National Ministry - Church Planting

A packed house of 2000+ pastors and ministry leaders from Harvest Bible Chapels around the world and churches outside our fellowship worshiped together for Harvest University.  We are honored to serve with these pastors and leaders for the sake of the Gospel.

Watch this video to see how the Lord Jesus is building His church in our day.

In 2008, the Lord led Harvest to the continent of Africa.  By God's grace, six Harvest churches have been planted in Liberia and one church is preparing to launch in Cameroon.  East Africa is a new field for Harvest and we are excited how the Lord has clearly led us to consider Nairobi, Kenya.

Peter Ngugi of Nairobi was introduced to Harvest in 2011 then assessed and selected to join the Harvest Training Center for Church Planting.  February 4, 2012 he arrived at Harvest Elgin, IL and successfully completed his residency March 22.  Peter received high marks from every trainer and we are excited to move forward with him to plant a life-giving Harvest Bible Chapel in Nairobi, Kenya.  Peter completed an internship at Harvest Columbus, OH and returned to Nairobi April 9.  Together with the fellowship, Peter now begins the journey of building a core group & leadership team.



Objectives | April - June: (1) Register Harvest Nairobi; (2) Set-up Office (3) Network & cast vision; (4) Grow & develop a Core Group

Objectives | July - September: (1) Continue building Core Group; (2) Choose leader team; (3) Equip Launch Team; (4) Secure Worship facility; (5) Promote Launch; (6) & Launch Harvest Nairobi

As a Harvest Church Planter, Peter will be accountable to Harvest Bible Fellowship in all areas of life and ministry including spiritual health, relationships, finances, the transfer of DNA, health of Core Group, selection of Ministry Leaders, equipping of Launch Team and launch. Harvest Bible Fellowship will carry his monthly salary. This covers rent, food, utilities, phone/internet, transport, & medical coverage. As the Core Group in Nairobi grows in strength, we will unwind gradually as tithes & offering are collected during the pre-launch & launch stages. Planting a self-sustaining church is a priority to us!



Start-up costs are needed to establish Harvest Church Planter Peter Ngugi and Harvest Nairobi.

$10,870 is needed.

Registration: $1000; Office Rent: $850 monthly x3 mos.; Furniture: $2000; Computer: $700; Printer: $300; Projector: $1000; Phone: $200; Cellphone: $300; Airtime: $150; Internet: $70; Venue for Core Group: $800; & Promotion $1800.

The launch of the church will be contingent on the core group and launch team raising necessary funds to have their first public worship service. The estimated cost of launching the church is an additional $35,000. This includes renting a worship venue, equipment, seats, children’s ministry & curriculum, hiring a worship leader, and promotion & marketing. A financial campaign will be carried-out by the launch team in Nairobi leading up to the launch of the church to cover these expenses.

Would you consider making a financial contribution to Harvest Bible Fellowship for Harvest Nairobi?  We need your help.



Click on "Support through a one-time online gift".
FUND:  International Church Planting
MEMO:  Nairobi, Kenya
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Give by Mail:
Checks payable to: Harvest Bible Fellowship
Attn: International Church Planting
1000 N. Randall Rd. Elgin, IL 60123
Memo line: “Nairobi, Kenya”

For more information about Harvest Bible Fellowship, what we believe & how we plant churches internationally,  contact Kirk, Director of International Church Planting, krv@harvestbiblefellowship.org.

Harvest Bible Fellowship is a 501(c)(3) organization; planting churches where God is visibly at work.  Your gift is tax deductible and you will receive a contribution statement for your investment in Nairobi. 100% of your contribution will be stewarded to see a life-giving work established in Nairobi, Kenya.

After sensing the Lord’s call to a full-time preaching ministry in 2006, Brian White contacted Harvest Bible Fellowship after learning of its church-planting mission at a conference in his hometown of Indianapolis. “We saw Harvest’s bold, verse-by-verse preaching married with a heartfelt passion and contemporary expression of worship,” says Brian, “It was a first for us, and we really wanted to be a part of it.” So in 2006, Brian and his wife, Laura, and their two children moved up to Chicago to join the inaugural class of the Fellowship’s Training Center for nine months. In the midst of being inundated with information and training, Brian and Laura still did not give up traveling back to Indianapolis on the weekends to shepherd their growing core group. After completing the Training Center, they went back to this core group and launched Harvest North Indy in September 2007.



Since it’s launch almost five years ago, Brian has grown in his people a heart for missions and partnering with other Harvest churches. After meeting Senior Pastor Moses Wheigar from Harvest Paynesville, Liberia at Harvest University a few years ago, Brian had a specific vision for helping the Liberian churches. He says, “I told Kirk (Van Maanen, HBF’s Director of International Church Planting and Communication) I would lead a partnership of Harvest churches to help get a project in Liberia going.” So far, Harvest churches in Granger, IN, West Olive, MI, DeKalb, IL, and Brampton, ON, have joined with North Indy to begin serving and partnering with the Harvest in Paynesville, Liberia. “Our church got a vision for a Training Center in Liberia,” says Brian, “And I literally just picked up the phone and asked other Harvest pastors if they would want to be a part of it, and they came on board.”

Together these churches along with a few private donors have raised over $100,000 to build a Training Center in Liberia to be complete this fall. It will be used immediately for Harvest Christian Academy Paynesville and hopefully begin training future church-planting pastors sometime in early 2013.

“I’ve really learned over time,” says Brian, “that you have to be intentional in what you are trying to do. Seek the Lord’s face. Think about it. Plan it. Sometimes you feel like you’re walking down a dark hallway with sunglasses on banging into furniture, and you just bounce off and keep on going. But when we bounce off, we need to stop and be intentional. For example, while our church is excited about what we are helping to do in Liberia, we are also really passionate about adoption and orphan care. We took the time to stop and process adoption and orphan care theologically and preach about it, before we set up a ministry so people could understand what the Bible says about it. That was huge. So now we have a ministry about adoption and orphan care. We help fund adoptions and see kids come in from the Congo or China or locally. These are rejoicing points within our church, but only because we worked at being intentional.”

Brian and Laura have been touched personally by adoption as well when they adopted their second child, Jocelyn, now 6, at birth. She joined Karis, now 9, and later Brian and Laura added twin boys, Nathan and Samuel, 5, who were born while Brian was completing the Training Center in Illinois. They also now have Molly who is almost two. “The greatest picture of the Gospel we can give today is to adopt a child,” says Brian. “All of us, when we get saved, are adopted as God’s children. Adopting a child is a direct picture of what God has done for us.” He continues, “We feel like everything comes back to glorifying God by making disciples of all nations. Adoption flows out of that. Our ministry in Liberia flows out of that. Our local ministry flows out of that…everything does. Let’s be disciples that make disciples.”