History

In 1988 a small group of people began meeting in the northwest suburbs of Chicago to share their vision for a church that preached God’s Word boldly and to pray that God would raise up this kind of a church. 

Five months later they came in contact with James MacDonald, and after much prayer and discussion, James and his wife Kathy stepped out in faith and agreed to pastor this small group of people with a passion to plant a new church.

That church today has more than 10,000 attending on three campuses and is responsible for planting several churches in the Chicagoland area (Glen Ellyn in 2000 and Crystal Lake in 2001, Vernon Hills in 2002 and Rockford in 2003) in addition to about 22 other Harvest Bible Chapels in various places in the USA as well as Harvest churches in Canada - Barrie in 2001, Oakville in 2004, London in September 2006, Markham/York in 2006 and Muskoka in 2008. The Harvest Bible Fellowship was formed to facilitate church planting and to provide for a fellowship of existing churches. For more information visit www.harvestbiblefellowship.ca

Harvest Bible Chapel – Cambridge