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Serving the gospel to a dying world.
Matthew 28.18 is a clarion call for the age in which we live. “GO” Jesus said, “and teach all
nations… teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you” And that is what Harvest Missions has been doing faithfully now these many years. Planting churches and making disciples around the globe is what this year’s conference is about.
Join us these four nights to hear about all God is doing with the many missionaries and ministries that our church supports. Be praying that by the leading of his Spirit, and with the power and truth of his Word, this conference would propel us into 2023 on a trajectory that will have most effective impact for the Kingdom of God and his glory.
About: Gary and Jeanie were missionaries in the Philippine Islands with Baptist Bible Fellowship, Int. Their ministry in the Philippines comprised of starting churches, training nationals and partnering with MANNA Worldwide in operating two nutritional centers in Metro Manila.
Gary and Jeanie now will be working for MANNA Worldwide. Gary will be involved in overseeing projects in Africa that include schools, orphanages and nutrition centers. MANNA currently sponsors 27 projects in 9 different countries in Africa. Working alongside American Missionaries and African Pastors, MANNA has been able to make a difference in the lives of children and their families.
About: McDonald John Mwansa came to know Jesus Christ as his personal Savior in July of 1968. When he was a youth, he led a singing group called “The Golden Voices Quartet” in a local Baptist church while in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. During these days he was very involved in youth work at his church with the singing group where he traveled both in and outside of Zambia sharing the gospel through music. From 1985 t0 2001 he worked for various secular companies in managerial positions.
In 2001 he had a calling to go to Bible School and decided to resign from where he was currently employed. He then enrolled at North Star Bible Baptist Institute under GCMS (God’s Christian Missionary Service) at the Kafulafuta Mission Station in the Copperbelt. After 3 years he graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Theology. While he was earning his degree, he was pastoring Telasha Bible Baptist Church, not far from the institute. When he graduated, the church asked him to be their full-time pastor where he would go on to pastor for 13 years. During his Pastoral period, McDonald was elected as the Vice Chairman of GCMS. Later he was elected Chairman where he would serve diligently for 17 years. In 2019 he was appointed as Director of Restoration Ministry under GCMS of Zambia. He started helping the Bible Baptist Churches of Lusaka in Discipleship and Doctrine until his calling to Nkonde where he would help lead Good Tidings Christian Schools and Ministries where he is currently.
McDonald met his wife Margaret in 1975 and were happily married for 44 years. Margaret passed away July 5th, 2020. She had worked as a school teacher where she would retire as a Head Teacher or what we would call a Principal. Together they had 7 children, 4 boys and 3 girls with 23 grandchildren.
If you are interested in joining Harvest on a mission trip to serve alongside Pastor Macdonald in 2023, you are invited to join us over dinner (5:30-6:30PM) on Wednesday.
About: Gary & Allison serve in the Dominican Republic. Gary is the team leader of DR Vision and senior pastor of Iglesia Bautista Evangelica de Macoris (IBEM). Allison is the founder of The Palms Christian school and the director of the women’s rescue ministry.
Pray: Please pray for the many ministries – IBEM, the local church in San Pedro, the women’s outreach and M.E.R.C.Y. jewelry. Also pray for their new facility on vision land; the baseball ministry – they are currently praying for an athletics director; and the Palms Christian school.
If you are interested in joining Harvest on a mission trip to serve alongside the Hales in 2023, you are invited to join us over dinner (5:30-6:30PM) on Tuesday.
About: Ramiro was born into a Pastor’s family in 1978, during civil war in El Salvador. He gave his life to Christ at the age of 6 and was baptized at 12. He started serving the Lord when he was 13 years old as a teacher in children’s ministry. Ramiro started preaching occasionally in the youth ministry at 16 years old and became a youth pastor at 18. At 21, he started preaching one of the services at his father’s church every Sunday and was ordained to pastoral ministry at 27. He and his wife Eugenia de Claros were married a year later, and planted a church in the mountains of Morazán El Salvador the same year. They served the Lord there for over 12 years, and had 3 children. They moved to San Miguel in 2018 and are currently planting a church there.
” I am planning to serve Lord to the day he call me home or He return for His precious Church.”
Family: Kale & Brooke have one son, Judah
About: After serving as the Youth Pastor at First Baptist Church in New Philadelphia, OH for four years, Kale and his family are following the Lord by moving to Budapest, Hungary. Kale & Brooke have worked alongside the Hungarian American Fellowship (HAF) since 2014, putting on summer camps for children and sharing the gospel. The HAF has seen hundreds of Hungarian children and adults come to know Christ as their Savior.
If you are interested in joining Harvest on a mission trip to serve alongside the Horvaths in 2023, you are invited to join us over dinner (5:30-6:30PM) on Monday.
Brandon Briscoe – LFBI – Spring Semester Update
Myles Cheadle – Friends of Internationals – International ministry
PURPOSE: You do not need to add evangelism to your life, you need to let it transform what is already there.
Randy Foster – Word First Publishing – International ministry
Dale McCaulley – Timothy Training Initiative – Church planting
“If there be any one point in which the Christian church ought to keep its fervor at a
white heat, it is concerning missions. If there be anything about which we cannot tolerate lukewarmness, it is in the matter of sending the gospel to a dying world.”
– Charles Spurgeon
A lot of churches have a missions conference that is a conference “about missions.” What we are having is a conference “with missionaries.” We want you to rub elbows with the men and women on the field. We want to put them in front of your kids, so that our children get to see someone called, sent, and sold-out to the mission, living the book of Acts in front of them.
Let’s not just talk about missions, or have “missions speakers.” Let’s meet, mingle and listen to missionaries for four nights, and serve the gospel to a dying world together!
Pastor Alan Shelby
PURPOSE: You do not need to add evangelism to your life, you need to let it transform what is already there.
Evangelism is not natural for most people but the beautiful thing about our Harvest Teams is that the goal is not evangelism, the goal is to keep the conversation going.
Friends (testimony) —> Faith (salvation) —> Fellowship (discipleship)
You will meet with a group of regularly to share ideas, opportunities and testimony to help you transition the lost from friendship with you, to faith in Christ, to fellowship with us.
Committing to pray for our missionaries is one of the most impactful ways to support them, and a way that you can be involved in what God is doing, both across our nation and across the globe.
We have a mission of “every-member ministry.” There is no greater time than now to draw your family into missions and ministry with you. These are the very circumstances that create just what we need to reach our society.
Join our Mission Central team to engage every member of Harvest in the mission of the Great Commission on any level.
Let us equip you to build on-ramps in missions, through evangelism, trip training, church planting, and planning all the various aspects of our members’ involvement in the mission right here, from here to Judea, Judea to Samaria, and among the least reached at the uttermost.
You do not need to worry about your ability, God is only looking for your availability. Our Mission Central Team will be sure you are equipped with all the necessary training and tools to make each trip work for your good and God’s glory.
Will you “Come and See” what God is doing with our missionaries around the globe?
Sign up today for one of our upcoming trips
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