Harvest trips are evangelistic mission trips that ...

Both Jesus and Paul used trips to make disciples and to train future harvesters in the process. 

Matthew 28:18-20 and Acts 1:8 

Harvest Trips uses the discovery evangelism strategy, which meets many unsaved people in search of God-prepared persons of peace. This contrasts with relational evangelism, which is effective but requires more time.  

...that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored...

2 Thess. 3:1b

We will seek to funnel new disciples into new gatherings that are designed especially for them.  The new community is made up of a high percentage of faith beginners and they are fed spiritual milk. 

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.

Luke 5:37-38

Our trips provide practical on-the-job training for fishers of men. 

And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”

Matt. 4:19

Nearly all mission trips are life-changing, and Harvest Trips are no exception. The values especially encouraged on Harvest Trips are urgency to reach people and to see them assimilated into a group or service they can easily relate to. 

Luke 6:40 and Romans 12:1-2

Harvest Trips will offer church planter training for leaders in the country visited. These will include workshops and practical evangelistic experiences.  

...took the disciples with him, reasoning daily in the hall of Tyrannus. This continued for two years, so that all the residents of Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

Acts 19:9b-10