Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island nation in the Lesser Antilles chain of the Caribbean...
and the future home of a Harvest Bible Chapel.
Graduates of
Moody Bible Institute and
Michigan Theological Seminary, Al and Debbie Blake, will be planting together with Harvest Bible Fellowship in St. Vincent. Currently, Al serves as Assistant Pastor at
Harvest Canton in Michigan.
Native to the island, Al and Debbie are no strangers to Carib culture. After serving in multiple ministry outposts (with Ambassadors for Christ in St. Vincent and England, as Youth Chairman for the St. Vincent Baptist Convention and Assistant Pastor at Campden Park Baptist Church in St. Vincent), God led Al and Debbie to embark on a training mission in the U.S.
Woven throughout their experiences is story after story of God's faithfulness and provision in orchestrating His plan, and in moving what seemed to be impossible barriers to this new work. Today, Al and Debbie prepare to re-enter their homeland to plant a vibrant, life-giving work on the island.
Al, gifted both in communicating God's Word and leading in worship, is developing a core team to impact St. Vincent for Christ and plant a church fully committed to the pillars of Harvest. Check out a recent trip, in which the core team was encouraged and locations surveyed for the new church plant...
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Al says, "We are excited to return to the island to proclaim the message of hope...humbly using the tools with which God has equipped us by helping to train and encourage other pastors and laypersons who labor selflessly to spread the aroma of Christ around the island."
Completing their church-plant training at Harvest Bible Fellowship this summer, Al and Debbie have been blessed and built into by on-site training at
Harvest Davenport in Iowa, and Harvest Canton. Lord willing, the Blake family is scheduled to return to St. Vincent on November 3.
Our desire is to see Jesus exalted and lives transformed by the power of the gospel in St. Vincent. Please join us in prayer to see this island nation proclaim the salvation found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved!
Pray specifically: for the developing launch team, a worship leader, a location for this new church plant...where, Lord willing, worshippers will soon gather in Spirit and in Truth.
"And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself" (John 12:32).