About Us

Pastor John Foster

My name is John Foster. In 2014, I felt the Lord lead me to start a ministry that would be the base for what would come next. Since then, we have had the opportunity to pastor a small church and have seen great things come from following his lead. God has opened the way to share the Gospel beyond our borders and has allowed us to see lives change around us.     

I thank and praise Him for lighting our path to the next opportunity to minister. Our goal at Lighthouse Ministries Worldwide (LHMW) is to reach a lost and dying world with the love and joy that the Kingdom of God brings. God wants to richly bless those who love him and keep his commandments (John 14:15).     

God has laid a deep desire for revival and awakening in our message to his church. As we carry the message to the lost, we also hope and want to strengthen our brothers and sisters in Christ. We love and support those we have already met and look forward to extending our ministry to others.    

We worship! As we get things up and going here at LHMW we will include messages and worship here on the site and we would love to come and share in your community.  ​ 

Finally, as we continue forward, please contact us if the Lord is leading you to. God is putting our steps in front of us and we wait for his pointing. I look forward to serving wherever the Lord leads. IN THE NAME OF JESUS!

Statement of Faith

We believe that the Holy Bible is the inspired and true Word of God. It is valid and perfect from the beginning to the end. We hold the Bible as the standard of all authority and truth. The Holy Bible is the basis of all teaching and practices in our body (2 Timothy 3:16).

There is only one God (1 Corinthians 8:6)! He is infinite but exists in three persons (Genesis 1:1). God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19). These three persons align and coexist in perfect unity and are God (1 John 5:7). 

1. Jehovah

God the Father is Spirit (John 4:24). He is Perfect and Just in everything. He is Perfect Love (1 John 4:16). He gave and created perfect order for His creation Genesis 1. He cannot look upon evil (Habakkuk 1:13) and no temptation comes from Him (James 1:13). He desires His creation (man created in Our image) (Genesis 1:26) to know Him (1 Timothy 2:3-4). He desires for us to have blessings (Matthew 19:29), and live an abundant life (John 10:10) here in the present, and for an eternity with Him. He is a just God (2 Thessalonians 1:6-8). He is just to bring wrath on those who choose sin as a way of life. God does not change (Malachi 3:6). He has no beginning or end (Psalms 90:2). He always was and always will be. He is sovereign (Colossians 1:16) and everything will come as He has planned. He authors all grace and mercy (Hebrews 4:16). He is all that is good (James 1:17).    

2. Jesus

God the Son is God incarnate (John 1:14). Jesus was fully man and fully God. He was the perfect image of the invisible Father (Colossians 1:15). He was born by immaculate conception though means of the Holy Spirit by a virgin mother Mary (Luke 1:34-35). God the Father sent His Son Jesus to earth to bring about His plan of redemption (John 3:16). Jesus lived a sinless life (2 Corinthians 5:21). He was obedient even to death on the cross (Philippians 2:8). He bore the sin of the world on the cross (1 Peter 2:24), and was resurrected by his Father to overcome death (sin) (1 Peter 1:3). He then ascended (Mark 16:19) to the right hand of the Father (Acts 7:55), and is given the name above all names (Philippians 2:9). He is our mediator to the Father (1 Timothy 2:5), and He is the only way to be saved (John 14:5-14). He is the righteousness that God the Father demands for entering His presence (Jeremiah 33:15). 

3. The Holy Spirit

God the Holy Spirit is the power at work in us today (Acts 1:8). When Jesus ascended up to the Father, He then sent the Holy Spirit to empower His followers (Romans 15:13). We as the ecclesia are indwelled with the Holy Spirit. It then guides us, teaches us, and empowers us (Mark 13:11, John 14:26). We receive the Holy Spirit when we receive Jesus as our Savior (1 Corinthians 3:16). The Holy Spirit carries out God the Father's plans through us and we are to become led by Him. The scripture tells us that the person indwelt with the Holy Spirit is indwelt with God (1 Corinthians 3:16).

Salvation only comes through faith in Jesus Christ (Romans 6:23). We cannot earn or work our way to the Father (Ephesians 2:8-9). God's sovereign plan of redemption is laid out perfectly in His divine Word. From the moment that man fell from grace, God put in motion a plan to redeem His loved creation (Romans 5:21). When we hear the Good News and choose to receive it we must humble ourselves before the King of Kings. We first repent for our sin, that is to turn toward God sorrowfully. Then we must understand and receive Jesus’s death on the cross as our sacrifice before God the Father (1 Corinthians 5:7). We then receive His (Jesus’s) righteousness on us. We then ask God the Father to indwell us with His Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38). At this point we confess Jesus as our Lord and Savior, believe in hearts, and receive His Grace (Romans 10:9). We do all of this by faith. God's word says that those who do this and trust in Jesus will be saved (Ephesians 2:8-9). We understand that we are born again to a new creation in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17). We now are forgiven of our sin and are made right before God the Father (Romans 5:9, Ephesians 1:7). Jesus then mediates our relationship with the Father.

Grace is a gift that only comes from the Father (Romans 3:24). When we trust in Jesus for our righteousness, we receive grace. Jesus is that grace (Romans 3:22)! We are no longer under the law but are under grace (Romans 6:14). God the Father is Just in that He will keep His laws. His ways are not our ways (Isaiah 55:8-9). What He says will stand! All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). Therefore, His laws say we are to receive condemnation and wrath. But God so loved the world that He sent Jesus to atone for us (John 3:16). God had a perfect and divine plan to bring us back to Him. When we trust in Jesus we are no longer to receive wrath, but receive undeserved favor (grace). We also see the term grace used for the Holy Spirit giving us the tools and things we need to carry out God's work. He graces us with the things we need (Hebrews 4:16).

The Church is the collection of those who have heard the Gospel and received salvation Romans 8:14. As people that trust in Jesus we are a transformed and born again body that seeks the ways of God (Romans 12:1-2). We understand and live the ways of His Kingdom. We look forward to our blessed hope when Jesus will receive us in the air. At this time believers both who are in the grave and those who are still alive will go to be with Him (1 Thessalonians 4:17). The bride of Christ is both Jews and Gentiles; it is all those who trust in Jesus as their Savior (Galatians 3:28)!

Deeds are the works that we do, good or evil (2 Corinthians 5:10). If we are born again, we then will bear good deeds (Matthew 7:17). They alone cannot earn us salvation (Ephesians 2:8-10). Good deeds are a result of salvation---not the other way around. 

Gifts of the Holy Spirit are real and active today (Joel 2:28). We believe that we should seek the gifts (1 Corinthians 14:1) and that the Holy Spirit grants them as He sees (1 Corinthians 12:10, Ephesians 4:11). We believe that all gifts should be used and exercised in the structure that God has placed in His divine word. Paul gives us a complete picture in his letters (1 Corinthians 13:1). We believe the gifts are as follows: word of wisdom, word of knowledge, faith, healing, miracles, prophecy, discernment, tongues, and interpreting of tongues (1 Corinthians 12:8-10). Also, service, exhortation, generosity, administration, and mercy (Romans 12:6-8). Also, God places some as Apostles, prophets, pastors and teachers 1 Corinthians 12. We believe and understand that God gives these things to whom He chooses, and we must not usurp His authority. Everything must be done in prayer and intercession with the Holy Spirit. 

Love is the key to all things in the kingdom of God (1 Peter 4:8, 1 Corinthians 13:1)!  

Holiness is how we choose to live. We believe that we are to live lives of holiness. We are to be Holy because God is Holy (1 Peter 1:16, Leviticus 11:44-45). We become holy (set apart) when we are born again (1 Corinthians 3:16). Our trust in Jesus immediately sets us apart from the world. As we walk out, learn, and understand God's divine word, we should apply His holy ways to our lives (1 Peter 1:15). Living a life of holiness is for our blessing. It is not our way to salvation, but it is a result of trust in Jesus (Hebrews 12:14).

Jesus tells us to spread the good news. The good news that He is the savior to the world. We believe that we are to be about sharing God's word wherever He puts our feet on the ground. It's our desire to carry the Gospel to the ends of the earth by whatever means it takes. We seek and pray for opportunities to open for us to do this. With the Holy Spirit leading and grace, we are ready to respond (Matthew 28:18-20).