Portrait of a Church Replant - Entries from May 2009

    ThuThursdayMayMay21st2009 Prayer for Our Plants
    byHarvest Bible Fellowship Tagged No tags 0 comments Add comment
    Believing firmly in the power of prayer...

    This, the third pillar of Harvest, both undergirds and overarches the flow of leadership decisions and ministry trajectories—and equally applies to the protecting and prospering of our church plants.


    As part of a month-long missions emphasis, Harvest Rolling Meadows and the extension campuses of Elgin, Niles, and Crystal Lake spent the evening of May 13 in focused prayer, beseeching the Lord of the harvest on behalf of Harvest churches around the globe.

    Nearly every Harvest Bible Chapel was represented by a video short of each senior pastor, sharing a snapshot of their church and specific requests to lift to the throne. And on all four "Big Harvest" campuses, they were—by some 2500 brothers and sisters in Christ!

    And you're invited to join us—"meet" these pastors, get a feel for the breadth and depth of God's favor over the church planting mission of Harvest, and support them in prayer.

    View their video clips at the Covering His Church blog or by clicking on the photo below...and keep an expectant eye open for the great and mighty ways He will answer.


    With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints, and pray on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel...

    FriFridayMayMay8th2009 God at Work @ Harvest
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    We were grateful for those that made it from Hickory to Illinois for this year's University, Harvest Bible Fellowship's annual conference for pastors and ministry leaders. We were specially blessed with a residual joy—the kind that comes from seeing the Lord Jesus glorified in session after session, workshop after workshop...in the open hearts of attenders and in the humble hearts of those who served.

    For those of you who weren't there, we had well over 500 leaders from various churches around the country taking part in two-and-a-half days of high-octane worship and teaching, and generous fellowshiping as one body of many parts.

    Representing God's favor and abundant fruitfulness throughout Harvest Bible Fellowship, were thirty-one Senior Pastors of Harvest Bible Chapels throughout North America and overseas, along with seven soon-to-be-planting Senior Pastors.

    We'd love to share with you this sweeping view of the remarkable work Lord has done through the first twenty years of ministry at Harvest. Check out this video that kicked off the conference (courtesy of Harvest Oakville) and celebrate His goodness with us!

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