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CT Media Presents: The Harvest

The story of Marisol and Joel Lopez, a couple who find Christ’s love in the midst of field labor.

California’s San Joaquin Valley not only boasts 17 billion dollars in annual revenue, it’s also home to over 100,000 laborers. The Harvest, a documentary produced by CT Media, follows the story of Marisol and Joel Lopez, a couple who discover the transforming love of Christ in the midst of their challenging life as migrant workers in the valley. To learn more about migrant farm workers, read this report by Bekah McNeel:

This short film was part of CT’s December 2020 issue, which explored the many ways God is at work through the global church, bringing light and life, hope and healing in the age of the pandemic. Find more at MoreCT.com/globe.

Also in this issue

We find ourselves near the end of a painful year, with a dark winter ahead of us. CT’s December issue speaks to the fundamental truth we celebrate every Christmas: “On those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned” (Isaiah 9:2). God still loves the world. He is still God With Us. And he still lives and moves among his people to bring light and life, hope and healing. These are the stories of the global church at work in the age of the pandemic.

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Portraits of the Pandemic

Photography By Jeremy Cowart. Reporting by Jeremy Cowart and Morgan Lee.

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The Roots of Our Issue

Sarah Gordon

For Expats and Missionaries, COVID-19 Was a Crossroads

Rebecca Hopkins

She Knew She Was Called to Serve. Then COVID-19 Came.

Cara Meredith

Meet the People Who Minister in America’s Food Chain

Bekah McNeel

Ghana Pentecostals Come to the Defense of Accused Witches

Daniel Silliman and Griffin Paul Jackson

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German Churches Reckon with Antisemitic History

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Where Are the Other Fake Fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Gordon Govier

We Prayed for Healing. God Brought a Pandemic.

Interview by Jean-Paul Rempp

God’s Mercies Redeem Our Guilty Mornings

Why I Claim the ‘Global Evangelical’ Label

Tish Harrison Warren

Life and Death in ‘The Land of the Clouds’

How the ‘World’s Largest Family’ Survived a Global Pandemic

Kara Bettis with additional reporting by Tonny Onyulo

Editorial

Jesus Is the Light of the Lockdown

Daniel Harrell

You’re Probably Worshiping a False God

To the Ends of the Earth

In My Remote Corner of India, Christianity Is Seen as a Cultural Threat

Apilang Apum

Bringing Hope and Healing to a War-Torn Homeland, One Footstep at a Time

Interview by Craig Borlase

Review

China’s Greatest Evangelist Was Expelled from a Liberal Seminary in America

Alexander Chow

Review

20 Questions for the Churches in Africa

David Zac Niringiye

New & Noteworthy Books

Matt Reynolds

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Christianity Isn’t ‘Becoming’ Global. It Always Has Been.

Vince L. Bantu

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