After a year off in 2020 due to the chaos in our world, HarvestFest 2021 at Inland Lighthouse came back with a BANG! We had 2,812 people attend, over 1,200 pounds of candy distributed and many, many great contacts made with members of the community! If you were there you know the excitement that was in the air as over 1,300 people came in in the FIRST 30 MINUTES!
There were 20 game booths, pony rides, a petting zoo, a huge bounce house, inflatable connect 3, a mechanical bull, Sunday School stage for all kinds of fun, many food booths and the farmer for a day area. We had so many quality volunteers that everything was covered with some to spare!
Next year, we are looking for church families of ILC that are willing to have a bit more ownership in harvest, to create a game booth of their own! Come up with the design, create a game and decorations, set it up and run it! If you are interested, please contact Phillip at [email protected] for more information!
Thank you to everyone that made this year’s HarvestFest the best one we have ever had!
Kids Revival at Inland Lighthouse was nothing short of spectacular! The decor was over the top, the games in the foyer were incredible, the fun and games were off the charts but much more importantly, the spirit of God that followed in the altar calls was just incredible!
We had 3 children and 2 adults get the Holy Ghost and we are just so exciting for what God is doing!
We are blessed with a church that believes in their children, with a pastor with a heart for the church of tomorrow and a team that is able to put events like these into practice!
Sunday School is alive and well at Inland Lighthouse Church. This last Sunday we had a great time both on bus ministry and in our classrooms with children from our local church as well as many picked up throughout the surrounding communities.
The theme of the day was families. That your family does not have to be perfect for you to make it living for God. We use examples from the Bible of families that were far from perfect that still were able to do great things for God.
We want to say a big thank you to all of our bus drivers, bus workers, every Sunday school teacher and helper and those that do the work that sometimes is not recognized from check-in to running the Sunday school store to campus security. We cannot thank you all enough for your dedication to these children! Heaven alone will show the impact of your labor.
Sunday night, October, 10, 2021, marked a special moment at ILC when the discipleship class had their formal graduation.
Discipleship class is a series of weekly 1 hour sessions, quizzes, assignments and projects and presentations teaching everything from personal ethics to doctrine along with evangelism, first hand bible study teaching and more!
The testimonies abound about how this experience has changed the lives of the participants already and with this type of foundation there is no telling what God can do with these great people!
A huge thank you to Bro Preston Brown for heading up this endeavor and making it a reality. I would not have happened without your passion, burden and leadership.
The men’s meeting put on by Southern California Commission sponsored by so many great brethren across the southern half of our state once again was an incredible time! There are many hundreds of like-minded men gathered together to worship, praise and learn from two anointed men of God.
Pastor Joel Buxton and Bishop Jimmy Shoemake preached that will have lasting changes on everyone in attendance. The worship led by Pastor Joshua Winkler was incredible and the altar call that followed the service was powerful.
After the services were over we went to the fellowship hall where we were able to enjoy one another’s company as well as some incredible fajitas cooked by sis Marcella Thomas and her team. Thank you to everyone that made this event a reality.
The ILC choir was blessed to have Bro. David Howell from Indiana as our guest choir clinician. Starting on Tuesday and going through Sunday, he worked with the music team and vocalists as we learned seven brand new songs. Thank you to the musicians and choir for all of the hard work! God met with us on both Friday night at SoCal Sings and on Sunday night. Thanks for letting God use you!
Judah Effect 2021, our annual music workshop, was incredible! We had almost 200 registrants and eight anointed clinicians who shared practical and spiritual knowledge about worship and the effect of our praise. Multiple churches from California, Arizona, and Indiana were represented.
Bro. David Howell encouraged us to strive for excellence. Sis. Lorraine Bertram asked where the minstrels are and charged us with seeking the anointing and remembering that we are God’s vessel to minister to His Church. Bro. Josh Winkler spoke to us about “Crippled Hands, Closed Mouths” where he instructed us to not “let the voice of your adversary be louder than your voice. Your mouth needs to be bigger than your enemy’s mouth.”
We were also blessed by Sis. Erica Marxer who taught in Children’s music and administrative apps that help organize a music department, Sis. Kacey Lynn Clark’s vocal expertise and a rhythm class taught by the talented Bro. Seth Clark and Bro. Gentry DeCosta. In the songwriting class facilitated by Sis. Jana McVay, there 4 new songs birthed about God meeting us in the shadow.
A special thank you to the Judah Effect staff: Marissa McVay, Jessica McVay, Ashley Bennett, Lora Winkler, Alexis Dukes, Amanda Thomas, Billy Blair, Justin McVay, Joyanna Blair, Delaney Reighard, Darilyn Reighard, Frances Vasquez, Liz Machuca, Sabrina Tirado, Gracie Tirado, and Alexis Lomeli.
Family day at Inland Lighthouse was another great time of fellowship, food and fun. Yes, it was brutally hot being well into the triple digits and most everyone was either hiding in the shade and in the water slide but despite the weather, we had a great time!
The service was slightly different than anticipated with Bro Zack Wells from Jena, LA, not being able to attend due to the impending hurricane but God was not surprised. Evangelist Andrew Howard was able to step in and deliver a profound word from God! There were many visitors there, two received the Holy Ghost for the first time and several prayed through. God was good.
Following the service there was food for all with pulled pork sandwiches, chips, and more provided. Activities were available between the mechanical bull, a water slide for the kids, basketball, volleyball and more.
All in all, it was a great day! Thank you to everyone that attended and for everyone that pulled together to make this great day happen. Families days take place every time there are five Sundays in a month, so check your calendar and get ready for the next one (hopefully, that one won’t be so hot?).
Last Sunday morning we had a Holy Ghost service which is where all of the classes from the toddlers up to the college and career gather together in the Spanish sanctuary and have church. Yes, we do still make it fun and exciting initially by singing action songs, giving various attendance awards and this time bus rider of the month and student of the month awards for each route and class but then we just had church! Powerful, Holy Ghost filled church!
We had Bro Andrew Howard preached the sermon and he pulled no punches as he talked to all of our kids about the importance of being ready to go to heaven! And the kids responded. The altars were full of children praying and soon there were kids receiving the Holy Ghost and being renewed all across that sanctuary. We had some of our bus riders that we had not seen in a long time pray back through to the Holy Ghost, and three young people were filled for the first time!
We are so thankful for everything that God did and is going to do! We know He’s not done yet. Help us pray that He continues to help us fill up our buses and to see the children of the Inland Empire one by one live for Him!
Vacation Bible school is always a great time for the children of Inland Lighthouse and our community. From Wednesday night through Saturday of this last week (August 11 – August 14) we had around 100 kids and many volunteers gathering each night to teach our kids yet more about Jesus!
The theme this year was Treasured telling the kids that they are precious and valuable to God. There was a Bible story area, a craft area, an area that talked about missions and of course the refueling station or where the kids were fed each night. The children were broken into 4 groups and they traveled between these 4 areas and then gathered before and after at the central stage where they sang songs and had yet more fun! Saturday night capped off vacation Bible school with a great service where many children were praying the altars!
Thank you to every child that attended, to every parent that made it a priority and brought them each night, to our incredible team of volunteers that made it happen from set up to registration and making every night work and last but not least thank you to sis Alex Flores who headed the whole thing up.
We are grateful for the emphasis that Inland Lighthouse Church places on its children! They are absolutely the church of the future!
Even though our lives are fast-paced, the Forever Fabulous group realizes the importance of slowing down and taking time to be with members of “like precious faith”. This welcoming group of individuals, ages 40 – 54, meet several times a year to enjoy each other’s company in various types of get-togethers and times of fellowship.
One of these times was held recently where they had an outing where they went up to Arrowhead, hung out, at good food together, went shopping and overall just had a lot of fun.
This group is headed up by Galen and Lori Decosta (A-C), Randy and Rhonda Lee (D-L), Jerrod and Nicole Rowell (M—R) and Ricky and Kim Moore (S-Z). If you want to find out more about some of the events that go on, contact any of these people and they will be more than happy to assist you. Additionally you can email us at [email protected] and we will get you all the info you need!
