A huge thanks to our prayer and support team. We’re grateful for your partnership as we continue to serve in this kingdom work through Harvest Ministry. We just finished a great summer, have had several one-night events this past month and this weekend, and we’re leading worship for Living The Adventure Mission Banquet. Don’t forget, if you’re part of our support team, receive text updates by texting SOWER to 618-243-7476. You can also text PRAY or HARVEST to that same number! Join all three groups if you would like.

A few bullet points and snapshot updates:

SHOUTCO! PUPPETS

We kicked off the ShoutCo! Puppet Crew, just before Covid and only did one event in 2020. Since this Spring, ShoutCo! Crew has done several events, including the Light Kids Conferences, VBS events, Summer Camp, and most recently, the first-ever stand-alone event, where Harvest as a whole wasn’t there already. It was great! Thanks to Ruby Price for her leadership and creativity with the scripts and planning. And thanks to Courtney Bettis, Loren Fear, Suzanne Price and Marissa Story for their leadership in the ministry! And of course, thanks to all the team members who have served. The next event is at Friedens Church in Troy, IL in October.

RECENT HARVEST EVENTS

The last three weekends, we had the opportunity to serve in worship ministry at First UMC in Vandalia, IL; Outdoor Worship Night in Oblong and an Outdoor Worship Night at the Federated Church in Carlinville, IL. The teams included: Ryan Froidcoeur, Audrey Cheetham, Tim Price, Deborah Thorp, Rebecca Thorp, Daniel Tatjenhorts, Josh Case, Caroline Stewart, Elizabeth West, Ruby Price, Justin Hart, Hannah Thorp, and Dan Yarger.

SUMMER MINISTRY 2022

The 27th summer of Harvest was a huge blessing! We’re grateful for the way God worked through our team to serve. We led worship for camps, churches, and ministry events. We had lots of time for fun, games, prayer, ministry, worship, and devotions. We heard lots of sermons, drove lots of miles and we’re praising God for the dent we made in sharing the love of Christ with students and children all over the state. We’re so grateful for those who support the ministry and the summer is a huge outcome of your support.

On September 10, our team is reuniting to debrief the summer ministry and officially celebrate as a team. Covid sort of brought an abrupt end to our ministry this summer at the end of the last camp, so we’re looking forward to this day of team ministry closure.

FALL CONFERENCES

We’re praying for and preparing for the MINISTRY LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE on September 17 and the FALL RALLY on October 29.

The Ministry Leadership Conference will be in Troy, IL on September 17 from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm and is for worship leaders, worship tech team members, youth workers, kids ministry leaders, and hospitality teams! Pastors/churches: bring or send your leaders to this one-day training event!

The Fall Rally is for students in 6th-12th grade and it’s going to be an awesome day!

VINTAGE HARVEST SONG

We just recently uncovered a little-known Harvest Recording from 2006. We were asked to write and record a song for the Illinois Great Rivers UMC Annual Conference and we just ran across the song again and loaded it on YouTube. Listen to By Faith In You.

And if you haven’t before, make sure you add Harvest Songs to your playlists!

Spotify | Amazon | Youtube | Apple

SOCIAL MEDIA & CONNECTIONS

1. Text HARVEST to 618-243-7476
2. Like our Facebook Pages (Harvest, Tim Price, Worship Leader Toolbox)
3. Follow on Instagram (Harvest, Tim Price, Worship Leader Toolbox, ShoutCo!)

Thank you for meeting with me!

This is my 32nd year of ministry and the 27th summer of Harvest Ministry, officially. I still believe God is calling us to help serve the greater church, call young adults to grow in ministry and to invite the next generation to follow Christ!

We have been so grateful for the God’s provision through the partnership with those support this work on a monthly basis. These connections have been amazing and the fruit that has come from it is awesome – praise the Lord!

As we look toward the next ten years of ministry, Lord willing, we realize the continued need to grow the support for the work, which leads us to our next partnership goal of $5000 more per month to help fund administrative leadership within our ministry. Without this leap of faith, we fear we won’t be able to reach as many kids and students. We have learned that as God opens doors, he provides.

We’re trusting God to provide and lead people to join our team as we increase the support partnership with friends and family to keep serving well in the mission of Harvest Ministry!

VISION 2032

In ten years, we want to be able to say some of these things:

• God has been faithful as Harvest has been a witness for over 35 years!
• Hundreds of students have accepted Christ at camps, conferences and events where Harvest helped serve.
• 300 Pastors currently serving in churches served with Harvest Ministry as young adults.
• Harvest Teams lead worship for countless camps, churches and ministry events each year.
• Thousands of churches utilize Harvest resources, music, podcasts and more.
• New music will have been written and recorded .
• Harvest Conferences will be mentioned in countless testimonies from adults who are still following Jesus and attended a Harvest event over the years.
• We give God glory for the amazing and miraculous work done through Harvest Ministry!

STEPS TO ACCOMPLISH THIS VISION

• Lots of prayer
• Increased partnerships with new supporters (a goal of $5000 a month)
• Increased structure so more young adults can experience hands on ministry

To allow for time to focus on equipping, training and development, and this vision in general the administrative load is going to have to be shared with more staff through Harvest Ministry.

We’re inviting church leaders, pastors and parents to make plans to bring students from your church / community for one of these events in the next few weeks!

KIDS CONFERENCE – MARION, IL – APRIL 2

KIDS CONFERENCE – TROY, IL – APRIL 30

GIRLS CONFERENCE – TROY, IL – MAY 1

KIDS CONFERENCE – MARION, IL OR TROY, IL

for children in first – fifth grades!

HARVEST MINISTRY GIRLS CONFERENCE

for teen girls in 6th-12th grades!