Opening the Way in Prayer

We praise God for more than 100 guests in attendance and for a vibrant atmosphere during an awareness breakfast in Pretoria last weekend. Please pray with us for all our fundraising and development efforts as we continuously seek faithful partners to work and pray alongside us to fullfil Harvesters’ vision to plant 1 million churches, to train 1 million pastors, and evangelize and disciple 100 million believers by 2030.

Please pray for Harvesters Hub Leaders around the world. Ask God to encourage them as they continue in the work He has called them to do. Pray for protection and provision for them and their families. May they have wisdom, joy in the Lord, and strong momentum in their church planting efforts. Thank you for each prayer.

Dear friends.

Today we praise God for a blessed Legacy Conference this week and for an extraordinary Gala dinner last night in which we could celebrate God and His goodness and guidance through all these years.

🙌We praise God for our founder and president, Steven Loots. We thank God for Steven’s leadership in persuing the God-given vision of Harvesters Ministries so faithfully and we thank Him with expectant hearts for the next chapter with Francois Rauch as our CEO.

🙌We thank God for bestowing travel mercies and where challenges arose, for protecting and giving strength and calm in those moments.

🙌And we praise God for all of YOU, our faithful prayer warriors, those who could join us in person and everyone else, for your faithful intercession. We cannot do this work without your prayers.

May God richly bless you

Our Regional Director for Central America writes: “For the glory of God, I share with you what God allowed during the training of 22 pastors in Phase E (New Testament Survey) in Coatepeque, on the Mexican border. The border with Mexico has become more dangerous every day due to drug trafficking, violence, death, and prostitution. Pastors in this region face spiritual oppression and challenges daily. But thank God that during these days of training, the pastors were strengthened, focused, and challenged by the Holy Spirit to continue working for the Kingdom of God and planting churches. For the glory of God, 26 new churches were planted.”

Please continue to pray for our pastors in Coatepeque. Thank you!

Praise God with us for being able to complete Phase B training (Pastoring a Church of the Harvesters Bible School curriculum) amidst some conflict that broke out in the town where the training was taking place. We thank God for His protection and provision and that all attendees were able to return home safely after the training sessions. Pray with us that God through His Holy Spirit will continue to strengthen and encourage our student pastors to keep on with their studies, discipling people and planting many churches.

We are tremendously grateful for the recent Disciple Makers Course conducted in Parow, Cape Town. The Lord blessed this gathering in powerful ways:

Transformed Lives: We received encouraging feedback about a young person who testified that the course helped him discover his place and ministry calling. He is now on fire with passion to make disciples and live out the Great Commission.

Strengthened Leadership: The pastor of the local congregation shared how the course strengthened their vision and brought greater alignment for their upcoming church planting initiatives in their area. This testimony speaks to God’s heart for multiplication and expansion of His kingdom.

Praise God us for His faithfulness in using this ministry to equip and empower His people for disciple-making.

Join us in prayer for a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit in all of Harvesters’ communities worldwide and also in your own community.

Earlier this month Harvesters was able to continue training an established group of student pastors in Phase D (Old Testament Survey) of the Harvesters Bible School curriculum. A new group was also initiated and, God willing, will start with their Bible School journey soon. Please pray for each person involved in both these church planting movements and that the areas will soon be saturated with the Good News.

Harvesters Licensed Trainers travelled to KwaZulu-Natal in the first half of May to train two different groups of student pastors in Phase F (Introduction to Systematic Theology) of the Harvesters Bible School. This is the final required phase of the curriculum before they graduate. Praise God with us for these student pastors who stayed with their studies faithfully over the past years and pray with us that each of their ministries will bear much fruit. Thank God also for the Licensed Trainers’ perseverance and please pray for them and their families too.