September 2017 Volume 3, Issue 5

Special points of

interest:

A word from Jim

Anderson

HNI fall regional

retreats

HNI new member

church

HNI is expanding

HNI new members

2017 National Assembly

videos are available

Notable News!

Inside this issue:

Be Encouraged and

Encouraging! by

Jim Anderson

1

2017 Regional

Retreats

2-3

Welcome, New

Member Church

4

HNI Expanding Our

Reach Into Two

New Regions by

Tom Herbert

4

Welcome, New

Members 5

2017 National

Assembly—Videos

are Available!

5

Notable News! 6

BE ENCOURAGED AND ENCOURAGING! by Jim Anderson, HNI Presiding Elder

based His constant presence. The Apostle Paul lists encour-aging others among the gifts of the Holy Spirit in Romans 12:8, and the writer of He-brews names encouraging one another as the central reason we need to faithfully meet together (see Hebrews 10:25). In Harvest Network (HNI) we take our call to encourage one another very seriously. Encouraging one another is one of the central purposes of our six Fall HNI Regional Retreats on the theme, “Running the Race that Is Set Before Us.” Today I am en-couraging you not to neglect the care of your own soul or the responsibility to encour-age your fellow HNI mem-bers. I hope to see you at one of our remaining regional retreats so that we can en-courage one another!

“Let us not give up meet-ing together, as some are in the habit

of doing, but let us encour-age one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” He-brews 10:25 (NIV) This summer I’ve been re-reading the Old Testament. When I arrived at the book of Joshua, I was struck by the instructions God gave to this man as he was commissioned to be the leader of God’s plans for His people. In Joshua 1:1-9, God tells Josh-ua to be “strong and coura-geous” three times. What was the basis for this audacious attitudinal command? In verse 1:5 God declares, “No one will be able to stand up against you all the days of your life. As I was with

Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.” Does that last line sound famil-iar? It is essentially the same message as the last phrase in what we call the Great Com-mission. Jesus closes these marching orders to His disci-ples with these courage-infusing words, “And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Our eternal source of courage is this promise: God is always with us! In Christ He is not only with us, He is now in us. Our ministry of encouragement is inspiring courage in others based on this unchanging fact: God is with us…forever. These two realities are central themes of the New Testament: God is always with us, and we are to encourage one another

2017 FALL REGIONAL RETREATS

Northeast Emmanuel York, PA Sept. 8-9

MN/WI Souls Church Princeton, MN Oct. 12-14

Ohio Berlin Grande Berlin, OH Oct. 16-18

Southern CA L418 San Diego, CA Nov. 3-4

Central States GO Church Jacksonville, IL Oct. 26-28

Southeast Enota Mt. Retreat Hiawassee, GA Oct. 19-21

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“Therefore,

since we have

so great a

cloud of

witnesses

surrounding us,

let us also lay

aside every

encumbrance

and the sin

which so easily

entangles us,

and let us

run with

endurance

the race that is

set before

us…”

Hebrews 12:1

NORTHEAST September 8-9

Arriving: Registration and dinner 5:30-6:30 pm, Sept. 8 (1st Session: 7:00 pm) Departing: 4:00 pm, Sept. 9 Hosts: Jim Herbert, Tom and Judy Herbert Cost: $30 (includes Friday’s dinner and Saturday’s lunch) Registration: therbert@harvestnetworkintl.org RSVP: Sept. 1

HOTEL INFORMATION

Country Inn & Suites 245 St. Charles Way

York, PA 17402 (717) 747-5833

Group rate mention: Harvest Network

$100+tax/night for king or double queen. Must reserve by Aug. 8.

Emmanuel Church 2550 Pine Grove Rd.

York, PA 17403

MINNESOTA/WISCONSIN October 12-14

Souls Church 8775 Highway 95 NW

Princeton, MN 55371

Arriving: Registration and appetizers 5:30-6:30 pm, Oct. 12 (1st Session: 7:00 pm) Departing: 12:00 pm, Oct. 14

Hosts: Dennis and Dana Calhoun Cost: $40 (does not include golfing on Oct. 13) Registration: www.harvestnetworkintl.org, Julie Johnson at (651) 438-2596 or office@harvestnetworkintl.org RSVP: Oct. 1

HOTEL INFORMATION

The Crossings by GrandStay 300 Garfield St. S

Cambridge, MN 55008 (763) 689-0542

Group rate: Pastors Retreat 2017 $104+tax/night for king or double queen. Must reserve by Sept. 12.

AmericInn (Princeton)

910 7th Ave. S, Princeton, MN 55371, (763) 389-9312

No group rate Double queen $88 Thurs./$103

Fri.+tax. King $95 Thurs./$110 Fri.+tax

WE ARE ALL RUNNING A MARATHON An Invitation from Presiding Overseer Jim Anderson

I consider my life worth noth-ing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace.

This year’s theme for Har-vest Network’s regional retreats will center on this great analogy. We will look at how we discern the path the Lord progressively re-veals for our unique race. How we can discover and maintain a healthy pace re-membering this is a mara-thon, not a sprint. We will

By definition, all of Christ’s servants are running a marathon. The

Apostle Paul compares a believer’s lifetime of minis-try to running a race in Acts 20:24, I Corinthians 9:24, Galatians 2:2, 5:7 and II Timothy 4:7. The writer of Hebrews also uses this beautiful analogy in He-brews 12:1. Paul made it clear in Acts 20:24 that the great passion of his life was finishing his race well. He declares:

talk about avoiding the things that can trip us up: sin, Satan and even good alternative paths. Finally, we will touch on the fact that most of us are actually run-ning a relay race. To whom will you hand the baton when your laps are complet-ed? Let’s run with endurance the race that the Lord sets be-fore us! I urge you to come away to be renewed and en-couraged in your race and cheer others on in complet-ing theirs.

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WHY COME TO A REGIONAL RETREAT?

RELATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: These smaller events are uniquely sized to permit relationships to grow so we are never isolated. NETWORKING: These regional events allow time to build relationships with people near enough to you to make a difference in tough times and to support one another with diverse gifts. INTERACTIVE LEARNING: There can be much more interactive teaching and learning in a smaller gathering. Our goal is to have a third to a half of our teaching time be given to interaction and discussion. PERSONAL MINISTRY: Leaders need ministry that we often don’t receive, because we are so committed to and busy taking care of others.

SOUTHEAST October 19-21

HOTEL INFORMATION

Enota Mtn. Retreat 1000 Highway 180

Hiawassee, GA 30546

Hotel queen-style room, double occupancy, $195 by Aug. 20 or

$225 by Sept. 20. Hotel queen-style room, single occupancy, $295 by Aug. 20 or

$325 by Sept. 20. Two-bedroom cabin, minimum of

4 occupancy, $150 by Aug. 20 or $180 by Sept. 20.

Arriving: Check in at 3:00 pm, dinner 5:30-6:30 pm, registration at 6:30 pm, Oct. 19 (1st Session: 7:00 pm) Departing: 11:00 am, Oct. 21 Host: Kevin Brown Cost: Complete cost includes 2 nights, 5 meals and retreat fees. Call Cornerstone with any questions at (229) 924-7409. Registration: www.cornerstoneamericus.com/hni- retreat.html to reserve and pay RSVP: Sept. 20

Enota Mountain Retreat 1000 Highway 180

Hiawassee, GA 30546

OHIO October 16-18

Berlin Grande Hotel 4787 Township Rd. 366

Berlin, OH 44610

HOTEL INFORMATION

Berlin Grande Hotel 4787 Township Rd. 366

Berlin, OH 44610 (330) 403-3050 (877) 652-4997

www.berlingrandehotel.com

$109+tax/king or double queen. Must reserve by Sept. 15.

Arriving: Registration 6:30-7:00 pm, Oct. 16 (1st Session: 7:00 pm) Departing: 12:00 pm, Oct.18 Host: Bob Swanger Cost: $20 Registration: Bob Swanger at doc@riverbarn.org or text (740) 815-7249 RSVP: Oct. 9

CENTRAL STATES October 26-28

GO Church 767 S West St.

Jacksonville, IL 62650

Arriving: Registration 6:30-7:00 pm, Oct. 26 (1st Session: 7:00 pm) Departing: 12:00 pm, Oct. 28 Host: John Hutton Cost: $30 (includes dinner on Oct. 27) Registration: hutton_2@msn.com RSVP: Oct. 19

HOTEL INFORMATION

Comfort Inn 200 Comfort Dr.

Jacksonville, IL 62650 (217) 408-2896

Group rate mention: HNI Regional Rate

$80+tax/king or double queen. Reserve room by Sept. 30.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA November 3-4

L418 3623 50th St.

San Diego, CA 92105

HOTEL INFORMATION

Holiday Inn Express 1645 E Plaza Blvd

Nat’l. City, CA 91950 (619) 474-2400

Group rate mention: HNI $130+tax/king or double queen.

Reserve room by Oct. 5.

Arriving: Registration and dinner 5:30-6:30 pm, Nov. 3 (1st Session: 7:00 pm) Departing: 4:00 pm, Nov. 4

Hosts: Gary Logston, Tom and Judy Herbert Cost: $30 (includes dinner Nov. 3, lunch Nov. 4) Registration: pastorgary14@gmail.com or therbert@harvestnetworkintl.org RSVP: Oct. 27

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HNI EXPANDING OUR REACH INTO TWO NEW REGIONS

by Tom Herbert, HNI Elder

was appealing was the many re-sources and training opportunities available through retreats, confer-ences and online training that this member church will have available to them. For more information on Free-dom Community Church, find

them on Facebook or go to www.calledtofreedom.org.

into the neighborhoods around their building.

In April 2017, they issued a call to Pastor Tom Herbert to become their new Lead Pastor. In the call-ing process, they were introduced to the benefits of becoming a member church of Harvest Net-work International. As an inde-pendent church, the opportunities for partnership with other like-minded churches and ministries was very appealing along with the spiritual covering and legal protec-tion afforded to member minis-tries of HNI. Another benefit that

On Sunday, September 10, 2017, Freedom Community Church was officially received as the newest member church of Harvest Net-work International by Presiding Elder, Jim Anderson.

Located in Shrewsbury, PA, the church was founded 17 years ago by a small group of Spirit-filled believers who wanted to establish a new work in the southern York County area. The church is uniquely positioned to reach a community that is growing rapidly with many new families moving

Welcome, New Member Church Freedom Community Church, Shrewsbury, PA

ward to gathering together for a wonderful time in sunny San Die-go with HNI members and guests along the west coast and southern states. This is the first time HNI has ever hosted an event on the west coast. If you are located in these areas, please make every effort to join us for this inaugural weekend. It is an exciting season of expan-sion for Harvest Network! We look forward to experiencing all that God has in store for us in these new regions.

fellowship and encouragement was had by HNI members as far north as Schenectady, NY; Long Island, NY; New York City, NY; and even from the Chesapeake, VA area! We also had several guests from the York area who enjoyed the weekend and are considering becoming a part of the HNI movement. On November 3 and 4, we will launch a brand new region retreat in Southern California hosted by Pastor Gary Logston and the min-istry of L418. We are looking for-

The fall retreats have developed into a key ingredi-ent as we seek to maintain our high

value on relational care within Har-vest Network. This year, we have added two new regions to our an-nual retreat schedule. The North-east Region held a retreat at Em-manuel Church in York, PA on September 8-9. Pastor Jim Herbert and his wife, Jill, graciously hosted the event and were assisted by Pas-tor Tom and Judy Herbert. A won-derful time of worship, teaching,

Welcome, New Members

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Videos Are Available!

2017 HNI National Assembly Teachings and Workshops

Pre-Conference Intensive Teaching Sessions

Watch videos of the 2017 National Assem-bly and Pre-Conference Intensive for free at www.harvestnetworkintl.org/resources/video.

Stephen Pederson Overseer of Jail Ministry Harvestime Outreach Church Hudson, WI Stephen and Dawn Pederson have been

married 33 years. They have four children, and their third grandchild is on the way. Stephen was ordained through HNI in July. “I feel God is calling me to go deeper with him in ministry. I see HNI as a great fellow-ship of like-minded believers to hold me accountable, encourage me and provide resources. Hopefully I can provide that as well.” As a tentmaking minister, Stephen is a licensed realtor (which he sees as a ministry in itself) and oversees a jail ministry. “I preached at a Mexico prison on a mission trip in 2000, and it opened my eyes to the conditions of those who are incarcerated. I joined the jail ministry shortly after that. I long to help them rise up into the people God intended them to be.” He also is the day-time chaplain at Operation Christmas Child’s Minneap-olis Processing Center. “For five weeks, I get to share the Word one-on-one and in small groups with volun-teers and staff members, many of whom don’t know Jesus. We see a number of salvations every year.” Stephen loves traveling, both with his family for vacation and all over the world on mission trips. He also loves hiking, bicycling and water sports. “I think God speaks to us profoundly through nature. I used to be an avid sailor. Whenever I see a sailboat, I wish I were out on the water.” He loves to recommend Living in the Light of Eternity by KP Yohannan to help put worldly and eternal matters in balance. “It’s a powerful book.”

Steven Barry Lay Minister Kipton Community Church Kipton, OH Steven and Madonna Barry have been

married 25 years and have two young adult children. In August, Steven transferred his ordination to HNI. The network he’d been part of for eight years had changed over time, becoming less relational. When the Barrys joined Kipton Community Church, Lead Pastor Lee Stull told Steven about HNI. “I decided HNI would be a good organization to be involved with. Everybody I’ve been in contact with in HNI has left an impression on me,” Steven said. “I’m in between ministries and starting a Bible study in a tiny town, Castalia, while hoping to pastor a church again.” His central passion is to see people get saved and grounded. “I’ve seen so many cases of people getting saved and then falling away.” In fact, Steven wrote a six-month Bible study to help ground new believers in the faith. “I once started with two women and the group grew to 50—and I didn’t invite anyone. After I went through it with one group, they wanted to do it again. That surprised me.” He also wrote The Barry Patch, a collection of humorous stories about growing up in the 1950s. When he’s not busy in ministry, Steven loves to hunt ducks and geese. “I used to shoot rabbit and squirrel, but they’re a pain to clean, so I gave that up.”

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NOTABLE NEWS!

“Every time I think of you, I give thanks to my God. Whenever I pray, I make my requests for all of you

with joy, for you have been my partners in spreading the Good News about Christ from the time you first heard it

until now.” Philippians 1:3-5

SAVE THE DATE

June 26-28, 2018

HNI National Assembly

Bethel Cleveland Cleveland, OH

HARVEST NETWORK

BOARD OF ELDERS

Jim Anderson The Harbor Church

Hastings, MN janderson@

harvestnetworkintl.org

Kevin Brown Cornerstone Church

Americus, GA kbrown@

harvestnetworkintl.org

Tom Herbert Freedom Community

Church Shrewsbury, PA therbert@

harvestnetworkintl.org

Dale Sisam Life Church

Eden Prairie, MN dsisam@

harvestnetworkintl.org

Bob Swanger River Community

Church Delaware, OH rswanger@

harvestnetworkintl.org

HARVEST NETWORK

ADMINISTRATION STAFF

How we can serve you?

Kristie Farmer Website & Database

Administrator kfarmer@ harvestnetworkintl.org

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Julie Johnson HNI Administrator office@ harvestnetworkintl.org

Tell us your prayer

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and notable news. Give us updates on your

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jherbert@harvestnetworkintl.org

HURRICANE REPORT MINISTRY UPDATES

Brandon Cook recently moved to Virginia where he accepted a ministry position at Christian Church in Chesapeake, VA.

Jerry Smith, International Training Director for World Mission in Lago Vista, TX, recently traveled to Vi-etnam visiting a village north of Saigon where he distributed and their transla-tion tools and trained leaders on their use.

Cornerstone Americus, pastored by Kevin Brown in Americus, GA, launched a new multi-site location in Marion County on August 6. Cornerstone Marion is pastored by Robbie Pilcher.

Pastor Sampson and Janet Dorkunor from Living Bread Mis-sions Churches in Ghana hosted a missions convention for mission fami-lies and ministries on August 9-13.

Jeremy Robinson, Associate Pastor at Church of the Good Shepherd in Wayne, OH, is leading a November youth retreat for IMPACT, a regional partnership of 20 churches.

Greg Davis, ministry staff at Crescent Project in North Olmsted, OH, re-cently returned from a trip to Iraq where he taught alongside Yezidi and Kurdish teachers in schools and worked with minority people groups.

We received a good report back from Pas-tor Lesly Bertrand, Grace Assembly Fel-lowship in Croix-Des-Bouquets, Haiti who was spared of any damage.

Pastor Paul Boggs from Richmond, TX, experienced severe flooding in his area with minimal damage to his home.

Karen DeJong, director of Grace Connec-tions in Naples, FL, was without electricity until September 15. The lower level of the ministry building was flooded. The Lord spared her any mold in her home.

Virginia Cosgrove, director of Cross-Cultural Ministries, Inc. in Chamblee, GA, did not have any damage to her home or ministry although many trees and power outages were down in the surrounding area.

Pastor Charles Surovik, New Covenant Lutheran Church in Rosenberg, TX, experi-enced tremendous flooding in his area, however only three families in his church had water in their homes.

Pastor Mike Curtis, Powerline Communi-ty Church in Lake Mary, FL, had some slight water intrusion. Underground sewers have caused roads to collapse in the area.

Sandee Sledd, Cross-Cultural Ministries, Inc. in Doraville, GA, had some water in her basement.

PRAYER REQUESTS

Jamie and Melanie Daegling who are mis-sionaries in Mexico at River of Glory Minis-tries have encountered many rain and hail storms throughout the months of July and August, leaving their facility flooded with hail and wind damage. They have lost clothing and household items due to roof leakage and cracked walls.

Please pray for Pastor Brian Johnson from Minnetonka, MN, as he is battling stage four cancer which is in his lung, liver and co-lon. They are believing for complete healing.