Pastor KR Mele and Family Life Church

Tuesday, March 23 Pastor KR Mele joined us in our class to share about his ministry and what lead him to where he is today. KR grew up just outside of Pittsburgh, PA, not in a Christian home. He gave his life Christ at the age of 21. KR has his degree in Business and owned/managed a couple of businesses before coming on staff at Sarver Assembly of God in charge of children as well as administrating their Christian school. After some time there God called KR back to the State College area in Central Pennsylvania where he attended college at Penn State University. From there God called him to plant a church in that same area. Pastor KR has been at Family Life Church in Penns Valley, PA for the past six years. The church meets at the Penns Valley Intermediate School in Spring Mills. Pastor KR's current church has been involved with many cool ministries, however the coolest thing, a ministry KR began, is Light the Night. Light the Night is a ministry to reach out to our communities on Halloween rather than hide ourselves. KR's logic says, Why would we turn off all of the lights and hide in the basement on the one day of the year everyone in our neighborhood comes knocking on our door asking us for something. Light the Night is set up like a 'mini-fair' in a yard of someone form the church. A church can have as many sites as they can handle. The sites have food, games, candy, an introduction to the church, a gospel message for kids with puppets, and most importantly, plenty of light, as to not make it a dark scary place, but a warm, happy, welcoming environment. My church started doing Light the Night the year after KR thought of it and we have done it in my yard for the past five years, I love it. At first we received some disagreement from some of our church body about whether doing this outreach would just be justifying the celebration of halloween, but after the success and progress of the first year, mostly everyone came around to the idea. Light the Night is a great ministry, if you do not already participate, present the idea to your church!