About us
Celebrating Christmas at the Next Level
We are a multi-generational church discipling through community.
To balance being culturally relevant to reach our city with the gospel and remain faithful to the truth found in the Bible
Our mission
We exist to bring glory to God by making disciples of all nations through Gospel-centered worship, discipleship, service, and outreach
Meet our beloved pastors
Gospel Light’s ministries could not operate without a group of dedicated followers of Christ who believe and practice servant leadership. Our pastors are made up of such people.
Eric Capaci
Eric Capaci became the founding pastor of Gospel Light Baptist Church in June, 1992. As a young pastor, he led this brand new church plant with a vision to reach Hot Springs, Arkansas and world with the gospel. Today, many worshipers gather weekly on one of our 3 campuses as a faith family with the purpose of glorifying God and the mission of making disciples. Pastor Capaci has been married for 36 years. He has 5 children and 9 grandchildren.
Jeremy Horton
Pastor Jeremy joined the Gospel Light Baptist Church pastoral staff in August 2019 as the Associate Pastor and the Executive Vice President of Champion Christian College, which is a ministry extension of Gospel Light Baptist Church. He has served multiple congregations in and out of State as a lead pastor since 1998. In January of 2023, Pastor Jeremy was commissioned from the Hot Springs campus to serve with other Church members to help with planting and pastoring a third campus: Gospel Light Baptist Church--Lake Hamilton Campus, which officially launched as a new campus in April 2023 by God's good grace. Pastor Jeremy married the love of his life, Jillian, in 2002. God has blessed their union with four children: Noah, Anna-Kate, Abigail, and Adaline.
Dagoberto Suarez
Dagoberto serves as the Hispanic Pastor for Gospel Light, overseeing all aspects of ministry for the Spanish speaking members of the church. Graduate of Ontario Baptist College, Ontario California and has been involved in Christian service for over thirty-six years. He has previously served as youth pastor, assistant pastor, as well as a senior pastor in two different churches in California before coming to serve at Gospel Light. Pastor Suarez has been married to his wife, Sara, since 1988. They have four children: Judith, Joel, Samuel and Ruth. They have also been blessed with one grandchild, Sara Marie. Bro. Suarez enjoys spending time with his wife, children, and grandchildren. He takes pleasure in seeing people come to the Lord. In his spare time, he enjoys reading and creating things with his hands.
Mo Capaci
Mo served as the student pastor, and many other roles here at Gospel Light since 2013, and has been serving as the family pastor since 2024. As the family pastor, Mo works with each ministry head in the ministry. His responsibilities are to organize, resource, and motivate the ministry heads, while also being the point of contact for the membership at Gospel Light for interest in serving in its ministries. He and his wife Susana have been married since 2013, and they have 3 beautiful children (Alayna, MJ, and Kiyoshi). He also serves as the head men's basketball coach, and academic dean over the Sports Management program at Champion Christian College.
Jeff Manthe
Jeff oversees the church's business operations, administration, finances, and human resources to help achieve its mission and vision. He has been a member of Gospel Light since 2009 and joined the staff in January of 2020. Jeff and his wife Courtney have been married since 2012 and have adopted three boys, August, Phineas, and Duncan. Jeff enjoys game nights with family and friends, spending time focusing on his health, and most of all being around his family.
Ken Reid
Ken serves as multi-media designer and director at Gospel Light. He maintains the ministry websites, performs in-house graphic design, along with overseeing the video ministry. Ken joined the Gospel Light staff in 2008 after receiving his master’s degree from a bible college in Santa Clara, California. While in California, he also worked in the media and graphics department at a large Baptist church there. While at college in California, Ken met his future wife, Danyelle. Ken and Danyelle were married in July of 2009. The Reids currently have two daughters, named Nora and Sloane, whom they adore. Ken enjoys playing basketball and golf.
Jo Capaci
Josiah leads the Children’s Ministry (Kids Light) at Gospel Light, nurturing and developing a heart for worship and love for Jesus Christ. After graduating from Champion Baptist College, Josiah began leading the worship for Gospel Light and did that for almost 4 years. He has since become the Children’s Pastor here in 2018. Jo (Josiah) and his wife, Tiffany, have been married since 2017 and have four children.
Josh Oglesby
Josh leads the Teen's ministry (Glow Teens) at Gospel Light. Josh joined the pastoral staff in the summer of 2024. Josh graduated from Champion Christian College in 2023. Shortly after he started our Glow Up 501 outreach ministry. An outreach ministry to teens of hot springs that brings many churches of the city together under one roof to unify the community. Josh is wholeheartedly convinced and convicted that, as followers of Jesus, we are commanded and commissioned to make disciples around all people in all places at all times. Resultantly, the Lord has opened doors for him to do street evangelism on Hollywood Blvd in Los Angeles, global missions work in Thailand and Angola, prison ministry in Memphis, and even share the gospel in a sneaker shop in Dallas. Josh enjoys coffee, sneakers, playing basketball and watching football in his free time.
Statement of Faith
Scripture
We believe that the Bible, composed of the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testament, is the verbally and plenary inspired word of God and is inerrant, infallible and God-breathed and, therefore, is the final authority for faith and life. It reveals the principles by which God judges us, and therefore is, and will remain to the end of the world, the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions should be tried. All Scripture is a testimony to Christ, who is Himself the focus of divine revelation.
Salvation
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God; but that in Adam’s sin the human race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God. Man is totally depraved and, of himself, utterly unable to remedy his lost condition.We believe that salvation is the gift of God brought to man by grace and received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, Whose precious blood was shed on Calvary for the forgiveness of our sins.We believe that all the redeemed, once saved, are kept by God’s power and are thus secure in Christ forever.
Faith & Practice
Scripture is the final authority in all matters of faith and practice. We recognize that the church cannot bind the conscience of individual members in areas where scripture is silent. Rather, each believer is to be led in these areas by the Lord, to whom he or she alone is ultimately responsible. By adhering to God’s Word and seeking Him, we can best observe His greatest commandments, which are to love Him and others.
God
We believe in one triune God, eternally existing in three persons-—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—each co-eternal in being, co-identical in nature, coequal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections.
Church
We believe that the local church, which is the body and the espoused bride of Christ, is solely made up of born-again persons and that the establishment and continuance of local churches is clearly taught and defined in the New Testament Scriptures. We believe in the autonomy of the local church free of any external authority or control. We recognize water baptism and the Lord’s Supper as the Scriptural ordinances of obedience for the church in this age.
Worship
Worship is part of the DNA of who we are as a church. When we gather every Sunday, one of the high points of our gathering is the time of worship we share as a community. There have been many times where God has moved greatly in our church as we are all singing praise to Him together. Because of this importance of worship to our church, it is absolutely vital for us to have a foundation of why we worship the way we worship. This worship philosophy is an expression of the worship ministry of Gospel Light for the leadership, volunteers, and church members.
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