Harvest Church is a gospel-driven, joyfully sacrificial, first fruits giving church. This means that our Elders and leadership exhort the people to obediently respond to God’s saving grace with their whole lives, including the glad offering of their finances back to God.

In the Old Testament, the people of God were commanded to bring a literal tenth of all their increase into the house of the Lord, as well as additional freewill and first-fruits offerings in proportion to God’s gracious blessing on their lives.  This ongoing, joyfully generous and sacrificial giving happened in response to God’s amazingly gracious gift of salvation when He rescued them from slavery in Egypt.

WHY?
Today, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we seek to follow the intent of this Old Testament command, fuelled by an even greater display of God’s infinite grace and mercy.  God has accomplished the ultimate rescue plan by giving up His one and only Son, Jesus Christ, on the cross to rescue us from our slavery to sin and give us eternal life.

Having been saved by His amazing grace, we have all the more reason today to respond with joyful, thankful, sacrificial giving as an act of worship!  Just as God gladly and entirely gave up His first and best for us in His Son, so we too respond with thanksgiving and generosity in returning the first-fruits (the first and best) of our labour back to God.  Such giving is not to be done “reluctantly or under compulsion” (2 Corinthians 9:7), but gladly, springing from a heart that has been transformed by God’s love and saving grace.  So, let the gospel of Jesus Christ fuel all of our worship, including our giving to the Lord.

Harvest Church
“Restricted Gift Policy”
This policy is to address donor funds gifted to Harvest for Elder approved programs and projects and the confined spending of said gifted funds for their intended use. Each contribution designated by the donor toward an approved program or project will be used as restricted to its designation with the understanding that once the need for such a program or project has been met, or in the case it cannot be completed for any reason as determined by the Elder Board, the remaining restricted contributions will be used where deemed by the Elder Board as most needed. Please note that the above policy is in keeping with CRA and CCCC compliance guidelines.

Terms of Use
Designated: appointed/assigned to a specific fund
Donor: a person who donates something especially to a fund or charity
Elder Board: governing committee with decision-making authority
Restricted: funds limited in use according to their designation, unless otherwise released by the donor or as outlined in the “Restricted Gift Policy”