Karin started a Celebrate Recovery group at Harvest in 2007. They married in 1990 and entered evangelistic ministry, and both wanted to help people caught in substance abuse. Rogers himself, growing up in an Assemblies of God church, struggled during his teen years and abused alcohol before rededicating his life to God in 1988. As the church grew, though, so did the number of church families affected by the area’s drug culture. Rogers, 53, says he can’t pinpoint specific steps responsible for the turnaround the Holy Spirit simply began to move and people responded. A food pantry began serving up to 300 families monthly. Subsequently, the church began to grow again finances improved facilities expanded. Rogers filled in and the congregation asked him to stay. However, in 2004, after a change in leadership, attendance declined, and interim pastors served with district supervision. Just south of the state line in Oak Grove, Arkansas, The Harvest is addressing those problems.Ĭhartered in 1948 with 25 members, the Assemblies of God church grew over the years, with construction of the current sanctuary in 1997. Some turn to drugs for money, or to cope with the lack of it. Some are hindered by disability or lack of transportation. Some commute to work at poultry processing plants or small-town restaurants, but jobs are not plentiful. But the peaceful scene hides a darker side of the Ozarks. Along the boundary line between Stone County, Missouri, and Carroll County, Arkansas, roads meander past rolling pastures, rocky streams, and woods.
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