Missions
Harvest is a missions church and we believe that every member is a part of God’s mission team. The missions ministry oversees a number of different initiatives ministering to different people’s needs and situations. There are also a number of outreaches planned each year to specific locations and ongoing work at certain mission outposts and stations. We would encourage you to get involved in areas that tug at your heartstrings.
For more information please email missions@harvest.co.za
Outreaches
Mission trips, or outreaches, involve a combination of hands on practical ministry, evangelism, prayer, and discipleship. These all aim to minister to the needs of the local community with the love of Jesus, and to build friendship and trust, with each returning visit. There are regular monthly outreaches into the local Kleinskool community, quarterly outreaches to Keiskammahoek, and annual mission trips to Lesotho and Kenya.
Keiskammahoek
Reaching out through regular short-term outreaches to various rural villages near King Williams Town Eastern Cape.
2025 dates planned:
21 – 23 March
23 – 25 May
3 – 5 October
To find out more or to join our next Keiskammahoek mission please email missions@harvest.co.za
Lesotho
Reaching out through annual short-term outreaches to remote Basotho Highland villages.
2025 dates planned:
27 November – 2 December
To find out more or to join our next Lesotho mission please email missions@harvest.co.za
Kenya
Reaching out through annual short-term outreaches to Garissa and the Kenyan east coast.
2025 dates planned:
TBC
To find out more or to join our next Kenya mission please email missions@harvest.co.za
Mission Partners
Our mission partners are all independent self-governing ministries, who each discerned a specific community need, and then, compelled by love and empowered by grace, stepped in to do something about it. They come under the spiritual covering of Harvest and are partially financially supported by the church. Please feel free to get involved with any of these missions partners by following the links below.
World Mission Centre
Harvest is honoured to partner with World Mission Centre in spreading the Gospel and equipping believers for the mission field. Through this partnership, we have helped plant numerous Live Schools both locally and abroad. Live School is a portable missions training and discipleship program designed to equip indigenous believers—whether in rural villages or bustling cities—to become missionaries to their own communities and neighbouring people groups. These students are then sent out to plant churches, transform lives, and share the message of Jesus in places where the Gospel is needed most.
Founded in 1989 by Willie and Lydia Crew, World Mission Centre exists to provoke, enthuse, and inspire the body of Christ to engage in world evangelization. With offices in South Africa and the USA, as well as six regional Live School hubs across the globe, WMC is actively equipping and mobilizing missionaries in Southern Africa, East Africa, West Africa and Central Africa, North Africa and the Middle East, the Former Soviet Union, and the Caribbean. Through these strategic hubs, the Gospel is reaching people in some of the most spiritually and physically challenging regions of the world. Harvest is deeply invested in this mission, and through our support of WMC, we are fulfilling the Great Commission—touching “the ends of the earth” just as Acts 1:8 calls us to do. This is more than just an organization we support; it’s a movement we are part of, and together, we are making an eternal impact.
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” – Acts 1:8
For more information see www.worldmissioncentre.com
WhatsApp prayer group: 074 864 4985 / 084 867 6272
FREE
A ministry for addiction recovery – FREE (an acronym for Forgiveness and Restoration through Ending Enslavement) is an outpatient centre which aims to give substance abuse victims the vital tools to stay free, avoid relapse, and become employable
For more information please see free2restore.org
WhatsApp prayer group: 061 537 7941
Vistarus
A ministry for the homeless – taking in destitute and broken people from the streets, and providing them with a place to stay and an opportunity to work, as they are discipled back to restoration.
For more information please see www.vistarus.co.za
WhatsApp prayer group: 068 118 0028
Work for a Living
A ministry for the unemployed – a work program that teaches job readiness and entrepreneurship, and aims to address poverty by empowering and equipping people to fulfil their God-given potential through work
For more information please see work4aliving.org
WhatsApp prayer group: 074 511 1192
Isivuno Training
A ministry for disadvantaged pre-school children + high school maths support – aimed at making a difference in the lives of children through the training and support of crèche, and pre-school teachers in rural or disadvantaged areas, as well as providing high school maths education
For more information please see www.isivunotraining.org
WhatsApp prayer group: 082 657 2701
Loving Hands
A ministry for moms and babies in need – ministering across various hospital maternity wards and providing knitted clothing, blankets, and toiletry packs for new born babies and their moms
For more information please email missions@harvest.co.za
WhatsApp prayer group: 076 224 7216
House of Wells
A ministry for disadvantaged school children – providing discipleship, aftercare, and practical help to underprivileged, abandoned, and vulnerable children and teens living in poverty-ravaged communities
For more information please see www.houseofwells.org
WhatsApp prayer group: 083 245 1775
Bet Sheekoom
A ministry for women in desperate crisis – reaching out to destitute girls on the street who need assistance in leaving a life of drugs and prostitution, by providing a safe haven whilst counselling them back to wholeness
For more information please see www.betsheekoom.org.za
WhatsApp prayer group: 083 652 1753
Farming God’s Way
A ministry for rural farming communities – a biblically based agricultural program consisting of a set of management tools designed to equip and empower the poor to reap the rewards of Godly farming principles
For more information please see www.farming-gods-way.org
WhatsApp prayer group: 076 224 7216
Family Transformation
A ministry for marriage, family, relationships, and well-being – aimed at building, equipping, empowering and restoring lives through biblical lifestyle wellness resources and coaching
For more information please see www.familytransformation.org
WhatsApp prayer group: 082 653 3188
Mission Stations
God-willing mission outreaches become mission stations which ultimately become actual church plants. Whilst this is true for Harvest Kleinskool, the nature of the church plant there means that there is much missional work to still do, which is why it is also still listed here as a mission station. There is also a Harvest mission station in Kenya.
Kenya
Harvest supports full time missionaries who work and stay among the Somali people in Kenya. A Skill Centre has been set up, which also serves to disciple Muslim background believers that have been ex-communicated from their families for accepting Christ. They reach out to the Somali’s and other unreached people groups in East Kenya, largely through friendship evangelism, and despite great challenges, serve our mission cause there, with the greater love of Jesus.
For more information on our missionary work in Kenya, or to enquire about getting involved please email missions@harvest.co.za
Kleinskool
Kleinskool is one of the poorest neighbourhoods and most underprivileged communities in the city. It’s an area where unemployment is rife and where many people live from hand to mouth every single day of their lives. Kleinskool has the highest malnutrition rate in the metropole. It is a neglected neighbourhood without many basic services – no electricity supply and no running water to most households – and where sadly alcoholism and drug abuse is socially accepted and gangsterism is common place. And yet despite it’s predicament, Kleinskool consists of a community of people with the most beautiful smiles. The critical needs of the Kleinskool community have resulted in the establishment of a Christian community centre and multi-site Harvest campus from where various community-based projects and outreach and upliftment ministries are conducted with the help of many Christian volunteers.
SwopShop
Kleinskool is an area that is littered with rubbish. As one might understand, a neighborhood’s cleanliness and upkeep is quite a lot further down the priority chain, after food and shelter. The SwopShop in Kleinskool, established in 2017, is an empowerment initiative that has made a dramatic impact in this community. Every Tuesday the Kleinskool SwopShop opens its doors to a few hundred members of the Kleinskool community, who collectively deposit tons of rubbish that they have painstakingly gathered and sorted from the surrounding neighbourhood, in return for basic food, clothing, and staple necessities. People start queuing early in the morning to wait in line for their turn to deliver their collection of plastic or glass bottles, cans, or pieces of cardboard – which is then weighed and allocated a certain token value – to eventually be redeemed for much needed household goods from a well stocked on-site store. The store is stocked with various bought and donated items, and is replenished each week after a recycling company has removed the sorted rubbish for a fairly nominal contribution towards the running costs of the operation. The Harvest Kleinskool SwopShop is a beautiful opportunity to serve the needs of those less fortunate in a practical way – that not only has a major impact on the external environment by way of cleaning up the area and providing for some essential household needs, but also on the internal environment of people’s hearts and minds as dignity and purpose are restored into their lives.
For more information on our missionary work in Kleinskool, or to enquire about getting involved please email missions@harvest.co.za
Mission Friends
Recreate
Recreate is an organic network of artists and creatives seeking collaboration with God, our communities and with one another. It is open for all as we are all creative in some way. Recreate organises events throughout the year that include art retreats, outreaches, informal gatherings and an art conference. Be encouraged, learn new skills, meet new people. We invite you to add to the canvas in progress.
Contact Sonia for more info: sonia@strumpfer.co.za
Christian Friends of Israel
Christian Friends of Israel (CFI) is a worldwide ministry with headquarters in Jerusalem and representative offices throughout the world (Including South Africa). CFI reaches out to comfort and support the Jewish people with the love of Messiah Jesus through practical projects and outreaches in Israel, and also teaches the church of its Hebrew heritage and biblical responsibility to the Jewish people, making them aware of our solidarity with them.
Contact Pam Holloway for more info: cfisa@telkomsa.net
Mercy Ministries
Our Mercy Ministries provide physical relief for the needy through the distribution of donated items; feeding the hungry and housing the homeless through our soup kitchen and lodging partners; and also providing food parcels for church members in desperate need of assistance
For more information please email missions@harvest.co.za
Annual Clothing Swop For Food Initiative
Every year we convert good quality second-hand clothing donations into non-perishable food stuffs to stock our Kleinskool Swop-Shop, to meet the essentials needs of the community.
We set up a shop stocked with Men’s, Ladies & Childrens pre-loved clothing and accessories and purchases can be made with non-perishable food items or cash that will be used to buy food to support those in desperate need.