WORSHIP:
Timothy Christian School
750 Essa Road
Barrie, ON
9 a.m. & 11:15 a.m.

OFFICE:
258 Bayfield Street
Barrie, ON
L4M 3B7

CONTACT:
P: 705-739-8613
F: 705-739-9348
info@harvestbarrie.ca

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WedWednesdayAprApril4th2012

Build my church

Posted Wednesday, April 04 2012 @ 8 AM byJeannie Coros Tagged Harvest Bible Fellowship 1 comments Add comment

“I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it”. Matthew 16:18b

That is exactly what God is doing in Harvest world – building his church. What an incredible blessing it is be a part of it!

Harvest Bible Fellowship is the church-planting ministry of Harvest Bible Chapel that

(1) assesses, trains and equips select men to serve as Harvest senior pastors;

(2) confirms their planting locations;

(3) assists with the development and launch of new Harvest Bible Chapels;

(4) replants existing churches to become Harvest Bible Chapels; and

(5) supports every senior pastor and local church through ongoing equipping throughout the life of their churches.

82 churches have started or transitioned since Harvest Bible Chapel was first established in 1988. It’s so exciting to hear about eleven more of them launching in 2012:

Los Angeles, California

Fort Wayne, Indiana

Clear Lake, Iowa

Northern Kentucky

Cambridge, Ohio

Greenville South, South Carolina

Fairfax, Virginia

Ometepe Island, Nicaragua

Chisinau, Moldova

Douala, Africa

...and on Easter Sunday – Harvest Traverse City, Michigan is all set to open its doors. Pastor Doug Long, his wife Christy and their three children are excited to see what God has in store for them. Remember this faithful servant and his family in your prayers this weekend.

It will be completely incredible to be among staff and volunteers from our family of Harvest churches in April at Harvest University (details here). To think that we will all be there, with the same vision, the same passion, to worship and glorify our one true King. I’m excited to see Pastor Jeremy from Harvest Jupiter Beach, who we surfed with in Florida and to re-connect with friends of ours from Harvest Phoenix who will be attending as well. What an amazing opportunity to gather together as one body, to learn and grow; to sharpen and encourage one another; to re-charge! I can’t wait to head to Chicago April 22-25to spend this precious time with our extended Harvest family. Are you coming?

ThuThursdayFebFebruary23rd2012

Harvest Bible Fellowship

Posted Thursday, February 23 2012 @ 7 AM byHarvest Bible Fellowship Tagged Harvest Bible Fellowship 0 comments Add comment

ENTER HARVEST: CHURCH PLANTING EVENT
The purpose of ENTER Harvest is to decentralize and accelerate the recruitment and assessment of potential Harvest church planters, pastors, core groups and replant (transition) church opportunities. Harvest Davenport and Harvest Oakville are hosting our first events this Spring.

GOD@WORK: BUILDING STRONG LEADERS
Back in 2002, Robbie Symons found himself in a dark place—a tough place of confusion and lack of joy bordering on depression. One day he took off work in Canada to hear speaker, James MacDonald, whose brother, John, attended Robbie’s church.

HARVEST TRAINING CENTER RESIDENTS - SPRING 2012
Our focus is on individual character and developing preaching, pastoral and leadership gifts. Men selected as Training Center Residents work through a rigorous residency program.

HARVEST UNIVERSITY - April 22-28 | REGISTER NOW
This annual conference delivers high-caliber, application-oriented teaching drawn from years of fruitful ministry by Harvest pastors and leaders from around the world.

Check out the Harvest Barrie HU package.

ThuThursdayOctOctober27th2011

Harvest Managua, Nicaragua

Posted Thursday, October 27 2011 @ 7 AM byHarvest Bible Fellowship Tagged Harvest Bible Fellowship 2 comments Add comment

We want to introduce Jared Cox to you. Jared has served faithfully in Nicaragua for five years as Senior Pastor of Iglesia Biblica Impacto (Impact Bible Church) soon to be a Harvest Bible Chapel. But as pastors know, there is a story of God’s hand throughout the life of every Senior Pastor.

Jared was saved at age seven, but when he was eleven, Jared, alone, witnessed his father’s massive, fatal heart attack. And at such a tender age, Satan used the experience to launch Jared into many years of torment and fear. With a history of hardship already in his family—parents divorced when he was ten, his mom had cancer when his father left, and then his father’s death—Jared sank deeper and deeper into depression and major demonic oppression. Finally, because of extreme suicidal thoughts ending with a nervous breakdown, Jared was put into a behavioral hospital at age seventeen where the Lord began to lay a foundation for future ministry. “The Lord took all hope away from me…God put me in the shoes of everyone in that (counseling group) so I would know what it felt like to live without any hope at all—what it felt like to be without Christ and going to hell.” And this began Jared’s road into full-time ministry.

After being released, Jared enrolled at Moody Bible Institute. And while his training for ministry began, the Lord continued to shape him with heartache in his life. The Christmas before graduation, Jared’s brother was in a terrible car accident that left him seriously impaired, and Jared felt it was his job to go home and care for him. So just after graduation, instead of embarking on his new desire for missions, Jared went home and cared for his incapacitated brother for a full year. “God taught me: ‘You’ve got all the head stuff, the theological stuff, but now you’re going to learn how to apply it and serve your brother for a year.’” Jared recalls, “God used reoccurring tragedy and more pain to actually heal my heart. Of course with all the tragedies, you have a tendency to want to be a victim and give in to self-pity…But one day at Moody, the Holy Spirit so convicted me of my lack of belief in what Jesus did on the cross for me, I had to stop right there and repent of my unbelief. Jesus Christ completely canceled even all of those tragedies with His death on the cross. And with that repentance and a healing process, God healed me of the past pain in my life—it was done.”

After a year of caring for his brother, Jared married Tanya, his wife of eleven years now, and the two of them began their journey to Nicaragua to start a Youth Leadership Center that later turned into their current home church, Impacto. And while the church has 150-170 attendees each week, Nicaragua has a difficult“health and wealth” spiritual climate, and Jared has longed for a godly support system. Thus he and Tanya and their four children are now here in the States for several months receiving Harvest’s support and training at Harvest Bible Fellowship’s Training Center for Church Planting and early next year, by God’s grace, will launch Harvest Bible Chapel Managua, Nicaragua. “When my flesh wants to remember tragedy in my life, the Holy Spirit quickly pricks me and says, ‘Don’t you dare go in that direction, I’m too big and too powerful—don’t limit me by thinking I’m beneath using those tragedies.”

Pray for the Cox family and for the replant of Harvest Managua scheduled for January 15.

Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it: "I am the Lord; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations, to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness." -Isaiah 42:5-7

from Harvest Bible Fellowship

ThuThursdayOctOctober20th2011

Have you ever gotten a glimpse of God’s handwriting?

Posted Thursday, October 20 2011 @ 8 AM byHarvest Bible Fellowship Tagged Harvest Bible Fellowship 1 comments Add comment

Ever been caught off guard by the revelation that God Almighty is far more visible and near than you have recognized in a long time? That’s where I’ve been lately—undone by the nearness of his glory.

God has handwriting, and if you don’t think so, consider this. Any manifestation of God, anything that evidences God’s existence—that’s his glory. And glory is God’s supernatural signature, Every time you see something that leaves you wide-eyed and speechless, something that only God could have done, only God could have made—that’s glory.

From that songbird chirping at daybreak, to the ocean waves rolling and crashing on the shore without end, to an outer space that’s so vast we can’t begin to comprehend it, to the tiniest neutrons and molecules…a single message resounds: “There’s a God! There’s a God! There’s a God!”

Breathless before glory in Psalm 19:1, not even King David could hold back what we all know to be true: “The heavens declare the glory of God, the earth displays his handiwork.” And when any human being on the face of the earth has a transcendent moment when they see glory, when they witness the handwriting of God, they can begin to understand that the glory of God is the purpose of the universe.

Before God said the first “LET THERE BE…,” He had a reason, a plan—to display his glory. God created the universe because of desires within himself—not to complete himself, but because he is a God who gives, a God who shares, a God of grace and mercy. God spoke this universe into existence so he could reveal…himself.

And he raised the bar on glory to its highest point in this: the revelation of his Son, Jesus Christ. As the first verses of Hebrews attest, “He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power.”

What the entire universe can only hint at by comparison, the Son is declaring with power and certainty and clarity. The glory of God is revealed in Jesus Christ.

Yes, God has handwriting. And Jesus is his autograph of glory. “The Word [who] became flesh and dwelt among us” has, for time and eternity, revealed transcendent glory, “…as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth,” John 1:14.

So that by the nearness of his glory we could know him—and live with a consuming passion to make him known.

Pastor James

ThuThursdayOctOctober13th2011

New HBF Church Plants

Posted Thursday, October 13 2011 @ 7 AM byJordan Donald Tagged Harvest Bible Fellowship 0 comments Add comment

As some of you may or may not know, Harvest Barrie is part of the Harvest Bible Fellowship.

The Harvest Bible Fellowship trains new leaders to go out and plant Harvest Bible Chapel’s around the globe. HBF is all about fulfilling the great commission.

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age. - Matthew 28:19-20

Recently within HBF, the Lord has blessed us with so many new campuses just this month in October! Five new Harvest Bible Chapels are starting in Pittsburgh, Rochester, Western Massachusetts, Niagara and Makwanpur Nepal.

With these five churches launching: 77 Harvests will exist in 10 countries on four continents. Currently in the works they have another 21 church plants that are getting prepared for the upcoming year. Some countries included in that are Nairobi, Kenya, Chennai and India. The gospel is being preached!

Praise the Lord for what he is doing through the Fellowship. It’s such a blessing to be a part of it!

Some way’s we can pray:

1. For God's strength, grace and wisdom as things are a bit out of control – in a good way.
2. For insight that surpasses any of our ability to make sense of the Spirit's leading, direction, guidance
3. For healthy, appropriate, self-sustaining churches
4. For elder installs scheduled and for developing international elder teams
5. For more churches in HBF North America to accept coaching roles and join with HBF Missions; making it a priority; catching vision/mission, mobilizing the majority of disciples locally to Pray-Give-Go

"Oh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples!" - Psalm 105:1

Jordan

TueTuesdayJulJuly5th2011

Churches Helping Churches: Haiti Update

Posted Tuesday, July 05 2011 @ 7 AM byHarvest Bible Fellowship Tagged Harvest Bible Fellowship 1 comments Add comment

From Thomas Kim, Churches Helping Churches

When I was in manufacturing, I wanted every operator on the plant floor to know the answers to three questions:

What is the numeric goal?
Are you ahead or behind?
Do you know if your work is good or bad?

More concerning than the actual answers to these questions was whether or not they knew the answers.

I find these questions translate seamlessly to disaster relief. So, as we continue the work in Haiti, let me give you our update:

The goal is 50 churches by the end of summer.
We’re behind schedule.
What we’re producing is very, very good.

When we first came to Haiti, we quickly realized we would not be reconstructing churches, but instead would need to approach our building effort as if we were constructing churches for the very first time. There was simply nothing to work with. We quickly donated 34 transitional shelters, made of wood, which has allowed pastoral work to continue. Then, we immediately began making long-term plans for permanent structures.

Although the project has been delayed due to logistical problems, we have been committed to providing a solid foundation for our Haitian churches to build upon instead of rushing to an inferior solution.

Today, we’re in striking distance of putting up the first of these structures. Here are some of the distinctive features of this building:

Structurally sound: The open-air structures have been designed according to California seismic codes, which account for 8.0 magnitude earthquakes. They are also hurricane resistant, or able to withstand winds of up to 140 MPH.
Jumpstart: This is a roof-only structure that will allow churches to meet under a stable roof. Over time, the church will build the walls and inner furnishings to their taste, which will not have an affect on the structural integrity of the building. This works in harmony with traditional Haitian construction as they build their homes over a lifetime while living in them.
Clear span: Most steel structures of this kind have a large I-beam spanning the entire building, weighing thousands of pounds, and requiring heavy machinery for assembly. However, our partners, Metal Construction Resources and Joe Meheen, inventor of the tunable bridge, have replaced that I-beam with something that looks like a bridge. The clear span (i.e. free from support posts in the middle aisles) is achieved through light-weight trusses. If you’ve ever sat behind a column in church, bumped your knees and strained your neck to see the pastor, you’ll know why a clear span is a practical architectural move for a church.
Capacity building: Most importantly, the unique and lightweight composition of the structure allows it to be assembled almost entirely by the congregation with simple hand-tools. The building team will be recruited, trained, and eligible to receive certification when the building is complete, which in theory will help them find employment in steel construction – a blossoming Haitian industry – after the project ends. The team of builders will in turn head to the next church to train a new team, who will build their own church, and then send a team to the next church, until all of the churches have been built.
Match-funding: Notably, these structures will cost between $4-$5 per square foot to complete, an unbelievably low price per square foot for a seismic and hurricane resistant structure. CHC financially matched the program 1:8 to intentionally provide our Haitian pastors with ownership in the project. It was important to involve the churches in the process financially. Jesus could have fed the 5,000 with nothing, but instead, purposely multiplied what they already had – no matter how small – to provide more than enough to feed the multitudes. These congregations have each seen God multiply their limited resources to meet their needs far beyond what they could have imagined. CHC is proud to match over $100,000 raised through the local church congregations.

When I describe our Haitian church structure, its cost, and the method we will use to build each building to experts in the industry, they don’t believe it can be done. They say the technical specifics are too high, the building is too cheap – and wonder how it’s possible that average people with limited training can work together to build something so strong.

At that point I simply tell the critics that the story gets even better: God also provided JC Construction, a startup light-gauge steel construction company based in Haiti, willing to loan us their equipment. And he provided unexplainable favour from other Haitian and American vendors.

We may be behind schedule on our new churches. But by taking the time to understand what will work best in the long term, and then thoughtfully designing our approach, and serving a gracious God who has blessed this project abundantly… these Haitian congregations will receive more than just a new church building. They will be part of a building process will be edifying to God, to his churches in Haiti, and to the congregations that serve him.

When all is said and done, we will have more than just 50 church structures. We will have 50 congregations that have each grown exponentially through the effort.

God is at work in Haiti. And we’re glad to be there to help.

Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain. (Psalm 127:1)

WedWednesdayJunJune22nd2011

Harvest University 2012

Posted Wednesday, June 22 2011 @ 7 AM byHarvest Bible Fellowship Tagged Harvest Bible Fellowship 0 comments Add comment

Harvest University

dates for 2012

Sunday, April 22 to Wednesday, April 25, 2012

The dates for Harvest University 2012 have just been confirmed and we wanted you to be the first to know!

Next years conference will include high-impact worship, vertical teaching, iron-sharpening fellowship, and strategic planning time for you and your ministry team to recalibrate your direction and processes, and further the reach of your impact for Christ.

Please be in prayer for Harvest University 2012 and also for the teachers and attendees as we know he will do exceedingly abundantly beyond all we could ask or think (Eph 3:20).

Check out the reports from this year's trip to Harvest University:

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If you're getting this on your calendar (and you should) for 2012, or if you're thinking about it, . Details will come as we get closer to the trip but the list is starting now!

ThuThursdayOctOctober21st2010

Harvest Bible Fellowship Fall Update

Posted Thursday, October 21 2010 @ 10 AM byHarvest Bible Fellowship Tagged Harvest Bible Fellowship 0 comments Add comment

In the past two months, 12 new Harvest Bible Chapels have launched. This is an extraordinary thing to be able to report. The Lord has blessed our movement with what are now 62 Harvest locations where the Word is going forth, Christ is being lifted high, and lives are being changed for eternity.

We praise God for this season of abundant fruitfulness, and for the multiple opportunities for planting churches that he continues to open to us.

In North America, new core groups are developing in Baltimore, Maryland; Boise, Idaho; and Tennessee.

Internationally, we are qualifying potential future locations in London, England; Felnac and Ramnicu Valcea, Romania; leading a Harvest U-style training for Metanoia leaders in Oroshaza, Hungary; and overseeing the formal launch of Harvest Metanoia Vienna, Austria.

Launches this month included Harvest Columbus with Luke Ahrens, and Harvest Gianda under elder leadership. At the Columbus launch the Lord moved powerfully, bringing 315 in attendance.

Lastly, a great opportunity from Moody Theological Seminary: MTS is partnering with our Fellowship to offer a 25% discount on all graduate courses (on-site and online) to members of every Harvest Bible Chapel. More information is available by .

We are grateful for your partnership in the Gospel, and we covet your prayers in the decisions ahead. We continue to pray the Lord's abundant and sustaining grace upon you as well.

Harvest Bible Fellowship