History:
The Forest City Foursquare Gospel Church had its beginning as an Independent Pentecostal Church known as the Gospel Light Tabernacle. A group of 25 people met on August 23, 1982 in a small store front building on Thomas Street in Forest City to begin to organize a ministry which they had felt that it was the will of God to begin. The first few months were filled with the task of organizing the ministry and learning what it was to walk as a new fledgling church. Those were tough days, but days filled with the glory of God. From the inception of the church it was evident that the anointing of the Holy Spirit was upon this work.

In 1985 the church had continued to see growth and the blessings of the Lord. We had already had to build a front and rear Sunday School annex onto our existing building. As God continued to bless the church we saw the need of building a new sanctuary which was completed in June 1989. The building which began as a 1500 sq.ft. structure was now at over 5000 sq.ft.

In 1986 God had allowed us to purchase 6.5 acres of land directly across from our church. In June 1990 the church used part of this property to place a parsonage on. The parsonage became debt free in 1996.

In February 1998 we completed the building of a new Family Life Center. This building is 3200 sq.ft. and through the blessings of our Lord was built debt free. We were able to complete the paving our parking area and give God praise that this too was completed debt free.

In 2003 God graced us to able to build a new 4800 square foot building for our Teen & Children's ministries. We look forward to the continued growth of both of these ministries.