Harvest Bible Chapel

Following our monthly meeting on September 21, we want to provide two updates. Thankful We thank the Lord for the provision of Jeff Bucknam as our Lead Teaching Pastor. Under his leadership, we appreciate what the Lord is teaching us as individuals and as a church family as we walk through the Book of Acts […]

Dear Harvest Family, We are so thankful for you all.  As we find ourselves in the summer months of 2021, we pray that this may be a time when we are all able to find rest and refreshment in our Lord.  The Lord is so good in that He not only instructed us to rest […]

Harvest Family, We want to share with you a ministry update that the Campus Pastors who serve as Elders shared at our meeting on Tuesday, May 18. So thankful for the many ways that the Lord is working in our church right now. Hope Centers The Hope Centers on our Crystal Lake, Elgin, and Rolling […]

Dear Harvest Family, Much of our elder board meeting this past week was spent in prayer celebrating God’s goodness to us and asking for His continued hand on our church.  Here are a couple of things that we spent time praying about . . . NEW LEAD TEACHING PASTOR We praise God that Pastor Jeff […]

Harvest Family, Earlier today at the close of our worship service, we introduced the new Lead Teaching Pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel, Dr. Jeff Bucknam. Watch now. We thank God for His provision for our church. We invite you to be praying for the Bucknam family in this time of transition. For more information and […]

Harvest Family, Continuing our commitment to transparency, here is an update on the arbitration settlement with Dr. James MacDonald. As we communicated to you in the Elder Update on October 14, 2020, we reached a settlement in the arbitration between James and HBC begun May 2019. Here’s a quote from that update from point one of […]

Harvest Family, Rejoicing with you for all God did through our church and in all of our lives through Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and Easter. We want to ask for your participation and provide an update. Calling the Church to a Day of Fasting and Prayer Inviting you to participate, we are calling us to […]

Harvest Family, Following our meeting earlier this week, we wanted to provide two important updates and invite you to join us in prayer. Lead Teaching Pastor Search Update Grateful for the thorough work by the search team, we narrowed the field to two candidates for Lead Teaching Pastor and continue the interview process. We are praying […]

Harvest Family, Following our meeting on March 2, we wanted to provide two reasons for rejoicing and one item for continued prayer. First, Happy Anniversary to CityLine Bible Church, the former Niles Campus of Harvest Bible Chapel. They stepped out in faith to launch as an independent church in the fall of 2019 and became officially […]

Harvest Family, We continue to be amazed by the ways the Lord continues to lead and provide for His church. We met together as an elder board this past Tuesday and wanted to update you on three important items. Lead Teaching Pastor Search Very thankful for the partnership with Vanderbloemen who brought us six candidates […]