MISSIONS
Supporting and promoting missions and Gospel partners, around the block and around the world.
From its very inception, Harvest has been committed to the great commission, given to us by our Lord, Jesus Christ: “Go and make disciples of all nations.” Each week we set aside a fixed amount of our general offerings to support the work of those who are sharing this Good News around the world.
These funds go to helping support several Gospel partners around the world. By God’s grace, these partners have made a profound difference to the people in the countries where they serve. We have been blessed to hear some of the changes in the lives of those they have ministered to, but we will never know the full impact of their works on behalf of Christ.
The Gospel partners we support around the world are part of Mission to the World (MTW) or Serge (formerly World Harvest Mission.)
In addition, Harvest is an active partner with Samaritan’s Purse, serving as an Operation Christmas Child Medina County drop-off center since 2001.
Locally, we support community ministries in Medina County. Learn more here.
If you have any questions, please contact us at: missions@harvestpca.church
Please get to know our Gospel partners better, and keep them in your prayers!
Even before Steve and Amy Robertson met at Vanderbilt University in the 1990s, God gave them both a love for missions and a desire to see the gospel spread in Latin America. Steve and Amy began serving with Mission to the World in 1999. They began as church-planting apprentices in Guadalajara, Mexico, before going to Covenant Theological Seminary, where Steve obtained his M.Div. in 2006, and returning to Guadalajara. In 2010, they saw a small Bible study grow into a vibrant, young church. This church, La Iglesia Cristo Rey Eterno, continues under Mexican leadership today. In 2015, the Robertsons accepted the call to serve in South America, relocating to Viña del Mar, Chile, and serving in regional leadership and in church planting. In 2021 Steve and Amy relocated once again to Medellin, Colombia. In 2018 Steve began serving as the international director for MTW in the Americas (a region including ministry to indigenous peoples in Canada and the U.S. as well as Latin America and the Caribbean). In this role, he gives leadership and pastoral care to 140-plus missionaries throughout the region, helping MTW fulfill its mission of making disciples among all nations. Amy serves alongside Steve and also serves Latin American ministry wives through the ministry of Parakaleo.
Satoshi & Cally are MTW missionaries, facilitating church-planting movements among North and West African communities and training servant leaders for the advancement of His kingdom in a French-speaking European city. Their daughters are Suzi and Sophi, and attend college in VA.
If you’d like to contact them, or receive their newsletter, please send us a request.
We will pass along information, as we are able based on the guidelines we have received.
Thank you for understanding missions@harvestpca.church
Barry and Amy, with their children, Nicholas, Quinn, and Kyrie, live in an immigrant community of London, home to people from Africa and South Asia.
Barry serves as Team Leader, and as a pastor of New Life Masih Gahr.
Amy serves the church as the Sunday School coordinator, and is also the Managing Director of Kairos Community Counselling, a newly established Christian counselling group in west London.
If you’d like to contact them, or receive their newsletter, please send us a request. We will pass along information, as we are able based on the guidelines we have received.
Thank you for understanding.
missions@harvestpca.church
Learn more about New Life Masih Gahr
In the summer of 2003, Christopher and Stephanie went on a trip to Berlin to help out with an English Camp. Starting with the first day of camp, both Christopher and Stephanie felt at home in Berlin. They arrived in Berlin in September 2005. Christopher is currently working with a young and growing church in Berlin, his responsibilities include pastoral counseling and operations. It is their desire that the church to plays an active role within the Berliner culture in which it finds itself.
If you’d like to contact them, or receive their newsletter, please send
us a request. We will pass along information, as we are able based on the guidelines we have received.
Thank you for understanding missions@harvestpca.church
As a missionary kid in Japan, Carly grasped Japan’s deep need for Jesus—95 percent have never heard the gospel of Jesus Christ. She met Matt there in 1999 while he was serving as a short-term intern with MTW. During his time there, God gave him a desire to return for long-term ministry. In 2005 God brought them together in marriage and laid a burden on their hearts to share the love of Christ with the Japanese.Matt and Carly are part of a new MTW church-planting work in Chiba City, where there is much opportunity for the gospel to bring hope to the 1 million people who live there. They hope to engage and disciple young people on and off the college campus. Part of their work also includes coming alongside many first-generation Christians to mentor and encourage them in their walks with the Lord. Join them in praying that God will use this to have a profound impact on the future of Japan, and that someday the Japanese Church will send many laborers into the world.
E and M have been serving in the Middle East since 1990. E’s family immigrated from there to the US in 1967. When he became a believer in the US, he immediately felt called to return to his country. M grew up in India, with a heart for ministry abroad. They have three adult children, who are currently working in the US. E and M’s primary work at this time consists of working with several church plants, pastoring one of them, and teaching/managing a Bible College to train people to serve with Arabs all over the world.
If you’d like to contact them, or receive their newsletter, please send us a request.
We will pass along information, as we are able based on the guidelines we have received.
Thank you for understanding.
missions@harvestpca.church
Stu and Ruth Ann Batstone support missionaries, pastors, and their spouses around the world through training, mentoring, counseling, and writing. Stu is Serge’s Gospel Discipling Specialist, and Ruth Ann is a staff member of Parakaleo.
Learn more about the Batstones and Ruth Ann’s book, Moving On: Beyond Forgive and Forget.
If you’d like to contact them, or receive their newsletter, please send us a request.
We will pass along information, as we are able based on the guidelines we have received.
Thank you for understanding.
If you would like to receive their email updates, please contact Stu at is sbatstone@serge.org.
For some missionaries, God’s call in their lives takes them to areas of the world where it is dangerous to be a Christian,
and even more dangerous to share your faith.
Please pray for people who are called to accept those risks, and for the people their lives touch.
May our faith grow as we consider how reliant we all are on God’s daily watch and care.
May our courage grow to share our own experience of being rescued by God.
Each summer, the youth of Harvest participate in a team-building or mission/service trip.
Middle school trips include Camp Ligonier, The Nehemiah Project (in Cleveland), and Cherokee, NC.
High School trips have included The Pittsburgh Project, Joni & Friends, Michigan, Cleveland, Hamilton and Toronto, ON, and London, England.
A wonderful way to experience these impactful events is through the words of the youth blogs!
2019 Trips:
Middle School blog from Cherokee, NC: https://2019cherokee.blogspot.com
High School blog from Hamilton, ON: https://2019hamilton.blogspot.com
For more information about ministry to and through Youth, please contact Pastor Brett.
Harvest has been a regional collection site since 2001.
Harvest has been a regional collection site since 2001. In one recent year, more than 1,900 shoeboxes came in from the Medina County community and through our doors, and were delivered to 115 different countries around the world.
Learn how to pack a box here.
2022 Collection Dates/Times at Harvest
And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. Mark 16:15