2014

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As another amazing year closes, I am excited to share with you

some of the highlights of 2014. I am overjoyed at what God has

done through you and your generous support this year. I am

grateful to each of you for sharing your time, talent and treasure

in building His kingdom.

This year will be remembered as the first year of Kidz Dayz, a

summer day camp for the children of Bacliff and San Leon. It was

amazing to be able to spend 24 days encouraging and sharing the

love of Christ with 173 children this summer. It was also the

inaugural year for the Get Together– Bay Area which we were

proud and blessed to part of. The Get Together has been a great

opportunity to engage and partner with some of the finest in our

business community.

Lighthouse Christian Ministries and myself are so grateful for the

staff members and volunteers that God has called and given the

opportunity to share His love everyday through the work they do.

They build relationships and share in the joys and struggles of

those that walk through these doors everyday. Please join me in

praying for them to be equipped with his Love and Grace.

Thank you for being Kingdom Builders with us at LCM.

Warm Regards,

Erika M. Steele

Erika Steele

Executive Director

2014 Board of Directors Chuck Gussler, Chairman

Glen Cullinane Terri Lera

Paul McElroy Karl Newmann Dr. Paul Torre

Dr. Dave Vanderweide Susan Wesley

LCM is grateful to have received

$22, 914

in grants this year from these funders!

Income

Resale Shop - Revenue $ 125,285

Resale Shop - Expenses $ 97,941

Net Resale Income $ 27,344

Donations- Benevolence $ 123,119

Lightkeepers $ 163,004

Grant Income $ 22,914

Annual Fundraiser- Revenue $ 117,442

Annual Fundraiser - Expense $ 38,012

Net Fundraiser Income $ 79,430

Other Income $ 6,087

Total Income $ 421,898

Operational Expenses

Building Operations $ 37,767

Administration $ 41,299

Personnel $ 59,204

Total Operational Expenses $ 138,269

Benevolence and Outreach Expenses

Personnel $ 97,837

Outreach Projects $ 46,414

Benevolence Financial Assistance $ 33,668

Medical/Dental Ministries $ 25,216

AOG Assistance $ 2,509

Food Ministries $ 11,794

Educational Scholarship Program $ 21,301

Total Benevolence and Outreach $ 238,739

Net Surplus/Deficit $ 44,890

Kidz Dayz Summer Program Kidz Dayz, a summer day camp, launched in the summer of 2014!

During five fun-filled weeks, LCM had the opportunity to minister to

170 children. The children participated in praise and worship, hip

hop lessons, art projects, sports and recreation, cooking and healthy

eating classes, and music and drama classes.

35% of kids

utilized

Kidz Dayz

transportation

1703 healthy

lunches were

served

49% of kids

attended more

than 9 days of

camp

786 Backpacks distributed (partnered with MI Lewis)

220 Thanksgiving baskets distributed

33 Teens participating in Christmas Teen Time

536 Children receiving gifts through Greatest Gift Shoppe

Seasonal Outreach

Partner Spotlight: Network Cabling Services The NCS family is dedicated to giving back to their community. For the last several years,

NCS has been a sponsor of LCM’s Annual Celebration; but this year they continued to give

back through the Holiday season. For Thanksgiving, NCS owners Mark and Lori Veltri

teamed up with Lighthouse Christian Ministries (LCM) to make

sure that area families could sit down together and give thanks

over an abundant table of food. NCS employees donated 1000-

plus items and NCS completed the dinner with a gift card for

the turkey to fulfill 93 Blessing Baskets. Their generosity didn’t

end there! Just a few weeks later for Christmas they organized

a toy drive to support LCM’s Greatest Gift Shoppe.

In Style Limo transports

participants of Teen Time

Scholarship

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for Life 101

LIFE 101

GED

GED tutors with a recent

graduate

Mentors, students and their families

gathered to celebrate a successful

semester

11 Students enrolled

8 Scholarship Mentors

42 Hours of college credit

1 New graduate, Tracy Culbreth

272 Hours of GED Instruction

68 Students Attended Class

64 GED Classes held in 2014

5 GED Volunteer Tutors

In continuation of our efforts to build

relationships and assist our neighbors in

need with getting back on their feet, LCM

launched Life 101. In this mentoring

program participants identify their core

strengths, gifts and abilities and better

define and strengthen their personal,

spiritual and financial goals.

Life 101 is lead by Shar Owens,

Director of Program

Development

2nd Saturday Celebrations

8 CHURCHES

HOSTED 2ND

SATURDAYS

LCM was able to expand

the pantry program to

include giving perishables

including dairy and frozen

foods/meats.

An average of 283

people received food

assistance each

month at 2nd Sat.

Monthly “Food Fairs” are

hosted at KE Little to

distribute fresh produce.

Each food fair distributes

10,000 lbs of food .

LCM is the recipient of

all Red Barrel

contributions at

League City’s new HEB

LCM Food Programs

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Households Served through Food Programs

Pantry Food Fair 2nd Saturday

181 Households assisted with a utility payment

123 Households assisted with rent

56 Households received clothing

282 Office visits

90 Hours of medical care provided

18 Clinics hosted

8 Medical Clinic Volunteers

Benevolence Ministries

Medical Ministries In 2014, a partnership was

established with Christus

Foundation to bring free flu shots,

cholesterol and gluclose

screenings to our community.

Volunteer Spotlight: Carol Newell In reminiscing about Kidz Dayz, Carol Newell said, “I will never forget one

young girl who told me ‘I have not had one boring day here’ …that really just

says it all.” Carol volunteered to help daily with Kidz Dayz. Serving as a

games coordinator, bus assistant and kitchen crew she truly was a living

example of compassion and service for the children at camp.

Carol is a Bacliff resident and has been both a client and a volunteer with LCM throughout her time

within the community. The camp, Carol explained, “was so well organized that it was amazing at

times…to have so many different projects going on

and the children getting the opportunity to do each

one of them was awesome.”

Kidz Dayz allowed Carol, and numerous

volunteers, an opportunity to let their light shine

in while, in many cases, changing children’s lives

through the sharing of the Word, presence of love

and the outpouring of support.

56 Kidz Dayz Volunteers, 1000+ Hours

30 Monthly Food Ministry Volunteers

75 Seasonal Outreach Volunteers

25 Fundraiser Committee Members

3 Weekly Pregnancy Center Volunteers

2014

Lighthouse Christian Ministries is a non-denominational

Christian Outreach mission dedicated to assisting our

neighbors in need. LCM provides emergency financial

assistance and food for short term help, along with

educational programs for long term help. We are dedicated to

serving each individual with respect and love, through Christ.

Our Mission

Serving our neighbors in need in Galveston County since 1997.