A core group of about 25 people met and prayed for months before the launch. In the early days, the congregation met in homes, a chiropractor’s office, and other available spaces. In 2011, the congregation began to meet at Marshall Middle School. We prayed for a trailer large enough to store and haul the equipment necessary for service each week. God provided $1,000 and the trailer. Harvest grew slowly and steadily at Marshall through small groups and Arrow, and it soon became apparent we needed a place dedicated to worship and discipleship. In 2017, we were presented with the opportunity to lease space in an office building in the center of Wexford - what was unusual about this office space is it had a room that could be converted into an auditorium with classroom and nursery space at the back.

We undertook The Next 3, leasing space in our current location for three years and undertaking a $40,000 renovation of the auditorium, a nursery, a classroom, and an office. Our congregation of 60 people raised all the funds needed for The Next 3, and we quickly grew to 100 adults and children in our new location. Soon additional space became available in the building - for Arrow and a larger nursery. Again, the Lord provided for us when we had the need for additional space.

The continuing growth brought by God providentially coincided with more space becoming available in the building in 2019, when we undertook The Next 5, a $120,000 expansion of the auditorium and children’s classroom space. We signed a five-year lease, and began the work of finishing, painting, decorating, and furnishing the additional space, including building out the stage and auditorium we have today. The entire work was accomplished without incurring any debt, as the Lord moved His people to generously give everything that was needed - money, time, talents, and material.

As we grew to a congregation of over 160 worshippers every Sunday in early 2023, it became apparent our current space was quickly becoming insufficient. The elders chartered the Relocation and Building Committee (RBC) and directed adding a second service in August 2023. The second service produced accelerated growth - by November we regularly had over 250 attendees over both services!

God has blessed Harvest in the Past and He continues to do so in the Present, and we eagerly look forward to His continued blessing as we move into the Future with The Next Harvest.

• In February we sent three men as part of a THINK Missions team to India to build a church.

• The Next Harvest Gets Underway!

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• With our five year lease nearly half through and recognizing our steady growth, the elders chartered a Relocation and Building Committee (RBC) in June, and authorized the RBC to begin searching for property to build on, or a larger building to renovate.

• RBC begins evaluating available properties within a ten mile radius of our present location

• On 20 August we moved to two services to accommodate the growth in our children’s ministry and the number of adult worshippers in the auditorium - roughly 180 people each Sunday.

• By December, combined weekly attendance at both services grows to approximately 250 adults and children.

• Taylor Brown is hired as Associate Pastor

• In response to COVID-19 restrictions, we began live-streaming our services

• On Memorial Day weekend we returned to in-person worship

• The Next 5 campaign launched! This was a massive step for Harvest and led the way for serving more people in need in the North Hills of Pittsburgh.

• We added children’s classrooms to accommodate our burgeoning children’s program and expanded the auditorium at a cost of $120,000 - and accomplished it without debt due to the generosity of God’s people.

• We sent a team of four men to Thailand for two weeks to teach at a week-long conference, training pastors, missionaries, and their wives on a wide range of doctrinal and practical topics, and then to visit the remote churches in the northern mountains.

• The Next 3 expansion campaign provided the way for our Harvest Youth (Arrow) and Kids ministries to flourish in new space dedicated to them. We also added a small conference and storage room adjacent to the kitchen area. These additions provided fellowship space and gave small groups additional places to meet and grow. It also enabled us to serve our children faithfully each week as we grew from within: families were blessed with many new babies.

• The Next 3 campaign began as a a humble decision to listen to God in prayer. This was a massive step for Harvest and led the way for serving more people in need in the North Hills of Pittsburgh. We were introduced to many new friends and families since entering our new home on June 4th 2017. Each step of the way God showed us that He provides for His people faithfully and completely when the need arises.

• Another small group was added in Cranberry Township.

• Pastor Jeff spent two weeks in Thailand to train young pastors in sermon preparation.

• Arrow Student Ministry spent a week in Kentucky doing service projects and visiting the Creation Museum.

• Harvest Kids collected over 200 non-perishable items for a local food bank.

• Arrow Student Ministry launched in the Spring.

• We sent a team of seven to do construction work on a pastor’s training center in Arad, Romania.

• Harvest Kids raised over $800 for World Vision to purchase income-producing farm animals for families in Third World Countries.

• Our first Small Group multiplication happened seamlessly.

• The first class of three elders was installed.

• Our church participated in its first short term missions trip by sending one of our members with a team from Phoenix to Moldova to conduct a week-long family summer camp.

• Small groups launched.

• October 2, 2011 - Harvest Bible Chapel Pittsburgh North launched!

• Harvest Pittsburgh North started with a few people and no money.

• The Core Group went from meeting in a basement, to a chiropractor's office, to Marshall Middle School.

• The church needed over $80,000 dollars worth of equipment, signage, trailer, etc. We had enough money to buy the trailer (empty)!

• God provided many of the things we needed by having them donated, then provided the funds to purchase the rest.