Welcome to Lakeview Church!

Well over these last 5 months life has not stood still here at Lakeview. We have had three different families involved in international missions work in Guatemala, Tanzania, and one young sister moving monthly worldwide. Hearing the encouraging reports from each have been uplifting and gratifying. It is wonderful to be able to support the work of the ministry in prayer and finance of these willing ministers.
We have seen our Sunday School take on the commitment of a permanent foster child in Tanzania. Our kids and their teachers have worked hard to provide support through a free will offering lunch, in- house pop bottle collection and tithes and offerings. We all enjoyed our annual Sunday School picnic at the end of June where we honoured our committed Children’s teachers and helpers as well as enjoying team competition and water balloons.
During these last months we have also been in prayer and pursuit of a permanent Pastor couple to carry on the work here at Lakeview. We have finally found the couple that God selected for us this last month. We are pleased to announce that we will be receiving Brian and Lisa Dean of South Africa to our church as soon as they are able to relocate. God has really proven his faithfulness to us as He directed this couple all the way from South Africa to this beautiful Central B.C. location. We are excited to see what this next season will bring.
We have also had to say goodbye to several good families that have relocated. It is always a happy/sad occasion when friends, that are more like family, leave this nest. We continue to pray that each one will give themselves faithfully to the next church that God plants them in. We look forward to seeing what God will do in lives that are changed by new circumstances.
We have also seen our congregation grow with the addition of two more babies since the New Year. I’m also happy to report that I will be a grandma again in late winter.
I want to thank the Lord and the people of our Lakeview family for their support, encouragement, and compassion during these last eight months since I assumed leadership as Interim Pastor. God really is exceedingly awesome in all that he has enabled and anointed during these days. I was taught early in my Christian growth that God will anoint you to serve and that He prepares thoroughly those He will use for His glory. I have felt the continual prayers of many believers who have been committed to sending to the Lord Jesus, since my husband Stew’s death. I want to especially thank Pastor Mike and Moe Rosenau of Terrace’s Rock Christian Fellowship for their endless hours of good counsel and ministry. They have really lived out their call to assist and further the Kingdom of God through helping other churches in their time of need. Their church has willingly made them available to us as a free ministry of their Church.