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Our Mission

At Harvesters International Ministries, we are called to take part in the Great Commission, bringing together churches and indigenous missionaries from around the world. Our unique focus helps congregations support lasting and meaningful change in even the most remote areas. This holistic approach engages individuals and communities from every angle to provide a rich picture of the impact we have when we strive toward a common goal. Together, we are able to transform communities and enrich lives, not just for a few weeks or months, but for generations to come.

  

Our Logo

ring_logo_black     In the same way ripples in a pond slowly spread out and meet as they travel to the shore, the three rings in Harvesters' logo serve as a reminder of the ways a single action can expand to create an entire movement of change. The rings represent the many ways that Harvesters, the Church and national missionaries impact the lives of others as we join together to spread the Word of God.

       Each ring is symbolic of a sphere of influence and life that is, for the most part, independent of the other rings. At the points of confluence, the areas at which these spheres overlap, there is a transformational affect that is represented by the multi-colored areas of the logo that stand in great contrast to the otherwise colorless rings.

      The Harvesters logo is symbolic of the effect that people can have on one another if they are willing to reach out. 

     Like these entities, the rings in the logo expand outwards and cross paths, touching all involved, leaving in its ripple a beautiful wake of changed lives and hearts won to Christ. In the center where all the rings cross, we find the strength that is communicated in Ecclesiastes 4:12 "...a threefold cord is not quickly broken."

  What we are involved in is ministering to the national partners and to churches here at home who have a desire to implement a vital missions' program in their churches or in their community.

     We are a society of believers with unique gifts and commonality of purpose which gives us strength to carry the message of Jesus Christ around the globe impacting people whom we have never personally met.

Our History

     The onset of a new century has brought about a great deal of reflection and reminiscing about the past. At Harvesters, looking back reminds us of God's faithfulness and sovereign ability to use people of all kinds to bring to fulfillment His plan of redemption of the nations.

     Harvesters began in 1978 as a small group of businessmen from various places within the United States who decided to unite their efforts and resources for the purpose of furthering worldwide missions through the training and assistance of national missionary workers. They selected the name "Harvesters" because of Jesus' repeated exhortations to "send out workers into the harvest field..."

     Harvesters desired that the funds for this ministry reach the mission field with little or no administration costs. Harvesters was granted tax-exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service of the United States in 1979.

     As Harvesters completes a third decade, the task and the message remain the same as they did in 1978 -- to reach the unreached with the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the training and assisting of national missionaries.

     The board of Harvesters is now comprised of Christian business people, pastors, seasoned missionaries and lay people who share that goal. The Lord has gathered people of similar values and goals, who believe that the solution to reaching the lost people of the world is through the training and financial support of national missionaries.

     The field of harvest is enormous and one organization is incapable of reaching everyone. Therefore Harvesters has focused its efforts in select areas of Africa and, most recently, India. Over the course of its ministry in Africa, Harvesters, in partnership with national ministries, has trained instructors of the Gospel in the school system in the Soweto area of South Africa. We support church planting and the training and equipping of young men to be pastors and evangelists. Harvesters also established a Bible College in South Africa and provided relief for orphaned children living on garbage dumps in Mozambique and western Kenya.

     Since 1988, Harvesters has partnered with Julius Murgor, one of the first Christians of the Pokot tribe of western Kenya who is attempting to reach the Pokot tribe with the gospel through the Pokot Outreach Ministry (POM).  In the nearly twenty years of ministry partnership, POM is sending missionaries into Uganda and will soon send its first missionaries outside of the tribe to the Taposa people of southern Sudan.

What We Believe

Harvesters International Ministries accepts the following statement of faith:

  • We believe in one God, eternally existent in three Persons: Father, Son and  Holy Spirit.
  • We believe that the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments are without error, are plenary and verbally inspired, and are the final authority in faith and practice.
  • We believe in the fall of man, so that all are sinners, lost and in need of salvation.
  • We believe in the Deity of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father and His future personal return in power and glory.
  • We believe that the only way of salvation is by grace alone through the believer's faith in the blood of Jesus Christ.
  • We believe in the new birth of each believer produced by the Holy Spirit and that He indwells those who have received Christ to enable them to live godly lives.
  • We believe in the spiritual unity of born-again believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.
  • We believe in the bodily resurrection and everlasting blessedness of the saved and the bodily resurrection and everlasting punishment of the lost.
  • We believe that every believer shares in the responsibility to teach and to preach the Gospel throughout the world.
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     The onset of a new century has brought about a great deal of reflection and reminiscing about the past. At Harvesters, looking back reminds us of God's faithfulness and sovereign ability to use people of all kinds to bring to fulfillment His plan of redemption of the nations.

     Harvesters began in 1978 as a small group of businessmen from various places within the United States who decided to unite their efforts and resources for the purpose of furthering worldwide missions through the training and assistance of national missionary workers. They selected the name "Harvesters" because of Jesus' repeated exhortations to "send out workers into the harvest field..."

     Harvesters desired that the funds for this ministry reach the mission field with little or no administration costs. Harvesters was granted tax-exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service of the United States in 1979.

     As Harvesters completes a third decade, the task and the message remain the same as they did in 1978 -- to reach the unreached with the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the training and assisting of national missionaries.

     The board of Harvesters is now comprised of Christian business people, pastors, seasoned missionaries and lay people who share that goal. The Lord has gathered people of similar values and goals, who believe that the solution to reaching the lost people of the world is through the training and financial support of national missionaries.

     The field of harvest is enormous and one organization is incapable of reaching everyone. Therefore Harvesters has focused its efforts in select areas of Africa and, most recently, India. Over the course of its ministry in Africa, Harvesters, in partnership with national ministries, has trained instructors of the Gospel in the school system in the Soweto area of South Africa. We support church planting and the training and equipping of young men to be pastors and evangelists. Harvesters also established a Bible College in South Africa and provided relief for orphaned children living on garbage dumps in Mozambique and western Kenya.

     Since 1988, Harvesters has partnered with Julius Murgor, one of the first Christians of the Pokot tribe of western Kenya who is attempting to reach the Pokot tribe with the gospel through the Pokot Outreach Ministry (POM).  In the nearly twenty years of ministry partnership, POM is sending missionaries into Uganda and will soon send its first missionaries outside of the tribe to the Taposa people of southern Sudan.