| | In 2017, Ohm self-published ''Cool Waters to Thirsty Souls: Letters to Missionaries from Pastor Don Ohm,'' a short anthology of letters of encouragement that he has penned over the years to missionaries worldwide.<ref>Don Ohm, ''Cool Waters to Thirsty Souls: Letters to Missionaries from Pastor Don Ohm,'' Lulu Publishing Services, 2017, pp. vii-86, ISBN 978-1-4834-6795-5.</ref> | | In 2017, Ohm self-published ''Cool Waters to Thirsty Souls: Letters to Missionaries from Pastor Don Ohm,'' a short anthology of letters of encouragement that he has penned over the years to missionaries worldwide.<ref>Don Ohm, ''Cool Waters to Thirsty Souls: Letters to Missionaries from Pastor Don Ohm,'' Lulu Publishing Services, 2017, pp. vii-86, ISBN 978-1-4834-6795-5.</ref> |
| − | On June 10, 2018, Ohm announced to the congregation that he will retire as the Lighthouse senior pastor at the end of May 2019, by which time he will have led the church for twenty years. On January 20, 2019, in a 95 percent vote of the membership, Lighthouse church called the Reverend Gregory Robert "Greg" Kern (born September 20, 1965) as Ohm's successor. An [[Ohio]] native reared in [[Florida]], Kern is the founding pastor of Faithway Baptist Church, an independent congregation, in Elk Grove in Sacramento County, California.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/gregory-kern/gregoryrobertkern|title=Gregory Kern|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=January 28, 2019}}</ref> | + | On June 10, 2018, Ohm announced to the congregation that he will retire as the Lighthouse senior pastor at the end of May 2019, by which time he will have led the church for twenty years. On January 20, 2019, in a 95 percent vote of the membership, Lighthouse church called Gregory Robert "Greg" Kern (born September 20, 1965) as Ohm's successor pastor. An [[Ohio]] native reared in [[Florida]], Kern is the founding pastor of Faithway Baptist Church, an independent congregation, in Elk Grove in Sacramento County, California.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/gregory-kern/gregoryrobertkern|title=Gregory Kern|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=January 28, 2019}}</ref> |