Hello,
I visited your home today because I absolutely believe that the fulfillment I have found is the solution to whatever hurt, pain, emptiness, or frustration you might be experiencing in your life. My name is Dustin Abbott.
I cannot give you a moving testimony of all that God delivered me out of, because I had my conversion experience very early…I was only five. But at five years old I recognized my need of a Savior, confessed my sins (such as they were at five!), and was filled with God’s Spirit. Three days later I was baptized in the name of Jesus for the forgiveness and removal of my sins (see Acts 2:38 in the Bible). I cannot tell you that God delivered me out of addiction to drugs or alcohol, but I can tell you that God delivered me from ever experiencing or being bound by those things. Common sense states that when you find what you are looking for, you stop looking! That has certainly been the case for me. I never felt the need to try drugs, to drink or smoke, or go “searching for myself ” in this world, because I had already found what I was looking for. That five-year-old boy is far behind me now, but I can say with absolute certainty that I have never experienced a moment when I doubted or questioned who I was or what I should be. I have found nothing but joy and fulfillment in a life dedicated to Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ stated that He was come that we “might have more abundant life.” I don’t know you personally, but I
certainly know a lot of people who would confess to having something less than “abundant life.” I believe in the power of salvation so strongly that I have devoted my whole life to telling people about the wonderful change that our mighty God can make in a life. I want to personally invite you to visit us at Emmanuel Lighthouse United Pentecostal Church and give my Savior a chance to change your life for the better.
What have you got to lose?
At Emmanuel Lighthouse you will find a friendly welcome, Apostolic worship, and Bible-based preaching and teaching. You will also find an opportunity to build a genuine relationship with Jesus Christ. We have two services on Sunday at 10:30 am and 6:30 pm and a service/Bible Study on Tuesday at 7:00 pm. We offer a full-service Sunday School on Sunday morning. If you are more interested in an informal Bible Study at home or at the church, please contact us at 735-6955 and we would be happy to oblige. I hope to see you soon!
Love and Prayers,
Rev. Dustin Abbott
Pastor,
Emmanuel Lighthouse UPC
Hello, my name is Cathie Dupuis. As a child I sensed that there was a God, and at times I would look at the stars and talk with Him. Not long after that a friendly neighbor invited me to Sunday school, and I began to hear wonderful Bible stories. Most importantly, though, I heard about Jesus, His miracles, and His love for me. But my parents did not attend church at the time, and my attendance was very sporadic. I would be out of church and into trouble, and then back into church when I felt convicted or my problems spiraled out of control. There I would beg Jesus to show me mercy just one more time and put the pieces of the puzzle back together again for me. It never seemed to last. Like many people, I only used God as a band-aid when things got out of control.
As life continued to pass me by my life and lifestyle became continually worse instead of better. I was bound, addicted, and discontent. I was also fearful because I knew my life was not right. The news and current events of the world would always draw my attention to God. I was full of fear because I knew that I was not right and I feared being lost without my Savior when He returned. But God is merciful, and when He gave me another chance on April 26, 1993, I finally gave Him everything. Following a tearful and sorrowful repentance He filled me with the baptism of the Holy Ghost with evidence of speaking in an unknown tongue just like the Bible speaks of in Acts 2. Since the moment of conversion when I really gave Him my life nothing has ever been the same!
Gone are the addictions that bound me for years, with no withdrawals. I have personally experienced His healing power in my body. I have had peace that goes beyond all understanding in times of trouble, felt joy that surpasses any worldly drug high, and I walk each day without fear for I know He is always near. The God of love lives within my heart, and I live each day with victory in my soul. I no longer fear the return of our Savior; I joyfully look for it every day! Can you say the same? Salvation is for everyone; God does not want any to be lost. Experience Him for yourself and your soul will be forever grateful!
At Emmanuel Lighthouse you will find a friendly welcome, Apostolic worship, and Bible-based preaching and teaching. You will also find an opportunity to build a genuine relationship with Jesus Christ. We have two services on Sunday at 10:30 am and 6:30 pm and a service/Bible Study on Tuesday at 7:00 pm. We offer a full-service Sunday School on Sunday morning. If you are more interested in an informal Bible Study at home or at the church, please contact us at 735-6955 and we would be happy to oblige. I hope to see you soon!
Love and Prayers,
Cathie Dupuis
“There’s got to be more to life than this!” This was my thought one early spring morning over 23 years ago. Hi, my name is Cheryl Woermke, and I would love to have the opportunity to share part of the testimony of what God has done for me with you. It all began back in March of 1984. I was just a young mother of 3 small children, married to a wonderful husband who had supported me through all the dysfunction that I had brought into our marriage. Although life was good and I had a beautiful family, there was still a void deep inside of me, a loneliness that seemingly could not be filled. A lingering discontent – perhaps you’ve felt it? For me it started at the age of 12, the year my parents parted ways and our home changed. I began to react emotionally and physically, including extreme feelings of nervousness, dizziness, sick stomach, sweating, trembling, and fear. This caused me to miss school and along the way I developed a violent temper. This baggage followed me all the way into marriage and my own family. On that fateful day this feeling finally drove me to my knees and caused me to cry out to the One I needed the most. I poured my heart out to Him, confessing my sins and opening my heart wide to Him. As I cried out to God His awesome presence completely enveloped every part of my being. I felt an overwhelming peace that drove away my depression and discontent. In just a few minutes Jesus did for me what I had been unable to do in a lifetime. I found peace and a release from the past in
Him. From that moment on I have found satisfaction and a relief from the gripping vices that kept me bound. You can have the same experience if you will give your heart to Him. I now have been attending Emmanuel Lighthouse for over 23 years. It was here that I was baptized by immersion in the wonderful name of Jesus and filled with His glorious Holy Spirit. It is here that I have learned to walk with Him and find the fulfillment my soul longed for. My prayer for you is that you too will experience the Lord for yourself and find in Jesus Christ the greatest treasure of all. So, my friend, what are you waiting for?
At Emmanuel Lighthouse you will find a friendly welcome, Apostolic worship, and Bible-based preaching and teaching. You will also find an opportunity to build a genuine relationship with Jesus Christ. We have two services on Sunday at 10:30 am and 6:30 pm and a service/Bible Study on Tuesday at 7:00 pm. We offer a full-service Sunday School on Sunday morning. If you are more interested in an informal Bible Study at home or at the church, please contact us at 735-6955 and we would be happy to oblige. I hope to see you soon!
Love and Prayers,
Cheryl Woermke
Hi there, my name is Colleen Splaine. I was born and raised right here in Pembroke. I’d like to tell you about the wonderful change that Jesus has made in my life. While growing up I went to Sunday School every week and even won many perfect attendance awards. However, when my Sunday School years were over, I made the decision to quit going to church altogether. My parents divorced and this left me feeling angry and rejected. Although my mother was very kind and loving, I lashed out and rebelled against her. I wouldn’t follow any of her rules and did what I pleased. I began drinking, using drugs, staying out all night and living a life of immorality. Many times I left the bars literally falling down drunk. I quit school. I ended up in a relationship with a drug addict. My life was going nowhere fast. I remember sitting on the edge of my bed and thinking that there had to be more to life than this. It all seemed so meaningless. Although I no longer attended church, I still felt God speaking to my heart but I didn’t really know what to do about it. We were invited to a Christmas concert at a church here in town, Emmanuel Lighthouse UPC. As I sat and listened to the songs and the children doing their parts in recitations I could feel something that I hadn’t felt before. It was the presence of God. It was the most powerful and moving experience that I had ever felt and I knew that this was the place that I could find what I needed. Soon afterwards I asked God to forgive me and was baptized in the name of Jesus and filled with the Holy Ghost (Acts 2:37-39). My life has
never been the same! That same man who had been a drug addict is now my husband of 18 years. Jesus has completely delivered him from his addictions and he is serving the Lord as well. Many times over the years God has met our needs and we’ve learned to lean on Him through every trial that comes our way. I now have a peace and joy in my heart that I was never able to find anywhere else. No matter what the circumstances in your life, Jesus is able to pick up the broken pieces and put them back together. He has a perfect plan for you.
At Emmanuel Lighthouse you will find a friendly welcome, Apostolic worship, and Bible-based preaching and teaching. You will also find an opportunity to build a genuine relationship with Jesus Christ. We have two services on Sunday at 10:30 am and 6:30 pm and a service/Bible Study on Tuesday at 7:00 pm. We offer a full-service Sunday School on Sunday morning. If you are more interested in an informal Bible Study at home or at the church, please contact us at 735-6955 and we would be happy to oblige. I hope to see you soon!
Love and Prayers,
Colleen Splaine
Burdened financially? Worried about your marriage and your family? Experiencing health problems? Stressed out on the job? Are you bound by an addiction to alcohol, drugs, gambling, pornography, or lust, to escape your problems and the general malaise of the world? Confounded by recent world events of war, disease, famine, and strange weather? Is your spiritual or religious life non-existent? My name is John Faello, and I want to tell you about the genuine answer that I have found. I have always had a spiritual curiosity, but I accepted modern society’s philosophy that everything has a scientific explanation and that religion is at best a temporary fix, and at worst a crutch for the weak-minded. I became the modern man: educated and with a “healthy” mistrust of religion and those that attempted to “escape reality” through faith. As an electrical engineer I sought answers in solid, tangible things like mathematical absolutes and physics. Along the way, however, I found that there were certain things that simply could not be explained by mathematics, science, or psychology. Worse, however, was the fact that I never found fulfillment; I remained both curious and hungry.
Although I was never bound to an addiction, I was bound to worry, stress, fear, uncertainty, and other worldly things. Ten years ago I began my journey to freedom with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. A job transfer brought me to Petawawa where my wife and I had the great fortune of renting a house right next door to Emmanuel Lighthouse. In time the pastor
invited me to have a Bible Study, which I accepted without hesitation. My intellectual curiosity turned into a hunger to know God, which was satisfied in 1998 when I was baptized in the name of Jesus. Later I was filled with the Spirit of God just as the first believers were in the book of Acts (Acts 2). Jesus Christ showed me the way to a new and abundant life that has no uncertainty naturally or eternally. I am living my life according to the Bible, resulting in much less worry, stress, and fear. I am no longer bound by anything of this world. Best of all, I am no longer hungry or searching. I have found my answer!
At Emmanuel Lighthouse you will find a friendly welcome, Apostolic worship, and Bible-based preaching and teaching. You will also find an opportunity to build a genuine relationship with Jesus Christ. We have two services on Sunday at 10:30 am and 6:30 pm and a service/Bible Study on Tuesday at 7:00 pm. We offer a full-service Sunday School on Sunday morning. If you are more interested in an informal Bible Study at home or at the church, please contact us at 735-6955 and we would be happy to oblige. I hope to see you soon!
Love and Prayers,
John Faello
Hello, my name is Karin Chang-Kue and I would personally like to invite you to Emmanuel Lighthouse United Pentecostal Church and tell you my story of what God has done in my life. I was like any young person, wanting to go away to university and see what this world had to offer me. But all that this world brought forth into my life was pain, hurt, disappointment and destruction. What I found was alcohol, drugs, a world full of lies and deceit, and pressure from society that this is a ‘normal life’ made it nearly impossible not to get drawn in. I became anxious, stressed, depressed and suffered from several obsessive-compulsive disorders. I nearly became an alcoholic thinking that it was the only way to escape the world and have a good time. I saw several doctors who thought that by prescribing drugs my problems would be solved but somehow I always knew that it would not help. Things got so bad that I even considered taking my own life to escape. I had finally gotten to the point where I didn’t think there was a decent person in this world that would think of someone else before themselves, someone who would drop everything to tell you that they sincerely cared. I’ll never forget the day that I let God begin to do a work in my life. On April 29th, 2005 I sat in a church on a Friday night and I opened my heart to God for the first time. He filled me with his wonderful spirit and I was baptized in the name of Jesus. (Acts 2 in the Bible) I’ll never forget going home that night and falling asleep, because when I woke up the next
morning I realized that it was the first night in years that I had not cried myself to sleep. Jesus had come in with his love and showed me what I was missing in my life. There was a peace I had been longing for that only Jesus could provide. Since that day I have been serving the Lord and am truly amazed day after day at the wonder of who he is. He put joy in my life and a song in my heart. If you ever want to know the source of my happiness it is because I serve a great God who is loving, caring and faithful and my only wish is that everybody could know what it’s like to have him working in their lives.
At Emmanuel Lighthouse you will find a friendly welcome, Apostolic worship, and Bible-based preaching and teaching. You will also find an opportunity to build a genuine relationship with Jesus Christ. We have two services on Sunday at 10:30 am and 6:30 pm and a service/Bible Study on Tuesday at 7:00 pm. We offer a full-service Sunday School on Sunday morning. If you are more interested in an informal Bible Study at home or at the church, please contact us at 735-6955 and we would be happy to oblige. I hope to see you soon!
Love and Prayers,
Karin Chang-Kue
Hi there, my name is Wayne Splaine. Please allow me to share my story with you. Although I grew up in a good, loving home, as a teenager I somehow made the decision to experiment with drugs. After high school I continued in my sorry lifestyle for some time, until the God of Mercy led me from disaster. At 24 years of age, I did not yet have a regular job. I supported myself with the proceeds from my crimes. One day while sitting alone, tired of my lifestyle I asked (prayed) aloud, “God if you are real, please get me out of this lifestyle.” A short time later I began to hear “read your Bible.” Unfortunately my reaction was, “what would my ‘friends’ think?” So I ignored that tug and life got worse. I became a cocaine/crack addict as well as a booze hound, and I would smoke hash like others would smoke cigarettes. I would stay awake for 3 or 4 days at a time, bingeing. I would inject cocaine and smoke crack for hours and hours. I wasted over $100,000 in about 3 or 4 months, and who knows how much over the years of abuse. Sometimes I would disappear for days. Then one day, after returning from a 2 or 3 day binge, the lovely lady that has now been my wife for 18 years said to me, “why don’t you read your Bible.” This struck me as a second chance, maybe my last chance. In the Bible, I found a God of Mercy, Grace, and Forgiveness in Jesus Christ. He delivered me from all my vices, drugs and alcohol dependence, without a single day in rehab or attending a single AA meeting! He has provided me a good wife and a beautiful daughter, now almost 20. He provided me
“new life” and has provided me with a good job. He has kept my brain remarkably intact! Jesus healed my back and neck of arthritis which I got as the result of a serious car accident in 1979. It breaks my heart now to know that so many people are hurting (physically and emotionally) and don’t know that Jesus is alive and wants to be part of their lives. The traditional churches have let people down tremendously. Look to your Bible! I can tell you that the things you will read about in the Book of Acts, do still happen today! In Pembroke you will find a church that “preaches it like it is” at Emmanuel Lighthouse.
At Emmanuel Lighthouse you will find a friendly welcome, Apostolic worship, and Bible-based preaching and teaching. You will also find an opportunity to build a genuine relationship with Jesus Christ. We have two services on Sunday at 10:30 am and 6:30 pm and a service/Bible Study on Tuesday at 7:00 pm. We offer a full-service Sunday School on Sunday morning. If you are more interested in an informal Bible Study at home or at the church, please contact us at 735-6955 and we would be happy to oblige. I hope to see you soon!
Love and Prayers,
Wayne Splaine