Church stories told with patient faith.
Harvest Time gathers Harvest Baptist Church members, friends, and visiting guests for patient 25-minute conversations. The program moves through life stories, salvation testimony, church service, family history, missions, and the ordinary details that shaped a walk with the Lord.
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Harvest Time is a weekly interview program centered on the people and ministry life of Harvest Baptist Church. It has a modest shape and a clear purpose. Each episode usually spends about 25 minutes with a church member, couple, visiting speaker, missionary, pastor, or friend of the ministry. The questions tend to begin with where someone came from. From there, the conversation follows family, childhood, school, military service, marriage, church involvement, missions, and the moments when faith became personal. It is not built around debate or fast commentary. The program is more interested in testimony than argument. Pastor Gary Walton is usually the host, guiding guests with patient follow-ups and pastoral reframing. At times, guest hosts such as Pastor Ken Keith or Pastor Jake Schnoor carry the conversation. Chris Harper regularly opens the program, setting the local church context before the interview begins. Recent episodes have included Ron and Catherine Sarmiento, Chris and Deborah Harper, James and Masency Layomai, Dr. Chopo Mwanza, Mike and Sophia Abbe, Salomon and Davelyn David, Tasi Castro, and Tim Bennett. Their stories move through spiritual hunger, salvation, baptism, missions conference themes, Christian college decisions, youth ministry, radio ministry, and service on Guam. Some memories are tender. A guest may describe a hard home, a season away from church, or resistance to the gospel before explaining how that story changed. The tone stays warm even when the subject is grave. Harvest Time also keeps close ties to the weekly rhythms of Harvest Baptist Church, including Sunday services, translation for Japanese and Korean speakers, livestreaming, and message series from Scripture. That local grounding gives the show its distinct feel. It is a record of a church family talking to itself, while still leaving room for radio listeners to understand the people, places, and faith commitments behind the ministry. The best episodes let ordinary biography become spiritual memory. A childhood in Spokane, military movement through Germany and Kansas, a village church started by a missionary family, or a young adult decision about college can become the route into a larger testimony. Harvest Time is most rewarding for listeners who appreciate plain Christian conversation, Baptist vocabulary, and the slow accumulation of details that reveal how a church understands faithfulness over time.
Made for: Best for listeners who appreciate Baptist church life, testimony, missions, and pastoral interviews shaped by local community rather than celebrity culture.
What sets it apart: Harvest Time stands out by treating ordinary church members and ministry friends as the main story. Its strength is the slow, relational way personal memory becomes testimony.
Harvest Time is a weekly podcast from KHMG. Pastor Gary Walton interviews Harvest Baptist Church members, friends, and special guests.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Personal testimony gives Harvest Time a grounded account of Baptist faith, service, and community life on Guam.
Harvest Time turns the life of Harvest Baptist Church into a series of personal conversations. Pastor Gary Walton usually guides members and ministry friends through faith stories, service, and church life on Guam, moving from biographical questions toward the beliefs and…
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Catherine's early search for God opens into a warm reflection on conversion, marriage, and continuing growth.
Catherine's conversation with Pastor Gary Walton traces a spiritual search that begins in scattered, tentative ways and settles into the ongoing practice of faith.
Resurrection Sunday gives the program a calm frame for two straightforward faith stories.
Harvest Time uses Resurrection Sunday to frame two faith stories with an easy, centered pace. Pastor Gary Walton opens the Road to the Resurrection series from John 20:19-31, and the program then turns to Chris and Deborah Harper, where belief is shaped through childhood,…
A missions-hour testimony that lets hard memory and quiet conversion do the talking.
Harvest Time follows a testimony inside a missions-conference setting, and the basic facts stay grounded throughout. It opens with Harvest Baptist Church services, the conference theme, and the invitation to the week’s missions meetings before moving into a guest account of…
Tasi Castro's baptism and college choice reflect the steady influence of Harvest's church community.
Tasi Castro gives Harvest Time a natural throughline: years around Harvest's Academy at Heart for Christ, a return to the church as an adult, baptism before graduating in 2018, and a considered move toward Bob Jones University.
A warm Guam conversation traces Tim Bennett's path from Navy SEAL ambition to laboratory work and a life redirected by God.
Harvest Time follows Tim Bennett's early military ambition into the quieter, more complicated reality of a changed life on Guam. He remembers playing soldier with his brothers, reading about the capture of Osama bin Laden at ten, and telling his mother he would become a Navy…
Mrs. Henson's classroom memories give Harvest's anniversary a clear measure: whether ministry reaches students' hearts.
Harvest Time's 50th-anniversary conversation treats institutional memory as something measured in people, not milestones. Pastor Gary Walton welcomes back Pastor Joe and Mrs. Henson, and the episode finds its clearest center in Mrs.
A grounded missions conversation where military distance makes church fellowship feel essential.
Harvest Time frames its missions-trip discussion around the quieter work that surrounds service: church relationships, accountability, and the kind of fellowship that helps faith remain steady when military life keeps people moving.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
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Pastor Gary Walton interviews Michael Berman and Ben Bagley about their recent missions trip to Chuuk.
Pastor Gary Walton interviews Pastor Joe and Garthea Henson for Harvest Ministries' 50th anniversary.
This episode discusses Harvest Baptist Church's Christmas activities, including a Bible college drama and community events like the Festival of Lights, focusing on the Christmas season and the story of Jesus' birth.
This episode invites listeners to join Harvest Baptist Church for their Christmas season services and events, emphasizing community and spiritual reflection.
Harvest Time opens a four-part series, "First Things First, The Grace of Giving," from 1 Corinthians 16:1-4 while Chris Harper notes Harvest Baptist Church's 8:45 a.m.
Harvest Time opens on Resurrection Sunday.
This episode of Harvest Time features an interview with Pastor James and Masensi Leamai, a missionary couple from Micronesia, as part of a mini-series connected to the church's Missions Conference.
This episode features an interview with Dr.
This episode of Harvest Time features Pastor Gary Walton discussing the conclusion of the Missions Conference and the ongoing sermon series on the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Churches based on Revelation 2 and 3.
Chris Harper opens Harvest Time with the week's service details at Harvest Baptist Church.
Tasi Castro says Harvest Academy and Pastor Joe Baldwin’s fourth-grade sermon on heaven changed how she understood sin, Christ, and “a personal relationship.” She explains that her family moved from Christmas-and-Easter Catholic practice to weekly church, chapel, and Bible reading at Harvest.
Tim Bennett joins guest host Pastor Jake Schnoor for a warm Harvest Time conversation.
Pastor Gary Walton introduces a sermon series on Habakkuk chapter 1, discussing themes of waiting and God's timing while inviting listeners to join their church service.
This episode continues the 'Love Is' sermon series with Pastor Gary Walton discussing a deep dive into biblical love from 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 at Harvest Baptist Church.