Living Water Ministries began with a hand full of people, called of God to do His work. The vision of God’s call to work has been clear from the beginning: to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, to minister to the sick, the wounded of heart, the poor and afflicted, to be an instrument of God in bringing unity and harmony in the body of Christ in our community and to provide a place of refreshment and ministry to pastors and other ministers of God and to be a house of prayer. It has always been our heart and our call to first and foremost minister to God and touch his heart, sending a sweet aroma up before His throne.
In July of 1984, Living Water Ministries began renting a storefront building on Main Street and started giving out clothing and food to the needy, as well as holding a Bible study on Friday nights. In February of 1985 we held our first Sunday morning service and in March of that year purchased the building we had been renting. By the spring of 1988 our congregation was out growing the facilities, so we purchased a three acre tract of land on the north end of Eolia and built a 7500 sq. foot church building on it. During this time we sold our storefront building and a church that had been struggling in a neighboring town dissolved and joined us.
Since then we have experienced times of refreshing from the Lord and times of warfare. Times of faith building and times that have tried our faith but God has always been there and has never forsaken us. Pastor Gene Nothaker went home to be with the Lord on Jan. 30, 2005 and Pastor Tim was set into place shortly after. God is moving like He has never moved before and doing things that He has promised for years. Things that He promised to Pastor Gene and Anna and the hand full of people who started the church are coming to pass and God is doing it in a way that only He will get the glory and honor and He is doing it through the body of the Church. It is exciting to see the hand of God moving and know that the next 20 years will be better than the last. |
