Welcome
Thank you for visiting our website.
Harvest is a Bible believing, Bible practicing church; we preach and teach the Bible in a exciting way that is helpful and relevant to you and your family. We’re imperfect people striving to become more Christ-like; not just on Sundays, but in the way we live our lives everyday.
Often our first-time guests will comment on how friendly our church is. We believe that everyone needs a church family and our sincere desire is that you would become part of ours.
Our church has people from all walks of life and backgrounds. You will find us to be a place where both your relationship with the Lord and other Christians will grow stronger and become more meaningful.
I hope you’ll see that Harvest Free Will Baptist Church is more than a building with programs and ministries. It is Christian people who have committed their lives to Jesus Christ and are seeking to reach others with His love.
Yours in Christ,
What We Believe
THE PURPOSE OF HARVEST
Membership
To join together as a local church; to promote love, friendship, fellowship, and harmony within the family of God.Maturity
To grow as Christians, to be fruitful disciples and strong leaders for Jesus.Ministry
To serve the people of our city by endeavoring to meet their spiritual needs.Missions
To preach Christ Jesus the Lord; boldly preaching and teaching to all people the Gospel and the doctrine of Christ. To use every available means to impact Bakersfield and the regions beyond with the Gospel of Christ.Magnification
To worship the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our mind; in spirit and in truth.
HARVEST CHURCH COVENANT
Having given ourselves to God, by faith in Jesus Christ, and adopted the Word of God as our rule of faith and practice, we now give ourselves to one another by the will of God in this solemn covenant.
We promise by His grace to love and obey Him in all things, to avoid all appearance of evil, to abstain from all sinful amusements and unholy conformity to the world, from all sanction of the use and sale of intoxicating beverages, and to provide things honest in the sight of all men.
We agree faithfully to discharge our obligations in reference to study of the Scriptures, secret prayer, family devotions, and social worship, and by self-denial, faith and good works endeavor to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
We will not forsake the assembling of ourselves together for church conferences, public worship, and the observance of the ordinances of the gospel, nor fail to pay according to our ability of the support of the church, of its poor, and all its benevolent work.
We agree to accept Christian admonition and reproof with meekness, and to watch over one another in love, endeavoring to “keep the unity of the Spirit” in the bonds of peace, to be careful of one another’s happiness and reputation, and seek to strengthen the weak, encourage the afflicted, admonish the erring, and as far as we are able, promote the success of the church and of the Gospel.
We will everywhere hold Christian principle sacred and Christian obligations and enterprises supreme; counting it our chief business in life to extend the influence of Christ in society; constantly praying and toiling that the Kingdom of God may come, and His will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.
To this end we agree to labor for the promotion of educational and denominational enterprises, the support of missions, the success of Sunday Schools, and evangelistic efforts for the salvation of the world.
And may the God of peace sanctify us wholly, and preserve us blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
