Kingdom Harvest Church Belfast Ltd Directors Report for the Year 2022-2023
The Church as a whole is HUGELY instrumental in upholding and promoting a moral compass for society and is a defender of right behaviour, which includes honouring parents, teachers, policing and civic authority. We at Kingdom Harvest have honoured and prayed for government and the decision-makers in N Ireland and the United Kingdom on a regular basis. We are a Light as we reflect Christ’s Light to those around us. By our influence as the Church and teaching Biblically sound standards of morality, spiritual principles for life and overcoming challenges, as well as how to have rich and meaningful relationships with our Creator God and others, we are combatting things like family breakdown, the shocking rise in alcohol and/ or drug abuse, sexual crime, disrespect for parents, teachers and anyone else in authority. Honestly, “Public good” comes EASY for the Church!
For our Public Good of Promoting Religion we have held regular services on Sundays. These include lively worship with a full band and talented singers and instrumentalists. The Bible teaching is rich and diverse and helps everyone to know how loved, valued and accepted they are in Christ Jesus through His atoning sacrifice and the cross. We pray for one another publicly and show support for each other and every need. We explore the unsearchable riches of God’s Word defining the boundless benefits of knowing Christ as our Saviour and being a member of the Family of God. We seek to make sure everyone is listened to, every need addressed, every soul is enriched and empowered to face the challenges of each new day God sends!
During the week we have numerous Home Life Groups. This provides a more intimate setting to receive teaching from God’s Word, a time of discussion, personal prayer and it helps to foster genuine relationships with others. It’s also an excellent venue for those who are new to the faith to acclimatise, build new relationships and ask questions.
We have special events for children for Easter, a Back to School Party, a Glow Party (at the time of Halloween) and special Christmas events. We have a weekly “Kids’ Blast!” service on Sundays with a dedicated curriculum and activities to help children understand the wonder of God and the wonder of who they are, being created by God. They’re taught that they have gifts and talents and a destiny that God will help them fulfil. They learn timeless truths about of God’s love, forgiveness, fruit bearing (character development), right relationships and leadership principles. They also have FUN!
We have services and teaching that is accessible on our website, Facebook and Youtube. We now also offer access to the Global Church Divinity School for Church members and those attending our GCN conferences. (We have 2 this year, with international speakers live via ZOOM and present with us). The GC Divinity School has over 220 courses online developed by great Christian leaders across the world. It’s fabulous!
For our Educationally focussed Public Benefit, I site the above mentioned Global Church Divinity School. We are continuing to publicise this across N Ireland and internationally. Obviously it’s accessible form any place on earth with an internet connection and we have the Global Membership which allows us to sow the GCDS to 50 different locations anywhere on earth. We have offered it to leaders in Pakistan and Uganda.
We also continue to publicise the option for parents to Homeschool their children through the ACE (Accelerated Christian Education ) curriculum. We had the European Director speak at our 1st GCN conference at the beginning of the year. We endeavour to place a love for learning in
all the children who come to Kingdom Harvest. Proverbs 24 says “Through wisdom a house is built, through understanding it is established and by knowledge all the chambers thereof are filled with precious and pleasant things!”
For relief of poverty we teach the principles of Biblical Finance every Sunday service. We offer continual counselling services to help individuals and families overcome personal, relational and financial challenges. We support job hunting and work placement through the many relationships we have in the community. No one needs to stay unemployed at Kingdom Harvest. We trust God to open doors, create opportunities, grant favour and to transform lives. We see it happening!
Our Missions support is growing and wide-ranging. We partner with other organisations like Overland Missions and the Global Church Network to help bring the Gospel to the ends of the earth. Overland Missions works in places like Zambia, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Morocco, Vietnam and Brazil. They reach farther to find tribes and people groups that haven’t been reached. We also partnered with the GCN to support the building of the Mount Everest Training Centre in Nepal. Their goal is to train thousands of Church planters to reach the 10,000 unreached villages in the Himalayan mountains. We have also supported reaching children with the gospel in Pakistan by distributing 1000 Christian children’s books.
This is a taste of what we do. There is no greater joy than serving Christ and the community, helping them connect to endless hope, boundless love and the unsearchable resources available to all who will choose to follow Christ.
Regards, Pst Brian Ashworth Director/ Pastor
Kingdom Harvest Church Belfast Ltd 10 Beechfield Avenue Bangor, Co Down BT19 7ZY