
I remember doing that to our mom.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
Oh Us as kids.

Speaker 4 (01:07:34):
You know the terrible thing.
What we would do is we wouldwait until she'd go in there to
get her bath and we would knockon the door and be like Mom, can
we have our snack?
And she'd be like, well, waittill we get out, and then, uh,
we'd go get a snack.
So then, when she came out, wegot another she's like where's?
All my snacks going I don'tknow if she ever caught on.

Speaker 3 (01:07:57):
She probably had to double up.
She probably, she probablyfigured it out when she figured
hey these snacks should lastlong.
You know I'll double up on themnext time.

Speaker 2 (01:08:07):
Yeah, she knew.

Speaker 5 (01:08:10):
But my dad always worked midnight so I always knew
about 12, 31 o'clock.
He was deep asleep.

Speaker 1 (01:08:15):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (01:08:16):
Whatever I wanted to do, that I would question
whether he was going to let medo it.
That was the time to ask him,because he'd tell me I could do
it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:23):
He wanted to go to sleep.

Speaker 1 (01:08:27):
Chase said the one night I was like in there in the
bathroom and banging on the youknow Cooper's banging on the
door.
And then he said he saw himlike, get down and look under
the door oh my gosh, my kids diddoor.

Speaker 2 (01:08:40):
oh my gosh, my kids did that.
Yeah, my kids did that as well.

Speaker 4 (01:08:42):
Yeah, our cats do that I got one cat.
When I'm in there he wants tobe in there and our our upstairs
bathroom it the the door warpsso it won't shut all the way,
depending on what time of theyear it is.
So and he has this thing wherehe'll get in and he he'll head,
butt the door until he gets inand it sounds like a human being

(01:09:05):
coming into the door when hefinally gets it open and once he
gets in there, you'll see himshaking his head.
Yeah, you don't care, he'sgetting in there then as soon as
he gets in, then he wants out.

Speaker 5 (01:09:20):
So just sounds like a kid that's what your kid would.

Speaker 4 (01:09:22):
Yeah, if he actually got in there with you, then then
he wants out.

Speaker 5 (01:09:27):
I had that little black cat scooby and she'd get
her little paws on the door andyou see this little black, and
she'd eventually get it openreally yeah she was cats like
chase's uh that's what I wasjust about to

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
say chase said his stepdad's one of his favorite
saying is everyone's gonna havea dog or everyone's gonna have a
kid.
Like if they show up to a joband a dog's barking, he's like
everyone's gonna have a dog.
Well, now chase starts to sayit about a kid.
I'm like's like everyone'sgonna have a dog.
Well, now chase starts to sayit about a kid.
I'm like talking about cooper,you know, like no one else's kid
, yeah oh honey, you're fun tojust.

(01:10:08):
Oh yeah, it's fun, it is fun.
He's already our neighbor kidlike um, I don't know, they're
probably four and six, I thinkthere's two girls and they're on
their bikes, you know, goingaround the church and he's like
talking about the bike, wantingto get on the bike already like

(01:10:30):
oh man does that little churchthere still have service.
They do yeah they only haveservices on Sundays, okay, um,
yeah.
I don't thought about thatchurch at all, yeah um, it's
always like the same cars andstuff there.
But like I know I see peoplemowing there every now and then,
but there's it's always thesame guy and I don't even think

(01:10:52):
he goes there.
He's, I see him mowing someother places.
Um, but yeah, they my neighborused to always be able to park
there like during the like allweek, and not I shouldn't,
because their parking lot'spretty big for how small the
church is, so they wouldnormally just park on like the
one side facing their housecompared to the church.

(01:11:14):
But they told me recently thatthey, you know, asked him just
to not park there on theweekends.
Now.
So I'm like I wonder, I don'tknow if it's new, you know if
it's new management or anything?
a new pastor?
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:11:26):
Yeah yeah, when I was a kid, my friend's grandma
lived, I think, on your streetand, uh, we would um, I think
it's the.
There was a field there besidethe funeral home, but now they
put that pool barn there.

Speaker 1 (01:11:42):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:11:43):
Well, when we were kids, we would go in that field
and we would play home run derby.

Speaker 1 (01:11:47):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:11:47):
And we would hit the baseballs across Water Street
towards the other houses on theother side.
Oh, and we would try to.
There's the one house that'sgot the balcony.

Speaker 1 (01:11:58):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah we would try to get.

Speaker 4 (01:11:59):
there's the one house that's got the balcony.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we wouldtry to get the baseball into the
balcony.
Don't ask me how we never gotin trouble.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
Yeah, but we did Were you ever successful.

Speaker 4 (01:12:07):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:12:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:12:09):
Huh, did you have the nerve to go back and ask for
your ball back.

Speaker 4 (01:12:13):
No, we probably took off running at that point.

Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
We finally did it, we did it.

Speaker 4 (01:12:17):
yeah, out of here you know slamming baseballs across
water street.
Sometimes it was tennis balls.
We used tennis balls too, youknow well, they fly a lot better
yeah, yeah, they do that wasyeah, they were a lot more fun.
But yeah, I don't know stuff weused to do, but I always
remember that church sittingthere, yes, you know, and uh,
even then I always wondered isthat you?

Speaker 1 (01:12:38):
know people actually go to which church is it?

Speaker 4 (01:12:40):
it's a little white church I think it's 11th street
no, it's a church of christ.

Speaker 1 (01:12:45):
Yeah, um back in.
That's all it says, though,like it says church of christ,
and then it has like a bulletinboard that it sits on it's.

Speaker 2 (01:12:52):
It sits on the right hand side, doesn't it?

Speaker 1 (01:12:54):
uh, if you're going down parish street, since parish
is a one way, it would be onthe left side but, like if
you're going down Parrish Street, since Parrish is a one-way, it
would be on the left side, butlike if you're going into the
main entrance of that cemeteryUnion Cemetery it's on the
corner of 7th and Parrish, liketo your left, really, really,
really small.
But yeah, now that I think ofit, I'm trying to think if I saw

(01:13:16):
any, because there's a coupleof familiar faces that I see
every sunday leaving, and or ifsomeone's picking up sticks,
like through throughout the weekthere's typically one lady
that'll sometimes go there, butI don't think I saw any of them
here for the london service.
So, yeah, well, I think wecovered it all close it up

(01:13:42):
before we get on another onewe'll try.
I'm going to try letter.

Speaker 4 (01:13:45):
B.

Speaker 1 (01:13:45):
I think it is.
I hit the button.
Okay, here we go.
That's not it.
Hold on.
Maybe it's C.
Hold on.
Do we have another margieminute?
All right, I'm just gonna cutit all right.

(01:14:07):
Dear heavenly father lord, Ijust thank you for this time
that we had tonight, lord, um Ithank you for uh us just you
know being able to go with theflow and being able to talk
about topics that we had no ideawe'd even be talking about.
I thank you that we can havethis opportunity to get together
and, you know, just sharewhat's on our mind and, at the

(01:14:30):
end of the day, just plant thoseseeds.
I pray for safe travels andpray this all in your name, amen
.

Speaker 3 (01:14:38):
Amen.