Global Vision: Summer Update

Harvest Bible Fellowship

What's on the agenda this summer at Harvest Bible Fellowship?
A season loaded with ministry equipping, and well underway...

Senior Pastors & Wives Retreat

In early June, the Senior Pastors and wives of our North American Harvest Bible Chapels gathered for a three-day lakeside retreat - our second annual Family Reunion. Times of worship, hearing from Pastor James, sessions on the fundamentals of marriage and ministry, and throttling down with a little R & R, made for three well-spent Wisconsin days.

Summer Residencies

With 18 church-planting opportunities in process, this summer the Fellowship will host several pastoral residents planning to launch in the fall. Receiving a week of intensive instruction at the Harvest Elgin Campus, and returning with their families for short-term residencies in August, are future Harvest pastors preparing to launch in Fresno, California; the metro DC region of N. Virginia; and Perth, Australia.

Elder & Leader Training

		20+ years of ministry experience undergirds the planting and equipping of every Harvest Bible Chapel. One of the benefits of this experience is the leader training that results. In May, elders from seven Harvest Bible Chapels in Ontario assembled in Barrie for an in-depth elder training with twenty-year Harvest ministry veteran Rick Donald.
		This summer we are also launching a series of video conference-based trainings for Harvest pastors looking to accelerate their ministry effectiveness. Worship and Children’s Ministry directors video conference dates are in the works.

Partnering in Missions

		As a church-planting movement, our churches have no lack of short-term, cross-church opportunities. Several Harvest teams have already been dispatched to serve other Harvest sister churches; several more teams are in preparation. All will deliver support and encouragement to the receiving church plants and spiritual vitality into their own lives.
		Harvest Rolling Meadows College Ministry > Harvest St. Vincent \| May 21-29 Harvest Elgin Student Ministries > Harvest Turks & Caicos \| June 11-19 Harvest Elgin Student Ministries > Harvest Glasgow, Scotland \| June 11-19 Harvest Miami > Harvest Elgin (serving in Racetrack Ministry and Harvest House) \| June 19-26 Harvest Denver > Harvest Rolling Meadows (serving in Racetrack Ministry and Harvest House) \| June 23-26 Harvest Rolling Meadows Men’s Ministry > Pecica, Romania (Harvest Metanoia Arad outreach) \| July 2-10 Harvest Peoria > Harvest Metanoia Ploiesti, Romania \| July 9-14 Harvest Rolling Meadows Young Adult Ministry > Harvest Metanoia Arad, Romania \| July 15-25 Harvest Rockford > Harvest Metanoia Braila, Romania \| July 22-Aug 1 Harvest Indy West > Harvest Metanoia Ghioroc, Romania \| Aug 13-21 Harvest Davenport > Harvest St. Vincent \| Aug 13-23 To partner your Harvest church with another for short-term missions contact Sandy: .

Churches Helping Churches

CHC Executive Director Thomas Kim conducted their first large-scale ministry initiative in late May, with a 4-day Churches Helping Pastors retreat in Port Au Prince. Leaders and counselors poured into 150+ Haitian pastors in need of encouragement, renewal, and ministry direction, and began the process of rebuilding spiritual infrastructure in Haiti.

God @ Work in Our Fellowship

		Laying Hold of New Life: Harvest Turks & CaicosHow is God working at Harvest Turks & Caicos? Through new leadership and new life! “The Lord is shaking up things here!” declares Tim Rezac, Senior Pastor of this island church, less than four months... [more]
		Defending the Faith: RZIM & Harvest Metanoia Arad Readying a generation of leaders in Romania ... God threw some tough questions at pastors and other church leaders in Romania at a conference on evangelism and apologetics in April. How do you... [more]
		Shine the Light: Canadian Harvests' Youth Coalition "In the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world ..." (Philippians 2:15). The call to stand up and out for Jesus Christ has drawn Harvest youth and... [more]
		Forging Ahead: Harvest St. Vincent Forging ahead with the planting of any church is a humbling and exciting process —and the planting of Harvest Bible Chapel St. Vincent Island in the Caribbean is, perhaps, even more so. Throughout... [more

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