Lighthouse Church hosts Christmas meal

A Christmas dinner was hosted earlier this month by Lighthouse Church.

Lighthouse Church opened its doors and welcomed the community to a meal Dec. 7.

The King St. church hosted 60 people for a meal in the church’s sanctuary. Pastor Adrian Ninaber said the church welcomed everyone from the community to the dinner and wanted to meet new people and families as well as parishioners.

Ninaber stated they are using the sanctuary now more than the community space, as there are stairs to get to the latter and they want people with accessibility issues to better enjoy services and community programming.

“By getting rid of the pews, it makes it more of a multi-purpose room,” he said. “It’s much nicer.”

There are other benefits as well, Ninaber indicated.

“The sound is so much better,” he said of the sanctuary, compared to the community room.

To convert the sanctuary into a multi-purpose space, Lighthouse Church sold the pews and Ninaber said they will use the proceeds to donate to Matthew’s House in Windsor.

“We thought it would be a great way to bless that ministry,” said Ninaber.

The conversion from pews to chairs had to take place quickly, as Ninaber and other church volunteers had to act quickly and unbolt the pews and transport them out to make room for the chairs. The chairs arrived about one week before the dinner.

In addition to dinners, Ninaber said they can use the sanctuary for seminars, events and other purposes.

Lighthouse Church hosts Christmas meal

By Ron Giofu