An Update on the SoCal Harvest (and What’s Next for Harvest Ministries)

Hey everyone, Greg Laurie here. Very excited to give you a report on what God did at the Angel Stadium for the Southern California Harvest Crusade. Let's start with how many people showed up. We were there two nights and around 51,000 people joined us in live attendance. But then we saw 4,808 people making a profession of faith in the stadium. Now add to this the fact that another 161,000 people watched online and of those 3,849 people asked Jesus to come into their life. So all told 8,667 people said yes to Jesus Christ.

How amazing is that? So every one of those people has a story to tell, right? So here's a letter from one person who came and tells us what God did in their life that night.

They write and I quote, it's just breathtaking, inspirational and eye-opening for me. This year has been so difficult but tonight was like a breath of fresh air. I served in the military. I lost some friends. I've been having trouble coping but yet my heart feels full accepting Christ into my life for the first time tonight.

Isn't that great? So we had two nights. It was Saturday night. Then Sunday night we prayed for a spiritual awakening to spread across the state of California. You know the last great spiritual revival in American history happened in California.

It was called the Jesus movement or the Jesus revolution and it spread across the nation and across the world. California is known for a lot of things these days. A lot of them not very good. In fact we have people in our state leaving in droves. So maybe the main export from California these days is Californians.

Wouldn't it be great if we had a new export? An export of spiritual awakening once again to the rest of the nation. Well anyway, so there at this stadium we prayed and we said God send a spiritual awakening and that was a great moment. One person who came that night wrote me these words and I quote, I recommitted to follow God. A hope that I have right now for my life is to fearlessly proclaim his name and spread the gospel relentlessly to everyone.

Strangers, people on the street, my friends. I'm excited to allow the Holy Spirit to work through me and be on fire for God again. I love this statement. They want to fearlessly proclaim his name and spread the gospel relentlessly. That should be the heartbeat of every Christian. Spread the gospel relentlessly. We have some big plans for the end of this year and next year. Coming up in December we have an evangelistic documentary film that will be seen in theaters called Johnny Cash The Redemption of an American Icon. It'll be showing most likely in a theater near you and there'll be a gospel presentation at the end. This is a top level documentary that's going to really impact people's lives and then of course in February of next year the feature film Jesus Revolution opens in theaters across the country and our prayer is that people will come to Jesus watching this film. So big plans for the coming year but hey let's all look for opportunities to once again spread the gospel relentlessly.