Greetings Lighthouse Inc., Church Family,

On behalf of myself, and the members of the Lighthouse Inc., Church.  I want to wish you and your families a very Happy Independence Day.  Please enjoy this special day in the history of our country.  There is a lot to be thankful, but I want to highlight the freedoms that we as Americans have.

There is no other place on earth where we can celebrate our God, join together in fellowship with one another when we choose, and not have the government dictate how we worship.  On this day remember what the Founding Fathers of our country wanted for us. 

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Thomas Jefferson

“I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure it will cost us to maintain this declaration, and support and defend these states. Yet through all the gloom I see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is worth all the means. This is our day of deliverance.”

John Adams

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”

Thomas Paine

“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right? and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.”

John Adams

““…whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

Thomas Jefferson

On this day, remember what God provided for us.  He was the one who led the Founders of this Nation to do what they did.  May America always remain free from the tyranny of a strong oppressive Government.  Thank you, God, for giving us 244 years of freedom.  May you continue to bless us and grant us another 244 years.

In Christ,

Pastor/Evangelist Barbara Lynch