Christmas Kickoff

Just wanted to give an update on things at Lighthouse Church, we have been praying asking for God to help us to hit our target of reaching Un-Churched and we have been spending the last year focused on this goal to see unchurched people connecting to the church and see what God would do. In the last few weeks we have made reconnect with a rehab program in our area and have begun to pickup people to bring them to our different events and our services. And then we are having our Christmas Kickoff Weekend the weekend and we had scheduled a Movie premiere of a Veggie Tales Christmas "The Joy of Giving" and we did not know how the turnout would be to this event, on top of that we had a winter weather warning out for our area and by the time the event has kickoff we had one inch of snow on the ground with more falling.

So you can believe our surprise when we had 40 come to the event and half of those that were there were unchurched. Though we didn't have an altar call we did see seed being planted in people's lives and connecting with people that matter to God.

Discouragement can come easily and the wish of having more "church people" can consume us to the point that we go after "church" folk but in reality we are not growing we are just swelling. I have said it before but if we do not push past our comfort zone and become Missional (reaching into our culture with the Good News) then we will only reach the culture that we are comfortable with (Church folks). How many times have I been guilty of inviting church people to church things so that I would feel better about our numbers when in the end I have not really done what I have been called to do. We at Lighthouse Church are not there yet but we are headed in the right direction and we are longing to become the Church that God has called us to be!

So with that said, I would have to say that last night I could barely sleep because I was so excited. You may wonder why but last night I saw our church reaching out to our culture that God has called us to and become the church. Lighthouse Church I saw you bring, welcome and love the people of our culture that God has called us to and that makes my heart overflow!