About Harvest Teams

John's Story
Founder of Church Planting Leadership and the Harvest Teams Initiative, John oversees strategic design, training curriculum, and overall direction.
Dr. John Worcester's mission for decades has been accelerating Kingdom  momentum through evangelistic-growth church planting. This relentless pursuit has led him to plant 8 Biblically-driven evangelistic growth churches in 3 countries. These churches and their offspring have over 20,000 attending.
He has also trained over 5,000 pastors and church planters in dozens of countries, such as Brazil, China, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, Philippines, Ukraine, and across the USA. John has created several church planter training curriculums that help  planters contextualize and practically apply Biblical principles, including the "Harvest Like Jesus" seminar.
John has a Masters of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Doctorate of Ministry from Gateway Baptist Theological Seminary. See  www.ChurchPlanting.net for more details about John’s experiences and references.
Stephen's Story
Stephen is the Director of Operations for Harvest Teams. He has planted a church in Parkville, MO and is now working with other churches to develop a local Harvest Team in Kansas City.

How Harvest Teams Came to Be

Hear from our leadership team how God brought them together to start Harvest Teams!