Lighthouse Ranch

01/01/2026

Here is a 3.20 minute promo video for churches to sharing during announcements. Please watch this, pray about it, and share this with your church.

LAM Love After MarriageThomas and Carissa Howard will be facilitating The Love After Marriage class.Where: Awaken Church-McMinnville, Oregon USAWhen: January...

01/01/2026

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Thank you for watching. God bless you on your journey to healing and wholeness in Christ Jesus!Be a victor. Make a change. Don't let the devil have place in ...

12/18/2025

Thomas and I will be facilitating Love After Marriage Intensive Course, at our church, Awaken Church McMinnville We plan to start January 18th.
This class is for everyone! It is Amazing! I can honestly say I would not be married today if we had not gone through this marriage course.
Our testimony:

I, Crissy, was told about LAM through a Christian mentor. I was at the end of my rope with our marriage (5.5 years in) and had nothing left to give. I was praying for a miracle and seeking God through the prior month of our major struggles. Knowing about the class and planning to attend gave me hope for the miracle and healing that we needed.
God moved in mighty ways for us during this class. There is lots of prayer, prophetic words, support from the other couples in the class. We realized that we are not alone in this battle.
Towards the end of the class weeks, I was standing, with my eyes closed, whispering in my heart, "God why did Thomas hurt me?" The LORD's answer was so loving and gentle, "He is not your enemy, the devil is." I stood there and wept for a moment. I knew I had heard the truth, in my mind and my spirit.
It aloud me to forgive my husband's prior few months of p**n use. I no longer needed to bring this condemnation over my husband head. I knew the devil wanted to destroy us and I wasn't going to let that happen! Through the class we received much healing and reconciliation. By the class course end we were again happily in love. God is amazing!
The devil wants to destroy marriages! He hates it. But God. God has plans of His own. His plans are greater than ours. My God is for me, for marriage, for US. No weapon formed against me shall prosper.
Now we have been married over 15 years; amazing and wonderful years. I wouldn't change them for the world. I am so grateful for God's grace and his mercy in know exactly what we needed and when. He has perfect timing.

Marriage is hard. The all knowing God, knows all about you. He knows yours struggles, your hurts, your fears. He is the great physician. He can and is willing to heal your marriage if you will just ask him.

God bless you. There is hope. Merry Christmas!

12/12/2025

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12/09/2025

Progress update on our loft-Bible Study rooms. 12' x 60', over stalls. The stairs is already built and in place. Thank you to my dad an children for helping me build it. The doorway behind Noah, will seet an 8x7.5 sliding glass door, donated to us by Chris, from Sheridan. Thank you.
We have over 75% of the flooring in place and nailed down! Yay. Thank you Jeff for the flooring donations back in 2017. Thank you God for keeping this lumber in good shape for us.
As usual, God provides. We have several chairs and tables that we purchased from the Willamina Mill auction this summer. There is a nice couch we pick up free from the Willamina Thrift Store. Thank you, Meredith and to the man who donated it.
This loft will be fully walled in to keep the dust, from the arena, out. But I still want to see and let everyone else see the horses munching in their stalls and the riders ride in the arena, so we are putting in lots of windows in the walls. Thank you Gary for your window donations. We also purchased windows from McMinnville Habitat for humanity.
We also have some furniture that we purchased from H2O in Dallas, Oregon, and some from the last auction at the Woodburn Auction, a few years back.

11/28/2025

With whatever truck my husband provideth I shalt be content, 2 Romans 8:8

11/26/2025

If you want prayer or someone to talk to; just give us a call. We would love to be a safe place for you to come and meet with Jesus. (503)876-2200

10/23/2025

Hakuna Matada

The calling ahead of you is greater than the offenses behind you.

09/01/2025

https://youtu.be/ed2ffzgGx9M?feature=shared

"Do You Noah Samuel Construction" Style! NEW 2025!This fun comedy is made for people of all ages. Impromptu. This is the first movie these boys have acted in...

09/01/2025

Lighthouse ranch -
Making leaps and bounds of progress on our feed room and clean room. Next up, the loft, for our Bible studies and classes.
God has blessed us with lots of used material for our building projects.

08/25/2025

We purchased a couple of auction lots from the Willamina Lumber mill.

God is so so good to us.

We bought the two break room lots, chairs, tables, counter tops, fridge, ...to use in our barn. We will use hese in the loft for our Bible study groups and horse riding lessons, our breeding clean room and, feed rooms. There is even matching flooring to ad to what we bought from Dallas H2O a couple of weeks back.

If you don't know much about Thmas and Carissa, we get given or find good deals and buy many things heap, building materials and such.
Most of our buildings are made from recycled and up cycled materials. Or rather...all of our buildings are mostly made up of used materials.
Anyway, we are excited to be making leaps and bounds of progress towards our ranch camp ministry!!! Thank you Lord for having this fun idea and plan and using us to work them. We have such a blessed life!

08/16/2025

Thank you Sheridan Baptist Church.
Free backpack and school supplies give away. What a generous and fun event. So many people attended and were blessed. 😊🎁