Ultimate Harvest

As a foreigner who crisscrossed Africa and Europe to arrive on the shores of New York in 2005, I could see the cold fangs of Europe's post-modern-day secularism clashing with the fires of revival from Africa in America's streets. America, a nation that sent out more missionaries than the rest of the world, is now an unreached nation. The Bible says in Luke 12:48 that "whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more." America has been given much by God, in terms of money, men, and materials, and much is required of her in the last days' harvest. This book challenges the American church to return to her roots and cultivate again her true foundations of evangelism, discipleship, and following Jesus to the ends of the earth.

An epic story of the American wheat harvest, the politics of food, and the culture of the Great Plains For over one hundred years, the Mockett family has owned a seven-thousand-acre wheat farm in the panhandle of Nebraska, where Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s father was raised. Mockett, who grew up in bohemian Carmel, California, with her father and her Japanese mother, knew little about farming when she inherited this land. Her father had all but forsworn it. In American Harvest, Mockett accompanies a group of evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through the heartland at the invitation of Eric Wolgemuth, the conservative farmer who has cut her family’s fields for decades. As Mockett follows Wolgemuth’s crew on the trail of ripening wheat from Texas to Idaho, they contemplate what Wolgemuth refers to as “the divide,” inadvertently peeling back layers of the American story to expose its contradictions and unhealed wounds. She joins the crew in the fields, attends church, and struggles to adapt to the rhythms of rural life, all the while continually reminded of her own status as a person who signals “not white,” but who people she encounters can’t quite categorize. American Harvest is an extraordinary evocation of the land and a thoughtful exploration of ingrained beliefs, from evangelical skepticism of evolution to cosmopolitan assumptions about food production and farming. With exquisite lyricism and humanity, this astonishing book attempts to reconcile competing versions of our national story.

Every church and Christian leader active in a local church in the West are aware of one of the most critical problems of the western church in the 21st century. It's the dropout believer - the disconnected Christian who no longer is a part of the local church. Hunters of the Harvest reveals a biblical strategy that is highly effective in restoring dropout believers to the body of Christ -the church. It shows how individual believers and churches can restore and reconnect dropout believers to the local church.

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Reverend Simon has emerged with a hit, and I believe it will take the world by storm. Harvest Unlimited is highly recommended for both Church leaders, believers in general and community leaders in pursuit of strategic soul winning. Dr Elijah Maswanganyi, founder of Christ is the Answer Global Ministries, author of 35 books, RSA In a seasoned approach, we are reminded not to witness His gospel out of duty but out of worship toward God. Harvest Unlimited is a must-have book for every local church and community. Bishop Benjamin Dube, International gospel music maestro, senior pastor and founder of High Praise Centre, RSA Your bookshelf is incomplete without a copy of Harvest Unlimited. Dr Maxwell A. Masakona, author of Turning your Breakdowns into your Breakthroughs, senior pastor and founder of Calvary Christian Churches International, RSA Harvest Unlimited oozes passion and carries a sense of urgency embodied in a cutting edge. I find it Holy Ghost inspired, challenging and revelatory. Bishop Mduduzi Khoza, senior pastor and founder of Zoe Faith Temples International, RSA

Emphasis in agricultural research for many years has concen trated on crop production. This emphasis has become more important in recent years with the realization that the population worldwide is outstripping the food supply. There is, however, another side to increasing the availability of the food supply. This simply involves preservation of the harvested crop·for human consumption. The losses incurred in harvesting, handling, transportation, storage and marketing crops have become a greater problem as the distance from the farm to the ultimate consumer increases. In the Western world where modern transportation, storage facilities, and marketing technology are widely used, post-harvest technology requires a large input of energy which increases costs considerably. There fore, losses are more significant and the ability to provide fresh fruits and vegetables, out of season, at reasonable costs will depend on reduced post-harvest losses throughout the marketing chain from the farm gate to the ultimate consumer. The reduction in post-harvest losses depends on proper use of current technology and further developments derived from a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines. Biochemistry, plant physiology, plant pathology, horticulture, agronomy, physics, engineering and agricultural economics, all provide knowledge which has been useful and will be useful in the future for improving post-harvest technol ogy and crop preservation. This volume records the Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Post-Harvest Physiology and Crop Preservation, held at Sounion, Greece, April 28 - May 8, 1981.

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