Harvest Festival 2008
Harvest Festival
Speakers
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Jack Deere is an equipper and trainer for the body of Christ. He has planted three churches, was a seminary professor, traveled the world speaking in conferences, authored best selling books, and is currently the senior pastor of Wellspring Church. |
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Bob Weiner founded Maranatha Churches and Campus Ministries, now with locations on 150 campuses in 20 nations. During the last 10 years, Bob trained 50,000 youth in Russia for ministry and covered all the training expenses for them. God multiplied this ministry, and today many hundreds of thousands of youth have been saved, established in churches and cell groups by the thousands. Currently, Bob and Rose Weiner are responding to God’s call to the East and West Coasts of the United States and overseas to Europe, Russia, Asia and neighboring Latin countries |
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Robin McMillan served as the Senior Pastor of MorningStar Fellowship Church in Fort Mill, South Carolina for the past 10 years. He believes that the next Great Awakening of the American church is already in its infancy. His passion is to awaken her to the power of the Spirit and enable believers to discover how to access the realm of the heavens and enjoy the presence and power of God. With a unique preaching style, prophetic giftings, and a desire for a release of God's power, outpourings of the Holy Spirit and demonstrations of power often accompany his ministry. Robin and his wife, Donna, have four grown children, two who are married, and one grandchild. |
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Rick Joyner is the founder and executive director of MorningStar Ministries and Heritage International Ministries and is the Senior Pastor of MorningStar Fellowship Church. He is the author of more than forty books, including The Final Quest, A Prophetic History, and Church History. He is also the president of The Oak Initiative, an interdenominational movement that is mobilizing thousands of Christians to be engaged in the great issues of our times, being the salt and light that they are called to be. Rick and his wife, Julie, have five children: Anna, Aaryn, Amber, Ben, and Sam. |
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Steve Thompson was the associate director of MorningStar Fellowship Church for 22 years, and he oversaw the prophetic ministries for all of the MorningStar Fellowships. A gifted teacher and prophetic minister, Steve has traveled extensively throughout the United States and abroad as a conference speaker. Steve’s newest book, A 20th Century Apostle, The Life of Alfred Garr, was released through MorningStar. Steve and his wife, Angie, reside in Redding, CA with their five children: Jon, Josh, Madison, Moriah, and Olivia. |
Musicians
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Leonard Jones Leonard Jones is the head of the worship department for MorningStar Ministries in Fort Mill, South Carolina. He is a multi-instrumentalist and is trained in classical music and jazz. Leonard spends most of his time leading worship, writing music, producing CDs for MorningStar and few other people, and training up-and-coming worship leaders at the MorningStar School of Worship. |
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Suzy Yaraei is a gifted writer, worship leader, speaker, and worship consultant. Her CDs, Simple, Shining, Spin, and Praise is Beautiful, are full of powerful and moving songs she has written. Suzy's greatest desire in ministry is to help free people to worship God with abandon and discover who they are in Christ. In worship consulting, schools, conferences, and meetings worldwide, she releases and encourages musicians, worship leaders, and all worshipers in the body of Christ to higher and deeper levels of worship. Prior to this, she sang professionally with Reba McEntire, Wynonna Judd, and several other successful recording artists out of Nashville, TN. Her first book, War and Paradise, is a fantastic inspirational journey that will lift you up and fill you with faith, hope, courage, and passion for your life and the lives of others. Suzy and her husband, Kamran Yaraei, have seen God's presence at their meetings bring amazing miracles physically, spiritually and emotionally. They impart a great desire for a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and a lifestyle of worship and blessings with a non-religious relaxed approach as well as a passionate beating heart for the lost and broken hearted. 2012- Recently they have seen a powerful ‘love anointing’ released through the presence of the Holy Spirit at their meetings bringing healing, revival, reconciliation, hope and a thick atmosphere of God’s glory. |
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John Mark & Sarah McMillan are songwriters, worship leaders and artists with a passion to see the Lord move through creative expression. They served on staff at MorningStar Ministries in Charlotte, NC for 3 years. In 2006 they left to establish what is now Worship Arts Revival, a ministry that works with artists and worshipers around the world to impact their communities. In 2008 he released "The Medicine," the followup CD to "Hope Anthology Volume 1" and "The Song Inside The Sounds of Breaking Down." Sarah McMillan grew up in Vidalia GA, a rural southern town famous for sweet onions. Her passion for worship and the arts swelled in the late 90's while touring North and South America with performance companies like Ben and Robin Pasley's "Enter the Worship Circle". Relocating to North Carolina in 2000, she began to write and sing her own unique variety of sweet, rootsy material. Sarah recently released her debut album, "Under Your Bright Wings". John Mark and Sarah have led worship, spoken, and performed extensively across the US, throughout Europe and in South America. Songs they've written are being sung by communities around the world and have been recorded by several artists and worship leaders. |














