Lighthouse Baptist Church
is a Southern Baptist Church with
reformed doctrine. Lighthouse started
with a bible study and prayer time in our pastors home in the summer of 2001.
January of 2002 we began to rent a conference room at a local hotel for Sunday
morning services and Sunday School, with
Sunday and Wednesday evenings continuing in our pastors home. In December of that year our membership
looked at a store front in a small strip mall. After having seen the property we told the owner we would
have to pray about it. As we sought God’s will we knew He would have to provide the
money for us to rent the space. When we checked our PO Box the next day we
found a check the exact amount of the first months rent and security deposit.
Believing that to be God’s answer to our prayers we rented the space.
Believing God was leading
us to move to the Saint George
area, a small community east of Manhattan about 6 miles, we purchased
approximately 30 acres of ground about 2 miles north west of Saint George. In the mean time we lost our
lease in the strip mall in May of 2006. At this point Trinity Baptist Church who was
our sponsoring church offered to share their building with us. We began
making plans to build on our land,
meeting at Trinity on Sunday mornings
and evenings and in the Saint George park on Wednesday evenings. As we continued to plan for building we
received word that
the elementary school in Saint George was being put on the market. Our membership and some of the leaders of
Trinity looked at the property seeing everything we wanted to build was already
there and the building was considerably less money than to build and it was in
the center of town we felt that God would have us purchase the property. So we made our offer and when the new school
was completed we closed on the property on October 1st of 2008. One month earlier
we constituted and became an
official autonomous church. By the first
Sunday in October we were in our building worshiping and praising our Lord
Jesus Christ.
Once in our new campus
we continued to serve the one who had
laid down His life to pay the sin debt of all who believe. It is our desire to
make much of our God by seeking out and
revealing His Awesome Glory. In doing
so, we started the outreach arm of Lighthouse and named it “The Beacon Center
Mission”. We know that we are so very blessed to be a part of what God is
doing. You can visit our web page for The
Beacon Center Mission at… http://www.beaconcenterlbc.org/
If you would like
more
information about what we believe please click on the Beliefs link to the left
in the navigation bar. May the Grace of
the Almighty God be upon you and your family.
Pastor Jim Lowry
