Program areas at Lighthouse Gospel Mission
Lighthouse Gospel Mission through operation hope we distributed 1.4m pounds of food impacting approximately 21,800 families. Additionally, lgm partnered with 54 ministries to distribute food in the local communities. The Lighthouse remnant thrift store assists the community by making used goods, clothing and furniture available at affordable prices. Proceeds support the Lighthouse Gospel Mission, faith home ministry and operation hope. To provide additional support to the 3 programs listed above, the taste of freedom food truck was introduced in may.
Lighthouse freedom center church over the course of 2022, lfc shepherded and tended to the spiritual needs of 1,080 individuals on average, monthly thorugh 2 weekly services. Additionally, in many weekly services we led people to christ for the transformation and restoration of their lives, families and communities. We performed countless baptisms, baby dedications and conducted new members' classes. Additionally, we served our community by performing marriage ceremonies and pre-marital counselling. We had 6 fellowship meetings through our women's group and 6 meetings through our men's group. We also sent out 12 evangelism teams throughout the year. Additionally, we supported other minitries, outreaches, and individuals in various ways. All these actions focused on sharing the Gospel of jesus christ and were successful in doing so.
Faith home ministries in 2022, approximately 40 men and women resided on grounds in our residential treatment program. There was an average of 43 volunteer chapel speakers coming monthly to minister to the faith home. Throughout the year, individuals successfully completed the 18 month discipleship training program. These graduates have experienced complete restoration of their lives, restoration to their families, many resuming their roles as mothers and fathers to their children, and have experienced restoration to society through the intimate relationship with jesus they developed in the faith home program.