Meet The Pastor
Co-Pastors Jim and Debbie Ennis
Thirty-six years after first meeting at the Lighthouse Church of the Nazarene in Wells, Jim and Debbie Ennis were installed as co-pastors. On January 1, 1984, Debbie attended the church for the first time with her two young children. “From the minute I walked into the church, it just felt like home,” said Debbie, who drove 27 miles from Milton, NH. One month later a ministerial student, Jim Ennis, led a youth retreat weekend and preached to a packed church on Sunday. Jim and Debbie remember meeting that day, and though it wasn’t love at first sight, they were married in Berwick nearly 3 years later. Life eventually took them to Canada, New Jersey, and then Massachusetts, where they had lived since 1996 before moving to Wells.
Returning to a place that they have visited every summer and is rich with memories for the Ennis family, Jim and Debbie’s story has come full circle. The parking lot that used to see 3-5 cars on a Sunday morning is now filling up. The church may not be “packed,” but it is alive with singing and joy and lots of hope as new friends are being welcomed weekly.
This pastoral couple return to the Lighthouse Church with years of rich life experience—each in their own right. In addition to pastoral experience, they are both trained Spiritual Directors who have been leading spiritual retreats for many years, overseen Recovery and soul care ministry, and much more. They both are currently working toward a M.A. in Spirituality at Merrimack College in Andover, MA, and are committed to making recovery and spirituality priorities in their ministry at the Lighthouse Church.