Lighthouse Veterans Ministry

04/05/2026

Oakwood Baptist Church you never disappoint. Thank you for showing up at 4:30am on Easter Sunday to pray with and send our sister Lailah Rice.

As a reminder if you have a Solider, Sailor, Airmen, Marine, Coast Guardian or member of the Space Force traveling through Charleston on the way to or back from Military service we want to be there to send them or welcome them home. Please reach out so we can be there to support and surround them with Christ’s love.

Have a blessed Easter!

04/04/2026

Tomorrow is Easter and as we remember all that Christ has done for us and the fulfilled promise of our salvation. Let us not forget that we have brothers and sisters in service to our country. Tomorrow we have an opportunity to praise and to pray with our friend Lailah Rice as she leaves for US Army training. We will meet at CRW airport at 4:30 am to pray with her before she goes through security. Think of this as our own sunrise service at the airport where we send our friend out in service of our country surrounded by prayer. Reach out to Matthew Childers with any questions we hope to see you there for the send off of our dear friend and where Will will prayer for our brothers and sisters in Christ deployed throughout the world. We will meet right outside the front doors and you can park in short term parking. Hope to see you there and Happy Easter! He is Risen!

03/06/2026

2026 Veterans Art Show In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of our nation, the West Virginia Department of Tourism has announced the

03/05/2026

Reminder to please pray for all of our troops currently deployed. We have a lot of West Virginia’s deployed currently all over the world and country it’s important that we lift them and thier families up in prayer. I challenge everyone to pray at 11:11am and pm today. We choose 11:11 as a homage to the end of world war 1. We pray for safety security and for peace for them and thier families.

02/01/2026

11/27/2025

We are praying for our brothers and sisters in the WV National Guard. We ask everyone to join us in prayer.

05/27/2025

05/26/2025

Happy Memorial Day! I encourage each and everyone of you to enjoy this day, make sure you take the time to reflect on that fact that this Day off from work has been paid for.

Often times I would share John 15:13 however yesterday in our sermon we were reminded of the full context of this verse. Not only is this day paid for in the blood of those who died in service of this great nation, but the example given here is of Christ and however everything has been given up for us.

““As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. This is my command: Love each other.”
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John‬ ‭15‬:‭9‬-‭17‬ ‭NIV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/111/jhn.15.9-17.NIV

As we reflect today I encourage to share the memories you have of those who we honor today. I will be posting here some of the Heroes I remember every day. I encourage you to share the same. The greatest way we can honor them is to remember them and continue to embrace the life we have been called to serve in. Not to look at this as a punishment or failure that we lived, but remember that this was the greatest gift one could give us and in the same example of Christ our brother and sisters laid down thier lives. Embrace that gift and make sure to honor it by sharing it with the world.

“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have to

05/26/2025

What an amazing opportunity to pay our respects and reflect.

Participate in the Flag Retirement Ceremony this Memorial Day (May 26) to honor those stories and the veterans behind them. Join us at the Donel C. Kinnard Memorial State Veterans Cemetery from 12- 2 PM.

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04/15/2025

Let’s help out our brothers and sisters in the 201st it’s amazing how far a little treat can go!