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Seventeen years ago today Lord of the Harvest Baptist Church was planted. Today, she is known as Harvest Church. The reason the church was started on this day was:

To reach the lost.

To reach the person who is laying in bed on Sundays instead of being part of a faith family.

To reach the person who had had such a bad experience in church that they had sworn never to return.

To reach the person who does no believe in God.

To reach the husband who never goes to church with his family.

To reach the wife who stayed home while her husband and children went to spend time with a faith family.

To reach the drug addict and alcoholic.

To reach the divorced who felt like they did not belong.

To reach people that the current churches were not reaching.

To be a safe place for those who felt so different.

To reach out to the ragamuffin and the downtrodden.

To reach those who never seemed to be able to measure up.

To reach those who were ready to give up.

To reach those who we have to hold up.

To reach out with hands of kindness and love.

To do it different if it needed to be.

To conform people to the image of Christ.

To live in the power of the Spirit.

To continue unto the end.