July Newsletter - Mid-Year Update

July 25th, 2024
by Harvest Teams

New Video Update, New Name, New Podcast! Join Us on a Spring 2025 Trip!
Check out the video below to hear our updates and celebrate what God has been doing in 2024!

After launching last year, we have seen God do some amazing things:

Completed 5 Harvest Trips:

3 international trips including 6 multi-day trainings
Several shorter training sessions in 5 additional cities
Over 750 pastors and future church planters trained
2 US-based trips for accelerating the evangelistic work of Church Planter

Established ongoing partnerships with 2 international ministry organizations:

One is a movement in India in which God has multiplied 28,000 house churches, averaging 12 people each, in just 18 years. We are learning from them, and they tell us our training is valuable to them. We have adopted a state there with 84 million precious souls and will continue to go back a couple of times per year and train their leaders.
Thanks to Mark Jappe, who has a big heart for missions, and the Jesus Mission group for the invitation to go on that trip to India, and the chance to speak to several other church organizations and connect to the groups in India!
We have also partnered with Grow Mongolia to provide church planter training and mission teams for direct evangelism.

Our Regional Harvest Teams in San Diego and Kansas City are rapidly raising up harvest workers to accelerate evangelistic growth. We are beginning to implement multiplication lessons learned from our partners in India.
Just in San Diego, we now have 9 Harvest teams with an average 5 leaders on each team. These leaders of leaders are committed to starting Discovery Bible Studies with faith beginners. The early results are promising as they include multiple baptisms already!
We also refined training content & handouts that have been translated into Mongolian (and soon some Indian languages).
We have also defined our vision and values, operational and accounting practices, plus trip processes to increase efficiency for the future.

We've Graduated to a New Name

We are still committed to sending Harvest Trips around the globe, but we needed to communicate the wider scope of what we are doing. Trips involve teams, but we are also discovering and developing Harvest Teams to do evangelism and invite people into Bible groups where they live. We equip and send these teams to make disciples both locally and globally.

Our New Podcast is Live!
To advance our training capabilities, we are starting a podcast to inspire people with our "Harvest Like Jesus" Principles. The first sessions will focus on discovery evangelism and starting new wineskins.

Join us spring 2025 in Mongolia!
We invite you to join our team on a Harvest Trip to Mongolia this coming spring! We are planning specifics now to return to Mongolia to do outreach through discovery evangelism.

We are opening up this opportunity to you, our dear prayer warriors, readers and supporters, to join with us. More details to come, but reply to this email if you'd like to hear more!

Prayer Requests:

Pray for the leaders committing themselves to starting Discovery Bible Studies.
Pray for our trips to India in the Fall, and Mongolia in the spring.
Pray for John's training of church planters from five New England states in December.
Pray for the launch of our new podcast.
Pray for wisdom for how to wisely use the resources God has supplied to launch this ministry. Global needs are overwhelming and we want to invest what you have entrusted to us carefully.

July Newsletter - Mid-Year Update

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