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Cantonment Church Holding Services At Tate High During Renovation
March 1, 2011
Harvest Christian Center of Cantonment has temporarily moved its services to Tate High School, and hopes the new location will draw more people and in turn provide more opportunities to address community needs.
This week, Harvest will be sending out 30,000 pieces of mail letting Cantonment and North Escambia County know of the move, and inviting the community to attend Sunday services at 9:30am or 11:15am.
“My prayer is that this temporary move gives Harvest Christian Center an opportunity to see lives permanently changed by Jesus,” said Brian Farley, senior pastor. “Our goal is to build a life-giving, multi-racial church that reaches all age groups.”
Harvest runs a food bank and clothing closet out of their property located at 1095 Muscogee Road. Each program has assisted 684 families in the Cantonment area. In 2010, the food bank distributed more than 15,000 pounds of food to families in need. The church is also involved in two prison ministries in Cantonment and Atmore.
Harvest’s facilities on Muscogee Road are undergoing renovations, including a new education building that the church hopes will accommodate growing youth and children’s programs. Fortress Student Ministries, Harvest’s youth program, has had up to 180 youth participate in church activities.
While Sunday services are held at Tate High School, Harvest continues to have adult, youth and children services on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. at the Muscogee Road campus.
Harvest Christian Center opened its doors to the community a decade ago with just 11 people in a motel room. The church has since grown to 300 attendees each week.
“God has given me a vision for this church,” says Pastor Brian. “This is just the beginning of some really incredible things He has in store for Harvest and the Cantonment area.”
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8 Responses to “Cantonment Church Holding Services At Tate High During Renovation”
AMEN Pastor Brain!
Tax dollars pay for none of this, zero. Harvest Christian Center pays a fair rate for rent set by the school. The church also compensates maintenance personel who work during these hours of their own free will. No student or faculty member is forced or pressured to attend in anyway. Many students probably have no idea that the church even rents the cafeteria. We are privileged to utilize the school and always work to leave it better than we found it.
I have been to a couple of their services since they moved to Tate. It is amazing how they get there 1 and 1/2 hours before the service starts to just a school lunch room, and totally transform it into a church complete with sound equipment, video monitors, computers, and a complete praise and worship band. They obviously have many dedicated members at that Church to get up early and do what they do in order to have a Sunday morning church service.
Big al… the rules say that the school (teachers/admin. etc.) cannot require students to participate in religion teaching. Renting the building on Sunday to a church doesn’t require any student to be forced to observe some elses beliefs.
May God continue to Bless you with the Vision Pastor Brian. Truly the Harvest is plentiful, but the labors are few.
To OMRBH: Any Tax payer Public Building may be used with Insurance coverage and meet the criteria of the agreement of the building.
Your question is not a dumb one, you just asked what a lots of people only think, question but never ask. “Ask and it shall be answered”.
Let me see now…Principals and coaches being arrested and brought to trial for having prayer before a ball game and a church meeting in a school. Again, I go to church regularly, and have no personal problem with this, but I don’t understand the rules.
To OMRBH…… The CHURCH pays rent!
Was not aware that public schools could be used as churches. Who pays the bills?