Our pastors
Bishop Alvin and Rev Barbara Wolliston
Alvin R. Wolliston
Reverend Alvin wolliston, a native of Jamaica, spent his formative years and early scholastic education in Birmingham, England. He is Senior Pastor, and an ordained Bishop. He and his wife, Reverend Barbara, are in full time ministry as pastors of the Lighthouse Family Worship Center. Bishop Wolliston is an international preacher and teacher. A graduate from Pentecostal Theological Seminary, he received his Master's in Theology and Mental Health Counseling.
As a Mental Health Counselor, Bishop Wolliston provides individual and group counseling, and attentive listening and discussions.
As Senior Pastor, Bishop Wolliston provides spiritual, pastoral, outreach, administrative, and leadership ministry to the congregation he oversees. Bishop Wolliston oversees all areas of the congregation’s ministry in consultation with the Deacons, Trustees, Council, and Committees. He represents the church in community organizations.
As Senior Pastor, Bishop Wolliston provides spiritual, pastoral, administrative, and leadership to the congregation of Lighthouse Family Worship Center. Bishop Wolliston provides counseling services for the restoration of marriages for church members and the community. He is responsible for directing
all financial, budgeting, operating, purchasing, human resource, and administrative functions for the church. His responsibilities include representing the church in community organizations to learn new ways the church can support and engage with communities. He is responsible for the engaging with the congregation, members and new visitors to encourage active participation in the church. He works with the Mission Committee to support opportunities to encourage the church to give and become involved in missions. He works with the Worship Minister in planning & coordinating worship services to impact believers and reach new people. Bishop Wolliston provides personal, pre-marital, marital, crisis and conflict resolution counseling in a safe and non-intimate setting, being aware of his limitations and referring to professionals when necessary.
Bishop Wolliston Provides leadership for ministry teams and staff and served as a resource for programs and mission activities. He Officiates weddings and provides premarital counseling to those being married in the Lighthouse Family Worship Center.
Bishop Wolliston and his wife have planted three churches in Florida.
The Wollistons’ are blessed with four children, in-laws, and grandchildren.
Barbara G. Wolliston
Reverend Barbara G. Wolliston, a native of Jamaica, is an Ordained Minister and is in full time ministry with her husband. The couple pastors Lighthouse Family Worship Center. Barbara migrated to London, England at the age of 6 where she had her first encounter with the Lord Jesus at the age of 10. She is an author, singer, mentor, national and international preacher, specifically the Islands, England, and India. She is a conference host and Bible Teacher.
First Lady Wolliston as she is affectionately called, is a soft-spoken woman offstage, but a powerful preacher on the pulpit. She is founder of several ministries, not the least being her most recent, Y.A.N.A. – YOU ARE NOT ALONE – a ministry exclusively to pastors’ wives; The S.O.L.E. (SHARING OF LIFE EXPERIENCES) of women, and M.A.C.H.O. – Men After Christ’ Heart Only.
An entrepreneur, Barbara founded WollMax Secretarial Services, First Impression Childcare Center, and New Life Childcare. These businesses provided exceptional care for over 100 children and their families in the Kissimmee, Florida area and surrounding communities. She is the founder of her most recent ministry: 2WPM - Women Worldwide Prayer Movement which includes the unique 1-minute Global Prayer poised to impact millions of women around the world.
Pastoring alongside her husband and caring for people is her greatest joy since she has the opportunity to live out one of her favorite mottos:
people don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
The Wollistons’ are blessed with four children, in-laws, and grandchildren.
Church Staff
Paul Klett - Treasurer/Council Member
Paul Klett - Treasurer/Council Member
Paul Klett - Treasurer/Council Member
Guy Audet - Council Member
Paul Klett - Treasurer/Council Member
Paul Klett - Treasurer/Council Member
services and timings
SUNDAY
WEDNESDAY
WEDNESDAY
10:00 AM-12:00 PM (Morning Service)
WEDNESDAY
WEDNESDAY
WEDNESDAY
7:00 PM-8:30 PM
At The Table - Bible Study
FRIDAY
WEDNESDAY
FRIDAY
6:30 PM-8:00 PM (Ignite Youth)
statement of faith
We believe
- In the verbal inspiration of the Bible.
- In one God eternally existing in three persons; namely, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
- That Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of the Father, conceived of the Holy Ghost, and born of the Virgin Mary. That Jesus was crucified, buried, and raised from the dead. That He ascended to heaven, and is today at the right hand of the Father as the Intercessor.
- That all have sinned and come short of the glory of God and that repentance is commanded of God for all and necessary for the forgiveness of sins.
- That justification, regeneration, and the new birth are wrought by faith in the blood of Jesus Christ.
- In sanctification subsequent to the new birth, through faith in the blood of Christ; through the Word and by the Holy Ghost.
- Holiness to be God’s standard of living for His people.
- In the baptism with the Holy Ghost subsequent to a clean heart.
- In speaking with other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance and that it is the initial evidence of the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
- In water baptism by immersion, and all who repent should be baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
- Divine healing is provided for all in the atonement.
- In the Lord’s Supper and washing of the saint’s feet.
- In the premillennial second coming of Jesus. First, to resurrect the righteous dead and to catch away the living saints to Him in the air. Second, to reign on the earth a thousand years.
- In the bodily resurrection; eternal life for the righteous and eternal punishment for the wicked.
about us
The New Britain Church Of God (Lighthouse Family Worship Center) was born out of a great desire of a few men and women who sought God with hunger for the Holy Spirit’s blessings upon them as He blessed the church in it’s beginning according to the books of Acts.
The records show that prayer meetings were being conducted in the late 1930’s and the New Britain Church of God was officially organized on February 4, 1944.
Reverend T. Seamans served as the first pastor, with his wife Grace Seamans serving as church clerk. Both of them worked at a boy’s home in Meriden, CT, a town about twenty miles away from New Britain.
The first church met in a storefront building on East Street, and then the congregation moved to a location on the corner of Laselle and Tremont Street. This building was erected and only the basement of the church was completed. The people then bought a church already built on Gold Street. In 1972-1973, property was bought and the present building was erected here at 1365 Stanley Street. The congregation moved into the new facility September 2, 1973, for worship.
There have been a number of pastors that have done an excellent job and the church grew under there leadership. The current Pastor Robert and Vicky MacDonald. They came to assume the pastoral leadership in 2016.
In the years of our past we have witnessed a move of God’s grace and blessing. There have been heartaches, heartbreaks, disappointments, tragedies, and some have turned away from the church, but a multitude have followed Christ and have been faithful to His cause and call. Now members are witnessing to others locally, across the nation and around the world.
This is our HERITAGE and as we look at our past with warm feelings, we look at our future with great anticipation, knowing that God is still building His church and the gates of hell shall not be able to resist its message and its power.
Thank God for Lighthouse Family Worship Center, a place where we can meet with God in prayer and in refreshing Pentecostal worship, and where fellowship of the saints of God is ever sweet.
