HARVESTIME INTERNATIONAL NETWORK
CO-OP NEWSLETTER
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3176 A VIA BUENA VISTA, LAGUNA WOODS CA 92637
MARCH 2012
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Each day we receive emails from around the world describing the impact Harvestime is
making in the nations. Here are some excerpts that provide a sampling of what is being
accomplished through your ministry.
Liberia: "We wish to inform you that as part of efforts to provide training opportunities to our
church leaders, we conducted a series of searches on the internet since 2006. Last year, we
finally found your website and obtained the training manual entitled, 'Biblical Management
Principles.' This material has made and continues to make a significant impact not only to the
leadership of this church, but also in other churches and institutions across Liberia. Many church
leaders have requested copies of this manual to allow them to train others across the nation,
bringing smiles on the faces of many spiritual leaders in Liberia. In view of the aforementioned,
we kindly request assistance in terms of additional training materials that will enable us to
achieve our desired objectives."
India: "Your web page was an answer straight from heaven to my cry to the Lord that I needed
to know what on earth is in the Bible. I wanted to know more about Christ and manage a newly
planted Church. Thank you so much for making it free."
Fiji Islands: "I would like to thank God for your ministry of reaching out to us in the
developing countries and allowing your curriculum to be downloaded free of charge and-more
importantly- allowing us to use this freely for the dissemination of the Gospel. We lack solid
teaching material and your website has been a blessing for our ministry and has helped us grow
in the maturity of the Word, thus transforming us in renewing our minds. Thank you! We
believe God has placed in our hearts to start an institute on our own. We see this calling of God
as a challenge, as our churches are bound by the spirit of religion and the lack of true teaching of
the Word. It is our desire is to set up an institute that is non-denominational whereby we can
recruit, equip, train, and empower individuals to fulfill the Great Commission, raising up a new
generation that are participators and not spectators of the spiritual harvest. We want them to be
agents of change in their areas of influence for God's glory. This is our mission! We have started
developing our strategic plan which is almost complete and we have proceeded with the
groundwork on registering the institute with the Fiji Higher Education Commission."
India: "I am very much blessed to get your teaching materials. I printed out Basic Bible Survey
for the Old and New Testaments. I am working in remote villages in the rural jungle to plant
churches. We already have 25 congregations in two states in India--in Orissa and Chhattisgarh
states. In these two locations, many Christians are killed and burned in fires. We have no office
or house of our own, but we have many locations where we want to plant churches. We need
trained workers, so when I found your materials I began by training ten students."
United States: "I am truly blessed by your website. As you state on your home page, it was no
accident that I discovered it. In my hunger and thirst for more of God, I begin to look around for
in-depth studies and found Harvestime. I am starting a school in my local church and your
website will be what I will use. As God blessed you, you have blessed His people."
Eritrea: "I had a dream to start a Bible school for preparing people to fulfill the Great
Commission in our country of Eritrea. God used you to fulfill this vision and we started a Bible
college after our church was planted in 2002. From different denominations, we have 21
students. We have studied eight courses in our underground ministry, as we are persecuted by
the Islamic government here. But our Gospel cannot be hindered by any power. We are
harvesting souls! Some 22 pastors have been imprisoned here and they hunted for me, but God
has hidden me so far. This is the fruit of your vision!"
United States: "I just came across your website. Earlier today, I had been repenting for not
believing that I could do what God had told me to do. For ten years I had spent all my money on
going to conferences and buying teaching materials, but had only become more lost. God had
given me so many visions, and I had stepped out in faith only to hit a brick wall. As I prayed, I
told God that I was going to quit believing the lie that I couldn't hear the Holy Spirit and that I
was going to start believing that He could teach me how to teach God's Word. I came upon your
course Strategies For Spiritual Harvest and found this and the other courses exactly what I
needed to start an institute. This is just what I need! I also have a friend in the Philippines who
would be interested in this. Thanks again for your obedience to God in doing this. It has
encouraged me so much. I have felt so alone, but God used this to encourage me."
Brazil: "I am a missionary from New Zealand and have been ministering and pastoring in Brazil
since 1994. I am currently leading a ministry called Ministério Avivamento Já, and offer a free
online Bible school. We would like to offer the Harvestime courses through our site and also at a
future residential Bible school." (Thanks to your financial support, we had all the materials
available in Portuguese to make this vision a reality for this missionary to Brazil.)
From Word Of Mouth, To Schools, To Hi-Tech: As you have read in this edition of CO-OP,
Harvestime is spreading around the world through training institutions, by word of mouth,
underground Bible schools, and the Internet. Your gifts to this ministry are multiplied many
times over as recipients of the materials teach others, start schools, and create training sites on
the Internet. Thank you for your faithfulness in giving to the ministry and praying for us.
Argis and Patricia Hulsey
Harvestime International Network