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!
Sunday School at ILC is always a great time! We have fun with object lessons, skits, science experiments, jumpers, etc but we try to keep the main thing, the main thing… it is all about Jesus!
This week we had a great time with the kids in our relatively newly decorated classroom.
What a great time we had at the National Night Out Outreach here at a major park in Rialto! We had around 70 people from Inland Lighthouse Church at and around the booth and roaming through the park telling everyone about our church and Sunday School as well as making balloon animals, handing out ILC branded water bottles and more!
Thank you Bro Gavin Berrier and the youth department for spearheading this great night. We connected with so many people and we cannot wait to see what all comes out of it!
Today we learned all about FORGIVENESS! How WE should forgive as God has forgiven us!
Inland Lighthouse Church is blessed with great leadership! We are so grateful for our pastor and for the heritage handed down from Bishop Larry Booker and his great wife Sis. Brenda Booker.
On August 1 we celebrated the 70th birthday of Sis Brenda Booker and it was a great occasion all around. The church contributed and was able to give her an extremely nice quilting machine, brought in many of her closest friends from around the nation and then followed the service with a beautiful dinner that was enjoyed by everyone in attendance.
Thank you to Inland Lighthouse for making this moment special, it was definitely an occasion worthy of celebration. We are so thankful for the blessings God has given us!
This year’s Peak conference will forever be remembered as one of the most life changing conferences. The magnitude of being surrounded by over 5,000 young people was not lost on our young people. This year, ILC Momentum had a group of 70+ young people attend the youth conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a record number to date. Each and every one of them with complete abandon worshipped God, not caring who might be looking. Not one young person walked away from Peak 2021 without having at least heard one thing from God.
Each night was filled with activities for our young people, and laughter could be heard all around and they participated in wholesome fun. New acquaintances and even friendships were forged at Peak in fellowship at the Mabee Center, John’s Incredible Pizza, and at Golf Suites. While the fellowship was wonderful, it was the services that ILC Momentum will remember the most.
Peak was kicked off Wednesday night with a powerful message preached by Bishop Holmes entitled, “We Will Not Sit Down.” Our young people met the challenge posed by Bro. Holmes, paving the way for the messages to come. Thursday Morning, Rev. Jeremy Wilbanks taught on the importance of the Word, and the depth at which it truly stretches; His word is meant to be prayed, spoken, and spread. Thursday evening, Rev. Cornelius Williams preached, “The Finisher”, in which he urged those who feel the pull of two kingdoms to choose life and not heartache which inevitably comes with choosing the world. His testimony left the entire arena in tears and deep prayer. More than one heart was turned toward God that night. Friday Morning, we heard from our very own Pastor who preached, “The Son in the Shadows.” The tears streaming down our young peoples faces as they felt the call to step out, leave fear behind, and serve God in whatever He may have them do was a sight no one could forget. We thank God for our pastor! Rev. Nathaniel Urshan closed out Peak 2021 with a message to all the God-Lovers. Oh, Theophilus, stand strong in this perverse generation – the hour is dark, but His light still shines brighter. He urged the entire stadium packed full of young people to find a prayer room, a fresh concentration, and an even stronger resolve in these last days to withstand the wiles of the devil. Each sermon flowed into the next one, laying the foundation for what was to come, ending with a call to bring it all home.
We know that our young people’s lives were forever changed and are expecting the fruits of this to be seen in the great revival that’s coming here at home at Inland Lighthouse Church, and on into the Inland Empire.
We are so very proud of each and every one of our bible quizzers that participated this year learning the Word of God.
Many of them went to the national tournament and placed in the top 4 teams of the nation in their divisions! Great job everyone!
Big thank yous also to our incredible team of coaches that made this happen and to every parents that pushed their children toward success in this wonderful endeavor!
In an effort to reach our community, Inland Lighthouse Church does outreach each Saturday in a variety of ways. Our Sunday school and bus teams go out regularly to get new families to Sunday school and in addition to this each CareGroup in the church takes turns doing the same.
These outreaches take on many forms ranging from door-to-door inviting people to church to phone call outreach to free car washes but most recently we had 2 consecutive Saturdays where we did a water bottle giveaway. Each time we replace the label on the bottle with a customized Inland Lighthouse label. As you can imagine this took some time so thank you to the teams that were able to get together to make this happen!
Following this, on Saturday, 1st the Ingroup and then the Forever group loaded these bottles and ice chests and went all over the city to distribute. They went to grocery store parking lots, city parks, busy intersections and more and gave away around 500 bottles of water.
In the past we have had people attend our services and even received the Holy Ghost and be baptized from this type of outreach so we are expecting God to do great things as result of these efforts! Thank you to everyone that contributed.
The 4th of July is always an exciting time in our nation and especially at Inland Lighthouse Church!
Sunday morning started off as it generally does with Sunday School for all ages although on this particular day, we did a rotating breakout style of classes where we had an object lesson area, a game area, song area and a skit area. The kids moved between the sessions until they had attended all of them. It was different than normal but an exciting change of pace where we learned all about the freedom that we have in our nation and the freedom that we have in Jesus!
Following that we had our worship service and then everyone went home for a couple of hours but around 5 PM or so everyone started gathering back together. On the the big grassy area beside the church there was a big tent set up with tables, chairs and a sound system and we had several hours of eating and fellowship before it got dark.
Once the light began to dissipate, things got much more exciting. We had an area in the grass where everyone could set off their legal fireworks while all around us it seemed as if the world was exploding. All of Rialto it seemed, had purchased every form of pyrotechnics manufactured and intended on shooting them all off in a 2-hour span. It was truly unbelievable.
Those that attended can attest it was a fun time we hope to see you all next year!
Men in Training was created to teach our boys, ages 8 – 11, to become stalwart, responsible, and yes, physically and mentally tough men. Some of the MIT activities include mud football, camping, fishing, snow trips and other character building events but this time we went camping. There were young men and adults of all ages joining in the fun this time with the young boys headed up by Bro Baltie Lozano, the Pathfinder contingency by Bro. Caleb Pierce and many accompanying parents and friends.
We went to Thousand Trails campground in Idyllwild where the boys were able to truly be boys. They rode bikes like madmen all over the mountains, went hiking, played games, caught frogs and catfish, learned how to rig poles and fillet fish. They even got to sample their catch that night.
Thank you to everyone that made this great event happen. Join us in this annual event next year!
