Welcome
To Our Global Ministry Website
PASTOR ROBERT SCHOONOVER
We are excited about your visit to this web presence of Faith Harvest Church. Our ministry is truly an international work that spans the globe from America to the Philippines, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Central America, Mexico, the Carribean Islands, England, and Germany. We are focused on adding South America, Israel, Africa and more countries in the European Union this year.
Our main aspiration in the coming months is to publish streaming video/audio Bible studies on the web. This will assist churches around the world in reaching out with the Word of God. A tool they can use to increase their witness to the lost, and strengthen the foundations of all the new brothers and sisters that they have brought and will bring to the Lord.
We have just acquired this Christmas web template and are greatful to TemplateMonster Design for their awesome work. It will take a few days for us to fill the site with our material and we are still designing the feeds. Please be patient and come back often. We'll soon be up and running 100%!
You are Blessed and Highly Favored : Pastor Rob
SHORT STORY
THE GINGHAM DRESS
A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly without an appointment in to the Harvard University President's outer office.
The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard and probably didn't even deserve to be in Cambridge.
'We'd like to see the president,' the man said softly. 'He'll be busy all day,' the secretary snapped. 'We'll wait,' the lady replied.
For hours the secretary ignored them, hoping that the couple would finally become discouraged and go a way. They didn't, and the secretary grew frustrated and finally decided to disturb the president, even though it was a chore she always regretted.
'Maybe if you see them for a few minutes, they'll leave,' she said to him!
He sighed in exasperation and nodded. Someone of his importance obviously didn't have the time to spend with them, and he detested gingham dresses and homespun suits cluttering up his outer office.
The president, stern faced and with dignity, strutted toward the couple.
The lady told him, 'We had a son who attended Harvard for one year.
He loved Harvard. He was happy here. But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed. My husband and I would like to erect a memorial to him, somewhere on campus.'
The president wasn't touched. He was shocked. 'Madam,' he said, gruffly, 'we can't put up a statue for every person who attended Harvard and died. If we did, this place would look like a cemetery.'
'Oh, no,' the lady explained quickly. 'We don't want to erect a statue. We thought we would like to give a building to Harvard.'
The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the gingham dress and homespun suit, then exclaimed, 'A building! Do you have any earthly idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars in the physical buildings here at Harvard.'
For a moment the lady was silent. The president was pleased. Maybe he could get rid of them now.
The lady turned to her husband and said quietly, 'Is that all it costs to start a university? Why don't we just start our own?'
Her husband nodded. The president's face wilted in confusion and bewilderment. Mr and Mrs. Leland Stanford got up and walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California where they established the university that bears their name, Stanford University, a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.
You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them.
...A TRUE STORY By Malcolm Forbes
'People will forget what you said.
People will forget what you did.
But people will never forget how you made them feel'.
Never think more highly of yourself than what you are. Never judge others by what you think of yourself. - Pastor Rob