I was reading through my facebook posts and this womans testimony caught my eye… it inspired this…
Hearing the Gospel as a Child.
I was just 8 years old, and my father had started Family Devotions each night.
It was a wonderful time in our home, Dad would read the scriptures and ask questions and we would pray,
No religious exercise here, just creating a love for the Word of God and Prayer.
During those nights, he read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and the Book of Acts.
I remember so specifically him reading Acts 2 :38 and 39 to me… and my little 8-year-old brain saying, “Oh that’s how you do it…. “.
It was the pure Word of God that gave me the plan of Biblical salvation.
Then 10 years later, the Lord was working on my heart, and I knew it was time to get “saved”.
Living and growing up in a very religious community, we knew what each denomination believed and taught, and when it was time for me to come to the Lord I compared all the denominations against what I had heard as a child… going through each and comparing their water baptisms, their belief in the infilling of the Holy Ghost etc.
Finally, I was left with only one church in town that I knew believed, taught and practised the salvation message I heard my father read from the Bible.
I called them and within 4 months the Lord lead me through a powerful repentance, I received the infilling of the Holy Ghost, speaking on tongues just like the Bible said would happen, and was water baptised in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of all my sins, fulfilling the message I heard my father read to me as an 8 year old child.
Acts 2:38, 39
38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
That was 43 years ago.
They said I would never last, they said it was a phase… but when you find the real Jesus of the Bible and do things his way… a powerful relationship is born that lasts a lifetime.
I am just so grateful to my parents; my father gave me the love for the Word and my mother taught me how to pray before I was two.
Their spiritual legacy was and is the most precious thing they have ever given to me… I am so blessed.
Rev. Lois McQuinn – Sr. Pastor
Founding member, Director, and Officer of both the Charitable Foundation and three Saskatchewan Apostolic Church Plants.
Charitable Foundation Position– one of the Original Incorporators, Director at the Outlook Gospel Lighthouse Inc.
Church Position: Sr. Pastor and co-founder of the church, the Outlook Gospel Lighthouse, Kelvington House of Worship and Saskatoon House of Prayer.
Online Evangelist
Community Support Worker and Apostolic Spiritual Counsellor and Bible study teacher.
Training and History: As current senior pastor of the Lighthouse and president of the Charitable Foundation, The Outlook Gospel Lighthouse Inc, Lois McQuinn, began her training as a Sunday school teacher, choir singer and soloist, prayer group leader, co-children’s worship leader and Children’s church co-director, as well as an In-home Bible teacher and evangelist with Calvary Pentecostal Church under the direction of Rev. R.A. Beesley.
After receiving her call to the ministry to plant Apostolic Churches in Saskatchewan, Rev. Lois McQuinn, along with her husband, Rev Donald McQuinn (now deceased) and their two children, Mitchell and Victoria, migrated from their vibrant home church in Sussex, N.B., where they served the Lord faithfully for over 13 years, to Lucky Lake, Saskatchewan in 1995.
While in Saskatchewan both Rev’s. Donald and Lois McQuinn completed their ministerial training, home missionary training and were ordained as ministers of the gospel under the direction of Rev. Galen Tracy and the Parkland Gospel Lighthouse Inc which later became the ALJC of Canada.
During their ordination on Dec.31, 1999 They were given the charge of Pastoral care to the local church assembly, The Outlook Gospel Lighthouse, and later organized the charitable private foundation, The Outlook Gospel Lighthouse Inc. in 2000.
Rev. Donald McQuinn began his training as a In-Home Bible study teacher, evangelist, bus ministry driver, cell house church leader and as a supporter of home missionaries, helping with church planting in New Brunswick while under the direction of Rev. R. A. Beesley of Calvary Pentecostal Church. He continued his formal training with the Indiana Bible College and completed his formal and practical ministerial training through Parkland Gospel Lighthouse Inc.
Rev. Donald McQuinn remained licensed with the Parkland Gospel Lighthouse Inc. until their merger with the ALJC when both he and Rev. Lois McQuinn were licensed under the Charitable Foundation of Outlook Gospel Lighthouse Inc.
The McQuinn’s then went on to plant 3 churches in Saskatchewan, two of which were turned over to the UPCI district of Central Plains.
Brother and Sister McQuinn continued to pastor the Outlook Gospel Lighthouse until Sister McQuinn’s illness in 2011, when Bro. McQuinn faithfully continued on alone until his death in 2020.
During her illness, Sister McQuinn went on to become a published author and internet online evangelist and worked as a spiritual counsellor for difficult spiritual cases within the Apostolic church body.
Following her husband’s death in Dec. of 2021.Sister McQuinn received a strong measure of healing and was able to resume the pastoral leadership of the church, now known as the Lighthouse and presidency of the private charitable foundation, renamed in honour of Rev McQuinn, the Rev. D. L. McQuinn Memorial Foundation Inc.
Both Rev and Sister McQuinn were privileged to be mentored and trained by such outstanding Apostolic teachers and Pastors as:
R.A. Beesley – Pastor, District Superintendent of the Atlantic district. (Deceased)
Jack Long – Pastor, Evangelist, Youth Director for Atlantic District UPCI (Deceased)
David Curtis – Missionary to China, Pastor, Evangelist using original RBD Foreign missionary training and methods.
Galen Tracy – Home Missionary, Pastor and Superintendent of the A.L.J.C. of Canada (Deceased)
William Bustard – Evangelist, Pastor, Prophet and Church Planter, specializing in deliverance ministry. (Deceased)
Today Lois McQuinn continues to pastor the church in Outlook, SK, with the help and support of her son, Rev. Mitchell McQuinn, also co-founder of the church and director of the Charitable Foundation.
Rev. Mitchell McQuinn acts as the UPCI liaison to the Charity, and as the online Bible teacher.
Lois McQuinn continues to manage the foundations including the church, the online evangelism division and the ministry to those in need.
Through her online spiritual warfare course, ” Spiritual House Cleaning 101″ she has been instrumental in helping many churches and individuals world wide become strong Christians, she remains active in helping Pastors with spiritual counseling as needed, specializing in prayer, diversity of tongues, deliverance, and special difficult salvation cases.
The foundation provides Rev. Don McQuinn’s Teaching, Bible Studies and Quick study guides to pastors, churches and individuals as needed. His burden and legacy to see many embrace and obey the Biblical Gospel Of Jesus Christ continues to go forth and burn bright.
To God be all the Glory!
