“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” – James 1:2-4
Is Lighthouse Global in the public interest?
This is now at the heart of the ongoing smear campaign against Lighthouse Global.
A small handful of bitter and resentful ex-associates, abusive family members and the national press are trying to spread lies in the face of hundreds of personal testimonies that categorically demonstrate the life-saving, critical work we do at Lighthouse Global.
The majority of our clients have sought out help because they were abused in and by their own family members! This horrifically ranges from neglect, to coercive control, to physical and sexual and abuse.
Many were crippled by the abuse they grew up in, resulting in nervous breakdowns during university, literally not being able to speak in social situations, attempting suicide by the time they were 18 years old, or becoming addicted to drugs and/or alcohol to suppress their trauma.
For Lighthouse Global not to exist, it would frankly devastate the lives and families of these men, women and their children. So many are still in the early stages of getting healthy (physical, emotionally, mentally and spiritually). To remove the vital help they have now would send them back decades, to the hellish worlds they grew up in.
Hear from some of our clients in their own words…
What Would It Mean To You if Lighthouse
Global Did Not Exist?
Louisa MacKenzie
If Lighthouse and James (Mills) didn’t exist I wouldn’t have got through this last year. I possibly wouldn’t have been here to write this. James saved my life. May sound extreme but it’s true. And there’s other people like me that need the help of James and Lighthouse, to get the help, understanding, commitment and professionalism that they have shown me.
Callum Holden
If the support from Jai (Singh), and Lighthouse, didn’t exist in my life, I could tell you exactly where I imagine myself being. Firstly I would be single, having lost the most important and meaningful relationship of my entire life due to my emotions and impulses thinking for me. Second, I would most certainly be on my second or third job of the year, and would likely be looking for another as I write this – I wouldn’t even have an inkling as to what powers this self-defeating pattern of behavior.
My mountain of debt would have grown even larger, to which my response would have been to take out yet another credit card or a loan, and leave the worrying for ‘future me’ whilst carrying on making financial decisions impulsively.
Jack Comer
Everything I have worked so hard to build would have gone to waste. I wouldn’t be able to continually support my family through the most painful and difficult time of my life! I wouldn’t be able to take care of my terminally ill mother and my family who are struggling with the treatment she is currently receiving. I need the help and encouragement from those at Lighthouse.
Stasia Simpson
I come from a toxic birth family and I have young first cousins right now, who are being neglected and toxically affected by their unstable birth parents. I intend to invest in Lighthouse programs that will give them a chance at life, through receiving an upbringing. I cannot do this if I do not have the support community, the resources, and the leadership to follow through on this intention.
Rob Fitch
To reach the point now where I have invested in a year of intensive mentorship, I want to stress that this decision has not been taken lightly by either of us (me and my mentor). Far from cutting me off from the people I am close to, Jai (Singh) has helped me to empathise and connect from the heart. The idea of investing a substantial amount of money in myself seems like the most natural thing to me now because it’s self-evident how mentorship is transforming my life, starting from the inside and working out.
The greatest growth for me has come within my family relationships. Lately entering a romantic relationship I feel I’ve learned a year’s worth of relationship lessons in six weeks. Without the continued support of Jai, Jack, Chris and Lighthouse honestly I’d be pretty lost. That might sound like dependency but in their care I have grown far more independent than I could have done otherwise.
Jessica Holder
I know that if Lighthouse was no longer here to help me, I would be in a very vulnerable position in my life, not just physically, but emotionally, mentally and spiritually.
Maria Imran
By the time I met Daniel (Schmitz), I had barely made it into a PhD; my physical health was appalling, I had never had a friend and had suffered another excruciating breakdown. I had previously tried psychotherapy, but the more I looked into it, the more I felt like it was putting a bandaid over a bullet wound. Something I needed most would still be missing.
It was after I met Daniel that I realised it was an upbringing based on care and truth. As our mentor-mentee relationship developed, my physical health improved. I realised the consequences of my toxic upbringing and what should’ve been in its place instead.
It’s hard to imagine where I would be in life without my mentor; my deteriorating physical health would’ve made it impossible for me to finish my PhD. And I would be left with a gaping hole in my soul that could be filled by nothing and no one.
Asif Valiji
Without the support of the Lighthouse community I would not have had the courage to face up to the abusers in my own family, nor would I have the care and patience to learn how to be a father to my own children beyond the basic functions of feeding, educating and clothing them… the pragmatic support and nurture of family that I have come to know would end. In addition to this, we would not have the opportunity to help so many people through its invaluable research. This includes parents, like me, with children from broken homes.
Nassreen Nadat
If Lighthouse didn’t exist or ceased to exist, just the thought fills me with great sadness, despair even, because how many more hundreds if not thousands of people will not have the opportunity to succeed in really making their dreams come true the way I have?!
Through the years Lighthouse has supported, encouraged and inspired me to be the best version of myself. I have learnt how to be confident, authentic as I show up in personal and professional ways.
I have built wonderful intentional relationships, got married, healed family relationships and developed levels of discipline to the point I am not afraid of problems when they show up in my life or the lives of family, friends and clients I work with. I have learnt to use problems to grow and learn and help others do the same.
Are the mentors perfect? No, nobody is. What I like and appreciate about my mentor Kris, and Lighthouse as a whole, is that they are open to learn, always asking for feedback, always looking for ways to be better, do better and serve better, that’s why no matter what is said in the media, I know first hand from my very own experience that Lighthouse’s intentions are in the right place.
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Thank you for sharing the experiences and testimonials of those in our collective family here. There is so much to appreciate about the work we do at Lighthouse, and I know coming from the place I have, I’ve failed to do that more than not. But this work is crucial and vital for life and for living, you only have to read what we’ve written there, the very souls who are doing this work and have received the life-saving help, many of us may not be here if it wasn’t for that. Thank you all, and I give honour and love to Paulie who started this. God bless us all.
Thank you to all for sharing meaningful areas of your personal journeys here that have had a positive impact on your lives. Choosing to invest time, money and effort in your own growth and progress towards becoming a healthy adult is the best investment you can make. Warren Buffett said, “Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do.”
This is a lifelong pursuit, not a ‘magic pill’ that gets sold in the self help industry and the impact, when approached as a constant dedication to learning, will be felt in all areas, not least in the richness and depth of relationships we are able to build when we are strong in our foundations.
Thank you for your continued support.
Reading the personal testimonials from others who have been helped by Lighthouse it’s evident to see just how crucial it is to have the right support around us to be able to work through challenges in our lives. There are snippets of so many meaningful journeys here, the reason I say snippets is because what is shared is just a glimpse of what happens in our extended family’s lives. Coming from my own experience, what I have written and shared in this article is small compared to what I have been helped with. From standing up to people and family members in my life to being supported through literally life and death situations. Thank you to all those who have shared and been willing to commit to truth in their lives no matter how hard reality has got. God bless us all
It so uplifting to read the experiences of people who have been helped by mentorship at Lighthouse and seeing their walks of life. What stands out is the relationship that each person has with their mentor and how they feel their mentor has helped them to make changes in their life. To see that people have been struggling and been in bad situations that are now finding their voice is incredible. Praise God!
It’s wonderfully inspiring to hear how the lives of others have been changed through the work of Lighthouse, because it reminds me that we all have a voice, and something to share, and relationships to build, and value to create… And that includes me.
Having the right kind of community and family around you that helps you hold onto your life, keep it on track, give it meaning and purpose, and thrive in your God-given potential, is so crucial for whatever stage of personal growth and development we are at 🙏🏼
Lighthouse isn’t some company with employees following the company motto. It’s a community of emerging men and women who fight for the sacredness of each other’s lives. Paul S. Waugh takes the vast majority of this responsibility, not only in serving all of the associates, but the criticism and hate that comes his way from the very families and so-called friends of people we serve. This very small glimpse of hundreds of men and women who could say similar things, is just a reinforcer for me that the work we do is not a nice to have. It literally is life saving work. Whether that’s physical life-saving or emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Why do I say that? Because it’s not a cardboard cut-out mentoring or coaching job. I’ve met coaches who literally have a stock of questions they have to ask their coachees in a session. It’s clinical, impersonal and technique driven. Our work is born out of first-hand research. James can help people because he’s mourned and suffered loss and grown through it. Jack can help people because he’s going through one of the biggest crucibles of his life. Jai can help people because he has been abused and faced his abuser head-on despite trembling. Asif can help people because he takes his responsibility as a dad seriously, he doesn’t ride on the title of dad, if anything it weighs heavy on him. Jess, your courage and willingness to face reality is a very quiet and unassuming inspiration. Rob is just one of many people who’s beginning to realise his God-given potential through our work, that this can’t be quick fixed, it’s going to take suffering and humility and more power to young men and women like Rob.
I say this all knowing there is way way more I can do every day, to live and serve in honour of the grace and mercy God has given and gives me. This is not a standard compartmentalised ‘job’, never has been and never will be for anyone. It’s our lives and our futures. Thank you everyone involved in this work whoever you are.
Thank you everyone for, firstly wanting to share, and wanting your testimony to be made public as to where you would be if Lighthouse Global didn’t exist. It is inspiring to see such commitment between mentor and mentee and to know that you are all building solid relationships with each other.
Reading just a short snippet of where you have all come from and the challenges you have had to overcome to be here today, I know it can’t be easy to write this and share it. I know that on a personal level, if Lighthouse didn’t exist, and if I hadn’t had the help and support of Paul Waugh, Sukh Singh and Warren Vaughan when I first came here, I don’t know where I would be today. I was on my way to either having a stroke or a heart attack. With the stress that I was under from the abuse and control I had and was receiving, I could not and would not have been able to survive.
Thank you all for sharing, and thank you Sukh for bringing these testimonies together. God bless you and all of us.
Really appreciating the powerful testimonies to the work and research we’ve done through Lighthouse. These are not superficial platitudes, but deep and heartfelt expressions from people’s souls.
Whilst conducting our pioneering research into human potential we’re serving people through sharing what we’re learning. Myself and fellow mentors at Lighthouse are able to help in the way we do because of how we’ve each been helped and continued to be helped through our involvement in the breakthroughs and discoveries made by Lighthouse. These include inconvenient truths, but just because something is uncomfortable doesn’t make it wrong!
Public interest is defined to be “anything affecting the rights, health, welfare, well-being or finances of the public at large”. (Francis Wilks & Jones solicitors)
It is soulless and psychopathic to read the above expressions and believe that such work is not in the public interest.
Boom. God bless you James x
These testimonials really do reflect the reality of Lighthouse helping those living and have lived, lives of quiet and not so quiet desperation. I know for one that what has been shared in these testimonies is true because I was one of these people too. Not that Lighthouse is perfect and that one suddenly transforms to being and having a perfect life because that doesn’t exist. However the care and desire to be more caring human beings despite our weaknesses and flaws is such a key part of the care that I have received and give to others!
You know that there’s something very special here given we have been so viciously attacked by a handful of bitter and resentful ex-associates, abusive family members and the national press who have spread lies in attempt to destroy us and our reputation YET we come back and grow stronger every single day and they know it…. Because they can see it and feel it! God bless all those who have shared here. We have hundreds of personal testimonies that categorically demonstrate the life-saving, critical work we do at Lighthouse Global! God bless us all.
“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”
― Voltaire
That Road is The Narrow Path!
Love and God bless you all x x x
Wonderful to read the heartfelt appreciation in these testimonies and how each life has been touched and improved through this community. Maya Angelou once said, “people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel” and that comes through from what I’m reading here. The value of what has been experienced through the care of 1-1 support and mentorship so many of us need. As I have needed too. It’s clear there are many people who have benefitted and are benefitting from this work. I know I recognised very early on in my mentoring journey that there was so much I missed and didn’t receive growing up and needed to learn to have a chance at life. If it wasn’t for Lighthouse I too would have been so much worse off and I would not have found Christ as I have now. God is there for us and helps us in so many ways through His grace, but He also expects us to care for and support one another too. That’s what we have here. It astounds me how the bitter minority, who are only motivated by money, are trying to sully and cast such vile aspersions on this work and community. We are far from perfect, we know that as people born into sin, but we are doing all we can to grow in faith, health, character and competence to make things better for others. Not worse.
If Lighthouse didn’t exist I would probably be divorced with children, estranged from them. Have no relationship with my brother, on my way to suicide by instalments and this isn’t an exaggeration. People say, where are the fruits after 15 years of mentoring? The fruits start inside, the healing of a broken soul and a broken heart such that I can wake up every day no longer in the hell of my mind and the hell of depression anymore. To start to become liberated. Now I have the privilege to help others do the same thanks to God and my mentors.
Thank you for sharing these incredible reflections! What I appreciate most through reading this is the focus on humanness… The human beings who are helping and being helped and cared for by those at Lighthouse. It’s so heartwarming to read of the breakthroughs that so many are making in their own life and the incredible levels of work that goes into making that possible.
What I found incredibly special is the reality that without the care and support of people in Lighthouse so many of the voices in this article, may not be here alive today, not even have a life worth living that they are growing into but would have killed themselves. That’s sobering, too many people, like myself, are crippled by our upbringing and face immense struggle and would not ‘cope’ if they did not have a surrogate family to help them get what most needed. Blessed is Lighthouse and Godspeed our work we do.
This is truly life-saving work! Reading through the experiences of others here and where they have helped only reinforces my experience of the help and support I have received. I was suicidal and an alcoholic, and I had so many unhealthy habits it is through the help of those at Lighthouse, the people like Chris Nash, Paul Waugh, James Mills and many more that I am on a path of healing and growing from strength to strength.
I thank all who have shared here, sharing their real-life stories, real-life battles with so much. God bless you all 🙏🏻
I feel reading everyone’s comments is a powerful answer to the question what it would mean if Lighthouse Global did not exist! Phew, these are absolutely heartfelt testimonies of real people, who had and have challenges in life and who have the courage to reach out for help and share their experiences with others. I know how much I benefit from my involvement with Lighthouse and what this journey so far has done for me. A few unhappy ex-clients involved in a smear campaign won’t stop this! This work is so needed and I am thankful for every single person who shares. I’m thinking of you all.
We need community and family, we need to develop our strength to face up to challenges and stop hiding from uncomfortable confrontations. I have a daughter and I want her to grow up and become the best human being she can be and that includes accepting weaknesses and making mistakes. I learned so much through Lighthouse that I haven’t learned previously in my life and that is absolutely essential for living a fulfilled life.
Thank you 🙏🏻
Reading and being part of writing these testimonials is not easy but the truth needs to be told. I remember before Lighthouse – the pain, the challenges, the fear of feeling alone and indeed being alone as a parent and vulnerable. This is the reality of what it means to live outside of community and family. I can share with you how great it is to be part of a family where I am loyal to Christ, but to understand my background and the place I have come from and the lack of foundation – fearful, ruggedly individual and unsocial place I come from and the reality of this; its the context needed for why Lighthouse is so so needed for me and so so many parents we HAVE supported and DO support right now as a research community, as a family, as a team of committed people who value each other and families.