Our Beginning
Harvest Community Church was birthed out of a vision placed in the hearts of founding pastors, Jeff and Judy Burris, and a group of faithful believers. They responded to God's call to leave their place of ministry at New Hope Worship Center in Concord and plant a new Foursquare work in the Northwest Cabarrus area. Beginning in February of 2004 Harvest Community Church launched it's first public service at Northwest Cabarrus High School. In December of 2009 Harvest opened the doors to its new facility located at 4284 Orphanage Rd.
Passing the baton
In 2017, Pastor Jeff Burris, felt a stirring in his heart from the Holy Spirit that his season of being Lead Pastor was coming to an end. It was during this time that he asked Pastors Matt and Sarah to consider stepping into that role. They accepted and became the official Lead Pastors by the end of that year. Since then, we have continued to see God move and grow His family here at Harvest in incredible ways!
Our Beliefs/ What is Foursquare?
The term "foursquare" was common in the early 1900's and referred to something or someone as being "solid" and "balanced". It was during this time that God called Aimee Semple McPherson to preach what she called the "foursquare gospel." Her evangelistic meetings led to a movement, which became the Foursquare Church in December of 1927. To this day the message remains a simple, four-point declaration of Jesus as:
- SAVIOR
- HEALER
- BAPTIZER WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
- SOON-COMING KING
Today there are more than 1,500 Foursquare churches in the United States with over 6,600 credentialed ministers serving over 264,000 members! Internationally there are more than 68,000 Foursquare churches in more than 140 countries with over 71,000 credentialed ministers serving more than 8.5 million people worldwide!
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