Our Story

Freedom's Light began in 1989 when Brother Luke Wheeler founded the church as Faith Chapple in Ball Ground Georgia. He faithfully served as head pastor until he retired in 1994. He returned to be head pastor in 2006 to help the church, which had fallen on hard times, until he could find a younger minister to take over. Jeff and Leah had been searching for a church where they could plug in and be of service and decided to visit Brother Wheeler's church in the spring of 2009. During the service, Jeff leaned over and told Leah that he felt God was telling him this was the church they needed to be attending. After Brother Wheeler concluded his sermon, he invited Jeff and Leah to sit with him in his office and told them that they were exactly who he had been praying for and that he was going to call the state office to turn the church over to Jeff to lead it.  Jeff graciously accepted the offer and assumed the full time pastoral duties in August of 2009.  

The Lord gave Jeff a name for his ministry long before he even had a church to pastor. He wanted to call his ministry "Freedom's Light", because as it proclaims in 2 Corinthians 3:17 "...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty" and that "liberty(freedom)" only comes through the "Light of the World", Jesus Christ. Pastor Jeff renamed the church to Freedom's Light, upon becoming head pastor and has spent the last 14 years sharing the good news of freedom in Jesus Christ to Ball Ground and the surrounding communities. 

Our vision has always been to share the unadulterated Word of God with everyone we come in contact with, so that they will be transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit and be made alive in Christ. To achieve our vision, we have expanded our ministry to utilize all the latest technology to reach as many people as possible with the message of salvation through Jesus Christ.

We want to not only grow in numbers, but to grow in lives truly transformed by Jesus. A life transformed by the Lord and set free from all bondage is much more valuable than just an increase to the membership rolls. Each person impacted by the gospel can change their family, their workplace, and ultimately the community at large. That is our mission and we would love for you to come, grow, and be apart of our family of believers as we follow Christ.