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Glenn House
Pastors Matt and Julie Beemer, founders of World Harvest Bible Church, held their first Sunday service the 13th of April 1997 with just 17 people (counting adults, children and anything that moved!) meeting in the Copthorne Hotel. After nearly 5 years of meeting at the hotel, we were able to purchase our first building, Glenn House, which we then extended and renovated a couple of years later with the assistance of some grant funding.
The Sanctuary
Conducting three services on a Sunday and with our children’s ministry bursting at the seams, we leased a warehouse a few hundred meters down the road for our new Sanctuary doubling our seating capacity to nearly 500. In just one year we had to again introduce multiple services and look for another larger facility.
Pastors Alan, Claire, Julie and Matt
In 2007 after celebrating 10 years in ministry Kingdom Faith Manchester merged with WHBC. This was another significant milestone in the church and acted as a catalyst to continued growth and influence.
Our church is an independent, non-denominational, full-gospel church! That means we are not affiliated with any one denomination. Even though Pastors Matt and Julie Beemer are gradates of Rhema Bible Training Centre and consider themselves strong ‘Word of Faith’ ministers, the fact is, our church is full of people who were raised in a variety of spiritual backgrounds including: Charismatic, Pentecostal, Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Baptist, and numerous others as well as many who have come from no religious background at all.
