Heaven's Harvest Church Mission Statement

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Heaven's Harvest Church Pastor John has served in church ministry for over ten years and has a passion for seeing lives changed by the Spirit of God and the Word of God. 

 John was personally healed from a terminal illness two years ago, which confirmed his calling and gave him an even greater desire to see the power of God move in these last days. He preaches the message of the Gospel with an emphasis on seeing peoples' lives transformed through signs, miracles and wonders.  Although he grew up in the Metairie/Kenner area, he has a desire to see the power of the Gospel bring revival to the westbank - Gretna, Westwego, Bridge City, Waggaman, Marrero. 

 Katie has worked in youth, children's and young adult ministry in local churches since 2010. She worked in the New Orleans inner city with Jesus Project Ministries. Katie also worked at the faith based, middle/high school mentoring program Next Generation. 

Pastor Joe and Betsy have served in ministry for over three decades.  They answered God's call as missionaries to Russia and then China, sharing the gospel with many who were unreached.  After coming back to the U.S., Joe served as a pastor at Faithful word in Kenner.  They have a heart to see an increase in evangelism and also discipleship.  Pastor Joe leads our Wednesday night services.

Pastor Keith and Sandy have been together since high school. They both attended college together where they graduated with Bachelors degrees and were married shortly thereafter. They worked in the corporate world for many years, did ministry part time and raised 4 children. Pastor Keith started his service as a Christian in the Catholic church as lector reading a passage out of the Bible at church on Sunday. He then moved on to working with the Youth about a year later. Pastor Keith also spent time in the French Quarter 1-2 days per month ministering to people there for about a year. Then Keith and Sandy met their Christian mentor, Pastor Larry Elder. Keith

began serving as youth pastor, under Pastor Elders guidance, at Strong Faith Bible Church in Gretna, La. Most of the youth served at Strong Faith were at-risk youth and some were even gang members, who needed guidance, hope and role models. Unfortunately, several years into the ministry, the church was destroyed by a hurricane. Sandy and Pastor Keith went to another church

thereafter and began serving the youth together. A few years later, Keith and Sandy started a new Non-Profit organization called Challenge Outreach and began doing ministry in the New Orleans area. In 2017, Keith and Challenge Outreach served as a partner with Next Generation as lead mentor running a club at a school in

Jefferson Parish. In 2017 we also began serving at a Methadone clinic in both New Orleans and Gretna.

In 2020, Sandy joined the ministry full time and has been an important part of the growth God

placed in our path. In 2023 we met John and Katie Picolo from Heaven’s Harvest Church, which

opened across the parking lot from our food pantry. As we partnered together, we found out that both Heaven’s Harvest and Challenge had similar visions. This began a beautiful partnership that I firmly believe God put together to accomplish more together than we could