✝️ General

Staff met this week and opened and closed in prayer, continuing to seek God’s wisdom as Lighthouse grows.

🌐 Website & Onboarding Improvements

Big news! 🎉
Minecraft and Discord account linking is now enabled through the website.
This makes onboarding smoother and more automated for both players and staff.

Next major step: building out the Parent Portal.

These upgrades have increased our web server costs, so we’ll be moving to a new hosting provider soon to keep things sustainable.

🗺️ Server Updates

Dynmap should be returning soon™ 👀
Plugin updates have been completed.
Minecraft staff permissions were refined to be more secure and granular.
The “Angry Bees” issue has been fixed using command blocks 🐝

📜 Rule Updates (Important)

We're added and clarified a few rules to keep Lighthouse safe and welcoming:

No harassing others.

If someone asks you to stop, stop.
No constant pinging, bugging, or stalking behaviors.

No causing drama.

Drama will be handled at staff discretion.

Keep conversations PG (Family Friendly).

Even in prayer requests.
Adult-only channels still require maturity and discretion.

👥 Community Life

Crew Age Requirement: Lowered to 17 years old.

Promotions:

🎉 MrMuffin → Resident 🎉 MrDog → Resident

Honorary Quartermaster:

Lumi has been doing an excellent job helping moderate — thank you!

📖 Prayer & Bible Study

New combined schedule: Prayer & Bible Study will now meet together on 🕖 Tuesdays at 7:00 PM Eastern

🎮 Events & Builds

🏛️ Shrooms continues upgrading the Spawn Temple.
🎉 Our Quarterly Community Meeting will be on March 21st — a fun community event is being planned!
🏝️ Mini Games Island was a success — more mini games are coming!

🤖 A new Lighthouse MC bot has been added, and we’re working on a logo for it.

🧭 Leadership

Our Board of Directors meets this week.
Afterward, we’ll host a community meeting to share new direction and updates.

✨ Thank you for being part of Lighthouse! Please continue praying for wisdom, unity, and growth as we improve onboarding, strengthen our community culture, and prepare for upcoming events.