Goodbye to Main St.
Well, it’s official. We had our last Sunday service at our Main St. facility in downtown Twin Falls. I don’t know if it was just me, but I felt a very special sense of the presence of the Holy Spirit as we launched into our 242 series and then worshipped with just an acoustic guitar leading the way. I’m so grateful for all the Lord has done on Main St.
How about you? Do you have any special memories from Lighthouse Main St. you would like to share?
See you at Eastland,
g
Posted by Greg Fadness on September 8, 2008
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13 Responses to “Goodbye to Main St.”
oh wow…. so many to choose from… hmmmmm, i guess my biggest memory or memories…. is the big day that i didnt know it was a big day…. january 2001….
i dropped of my new little baby to the nursery downstairs, and was walking by doreen nickens, for whom i didnt know very well, and i overheard her saying that her and brian were going to start a church in jerome…. we live in jerome, i stopped and said …”what?” she said it again…. i turned to jason, i said.”lighthouse is starting a church in jerome’… his jaw dropped, and he grabbed my hand and said “we have to find brian, right now!” and the adventure began…. i was sad in the following weeks to know twin was going to be in our past and jerome was our future….
but god showed me that being a pew potato was over, it was time to dig in and work…. and how we worked!!!! that nasty grocery store was converted with our and others, blood sweat and tears…. and then to serve for the next 7 years… making the greatest friends out of the nickens, the ryders, the schumachers… and many many others….
now i sit here and think wow, again… we are finishing up the process of moving to twin, and we are ready to make that ‘new’ start again… back into the fold of lighthouse, in twin….
i look forward to the new building and what it has in store for us all!!!
heidi
Special Memories of Lighthouse Main Street? My daughter’s wedding…. her friends weddings… the youth dramas on the RAW stage before the sanctuary was built….and of course… who could forget the trusty blue porta-potties lined up at the back of the sanctuary. Fun times.. doing LIFE togehter as we build a church… :o) seems we certainly have a ministry of construction.
Golly, we were around back at the first meeting in Harry Barry Park. What a long way we’ve all come. Our memories stem from a sunny day in the park to meeting in schools to finally having a “home” in Kimberly where it was “sooo big we’d have one wonderful service together in our own building!” It’s where my hubby and I got married. The sheetrock dust was a charming addition to the ceremony, lol! And after it got a bit too ‘cozy,’ getting so excited to move to Main Street because it was “Soooooooooo much bigger” that we could go to one service! LOL Sounds sort of familiar as we head to our newest home. It has been quite an adventure…
I remember the day we were trying to put up the I-beam that is in the sanctuary, in front of the stage. We had it going up to set on top of the posts, when one after another the chains broke, ping, ping, ping. A cut or two but no serious injuries and the beam didn’t go through the floor. Praise God.
Jerry
what i’ve learned is that no matter where we are. in twin, kimberly, or jerome. the location doesn’t matter. we are family, and i lllllloooovvveeee!!!! my family. i could get really gooshy, but i will spare you. God sent me to jerome to preach to the ninevites. but when i can i come home to light house. i guess the best memories about main is the same as kimberly the times i spent with all of Gods wounderful people. stubbing our toes, and scraping our knees. learning to be less like me, and more like him. i cant wait to see whats next!!!!!!!
love God hate sin. Clay
susan that is so funny i do remember the porta-potties. do you remember watching Left behind for the first time there. c.s.
hey clay any way you can elaborate on this staement…”God sent me to jerome to preach to the ninevites”….????
just curious,
heidi
Yeah, actually I had forgotten the left behind deal…. I remember thinking to myself that I would miss the sanctuary in Kimberly because of so many special, intimate times of personal growth there with close friends, hearts one in the Spirit. Now, I find myself wondering the same thing. Will I feel this kind of close intimacy in a larger body of believers when we worship, hearts bound together by the Holy Spirit in such a large, open and unfamiliar sanct…. er… auditorium..? Guess God is preparing me for heaven…
Too Many wonderful Memories to count. All of them make me miss it Oh so much.
But so excited to see what’s coming in the future and glad to still be “part of the Fam”
The memories at Main Street are so many for me personally. But as I consider those memories I always realize that what the memories are about are the same things that make any church building “Holy”, it’s inhabitants.
Ultimately my memories are of all of the people. Some are still with us and some are ‘temporarily out of service’ for us as they have already gone home with the Lord.
Churches aren’t to be edifices, they are for the edification of those who come there. Mega Church or Home Church the reality of it’s ministry is people, that’s the part that our Father has ordained to be with Him forever.
My memories of Lighthouse TF, whether in Kimberly, on Main Street, or Eastland, are precious to me because God’s people and God’s work is precious to me.
Our past and our memories are valuable because in part they define who we are today (wow I just flashed on the relativity of our classic car ministry here – Chariot Chasers) and how we approach the 2 kinds of people in the world; the Saved and the un-saved. But I am so uber-blessed, stoked, and red-lined for your new digs! Because it is so easy to ’settle on the lees’.
Greg, remember when we visited the American Baptist church in Shoshone?
Congratulations for moving on!
Agape, Ken
p.s. That I-Beam really was something. What a time for Greg and Ted to show up. We sure had a lot fewer volunteers and spectators a week later.
heidi
i had areal hard time leaving kimberly, i was born, raised, and i have always lived there. so when we went to buy a house. the only place we could find one in our price range was jerome. my exprescion about ninevites was not about the people. it was about me kicking and screaming about having to move out of my comphert zone. when we moved i kept going to light house, but God has been working on me to be a part of my community here in jerome. also to be involved with our sister church here. i love our church body here, but i miss being with the church body there. so like jonah im whining. but the people of my church here make it so much easier. so i hope i didn’t offend any one from jerome.
clay,
no you didnt offend me or anyone!!! i was just curious about your heart… i had the same experience when the lord called us to help start the jerome church (we were living in jerome but travelling to twin to worship)… i dug in, but with kicking and screaming… god soon changed my heart, and i fell in love with the people of jerome, with jesus’ heart of servanthood….
but you never know the future! we are now called back to twin…. even to the extent we are selling in a horrible market to sell, and buying a place in twin…. so we look forward to worshiping again in the home church of twin!
thank you for taking the time to write back, and i will be praying for you, and those in jerome… i have alot of great memories tied to that place… and you will be blessed by the people!
blessing to you my brother!
heidi
heidi
thanks! i am really liking my brothers and sisters here. i am starting to see the mission. that the Lord has for me here, and i am not going to try to fight it as a matter of fact im trying to imbrace it. we are going through a disciple ship traing course and it is awesome. i want to be worrier for Jesus and i am learning so much here. im being challenged to step out and get off my couch potato life. it’s so cool to see all the things that are happening with light house and calvary. the church of the one and only real God has been asleep to long. im praying and thanking God for people like jerry, bruce, susan, and you trying to win souls out of false doctrines. keep up the good work. until he comes
your bro in Christ
clay dogg