Over the past three years, the HMM board has been in a process of discerning how to steward the calling of this ministry through the constant changes in today’s media landscape. In 2021, we made a major shift and reorganized as a holistic communications agency. That was a year of significant ministry for Harvest as we supported a range of ministries and organizations with monthly communications services.
However, in January 2022, the Harvest board determined that we could no longer subsidize services to ministries and we began winding down nearly all media services to clients by August.
The final decision by the board was to formally close Harvest Media Ministry effective December 31, 2022.
Harvest was founded in 1993 as Video Ministries International. The vision of the founder, Ralph Roberts, was to bless mission organizations, missionaries and churches by producing videos with state-of-the-art
technology.
One of Ralph’s sons, Phil Roberts, has a particular heart for ministry to youth, and so Harvest’s resources will be reallocated to a new effort spearheaded by Phil to support Christian education and youth ministry in the years ahead.
We praise God for the many ministries we’ve been able to serve over these 29 years of services. He has been so faithful. Ecclesiastes reminds us there is a time for everything, and Harvest Media Ministry’s time has come.