Global Vision: Summer Update
What's on the agenda this summer at Harvest Bible Fellowship?
A season loaded with ministry equipping, and well underway...
Senior Pastors & Wives Retreat
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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.
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Summer Residencies
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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.
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Elder & Leader Training
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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.
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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
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Partnering in Missions
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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.
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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
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Rolling Meadows Men’s Ministry > Pecica, Romania (Harvest Metanoia Arad outreach) | July 2-10
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Peoria > Harvest Metanoia Ploiesti, Romania | July 9-14
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Rolling Meadows Young Adult Ministry > Harvest Metanoia Arad,
Romania | July 15-25
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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:
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Churches Helping Churches
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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.
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God @ Work in Our Fellowship
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