Lighthouse String Ensemble is a bluegrass gospel band based out of Troy, Alabama.  The members consist of father-daughter team Mike Benton & Amanda Smothers, with banjo player Ray Rossell, Calvin Bodiford on fiddle, and Hugh Atkins on upright bass.  LSE has been together for about 16 years ministering in and around Alabama. 


"God is so big He can cover the whole world with His love, and so small He can curl up inside your heart." - June Masters Bacher

 "The Lord was ready to save me:  therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord."  Isaiah 38:20