A farmer is never caught off guard by a harvest.
Long before a single shoot breaks the surface, he has received the land as a trust, cleared it of rocks, broken up the hard ground, and planted in season.
He can't make it rain and he can't force a seed to grow — that belongs to God. But he labors with everything in him to be ready, so that when the rains come, the ground can receive them.
Revival is no different. The churches that see lasting fruit are the ones that did the unseen work first.
Most churches plan the event and skip the preparation. Before the Harvest walks your leadership through the work that actually changes a culture and readies a people — six to eighteen months of it, depending on your church and your community.
Most churches only plan the part above the line.
People start coming to faith before the event.
That's not a hope — it's what happens. Once a congregation is praying for specific neighbors by name and has been equipped to have the conversation, they stop waiting for a scheduled evening to say something.
Which means the event isn't the harvest. It's a gathering point for a harvest that already began. That's why the fruit doesn't fade when the event ends.
How it works
Three phases. They overlap more than they follow one another.
Phase one
Receiving the land
This is the land God has given your church. What is your church willing to accept as its responsibility?
It begins with leadership, then opens to the whole congregation — a night of prayer and listening, led by your pastor with Grant alongside him. People come away having received something specific: a neighborhood, a street, a school. Names of people they see often enough to pray for, whether or not they know them well.
This isn't rushed. Discernment takes as long as it takes.
Phase two
Clearing the ground
Naming and addressing the relational, reputational, and cultural barriers between your church and the people around it. Some have been there for years and nobody has said them out loud.
Forgiveness between members. Reconciliation with people in the community. Making amends where amends are owed. These are not easy things, and they require prayer — but God is glorified in a humble heart, and He loves to see His people reconciled.
Where there are strong ties with other churches nearby, this is where they're invited in. Monthly gatherings of an hour and a half — prayer and worship, food afterward. It multiplies what one church can do alone.
Phase three
Equipping and gathering
The Everyday Evangelism Workshop and the 40-Day Devotional, so your people have tools and confidence for the conversations that are already starting.
Your discipleship pathway gets attention here too — what happens to someone after they say yes. That work develops alongside everything else rather than waiting until the end.
Then the gathering: an evangelistic event that compels without condemning. Baptisms follow, and baptisms open doors of their own — a new believer invites a friend to watch, the friend asks what it means, and the conversation that follows is the gospel.
Afterward, Grant sits down with your leadership to evaluate honestly. What happened, what didn't, and what your church's next season of stewardship looks like.
It starts before phase one and it doesn't stop. Every other piece of this depends on it.
What this looks like in one life
Grant baptized his sister's boyfriend, Scott. Scott started inviting his friends. Within that week, nearly all of them gave their lives to Christ.
No campaign. No program. One man who came to faith, and a circle of people who already trusted him.
That's the pattern this whole process is built to make room for.
This is for you if
- You sense God stirring your church toward revival
- You've run outreach events before and watched the fruit fade
- You want to see more people baptized, and more of them bringing friends
- You're willing to put your leadership in a posture of humility before God
- You can commit — not "we'll do our best if we can make it"
Questions pastors ask
How often would you actually be here?
Most of the work between us happens by phone and video with your leadership. The key moments where being in the room matters are the night of prayer and the gathering itself.
More visits are possible when a church can cover travel. But the process doesn't depend on Grant being present constantly — it depends on your leadership carrying it, with Grant walking alongside.
Does this require other churches to participate?
It's ideal, not required. Where churches in a community already have mutual respect, working together multiplies what any one of them can do.
Some communities have denominational lines nobody is willing to cross, and that's understood. Plenty of churches have strong ties with others in their own tradition, and that's often enough.
What does the survey ask?
It's less about readiness than willingness. Do you want to see people in your neighborhood come to Christ? Are you hoping for more baptisms? Are you willing to step out in faith?
And the harder one: is your leadership prepared to be humble before God about the health of your church — or would this be one more thing on the calendar you'd attend if nothing else came up?
It's honest, and it isn't long. Its real purpose is to help you discern, not to qualify you.
What does the prayer work actually involve?
Listening more than asking. A night set aside for leadership and congregation to hear from God about the specific ground He's given them.
For some churches it also means addressing history — things that happened on the property or in the church's past that need to be named and given back to the Lord. Not every church needs that, and it's never forced. Where it's needed, Grant walks through it with your pastor, under his authority.
What does it cost?
It varies with scope, travel, and whether the gathering is included. It's settled in conversation, not off a price list.
We've never let money be the reason a church couldn't do this.
We're interested but not sure we're ready.
That's a good place to start from. The first step is a conversation and a short survey, and both are designed to help you discern rather than to talk you into something.
If the answer is not yet, that's a real answer. Ground that isn't ready doesn't hold a harvest.
This is partnership, not passivity. There is real work only we can do — preparing the ground, changing the culture, readying the people. And there is rain only God can send. We make the soil ready; He brings the increase.
Let's talk about your ground.
A conversation and a short survey. No pressure, no obligation — just a chance to discern together whether this is your church's season.
Start the conversation Or call and text Grant directly at 720-545-4022.