Outreach
Harvest’s mission trip to Wakpala was June 3-12.
Harvest’s outreach begins at home and stretches across the globe. While we are strong supporters of several overseas missionaries, we believe outreach needs to start here in our own community and in our own country. Harvest supports local ministries such as Options Pregnancy Center and Faith Community Health with our gifts of finances and volunteer service.
Harvest sends a team each year to the Standing Rock Reservation near Mobridge, South Dakota, where we partner with Sioux Assembly of God Church on the reservation. Beginning in 2009 we sent our first team to Zaragoza, Mexico and have made subsequent trips. Harvest also supports several overseas missionaries and has sent out many of “our own” on short term trips. We are excited to see the many ways God is working through Harvest as we seek to be a part of His mission!
Wakpala, SD Trip 2011
In June 2011, our mission team took their 8th annual trip to the Standing Rock Reservation. This trip included several work projects as well as VBS for the kids, meals for the community, worship and fellowship.
Zaragoza, Mexico: Summer 2010
A small team traveled to Zaragoza, Mexico, July 31-August 7, to minister to the Divino Salvador Church. The objectives for this trip included furthering the relationship between the two churches, teaching their church body on Family and on Agriculture, and sharing and learning together on other topics and issues.
For four days, Gary led discussions on Family issues and Mark on Agriculture as Ponce translated into Spanish and church leaders translated into Mixtec. All of the teaching was well received with many questions and comments as people were clearly interested in the discussion. Fifty to sixty people came each day with eighty-five in attendance on the final day.
Another component of the trip was to discuss agriculture and environmental issues within the community. The group traveled around to see a number of milpas (cornfields), and tomato, bean, and other crop fields. The farmers had many questions about soil fertility stemming from the soil tests which Harvest had facilitated this past year. Also, the group discussed pest problems in the fields and in the storage of grains.
We are excited to see the incredible work God is doing in this and neighboring communities through the Divino Salvador church members and pray that, through God’s grace, Harvest will be able to continue to provide encouragement and support to the people of Zaragoza.
In 2011 our Children’s Ministry had a Dessert Fundraiser and all the money raised is being sent to Zaragoza to purchase items for the childrens’ ministry in the Zaragoza Church.
It is the desire of Harvest to follow the geographic pattern of Acts 1:8 in its missional outreach:
“in Jerusalem (locally), Judea and Samaria (regionally), and to the ends of the earth (globally).”