Many thanks to our friends that come and help out at the Garden of Eden family ministry in west Mt. Vernon during the week.

Now, it is time to get the Harvest Home ready to have a few couples over for lunch. The Harvest Home is open for fellowship Tue-Fri from 10 am-4 pm at 9467 Pierce Lane in Sedro Woolley and we also have other fellowships at other times. It is the home that God has allowed us to live in while He uses it as He needs to do the Father’s business. Open to drop off some items for the garage sale, some cans for the Harvest Kids to crush to help vulnerable children in Africa, pick up some tracts or bibles, borrow a Christian movie, share a testimony, pray for one another, find out about other ministry opportunities in our community and around the world and listen to some good Christian worship and rest in the Lord.

We also enjoy hosting the Child’s Evangelism Fellowship prayer luncheon and Harvest Kids.

Please call if we can be of any help 360-421-8811 or 360-421-8812.

Many thanks to Jen for helping with Harvest Kids today and to Lynn Griffin from Child’s Evangelism Fellowship that came to share about the true meaning of Easter with the kids.

We appreciate these young people that sacrifice their time to come and crush cans and donate their change to help vulnerable children in Africa that are less fortunate than they are.

Many thanks to our co-laborers that pray and provide financial support to our brothers and sisters that sacrifice so much to ‘look after widows and orphans in their distress’ and labor to teach believers how to not ‘be polluted by the world’. We were able to send the funds to build a small home for Pastor John Light’s widow and her family in the refugee camp in north Uganda. John was the coordinator of Harvest Vision in South Sudan and was forced to flee with his family to Uganda where he died and went to be with Jesus leaving his family without support. We also were able to send funds to help support the second gathering of all the branch pastors in Uganda for a conference to build their faith and to allow them to deepen their relationship with each other as they work to reach the lost in their communities and teach them to be true disciples. We are blessed to be partners in spreading the gospel message to those that are ‘brokenhearted and crushed in spirit’ in central Africa. We would welcome all that would like to share in these blessings.  

(Excerpts from “Answered prayers and soul-winning incidents – published in 1940)

What a blessing to prayerfully and financially support our co-laborers sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout central Africa and we are looking forward to hearing all their testimonies. In the interim we wanted to share the news from Burundi where they coordinated 9 different weekend crusades during March and witnessed 547 new believers come into the kingdom. 106 were baptized, not counting the ones that planned on being baptized on Easter Sunday. These will be discipled by local believers until they find a local church family to belong to. We also received the following report from Pr. Titus who coordinates ministry in the Namayingo Region in eastern Uganda.

Last year our coordinators in Africa were not allowed to do outdoor crusades because of the restrictions made because of the pandemic. They immediately began to focus their resources on door-to-door or hut-to-hut evangelism, depending on the regions or countries, and we began to witness an incredible harvest of souls. Many witch doctors and their followers, as well as many from the Muslim faith. We were able to help construct a larger building to accommodate the new believers in Kayunga in central Uganda That left the older building and the pastor stepped into his vision to start a primary school for these vulnerable children. Many from the Muslim faith testified that because they witnessed how much their Christian neighbors cared about the children they would allow their children to attend.

In the fall of last year, the Harvest Kids were able to harvest sweet corn one the local farmers had planted for them and raised over $3,000 to refurbish the mud-brick church building that the government would allow them to use for school this year on condition they build a stronger facility by the end of the year. The Harvest Kids have been raising money for the new classrooms, but Pr. Martin, the director of Harvest Vision in central Africa, contacted us last week and asked the kids if they could donate the money needed to purchase textbooks for the school in time for the teachers to be prepared for the start of school in June. The cost is $800 USD (2,880,000 Uganda Schillings). A couple of the friends of the Harvest Kids, had their family members donate some coins and on Saturday the kids filled up the bullet (their collection container) to over-flowing and it weighed in at 50 pounds. We finished rolling and counting it this morning and it totaled $550, which they added to the amount they had already collected and we are wiring the $800 to Africa this week. Thanks to everyone that prays and helps these young people become true disciples of Jesus Christ that are willing to consider others even more than themselves. Born again from “taking and getting” to “loving and giving”.

What a blessing to witness these young people becoming true disciples as they learn that it is better to give than receive. They see and know their willingness to sacrifice their time, effort and resources is helping less fortunate, vulnerable children, including orphans that live 10,000 miles away on the other side of the planet.

We are so thankful that we are witnessing a breakthrough in the reaction to the pandemic and opportunities are opening up to more effectively reach the lost with the hope that comes from the gospel of Jesus Christ. Harvest Vision Ministries exists to help the Body of Christ reach the lost in their community, whether it is in the USA, Mexico, Central America or central Africa. We trust the prayers of those that would partner to support these co-laborers in the harvest fields where the Lord has positioned them. The Lord has provided three opportunities for the Body of Christ to help supply the finances needed to help them. Donations can be made by mail or egiving or by supporting our fund-raising such as garage sales and produce sales, when we are able to start them. For future sustainability of the ministry, the Lord prompted us to start Walker Motor Works, a used car dealership operated by our granddaughter and her husband, at 9430 State Avenue in Marysville, WA. Kylee, our granddaughter, has been active in the ministry, currently serves on the board and through the business will be helping maintain the support for our co-laborers as long as the Lord desires.