Pastor Brian Michaels grew up attending church and loved to read his Bible as a child. However, he didn’t become a Christian until he was about thirteen years old. He and his family made a commitment to Christ through a Baptist church in Maryland and the family was baptized together.
Brian become involved in music and the Lord opened many doors for him to share his musical gifts with others. But it wasn’t until his Senior year of high school in Las Vegas, NV that Brian’s life was really changed. Having gone through a brief, yet intense, rebellion, he attended a Rez Band concert where he heard radical Christian music and radical verse-by-verse teaching. Brian fell in love all over again with the Bible.
At age 17, Brian joined the US Navy where he completed their Nuclear Power Program. While stationed in Orlando, FL, Brian met his bride, Jeanine and the two were wed in 1983. Shortly before his wedding, Brian began his service aboard the USS Spadefish, a fast attack nuclear submarine. In addition to his regular duties, he served as the Protestant Lay Leader on the submarine, leading the Sunday services while the submarine was at sea. It was in this venue that Brian realized he had the gift of teaching as he watched lives be transformed by the simple presentation of the Word of God.
Upon his honorable discharge from the Navy, Brian became a Youth Pastor in Las Vegas and served for four years as an assisting Pastor before heading out to Colorado Springs to pastor Rocky Mountain Calvary Chapel. For 14 years, Pastor Brian ministered in Colorado Springs and grew further in his gifts of teaching and leadership. Brian’s relationships with other ministers and leaders were fostered and the Lord blessed him immeasurably with a thriving and healthy congregation of thousands of people who loved the Word of God and who reached out in their community and around the world.
Having a vision for the Body of Christ at large, Brian was a part of several church plants around the state of Colorado as well as around the country, helping fellow Pastors in any way that he could.
In the summer of 2005, Pastor Brian turned Rocky Mountain Calvary over to a young assisting Pastor at the Lord’s leading and the Michaels family took some much needed time off. During this time, their eldest daughter was married. After that summer vacation, he returned to Las Vegas and rejoined his former church. The following fall, Brian returned to Colorado to temporarily join the staff of Calvary South Denver during a time of transition for both Pastor Brian and the staff of CSD. Brian served there until January of 2007 when he and his family returned to their home in Las Vegas.
In late January of 2007, Pastor Brian and his family planted a brand new work in the Las Vegas valley. Lighthouse Christian Fellowship began in the home of Gino and Lisa Wideen. By the end of February, the church could no longer fit in the Wideen’s home and the Lord provided a Physical Therapy Clinic for LCF to meet in. Soon the clinic was too small to hold the saints who gathered to worship the Lord and the search began for a new, larger location.
Today, LCF meets in a beautiful facility in the Southwest part of Las Vegas where lives are being changed and transformed by the Word of God and the power of His Holy Spirit. Pastor Brian continues to pour himself into other pastors and leaders as well as serving his congregation.
Pastor Brian also teaches weekly at Lighthouse Christian Fellowship’s Colorado Campus on Friday evenings. This campus meets in Monument, Colorado.
As the Pastor of Lighthouse Christian Fellowship, Pastor Brian is not only a gifted teacher but is a gifted leader as well. His teachings are strong in application and Biblical insight, but also are refreshingly humorous and entertaining. People all over the globe enjoy the teaching ministry of Pastor Brian Michaels and Lighthouse Christian Fellowship through the website. His integrity, strength of character, sincerity and heart for others make him an outstanding leader and shepherd of God’s people. He knows he is a man saved by the grace of God through faith in His Savior, Jesus Christ and is as much in need of the truths in scripture as those he teaches.
Pastor Brian Michaels and his wife, Jeanine, have been married for 25 years and they have four beautiful children. Their son, Stephen, their oldest daughter, Rebecca, son-in-law Matt and granddaughter Kaiden and their youngest daughter, Christina reside in Las Vegas as well. Their 3rd child, Rachael, attends college in Denver, Colorado.