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re: What's up with the mega church right off the interstate around Hammond?
Posted on 12/27/15 at 9:22 pm to King of New Orleans
Posted on 12/27/15 at 9:22 pm to King of New Orleans
Holy shiz, googled the place and found this. So is Harvest an offshoot of this place, the congregation migrated over or something?
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Posted on 12/27/15 at 9:28 pm to lionward2014
Wasn't it called Oaktree or something?
I had no idea it shut down. Figures.
I had no idea it shut down. Figures.
Posted on 12/27/15 at 9:35 pm to DavidTheGnome
Nah, I don't think there was any correlation
Posted on 12/27/15 at 9:39 pm to DavidTheGnome
The hosanna church was decently sized but many of the people left the church with a large group joining harvest(place on side of interstate). The people who stayed at hosanna (15 people or so) are the ones who were committing the satanic rituals and sex acts. No real correlation.
Posted on 12/27/15 at 9:39 pm to lionward2014
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Astricks
Wanna know how I know you haven't read many books?
Posted on 12/27/15 at 10:25 pm to King of New Orleans
Harvest spend a shite load of money on the new church. Some shite happened, don't know what, and people started leaving in vey large groups. They couldn't afford large church and went back to small one. I don't know if they still use small one or not, but the school shut down.
Posted on 12/27/15 at 10:28 pm to King of New Orleans
Depends. Are sitting on a bean bag chair, naked, and eating Cheetos?
Posted on 12/27/15 at 10:29 pm to Choctaw
quote:
had a roommate that got suckered in. he could never afford rent or bills so i asked him about it one day. he said that they told him that it said in the Bible that 80% of his pay should go to the "church". i told him he needed to get the hell out of there and fast.
Lol
tell him to come to the church I'm starting. It's only 70% he has to give.
Posted on 12/27/15 at 10:30 pm to DavidTheGnome
Hosanna was the place on Hwy 51 by the new WalMart in Ponchatoula - unrelated from all I've known. Harvest was already up and going by the time that stuff went down in 2005.
Posted on 12/27/15 at 10:34 pm to gptigerfan
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The owners of the harvest church live in a half million dollar house and drives bmw's and owns a bunch of Harley's.
There is nothing suspicious about this. Half a million dollar home is basically a retirement home from a result of being good with money during your career. Maybe if they had a $2mil dollar home I would bat an eye
Posted on 12/27/15 at 10:35 pm to Choctaw
quote:
had a roommate that got suckered in. he could never afford rent or bills so i asked him about it one day. he said that they told him that it said in the Bible that 80% of his pay should go to the "church". i told him he needed to get the hell out of there and fast.
Posted on 12/27/15 at 10:36 pm to bootlegger
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It got real big real quick somehow...had a friend that was coaxed into attending one Sunday. He said there were weirdos running up and down the aisle with trash bags "catching demons". Lots of music to hype up the congregation, then hit em with a slow song for the offering plate. He said people didn't wait for the collectin plate to make it around- they'd literally run up and throw the money at the stage.
Everyone always has a "friend" but never first hand experience
Posted on 12/27/15 at 10:39 pm to 13SaintTiger
these people need to lay off of us True Christians
If Christ can give 100 percent I don't see what the big deal is giving like 50 percent or so
If Christ can give 100 percent I don't see what the big deal is giving like 50 percent or so
Posted on 12/27/15 at 10:40 pm to 13SaintTiger
I went to a few of the youth events. They had a weekend retreat for youth. Don't remember what it was called officially anymore. The were "teaching" is how to speak in tongues. It was literally tons of teenagers in a room speaking out loud being told to randomly spit out sounds. At the end, a huge Bonfire where people would throw their non Christian cd's and stuff into a fire. It was horrible. I did it for a friend who lost his brother (also in high school). I couldn't do it after that.
Posted on 12/27/15 at 10:53 pm to 13SaintTiger
Every OT thread also has a goob that throws in a single emoticon - or two - to try to be cool.
This post was edited on 12/27/15 at 10:54 pm
Posted on 12/27/15 at 11:01 pm to 13SaintTiger
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13SaintTiger
Obviously a fan of Harvard and not an alumnus.
Posted on 12/27/15 at 11:09 pm to BigAppleTiger
I attended there with my family for about 10 years. Had about 2k members at its highest in mid 2000's. Just fell apart and many people left due to the different circumstances I guess. They still operate under the name Oak Tree in the smaller bldg next door. Just don't have the following to keep the lights on in the big bldg I guess.
Posted on 12/27/15 at 11:21 pm to sabansucks
Didn't they used to have a center for kids to live who were heading down a bad path in life?
Posted on 12/27/15 at 11:30 pm to Horsemeat
Uh, no they aren't.
Posted on 12/28/15 at 12:11 am to King of New Orleans
It was called Harvest. The location on the service road was their new location. They used to be located some place even further out in the boonies prior to them moving around 2000, next to them was their school that was directly connected with the church. I believe Harvest acquired the old school next to Coastal Driving Academy (Ponchatoula Jr. High used this when their school burned down in the mid 90s) shortly after moving to their new venue. I am not sure if the Harvest "school" separated from the Church, whether or not either or both are still in operation.
Not sure about the connection to Hosanna in Ponchatoula though. I do know that they follow the same insane branch of extreme evangelical "Christianity" that is somewhat common in that area. Calvary in Hammond used to be one, there are also a number of other small contingents of people that have sprung up smaller places of worship in that area.
I try to stay as far away from that crap as possible. My experience is you have a few conniving people taking advantage of weak-minded people that will themselves into believing anything with no Biblical basis but a few loose bits of scripture read out of context. Faith-healing, speaking in tongues, casting out demons, prophecy, etc. To the level-minded individual with a basis in faith it is obviously a huge sham that uses peer-pressure and human emotion to build their church.
Not sure about the connection to Hosanna in Ponchatoula though. I do know that they follow the same insane branch of extreme evangelical "Christianity" that is somewhat common in that area. Calvary in Hammond used to be one, there are also a number of other small contingents of people that have sprung up smaller places of worship in that area.
I try to stay as far away from that crap as possible. My experience is you have a few conniving people taking advantage of weak-minded people that will themselves into believing anything with no Biblical basis but a few loose bits of scripture read out of context. Faith-healing, speaking in tongues, casting out demons, prophecy, etc. To the level-minded individual with a basis in faith it is obviously a huge sham that uses peer-pressure and human emotion to build their church.
This post was edited on 12/28/15 at 12:16 am
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