The Lighthouse: A Place of Restoration

09/25/2025

09/18/2025

Drop off at 3000 E State Blvd!

09/15/2025

Pastor Carl Esque was in charge of lunch today at The Lighthouse: A Place of Restoration Anchored Program! He served up an amazing breakfast feast. Breakfast is good anytime of the day right???

09/13/2025

The Lighthouse: A Place of Restoration was at the PBS Fort Wayne Caregiving Expo today! Thanks to everyone who stopped and said hi! It's great to collaborate with our community partners at great events like this.

09/13/2025

Last night we had 72 community members attend our Friday Community Chapel and meal.

Pastor Amos shared about having a simple faith in Christ and our friends at Leo Methodist brought some amazing pulled pork.

It's amazing to watch our community love and serve each other. Thanks for your financial support.



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09/12/2025

Recovery homes vs recovery programs:

Many people don't understand the difference between a recovery home (sometimes called halfway house) and a recovery program. We hope this clears up some questions.

Recovery homes:
1. Come in many shapes and sizes some are resident run (no paid staff) others have house managers and some have paid directors. It's important to know what type of supervision each home you are applying to has.

2. Sometimes they have on-site programming but most rely on outside 12-Step meetings to guide their programming.

3. Many have differing lengths of stay, fee structures, and rules. Make sure you ask questions about each of these. The average weekly fee is $180 to $200. Insurance isn't normally accepted in recovery homes. Sometimes the weekly fee includes meals and sometimes it doesn't.

Recovery programs:
1. Programs also come in many shapes and sizes, most have paid staff and a good program will have 24 hour awake staff for the safety of the residents.

2. Most programs have their own programming. Some are faith based, some not. Programming is most often run by trained staff and participation in groups is often required.

3. Lengths of time in programs varies widely but most are 30-day programs or 6-month programs. The average fee also ranges, some are insurance based and fees can be over $100,000 per month, others are free programs (most free programs are faith centered). Meals are generally included.

The Lighthouse:
Our Anchored program falls into the recovery program category. We are a faith centered (biblical counseling) program with 28 beds available.

We have 24 hour awake staff for the safety of our residents. This is a very important thing, and our staff does 24/7 walk-throughs every 20 minutes as a safety precaution.

Our programming is ran by our trained Care Management team and Program Director. Each leader has specialized training in addiction, faith, and case management. In the beginning, residents attend 4 to 5+ groups per day, have personalized homework, and also engage in biblical counseling with our on-site counselors.

We run two programs, a 30-day lock-down program and a 6-month work-program. We do not take insurance, and our 30-day program is free. We do ask for a $200 application fee but have assistance if this fee is not feasible. Those entering our 6-month program are asked to pay $120 a week once employment is secured. Food is covered for all meals in our 30-day program and food assistance is given to those in our work program if needed.

In addition, we have a vibrant community which we seek to connect our residents and graduates to. Healthy community is important and is vital for long term success.

If you are interested in our recovery program, please visit www.lhfw.org and fill out an application. You should receive a phone call back within 24 hours (excluding weekends). If you have any questions please call Jill at 260-255-6413 and she will walk through the process with you.

09/10/2025

Got word that Kevin accepted Jesus into his life. So blessed to be a part of the work of God at The Lighthouse: A Place of Restoration!

09/09/2025

1. Lunch meat and cheese
2. Paper towels
3. Highlighters
4. Canned food of all varieties
5. Gas cards

Items can be dropped off at our Community Center- 3000 E State Blvd.

Thanks for your support!

09/06/2025

There are very few words to express what happened tonight...God's love poured out... is how it is best described.

65 broken, weird, wonderful, and sinful people heard Dr Bower share how our pain points us to our Savior and to love others...then... we watched as it was put into motion!

People loving people. Long needed hugs, tears, support, and community. People using their painful pasts to help others who were struggling. It was a beautiful picture of the cross.

There are so many broken people and while it was heavy, it was good. If you have never been to a Friday Night Community Chapel you need to come. You will be blessed.

Join us in praying for those struggling with health concerns, loss, suicidal thoughts, hurt, abandonment, and so much more... these were just a few of tonight's hard things.

A special thanks to Jill Denney and Brian Denney for stepping up and making more food as a larger crowd than was expected showed up.

To Deborah Sue Lemmon for her faithful support and compassionate care.

To Jonathon Hudson and Daniel Stewart for their musical talent.

To Carl Esque for his caring spirit.

To Samuel Gustin for his security expertise and watchful eye.

To the rest of our many team members for their faithfulness.

Your support makes nights like this possible...and true healing was displayed and found tonight. Thanks so much!

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We are sorry for the lack of pictures, we were too busy loving on people to remember to take any!

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