Thailand and Myanmar Missions (Day 5)

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]After a long week of teaching, Tim and I are finally coming home. At this point in the week, both of us are mentally fried. The good thing is that we have no preparation to do on the plane. So you know what that means? Yup, sleeping and watching endless movies to unplug our heads. […]

Thailand and Myanmar Missions (Day 4)

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Hi Everyone, Today we completed our longest day of counselor training, almost seven hours of teaching. Tomorrow morning we have one more session and then we begin our long journey home. Thank you for remembering us in your prayers. We praise God that through your prayers he enabled us to train these brothers and witness […]

Thailand and Myanmar Missions (Day 3)

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Last year we gifted the pastors with The Pastor and Counseling by Jeremy Pierre and Deepak Reju. After sending a picture of the pastors with this book to them, Tim shared that Jeremy Pierre responded with this: “Our best efforts are not worthy of these precious pastors.” A fitting statement that would ring true even […]

Thailand and Myanmar Missions (Day 2)

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Hi Everyone, I hope your week is going well. It’s hard to believe that we finished up our counselor training in Thailand today. In just two short days God has allowed us to cover what would normally take 8 months in our Lighthouse counselor training: Intro to Biblical Counseling, Process of Change, Process of Counseling, […]

Thailand and Myanmar Missions (Day 1)

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Pastor Tim St. John and Pastor Mathieu Pau are currently training local church leaders of Thailand and Myanmar in the area of Biblical Counseling. Here’s the first of several updates about their missions trip.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Greetings from Chiang-Mai! On Friday night we began our trip with the first leg of our flight to Hong Kong. Somehow […]

Ministry Highlight: Men’s Retreat 2018

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]From January 18-20, 2018, 93 men from our church gathered at the Oaks Camp and Conference Center for our Men’s Retreat! It was a blessed time of worship, fellowship, and sitting under the teaching of God’s Word. Pastor Jojo Ma led us through the theme of “One Life,” encouraging us to use our one precious […]

Reflecting on Women’s Retreat 2017

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I had never been to a women’s retreat before coming to Lighthouse. And even though I didn’t know who Marlean Felix personally, I had heard so many good things about her that it made me excited to meet her and learn under her teaching. The topic of this year’s retreat was “Walking through the Psalms”. […]

Christmas Advent: Family Devotionals

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Hi Lighthouse Church Family! If you are wondering about possible resources to work through this Advent season, here are two helpful and comprehensive studies for you and your family to use in the month of December to reflect and celebrate the birth of Jesus! (1) Good News of Great Joy. This is a resource put together by […]

Grades as Idolatry

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]An idol, as we’ve talked about often here at Lighthouse, is anything that we worship instead of God. Idolatry is misplaced worship. Tim Keller writes that an idol is “anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give what only God can […]

Grace on the Path of Neediness

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Who was it that sang the words, “People. People who need people. Are the luckiest people in the world”? I didn’t make that up, did I? Well, in any case, I am a person, who needs another person. Whether I like it or not. I’ve always been someone who LOVED being needed. But someone who […]