Lighthouse Ministry Outline

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The Lighthouse Ministry has a North Central Ohio base and it was started in the 1980s as a ministry that took the church into Cleveland, Ohio ghettos when no one else would dare enter these neighborhoods. When things got difficult Lighthouse stayed there, even times when shots were actually fired around the workers and pastors. Growing up with the office of this ministry in the church that my grandfather pastored was a privilege. The main portion of the Lighthouse Ministry is Heaven Train. “Lighthouse Ministry is on a mission to help the youth of Cleveland, one neighborhood at a time” (About, 2018). The founder battled for years with the Nazarene Church to recognize the Heaven Train as a church because it did not have a building. A description of what volunteers do with Heaven Train is “the morning team will follow the bus to three of the project sites where volunteers entertain and love the 700+ children as they wait to board the bus, hear a bible teaching, and receive a meal” (Heaven Train, 2018). …show more content…

“We believe teaching a child how to fish rather than continually providing him with fish will equip him with the knowledge and skills that will continue to sustain him and improve his future” (About, 2018). Feeding children both physically and spiritually is incredibly important. The neighborhoods in Cleveland have changed in the last 30 years. Concepts that the Lighthouse Ministries need to adapt into is Online Media (p. 276), Identifying Strategic Issues (p. 180), Developing Strategies (p.

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