Aug 30, 2026 · 38 min · 7 segments
Passages: 2 Kings 1:1-10, Luke 9:51-10:24
Well, the harvest is plentiful.
On Wednesday, I was talking to Semmy Kolkata, our local Hurstville Scripture Board SRE teacher, and he was saying that the numbers in Scripture in the local schools, the numbers are increasing.
They've recently been able to expand to offer SRE at another campus.
And yet, the workers are few.
He was telling me there is a need for more teachers.
harvest is plentiful.
There's been a number of reports and studies done showing that there's an increased openness to spiritual conversations, especially amongst younger people in Australia at the moment.
And we've seen a slow trickle of newcomers in our morning and evening services, people just quietly wanting to come and sit and listen and investigate.
the harvest is plentiful.
And that's just at our local level.
We also have a regional view of things.
On a regional level, there's a harvest to be had.
But what about the workers? I think I've mentioned a few times before in our presbytery of Sydney South, in our region, we have four congregations currently searching for a pastor.
And not only is there a local and a regional picture, there's also the global picture.
We may not notice it from day to day, but we are actually living through a time of amazing harvest for Jesus.
Did you know that between 2015 and 2025, the world Christian population grew by 16% compared to the general population of the world, which grew by 10%.
The harvest is plentiful.
And yet the workers...
I've seen parts of Africa where you've got one pastor caring for 2,000 people spread across 10 different congregations.
And so what should we do about the fact that the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few...
Well, in that verse on the front of our newsletter, Luke chapter 10, verse 2, Jesus calls us first to prayer.
He says, ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers.
But then immediately in verse 3, he follows it up with a command to go.
Well, the harvest is plentiful.
On Wednesday, I was talking to Semmy Kolkata, our local Hurstville Scripture Board SRE teacher, and he was saying that the numbers in Scripture in the local schools, the numbers are increasing.
They've recently been able to expand to offer SRE at another campus.
And yet, the workers are few.
He was telling me there is a need for more teachers.
harvest is plentiful.
There's been a number of reports and studies done showing that there's an increased openness to spiritual conversations, especially amongst younger people in Australia at the moment.
And we've seen a slow trickle of newcomers in our morning and evening services, people just quietly wanting to come and sit and listen and investigate.
the harvest is plentiful.
And that's just at our local level.
We also have a regional view of things.
On a regional level, there's a harvest to be had.
But what about the workers? I think I've mentioned a few times before in our presbytery of Sydney South, in our region, we have four congregations currently searching for a pastor.
And not only is there a local and a regional picture, there's also the global picture.
We may not notice it from day to day, but we are actually living through a time of amazing harvest for Jesus.
Did you know that between 2015 and 2025, the world Christian population grew by 16% compared to the general population of the world, which grew by 10%.
The harvest is plentiful.
And yet the workers...
I've seen parts of Africa where you've got one pastor caring for 2,000 people spread across 10 different congregations.
And so what should we do about the fact that the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few...
Well, in that verse on the front of our newsletter, Luke chapter 10, verse 2, Jesus calls us first to prayer.
He says, ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers.
But then immediately in verse 3, he follows it up with a command to go.
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