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October 2024

As we move into Good Neighbor Serve Week please join hundreds of Harvester Christians as we pray for our neighborhoods, communities, and city.

Good Neighbor Serve Week Prayers

Heavenly Father, we ask for your presence in families in our neighborhood. We pray

for strength and understanding between the marriages in our neighborhood. We ask

for loving, strong bonds between the children, teenagers, adults, and grandparents.

We pray that each branch of the family will demonstrate love for one another.

 

God Almighty, we ask for healthy, thriving relationships between neighbors. We pray

different cultures will be able to understand and care for one another in our

neighborhood. We pray that the diversity of your people will be celebrated by all

neighbors, just as you affirm and love each one of us.

 

Father, we pray for the teachers and local principals who devote their days to

shepherding our students. Please be present as district and state leaders make

impactful decisions. We ask for guidance and patience for the parent volunteers as

they serve our neighborhood schools. We pray that our schools will be a safe, positive

community for our students.

 

Lord God, we pray for guidance for our local pastors as they nurture Your

congregation and seek to serve those around them. We pray Fieldview Church and

Harvester Christian would welcome neighbors with open arms. We hope for residents

to find a place to experience community with the body of Christ as they grow

spiritually.

 

God we ask for your presence in the streets and homes of our community. We pray for

local law enforcement and first responders, for their safety and wisdom and

compassion in all circumstances. We pray for your comfort for those who have

experienced violence and destruction, and we ask your protection for all our

neighbors.

 

Father, we ask you to give our state and local leaders wisdom make decisions affecting

our city and county. We pray they will be thoughtful in their decisions and listen to the

voices of the community. We pray for courage to stand up for our community and to

live with grace and dignity in our city.

 

God, we ask for a flourishing community, where neighbors learn to love each other

and come to know Jesus. We pray that we can be good stewards of Your love to each

one of our neighbors. We ask that You help us to learn from our community, and it

may be a place where all are welcomed.

 

Dear Lord, we lift the lonely people in our community to you today. We pray that you

will bring them comfort, companionship, and hope. Please surround them with your

love and care. Let them feel your presence in their lives. Make us instruments to seek

out the lonely and give them comfort.

 

Lord, we pray the body of Christ rises to the needs of our neighbors. In our city, if

someone is hurting and in need, we pray your people will step in and minister to their

needs. Teach us to provide both the physical and spiritual needs serving as the hands

and feet of Jesus.

 

Lord, there is much work to be done in our city. We pray that You will guide us as we

address these challenges and bless our efforts to create a community where everyone

feels valued and supported. We rebuke the lies of Satan as he comes to steal, kill, and

destroy. Open the eyes of our churches so they see this as spiritual warfare. Bring our

city to their knees to fight the battle against Satan’s efforts.

 

We pray Father God that you will unite our community in a spirit of generosity, justice,

and hope. Help us to see that we are part of Your family and we all have been

commanded to Love You and love others.

 

Heavenly Father, help us to listen to our neighbors, to seek common ground, and to

work together. Give us the wisdom to recognize the needs of our community and to act on

those needs with creativity and innovation. Remove all fear and apathy from our

hearts. Create in us a clean heart. Pour out your compassion, empathy, and kindness

through us.

 

Lord dissolve any prejudices or biases within our community and replace them with a

deep understanding that you have fearfully and wonderfully made all of us to glorify

you. Help us to work together to build a community of unity, understanding, and

compassion. Sweep our community and bless us all with the eyes and heart of Jesus.

May the Holy Spirit sweep over our city, resulting in a true revival where actual change

occurs inside and outside the church walls.

 

Heavenly Father, We come before You with grateful hearts for the nonprofits and

schools in St. Charles County that serve our community with dedication and love. We

lift up every leader, teacher, volunteer, and staff member who works tirelessly to meet

the needs of others. Strengthen them with wisdom, patience, and compassion as they

fulfill their roles.

 

Lord Jesus, may Your peace, protection, and provision cover every organization and

school, and may their work reflect Your grace and mercy. Help us as a community to

support and encourage them in their mission. Unite us in our efforts to care for the lost

and wounded and to unleash hope to our community.

 

Holy Father guide us to be instruments of your love and mercy, showing kindness and

compassion to all we encounter. For those living apart from Jesus, please open their

hearts and minds to the truth of Your word and the gospel message. Help them to see

the beauty and power of your love and to experience the transforming power of your

grace.

 

Heavenly Father, we thank You for the unity we have in Christ. Just as Jesus prayed for

His disciples, we also lift up those who believe in You, and for those who will come to

know You through our witness. May we be one, just as You, Father, are in Christ, and

Christ is in You. Let the unity of believers reflect Your love and truth, so that the world

may believe that You sent Jesus. Help us live in harmony, united in purpose and love,

so that Your name may be glorified. Bind us together in a spirit of peace, that our unity

may reveal Your presence to those around us.

In the name of Jesus, we pray,

Amen.

Job posting with Harvest Initiative

One of our global partners, Harvest Initiative has a new job posting for Nicaragua Trip Coordinator as a contracted position. You can find all the details noted below. Serious inquiries should contact Marcus Pearson marcus.harvestinitiative@gmail.com

Nicaragua Trip Coordinator Job Description

Harvest Initiative, (HI), a Missouri based 501c3 not for profit seeks to fill the role of Nicaragua Trip Coordinator as a contracted position for 6 months to 2 years. The main focus would be the mission trips including pre field prep communication as well as the actual trip activity direction here in Nicaragua. It would be necessary to spend time here in Nicaragua to catch the clusters of trips, for example, we have 4 groups in Feb and March and we need to have someone here on the ground a couple of weeks prior to the trips, then during the visits, after that, it would be pretty flexible Nica base vs US base until we have another cluster later in the year.  Other communications and administrative tasks could be carried out remotely except for planned events and occasional meetings, typically in the St Charles, MO area. In almost all aspects, this is a people-oriented, public-facing position so the ability to interact with people, sometimes in stressful situations is vital. 

 Qualifications: 

  • Good Christian Testimony 
  • High School graduate 
  • Experience with the dynamics of mission trips 
  • Spanish is desired but not indispensable, HI will pay for some language training 

Mission trip Responsibilities: 60% time commitment 

  • Nicaragua Based 
  • correspond with trip leaders to align expectations according to the HI Delegation Guide 
  • collect and forward information needed for compliance with local regulations 
  • coordinate with project directors and pastors to set trip activity schedules and plan for needed transportation, materials, translators, food etc. 
  • accompany teams during their stay and oversee the activities, coordinate on-site with local volunteers, directors, and pastors 
  • conduct after-action evaluation and communicate results as appropriate 
  • ensure that pictures, videos , and testimonies are collected and available for inclusion in social media postings 

Other Responsibilities 

  • Nicaragua-based or US  
  •  monitor email and respond/reroute/follow up as needed  
  • REACH sponsorship and donor database monitoring+recruitment  
  • correspond with sponsors regarding expiring payment info, missed payments general concerns, new sponsor welcome by phone, e mail, postal mail as 
  • needed 
  • contact prospective sponsors to encourage them to commit to sponsoring 
  • maintain archives of corporate documents, contact lists, media resources and project information for use by others inside and outside the organization and facilitate access as needed  

Other duties as needed

  • may include representing HI at churches or civic venues, logistics support, or online research 

Stateside Admin Functions  

  •  Intern and Mission trip recruitment, orientation, debrief, travel to Nicaragua for  in-country during the time the groups are in Nicaragua is necessary, other than when teams are in country, job could be remote. 
  • Follow up on grant proposals generated by YourGrantSource & grants researched by volunteers (e.g. Tinker Fdn, Weekly Fdn, IDES, Emerson Electric) 
  • Assist volunteers with data entry and retrieval as needed from Quickbooks, Reach Donor database, and Mailchimp 
  • Routine correspondence and communication as needed 
  • Recruit and integrate volunteers in strategic areas where HI lacks help (IT, graphic design, marketing) 

Time commitment breakdown 

  • Intern, Mission trip,volunteer recruitment 60% 
  • Reports, Document prep, correspondence 10% 
  • Grant followup, database 20% 
  • Other 10% 
  • Location 80% remote, 20% in person, various locations in St Louis Metro, most of our contacts are in the St Charles Co area. 
  •  In Nicaragua time $1000/mo stipend, all travel and housing pd by HI, pd language study if desired 

US time 

part time position approx 20 hrs/ week average, flexible schedule, occasional travel to Nicaragua possible. Spanish desirable, but not required. Compensation $18/hr billed monthly as 1099 contract position 

 As the organization has grown our volunteers have admirably taken on more responsibility and we are in a great debt to them. Our challenge is to increase our stateside capability in administration while not supplanting the efforts of our core volunteers.