In 2008, after 28 years and thousands of missionary visitors, International Aid in Spring Lake, Michigan closed their in-house, Missionary Resource Center, (MRC). They will continue to be an international Christian disaster relief organization concentrating their efforts on sending medical and other equipment, around the world and in the U.S.

The on-site missionary store then became part of Hope Lighthouse Ministries and is called...... The Hope Lighthouse Missionary Resource Center. We hired some former employees of International Aid to help run the store in the excellent way it has always been run. We opened the store on June 30th, 2008 with a good amount of inventory, and International Aid has been extremely helpful with equipment, counsel, etc.

We also operate a thrift store that is open to the public, adjacent to our MRC. Most of the missionaries who visit our MRC seem to enjoy going through our thrift store as well. We also have a play area for the children of parents who are doing their shopping with us. There is a television that plays Veggie Tales and other children's videos, as well as an assortment of toys.

The missionary store has given us a more global posture in which to be a blessing worldwide. We do have to pay for the stock we receive so, like the other areas of our ministry, we count on donations to keep our doors open. We are always on the look-out for wholesale and retail businesses who will donate new items; personal care, cleaning products, over the counter medicines, etc., for these missionaries to take on the mission field for their use as they spread the Gospel.