"GOD ONLY
ACKNOWLEDGES OR EMBRACES OUR CHANGE! WHEN WE ARE ABIDING
IN HIM, WE ARE IN A CONSTANT STATE OF CHANGE! ALL THINGS
ABOUT US ARE CHANGING—OUR EMOTIONS, OUR FINANCES, OUR
PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES, OUR
MOTIVES!
AND
GOD LIVES THERE, FELLOWSHIPS THERE, HUGS US THERE--IN THE
CHANGE!"--Pastor C
P.O. Box 757
Elkhart, Kansas 67950
On The Corner of 5th and Coronado
Pastor Earl Chiddix is a licensed
minister, holding credentials from Family Worship Center International
Church, Inc. out of Ulysses, Kansas and is currently the founder and
senior pastor of Eternal Harvest Church, Elkhart, Kansas.
He married his wife, Beverly, in 1980. Earl and Bev have five daughters
and eight grandchildren.
Becoming a teacher after running the "family store" for several years,
Earl moved to Thoreau, New Mexico in 1995 where he became involved in
the youth ministry of the local Baptist Church. Earl and Bev were asked
to take over the youth program. For two years, Earl and Bev were the
youth pastors of Thoreau First Baptist Church.
In 1999, he moved to the Eva Community as a teacher at Yarbrough School
where he served teaching third grade for eight years. God called him
into the ministry full-time and he founded Eternal Harvest Christian
Academy, September 4, 2007. After one year, he went back to Yarbrough School and is currently
teaching 5th & 6th Grades. He has not given up on his dream, and is waiting
on God to give the green light to proceed.
In 2000, at a New Year's Eve "Watch Night" service at a Pentecostal
church in Guymon, Oklahoma, Earl totally gave his life to service to the
Lord. Not long after that, Earl began serving as youth pastor.
In January 2004, Earl and Bev started an "outreach" in the Eva
Community-approximately 40 miles northwest of Guymon. After losing a
building which housed the outreach, Earl started preaching in his living
room which happened to be on school property. After the school board
decided to stop the services on school property, it was decided to meet
in other individual homes until a building could be secured.
One day, as Earl and Don, former assistant pastor, were driving around Elkhart,
they stopped at an empty church building just east of the hospital.
Walking around the property and praying, a peace came over Earl and he
instructed his wife to find out who owned the property. She found out
the next day and the owner was more than happy to rent the property.
March 15, 2005 Eternal Harvest Church was born!
A non-denominational church where Jesus is exalted, praised, and
worshipped, Eternal Harvest is definitely a "church on the grow". With
just five original members, Eternal Harvest Church has grown almost ten
times that much already--and it's still growing!
Earl's vision has prompted a unique type of church where the traditional
"Sunday Night" service is on Saturday Night with the idea of celebrating
the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Sunday morning "Sunday School" has been
replaced with Praise and Worship.
Earl's vision for Eternal Harvest Church is to follow the leading of the
Holy Spirit and is aligned with Matthew 25--Feeding the hungry, clothing
the naked, visiting the sick and those in bondage and captivity. A
"service" church! A church set on a hill! A light for Elkhart, Kansas!
This walk with God has been wonderful, God has used Earl, Bev and all of
the Eternal Harvest Church family in reaching the lost, praying for and
receiving the infilling of the Holy Ghost, and laying hands on the sick
and witnessing their miraculous recovery.
PLEASE SEND YOUR PRAYER REQUESTS AND
YOUR PRAISE REPORTS
SO WE CAN BE IN AGREEMENT WITH YOU AS YOU FACE YOUR MOUNTAIN OR HAVE
"CAST IT INTO THE SEA".
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Eternal Harvest Church
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