Introducing Pastor Sandy

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Married over 34 years to Ken, Sandy Stevens is mother to three grown men and grandma to a fiery, red-headed grandson.  An ordained minister with the Apostolic Church of Pentecost, Canada, she actively served alongside the late Pastor Doug Ross as Assistant Pastor of the Lighthouse for several years.

She has been involved with Youth Ministry, Children’s Ministry, Women’s Ministry, Christian Camping and Education, as well as Missions. With a certificate in Human Resources from Fleming College, her career background includes employment services, human resources, hospitality, wellness and business.

Sandy is best known as an authentic, compassionate, biblically-grounded and Spirit-led pastor, mentor and communicator. She and Ken thoroughly enjoy hosting guests at their Bed & Breakfast and together, have a passion for sailing!

Time to hit the reset button?

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While much of the world seems in tumult these days with COVID-19, racial, and political issues screaming from our computers and TV screens daily, many of our own personal issues predate this time. Unless we decide to ‘hit the reset button’, they will most certainly remain, and follow and plague us into the future, Pastor Doug reminds us.  It may well be, he says, high time to consider and take seriously the wondrous promise of God from 2 Chronicles 7:14:

“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”

A fine “formula of sorts” for hitting the re-set button! Just click below for the message.

Sunday July 5 sermon (by Pastor Doug Ross)

The tale of two sons

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After focusing on the father in the story of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-24) in his Father’s Day message last week, Pastor Doug now delves deeper into the life of the older son. We must understand, he says, the difference between living for God and living with God … and the awesome truth that if you live with Him, you will certainly live for Him. As always you’ll enjoy a few enlightening PD meanderings along the way!

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Click below for the sermon:

The tale of two sons (by Pastor Doug Ross)

The Farmer's Grace

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I recently heard a story about a visiting pastor invited to a men’s breakfast in the middle of a rural farming area. The group asked an older farmer, decked out in bib overalls, to say grace before they all dug in.

“Lord, I hate buttermilk,” the old fellow began. The pastor opened an eye to glance at him, wondering where this might be going.

“Lord, I hate lard!” the farmer loudly proclaimed. Now the pastor was growing concerned.

“And Lord, you know I don't much care for raw flour,” he went on, without missing a beat.

The pastor once again opened an eye to peer around the room, and noticed many of the other men shifting in their seats uncomfortably.

“But Lord,” the farmer added, “when you mix them all together and bake them, I do love them warm fresh biscuits.

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“So Lord, when things come up that we don't like, when life gets hard, when we don't understand what you're saying to us, help us to just relax and wait until you are done mixing and baking. It will probably be even better than biscuits. Amen.”

How about that for great, down-to-earth wisdom worth considering when it comes to complicated situations?

While we find ourselves in a mix-up of so many things we don't, like the farmer, ‘really care for’, as we pray, trust and believe surely—as surely as God is God—something good will result.

We can’t know when or how, but “we [do] know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose” (Rom. 8:28).