About Us

OUR MISSION

City Harvest Family Church exists to glorify God through a proper response to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. We have determined to express that response through wholehearted obedience to the Scriptures and zealous worship of the Lord our God.

Our Story: Pastor Ernest & Nancy Fink

After two decades pastoring in a small community in upstate NY, it was during a missions trip spanning the nations of India and Kenya in 1998 that the Lord began to stir in me a sense that a new season of great transition was coming…

After returning from our mission trips to India and Kenya, I was shopping with my wife in the downtown section of Albany, New York. While waiting in our vehicle for her to return, the Lord heightened my awareness of the needs of those passing by. Without any outside stimulation or interaction, I started to weep for the people of the city of Albany. When my wife returned to our vehicle, I shared with her what had happened to me. We both sensed that the Lord was speaking something prophetic, so we decided to drive to Washington Park and pray. There was a strong sense that the Lord was calling us to the city of Albany, New York.

We waited upon the Lord for about two years as we prepared to make the transition from Greenville Christian Life Center, located in the rural community of Greenville, NY, to the city of Albany, NY. We were sent out of Greenville Christian Life Center with a small team to start the work in Albany. We started out with a Sunday meeting in the home of my father and mother in-law for prayer and encouragement. We also rented a small room in a local hotel for a Tuesday Bible study.

As we started to meet people and share the vision for the city of Albany, others started to join with us. The Lord spoke to the leadership team, and we decided to name the fellowship “City Harvest Family Church”.

We give all the praise and glory to our Lord and King, Jesus Christ, the only true and living God!

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What We Believe

Where we are now.

Learn more about the intersection of Scripture, sanctification, and salvation at City Harvest.

Essentials of our Faith

Where we come from.

Find out how City Harvest has been fundamentally shaped by the Scriptures on key issues in the Christian walk of faith.

Ministries We Support

Go ye into all the world…

City Harvest is part of the global Church and part of our role as believers is to support others as they operate as the hands and feet of Jesus throughout the world.

Meet Our Team

Who we are.

Meet the City Harvest Family Church leadership who oversee ministries that provide discipleship, Christian growth, and facilitate servanthood in our fellowship.

What We Believe

We believe the church is a place where those who share the testimony of salvation by the grace of God, through faith in Jesus Christ meet to praise, worship, and learn more about their Lord and Savior according to the Scriptures. It is family. It is a place where the love of God is shared with one another and every life we touch. It is also a place where those who do not have a relationship with God can find Him and hope. It is a place where we learn the whole truth of God through His given Word, the Bible- so that we may know Him, Jesus Christ, and make Him known.

INDWELLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: According to the Scriptures, God’s Holy Spirit indwells every believer at the point of salvation to become the source of assurance, strength, and wisdom. The Holy Spirit guides in understanding and applying the truth of the Word of God. His power and control are appropriated by faith and make it possible to lead a life of Christ-like character to the glory of God.

BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: The New Testament repeatedly shows that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is an experience of being immersed and filled with God’s Holy Spirit after salvation. This baptism is separate from salvation and water baptism and enables and empowers all believers who are willing to receive this secondary work to witness of the resurrection and manifest gifts and ministries with power. The common evidence of this baptism is the gift of a private prayer language, known as “speaking in tongues”, and the evidence of being filled with the Spirit is love from a pure heart.

THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT are miracles to attract believers. Prophecy, healings, and tongues are common manifestations of the Holy Spirit among us. This should all be done decently and in order.

MINISTRY GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT are five ministries Christ gave to the Church for oversight, maturing, edification, and strengthening. The apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher are the elders of the church and with the deacons are the official government of the church.

THE LOCAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH is the spiritual body of believers joined to Christ for discipleship in the Word, fellowship in love, sharing the Lord’s table, prayers, and evangelism. Normal Christian life and growth are only possible in an assembly of Spirit-filled believers.

FINANCIAL GIVING is an act of worship. Tithes (10% of gross income), offerings (free-will gifts), and alms (to meet the needs of the poor) are given regularly to the local church and are overseen and dispersed by the elders and deacons. The finances are used to support the ministries and missions of the local church.

GROWTH OF A BELIEVER is dependent on their heart response to Christ producing maturity in character and gifts. Vital to growth is regular study of God’s word, prayer, fellowship in God’s Spirit, and spiritual warfare. Humility, integrity, diligence, and zeal are essentials to victory and maturity.

Essentials of Our Faith

The Holy Bible contains 66 books and is the only inspired, infallible, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God. It is the basis of and is sufficient for all of our beliefs, philosophy, doctrine, discipline, and counsel.

The eternal Godhead is One God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. One God manifested as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Creator of all, all loving, just, the One who has made covenant with mankind through Jesus Christ.

The person of Jesus Christ is fully man and fully God. He is the express image of the invisible God. He was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, worked miracles, died a voluntary, vicarious atoning death on a cross, rose bodily from the dead, according to the Scriptures, ascended to heaven and is seated at the right hand of God and will come again to judge the living and the dead.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is God’s love demonstrated in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Thus, he satisfied divine justice and accomplished salvation for all who trust in Him. We receive the forgiveness of sins and eternal life as a gift by God’s grace and through faith alone.

The salvation of man requires acceptance of Jesus’ shed blood and resurrection as the only way of salvation for mankind. Repentance from sin, confessing faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Resurrected Lord, and regeneration by the indwelling Holy Spirit is essential for personal salvation. Through this born-again experience, eternal life in heaven and salvation from eternal hell is gained by the persevering believer.

Organizations & Ministries We Support