We aren't the beginning
A long line of faithfulness.
Bethlehem Baptist Church planted Cities Church.
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Cities Church planted All Peoples Church.
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All Peoples Church planted us.
Our launch team spent eight years actively engaged as members of All Peoples Church in Minneapolis. Daniel and Dale were pastors. Many of our kids were born during our time at All Peoples Church. We love APC and praise God for its irreplaceable role as our mother church.
We began All Peoples Church with a vision to glorify God by multiplying worshipers of Jesus and healthy churches in the Twin Cities and beyond. We had a vision not to grow taller as a church but to multiply further through church planting. Light House Church is the firstborn church of APC. We are honored and proud to continue that story. We hope to be merely the next generation who stewards the gospel unto the following generation, by the grace of God.
We also praise God for the team at Cities Church for planting APC and being our direct connection to the regional SEND Network team. They have blessed us consistently.
We give praise to God for Bethlehem Baptist Church and Bethlehem College and Seminary. Our pastors, as well as many of our members, are alumni of BCS. We thank the Lord for the biblical training and passion for the supremacy of Christ that Bethlehem has entrusted to us.
We are also so grateful for the older saints of Lebanon Lutheran Church. They donated their building in S. Minneapolis to All Peoples Church when we were homeless and in need of a place to gather for worship. Those saints grafted us into their 100-year-old story of faithfulness. APC continues to meet in that building, and many of the Lebanon members are now members of APC. What a gift those brothers and sisters have been!
How we began
Light House Church was launched in 2025 as a household expression of the Body of Christ. Daniel Simmons and Dale Gruber, who had both served on staff at All Peoples, sensed God's call to begin a house church in Roseville that would multiply healthy households and, in time, healthy churches across the Twin Cities and beyond.
We gather on Sundays in the Simmons home and other times throughout the week, as we strive to equip every individual to be the light of Christ where they work, play, and live, and every household in our Body to be a hub for mission and community right where they live.
Where we're going
We are working to see the households of Light House mature and multiply. We are equipping disciple makers and leaders with the prayer that God would allow us to plan other healthy churches in the Twin Cities and beyond.
Just as we received the gospel from a long line of faithfulness, we hope to pass it on faithfully to the generations that follow.
