Harvest Crusades is an
Evangelical
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Christian
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organization based in
Los Angeles
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, United States, that organizes evangelistic conferences.
History
The conference has its origins in a public evangelistic event in
Los Angeles
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founded in 1990, by the senior pastor of
Harvest Christian Fellowship,
Greg Laurie
Greg Laurie (born December 10, 1952) is an American author and pastor who serves as the senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship with campuses in Riverside, Orange County and Maui.
Laurie came to faith at the age of 17 as the Jesus Moveme ...
. The event has been renamed ''Harvest Crusades''.
In 2005, 100,000 people attended at the conference.
Harvest Crusades shifted to an online-only format in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
In 2022, 21,000 people attended at the conference in
Boise, Idaho
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and 144,000 people online.
[ Ian M. Giatti]
Over 3K accept invitations to Christ at Greg Laurie's Harvest crusade in Idaho
christianpost.com, USA, April 29, 2022
References
External links
* {{Official website, https://harvest.org/
Organizations established in 1990
Christian events
Evangelical Christian conferences