Rexford Louth

In the final few years of the 20thCentury Pastor Rex Louth heard the call to a new direction of ministry. For years he had heard the popularized message of the “separation of church and state”. As he was in earnest prayer for the condition of the United States, and feeling a deep burden to have the nation return to following the moral compass upon which it was founded, he cried out to God, asking for someone to arise and help change the spiritual climate surrounding him. It was in that moment he heard God’s calling. “I have chosen you to take a stand.”

 

Beginning at that juncture in time, Pastor Rex volunteered to assist the party with which his Christian values of the sanctity of life, godly marriage, and freedom of religious practice were more closely aligned.

Since that time he has moved through the local political landscape and is now serving as the Chairperson for House District 14 in Colorado. Was he always driven politically? No. In fact, he had been raised under the supposition of the “separation of church and state”.

Rexford “Rex” Louth was born to parents Rev. Donald and Sharon Louth on April 3, 1962 on an army base in Alabama. Pastor Donald Louth, serving in the military at that time, was also serving as senior pastor of a local congregation off-base.

 

Sometime before his second birthday, his family moved back to his dad’s home state of Indiana, and soon were ministering in the pastorate of a church in Huntington.

 

Throughout the next sixteen years, the senior Pastor Louth and family served in Indiana in Bloomfield, North Salem, Gary, and Crown Point. It was in Crown Point that he met the love of his life, Janet.

Janet had just accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior the Wednesday before his dad took the pastorate of the church in Crown Point. Within the next two years the friendship between Rex and Janet grew into a God-ordained love. His dad felt a leading to return to Huntington and re-establish the congregation there.

 

It was at this time that Rex and Janet decided to move up their plans and get married so that they, together, could move to Huntington and assist with the ministry effort God had placed on his dad’s heart. On September 29, 1979 they were married at a church in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

After two years of assisting with the establishment of the church in Huntington, Rex Louth, now a licensed minister, having completed the ministry internship program of the denomination with which he is still associated, felt led to assume a pastorate of his own in Bluffton, Indiana. He served in that position for seven and one-half years (a record at that time) in Bluffton.

 

It was just after God had blessed them with a new building, and the church was growing and thriving, that God directed Pastor Rex to leave all he knew in Indiana and head to Colorado Springs, Colorado, fourteen hundred miles away.   He left family and friends, took his wife and two little girls, one six and one two, and headed West.

Now, twenty-five years later, Pastor Rex and Janet are still serving the same congregation. Over that time the church has experienced much success. The heart of the pastor is evident in the presentation of the Word of God. The congregation is encouraged to live their Christian lives in full activity in winning the lost to Christ, serving their families and congregation, and influencing their society in all facets of life.

 

Once Pastor Rex heard the call to influence the direction society was taking, and became involved in politics (which has now been a more than fifteen year effort), he set out to expand the ministry to try and involve other pastors in the process. In addition, God spoke to his heart, inspiring him to write about the truth of the Christian connection in establishing and continuing the American way of life from the inception of exploration, through the establishment of the United States of America, and on into today’s generation.

 

The next chapters are yet to be determined, but Pastor Rex is convinced that God has only begun to do a work in his life in reaching out to the lost, and helping turn America back to the land God intends it to be.