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Lighthouse maintains access on its website to Pastor Ohm's sermons, which he delivers twice on Sundays at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., and Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Most are just over a half hour in length. Selected sermons from the fall of 2015 included "The Dividends of Excellent Choices", "When God Judges a Nation" (series), "Remembering Mercy", "Righteousness and Loving Your Neighbor" (series), "Sharing My Faith", "The Blessings of Persecution", and "Being Like Jesus". Nearly seven hundred sermons are accessible.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lighthousebaptistsanantonio.org/sermons|title=Sermons|publisher=Lighthouse Baptist San Antonio|accessdate=October 24, 2015}}</ref> A former parishioner describes Ohm as one who "digs deep into what the Word says and telling how it can be applied to our own lives."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://richardstwoshekels.wordpress.com/tag/don-ohm/|title=The Zowie Family searches for a church, Part I|publisher=richardstwoshekels.wordpress.com|date=May 6, 2010|accessdate=October 24, 2015}}</ref> | Lighthouse maintains access on its website to Pastor Ohm's sermons, which he delivers twice on Sundays at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., and Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Most are just over a half hour in length. Selected sermons from the fall of 2015 included "The Dividends of Excellent Choices", "When God Judges a Nation" (series), "Remembering Mercy", "Righteousness and Loving Your Neighbor" (series), "Sharing My Faith", "The Blessings of Persecution", and "Being Like Jesus". Nearly seven hundred sermons are accessible.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lighthousebaptistsanantonio.org/sermons|title=Sermons|publisher=Lighthouse Baptist San Antonio|accessdate=October 24, 2015}}</ref> A former parishioner describes Ohm as one who "digs deep into what the Word says and telling how it can be applied to our own lives."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://richardstwoshekels.wordpress.com/tag/don-ohm/|title=The Zowie Family searches for a church, Part I|publisher=richardstwoshekels.wordpress.com|date=May 6, 2010|accessdate=October 24, 2015}}</ref> | ||
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Jordan Michael Potter (born 1980)<ref name=jordpot>{{cite web|url=http://www.intelius.com/results.php?ReportType=1&formname=name&qf=Jordan&qmi=M&qn=Potter&qcs=Converse%2C+TX&focusfirst=1|title=Jordan Michael Potter|publisher=intelius.com|accessdate=October 24, 2015}}</ref> is the current Lighthouse assistant pastor, the church song director, and the youth leader. A native Texan formerly from Rockwall in suburban [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]], he also plays several musical instruments.<ref name=staff>{{cite web|url=http://www.lighthousebaptistsanantonio.org/staff|title=Staff|publisher=Lighthouse Baptist San Antonio|accessdate=October 24, 2015}}</ref> He formerly lived in Pensacola, [[Florida]]. He and his wife, Jennifer Margaret Potter, have six children and reside in Converse in Bexar County, Texas.<ref name=staff/><ref name=jordpot/> In February 2016, Timothy Donald "Tim" Schoenrock (born c. 1990), a former youth camp counselor who grew up in Lighthouse Church, was named youth pastor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lighthousebaptistsanantonio.org/staff|title=Tim Schoenrock|publisher=Lighthouse Baptist San Antonio|accessdate=March 7, 2016}}</ref><ref>Lighthouse has four active [[deacon]]s, Dale Lee Barish, Bradley Joe James, Juan Pablo Rodriguez, and Jeffrey Schoenrock.</ref> | Jordan Michael Potter (born 1980)<ref name=jordpot>{{cite web|url=http://www.intelius.com/results.php?ReportType=1&formname=name&qf=Jordan&qmi=M&qn=Potter&qcs=Converse%2C+TX&focusfirst=1|title=Jordan Michael Potter|publisher=intelius.com|accessdate=October 24, 2015}}</ref> is the current Lighthouse assistant pastor, the church song director, and the youth leader. A native Texan formerly from Rockwall in suburban [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]], he also plays several musical instruments.<ref name=staff>{{cite web|url=http://www.lighthousebaptistsanantonio.org/staff|title=Staff|publisher=Lighthouse Baptist San Antonio|accessdate=October 24, 2015}}</ref> He formerly lived in Pensacola, [[Florida]]. He and his wife, Jennifer Margaret Potter, have six children and reside in Converse in Bexar County, Texas.<ref name=staff/><ref name=jordpot/> In February 2016, Timothy Donald "Tim" Schoenrock (born c. 1990), a former youth camp counselor who grew up in Lighthouse Church, was named youth pastor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lighthousebaptistsanantonio.org/staff|title=Tim Schoenrock|publisher=Lighthouse Baptist San Antonio|accessdate=March 7, 2016}}</ref><ref>Lighthouse has four active [[deacon]]s, Dale Lee Barish, Bradley Joe James, Juan Pablo Rodriguez, and Jeffrey Schoenrock.</ref> | ||
Revision as of 16:58, August 8, 2016
Donald D. Ohm, known as Don Ohm (born August 8, 1947), is an Independent Baptist pastor in San Antonio, Texas, who since May 1999 has led the Lighthouse Baptist Church, located at 10400 Broadway Avenue west of Interstate Loop 410 and northwest of the San Antonio International Airport.
Biography
Ohm was reared in rural Latimer in Morris County northeast of Wichita in east central Kansas. He graduated in 1965 from White City High School in White City in Morris County.[1] As a child, he attended the Lutheran Church but voiced his personal faith in Jesus Christ after reading a gospel tract in 1966, while he was serving in the United States Navy at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.[2] Ohm has been a clergyman for more than four decades in the United States and Canada, having held previous pastorates in St. Paul, Minnesota; Redwood City and San Mateo, California, and Longmont, Colorado.[3] From 1968 to 1970, he studied at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas; from 1972 to 1974, at Hyles-Anderson College,[4] which is operated by the First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana, a large Independent Baptist congregation. He also did pastoral studies at Louisiana Baptist University in Shreveport, Louisiana, dates of attendance missing.[3] Despite his educational credentials, Ohm told his congregation that he was really a graduate of "the school of hard knocks," and he criticized the state of education at many theological seminaries. Such institutions, he said, have fallen under the influence of Calvinism, which discourages the biblical call for missionary work.[5] Indeed, Ohm himself completed in the spring of 2016 a three-week mission trip to the Philippines[6] and a second week-long trip in the summer to Honduras. Lighthouse Church financially supports more than thirty foreign missionaries, including those in Mexico City, Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea, and Albania.
Ohm and his wife, Deborah Dee Ohm (born 1949), a Lighthouse church pianist, married in 1969. They have three sons, Nathan (born 1973) of Denver, Colorado; Peter (born 1975) of San Francisco, California, and Philip (born 1980) of Newton Center, Massachusetts.[7][8]
Lighthouse Baptist Church, which uses only the King James Version of the Bible, was launched in July 1991 by several families meeting in homes. On May 31, 1992, the church was formally organized with thirty-eight charter members. Lighthouse congregants are of diverse race, ethnicity, ages, and backgrounds.[9] Lighthouse Church men hold visitation on Monday evenings at the San Antonio Rescue Mission. The church hosts an annual picnic and maintains a circulating library.[10] The church reaches out to military personnel at Lackland and Randolph Air Force bases, Fort Sam Houston, and Brook Army Medical Center.[11]
Lighthouse maintains access on its website to Pastor Ohm's sermons, which he delivers twice on Sundays at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., and Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Most are just over a half hour in length. Selected sermons from the fall of 2015 included "The Dividends of Excellent Choices", "When God Judges a Nation" (series), "Remembering Mercy", "Righteousness and Loving Your Neighbor" (series), "Sharing My Faith", "The Blessings of Persecution", and "Being Like Jesus". Nearly seven hundred sermons are accessible.[12] A former parishioner describes Ohm as one who "digs deep into what the Word says and telling how it can be applied to our own lives."[13]
Jordan Michael Potter (born 1980)[14] is the current Lighthouse assistant pastor, the church song director, and the youth leader. A native Texan formerly from Rockwall in suburban Dallas, he also plays several musical instruments.[7] He formerly lived in Pensacola, Florida. He and his wife, Jennifer Margaret Potter, have six children and reside in Converse in Bexar County, Texas.[7][14] In February 2016, Timothy Donald "Tim" Schoenrock (born c. 1990), a former youth camp counselor who grew up in Lighthouse Church, was named youth pastor.[15][16]
Ohm is also a sales representative for Life Vantage of Salt Lake City, Utah, the marketer of the dietary supplement protandim, which claims to slow the aging process. Formerly, he was a founding distributor for HealthyChoice Marketing, a brand of ConAgra Foods, Inc.[4]
References
- ↑ Don Ohm (Class of 1965). classmates.com. Retrieved on November 8, 2015.
- ↑ Donald Ohm sermon, "Has Righteousness Changed", August 16, 2015.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Donald D. Ohm. intelius.com. Retrieved on October 24, 2015.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Don Ohm. linkedin.com. Retrieved on October 24, 2015.
- ↑ Don Ohm, "The Wake of Awakening", April 17, 2016
- ↑ Don Ohm, "The Wind of Awakening", April 10, 2016.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Staff. Lighthouse Baptist San Antonio. Retrieved on October 24, 2015.
- ↑ Nathan Ohm. mylife.com. Retrieved on November 8, 2015.
- ↑ Featured Church: Lighthouse Baptist. KSLR Radio. Retrieved on October 24, 2015.
- ↑ Ministries. Lighthouse Baptist San Antonio. Retrieved on October 24, 2015.
- ↑ Independent Baptist Church Locator for Texas: Pastor Don Ohm. militarygetsaved.tripod.com (October 1, 2015). Retrieved on October 24, 2015.
- ↑ Sermons. Lighthouse Baptist San Antonio. Retrieved on October 24, 2015.
- ↑ The Zowie Family searches for a church, Part I. richardstwoshekels.wordpress.com (May 6, 2010). Retrieved on October 24, 2015.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Jordan Michael Potter. intelius.com. Retrieved on October 24, 2015.
- ↑ Tim Schoenrock. Lighthouse Baptist San Antonio. Retrieved on March 7, 2016.
- ↑ Lighthouse has four active deacons, Dale Lee Barish, Bradley Joe James, Juan Pablo Rodriguez, and Jeffrey Schoenrock.
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