Agape Center
Reflecting God’s love by giving of ourselves and our resources as we submit to the leadership of the Holy Spirit to mentor and help individuals turn or return to a Christ-centered life.
The Center provides services by appointment to eligible clients in the Roanoke, Vinton, Salem, Montvale, Craig County, and Botetourt County communities.
Their services include:
- Christ-Centered Mentorship
- Food Pantry, through Feeding Southwest VA partnership
- Provides clothing, housewares, and furniture to clients as donations allow
TLOT
The Least of These Ministry (TLOT) is a non-profit organization that strives to make a positive difference in the lives of the homeless community in the Roanoke Valley. Its mission is to meet men and women living on the streets and serve them with spiritual, physical, and emotional support in the name of Jesus Christ.
TLOT provides the following services:
- Assists in finding and securing affordable housing
- Addresses immediate needs on the streets through their ministry truck
- Allows unsheltered friends to take a shower at the facility
- Provides machines for unsheltered friends to wash & dry load of laundry
- Provides temporary use of covered lockers for their belongings while at facility, at work, or tending to other personal needs
- Provides a “warming bus” on nights when temperatures are below 40
Wickies Ministry
The Wickies Ministry’s focus is helping the Lighthouse Church Family’s physical needs. This is for people who have become unable to perform certain duties, such as common maintenance on their homes or around their homes due to unforeseen circumstances, age or disabilities.
What is a Wickie?
A Wickie is the keeper of the wicks for the light in the lighthouse. As Wickies, we help keep our church family’s light bright by helping them with their needs.
A Wickie is the keeper of the wicks for the light in the lighthouse. As Wickies, we help keep our church family’s light bright by helping them with their needs.
Visitation Ministry
We exist to make our elderly & shut-ins feel loved and appreciated. We stand on God’s Word to show them hope and faith through love and kindness.
Purpose:
- Providing fellowship to the home-bound, shut-ins and others who can’t physically make it to church
- Giving spiritual well-being, emotional strength and physical abilities of our elderly
Rescue Mission
The Rescue Mission of Roanoke is a comprehensive crisis intervention center for men, women, and children. They have been offering life-saving services aimed at transformation and restoration for 75 years.
Their services include:
- 3 hot meals served 365 days a year to anyone
- Manna Food Pantry, through Feeding Southwest VA partnership
- Overnight Emergency Shelter
- Medical services & feet washing provided by Fralin Free Clinic
- 12-15 month drug recovery residential program
straight street
The mission and purpose of Straight Street is to provide a positive Christian environment where at-risk youth can go and obtain the necessary skills and training needed to mature and to discover God’s Divine plan for their lives. the church lot. Our ministry exists to give people a positive first experience before service even starts.
Services & Programs they provide:
- Inspire Girls after school group
- Youth Mentoring
- Parent Life for teen and young moms, dads and babies
- Downtown Prayer Lunch for the community
- Prison Fellowship Angel Tree
- Saturday Nights fellowship for students 6th – 12th grade
- UpStream Mens Group for Young Men 18-25
- The Lampstand human trafficking ministry
Teen Challenge
Eastern Appalachian Teen Challenge for Adolescent Girls takes a holistic Christ-centered approach to helping young girls, ages 12 – 17, exhibiting at-risk behaviors.
Their services include:
- 12 month residential program
- Provides a on campus private school education with individualized education plans plus tutoring
- Ranch-style housing helps girls learn to have healthy friendships in a positive peer environment
- Helps restore family relationships
- Extra-curricular activities that foster a strong work ethic, like community service and physical activity
get involved with our local missions
Jeanene Rankin
Lighthouse Local Missions Leader
Lighthouse Local Missions Leader
Pastor Ovides Suprema
Candlestick Orphanage
Maissade, Haiti
We have partnered with Candlestick Orphanage and Pastor Ovides to ensure the orphaned children in need around Maissade have food, clothing, a safe place to sleep, and the soul-saving Word of God. To date, we have helped the mission by directly funding a new orphanage building, sent food to the children when the Haitian government became chaos, and have helped fund a much needed well.
Randy & Gwen Ashcraft
Peace Workers' Journey
Thailand, SouthEast Asia
Randy and Gwen Ashcraft have been in the mission field since their marriage in 1997. Randy is a 3rd generation missionary with years of experience, and Gwen's dream of being a Pastor's wife was fueled by the inspirational influence she received as a young girl. Their mission journey that started in Mexico has since brought them halfway around the world, developing new Christian outreaches and ministering to persecuted Christians.
Gabriel OcampoIndependent Baptist mission to Asians
Philippines & SE Asia
The Ocampo family has been in the mission field for years, ministering to the communities of SE Asia, specifically within the prisons. He leads a church currently under construction, delayed by the difficulties of the pandemic.
Luis & Dinora Martinez
Impacto Ministry
Guatemala
The Impacto Ministry mission is to "get the word out into the [Guatemalan] community that 'something good is going on' and 'somebody is here who cares.'" By serving local communities through providing physical, emotional, spiritual, and educational needs, Impacto's team vision is to bring the salvation, hope, healing, and peace of Christ to as many people as possible.
Costel & Lili Burlacu
Alpha & Omega Baptist Church
Craiova, Romania
More info coming soon...
Rick & Janet Via
World Reach Partnerships
Haiti, Uganda, Myanmar, USA
With a vision to partner with churches throughout the world, Rick and Janet Via seek to work with local indigenous communities to advance the Kingdom of God. To-date, they have preached in nearly 50 countries, and have experienced the privilege of planting new churches, training pastors, and seeing thousands of souls being saved.
Cary & Reny Clifton
International Pastoral Training
Worldwide
With a desire to help oppressed and marginalized people, Reny found a refreshed purpose with new opportunities when she met and married Cary. Together, with the help of their team, they are determined to equip pastors serving in challenging circumstances through strategized, unique training. Cary is passionate about addressing the needs of the minimally educated pastors of the world.
Marvin & Landrie HEathTrans World Radio
International Broadcasting
Trans World Radio seeks to spread the Gospel through media, currently 190 countries and translating into over 300 languages. As part of the TWR staff since 1982, Marvin & Landrie Heath have been used by God in many different ways serving in many different positions. Landrie currently serves as receptionist, and Marvin now serves as an audio technical consultant, studio manager, and producer of both radio programming and music.
get involved with our missions
Chris Fitzgerald
Missions Elder
Missions Elder
