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-Sunday morning services are happening in person at 10:00am. Children's church available.

-November 20th - Worship and Prayer Night-6:30pm

Join us to intercede for our nation, state, and city! Worship, corporate, and personal prayer is what these nights are all about. I hope you can join us!

Church Newsletter November 3, 2020

Dear Harvest Family,

I wanted to write and share some encouragement and challenge: Life is messy right now. It’s hard. It’s difficult. However, in Jesus, we have a solid anchor— When everything else is up in the air, I want to encourage you: stay grounded. There are 3 basic ways I want to encourage you to stay grounded: 1.) God’s Word. 2.) Prayer 3.) Worship through church. God’s word is an anchor that never fails. When all else fails his words do not “come back empty-handed. They’ll do the work I sent them to do, they’ll complete the assignment I gave them.” (Isaiah 55:11, Message) So in this season, to stay grounded, stay in His Word! A great place to start is the YouVersion Bible app. Download it to your device and start a plan today. (Of course any Bible is great—just get in there!) Second is Prayer: Psalm 116: 1-2 says, “I love the Lord because he hears my voice and my prayer for mercy. Because he bends down to listen, I will pray as long as I have breath!” What an amazing promise—no matter what situation we are facing, or afraid of facing, we can find peace by giving the situation to God. He promises to hear you. See Philippians 4:4-8 for more. Lastly, but not less important, is the need for fellowship with other believers. I realize we are in the middle of a pandemic, but I also want to encourage you…don’t put you or your family’s faith on ‘hold’—especially not now. Yes, I’m talking about church engagement! A discouraging statistic came out: during the initial phase of the virus when virtually no churches were open nationwide, nearly 1/3 of church goers never watched a church service online. (ugh!) I want to believe that our church family’s percentages were better. Regardless, this is my encouragement: Don’t let COVID-19 be an excuse for you not engaging in church. If you need to stay home due to pre-existing conditions or you are sick or quarantined—I totally understand, but I want to encourage you—engage online! (we are doing major changes for better livestream very soon). We also have a a great host (thank you Karen Mitchell) whom you can interact with and share prayer requests by commenting during the service over facebook. If you are healthy and don’t have health concerns— and not watching online, COME TO CHURCH! We are fully functioning with children’s church, worship, and God’s word. You need fellowship. You need God’s Word. You need to worship with family. There are 3 major additional reasons to be part of a church family: 1.) Someone here needs you! (your gifts, life experience, etc) 2.) You will need someone here. Someone here has been through what you need. 3.) Your Children Need Jesus! (I know you realize that—but here’s my challenge—your children will follow where you lead.) Lead them to Jesus. As you do, that should also include church family. Our children’s church is up and running. Someone came to us this past weekend and said “My child regularly prays and talks about Jesus.” They attributed that to being surrounded by church family and children’s church. When I look into my children’s future, I have big dreams for them. But the most important dream I have for them is that they really love Jesus personally. I believe faithfully attending church is helping make that a reality. To summarize: You need Jesus. Your family needs Jesus. Your church needs you. You need your church. Come to church. (unless of course you have Covid symptoms—then stay home and watch online please, lol : ). This is not a time to let your faith slack—let’s engage! God bless you. Please know we are here for you if you need anything.
Sincerely,

Pastor Ryan Stockstrom