As part of a strategy to reach new people, the Church of the Nazarene's Trinidad and Tobago District launched an initiative called Harvest Month to motivate all Nazarene churches on the district to evangelize their communities. 

Harvest Month had four main emphases: prayer, training, teaching, and inviting. Churches were given packages that included three prayer cards and a four-part small group curriculum for training members in evangelism. Pastors were asked to teach on evangelism during the Sunday morning or mid-week service. The final aspect of Harvest Month required that every church host at least one evangelistic event.

Several congregations took up the challenge and saw fruit in their churches. The crowning moment of Harvest Month was the district baptism on November 22 when 39 people from throughout the district were baptized together. One pastor reported a member wrote the name of her unsaved husband on the prayer cards. The church prayed for the names, and during one of the special evangelistic events the husband gave his life to the Lord and was part of the group that got baptized.

The district intends to start seven new churches in 2016 and invest more time and resources in reaching new persons within the established churches. Fifteen people were already identified and received training for church planting. Following further training by USA/Canada Region Evangelism Director Bill Wiesman in March, they will be officially commissioned in April.

The district’s church planting and evangelistic thrust is part of the district’s desire to refocus and fulfill the Haggai 2:9 promise given to District Superintendent Victor George about the Church of the Nazarene in Trinidad and Tobago that “the glory of the present house will be greater than the glory of the former house.”

The district has claimed this promise and believes powerful change will come to the Church of the Nazarene in Trinidad and Tobago with the help of God.

--Church of the Nazarene Mesoamerica Region