S5E6: Touch Not The Lord's Anointed
Heaven Bent
Heaven Bent Media
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🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Bodybuilder. Missionary. Youth Pastor.
On this episode, Tara Jean reveals what she’s discovered about Art Lucier’s past—from newspaper archives, to livestreams, to firsthand stories from former Harvesters.
Art Lucier is the Apostolic Overseer of Harvest Ministries International. He’s also the founding leader of Kelowna Harvest Church, and the former founding leader of Kitimat Harvest Church. As these new episodes are being released, he is facing mounting allegations that have now led to him stepping down. But is he telling the truth. Is this just a bunch of "broken people" tellings lies?
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| 0:00.0 | Here we are again in my backyard in Vancouver, British Columbia. This is Heaven Bent. I'm |
| 0:09.0 | Tara Jean Stevens, and I'm starting this new season five episode with a significant update. Art Lucier is stepping away from Harvest Leadership, Ministry, and Music, Effective Immediately. |
| 0:22.9 | He made the announcement on Sunday Night's Service, and while I work on a new episode to |
| 0:29.5 | unpack this turn of events, here's what I put together for you right now. It's a sort of |
| 0:35.4 | retrospective on my journey since I started researching Art and the Harvest. It's a sort of retrospective on my journey since I started researching art and the |
| 0:40.4 | harvest. Specifically, what else have I learned about his life? What kind of observations have I made |
| 0:46.9 | about him and the harvest community? And remember, art has not been charged with anything and deserves the chance to defend himself from this avalanche of allegations. |
| 1:01.1 | But for now, knowing that even with him stepping back, there was nothing in his statement where he admits to anything other than saying things like, I'm not perfect and, you know, I don't have a |
| 1:13.3 | spotless past. He was saying stuff like that. But by all other accounts that I'm aware of, he calls |
| 1:20.5 | these former harvesters, broken people and liars. And his wife Heather also recently called the one |
| 1:26.8 | speaking out inconsequential on a recent live stream. |
| 1:30.3 | So, I guess we can kind of sort out how they feel about all this and how they're choosing to handle it. |
| 1:39.3 | Also, before we really get started due to the unfortunate nature of this season, the |
| 1:48.0 | center discretion is advised. |
| 1:51.0 | Art is, he doesn't have the qualities of a pastor, |
| 2:06.6 | but he's been playing the role of a pastor. |
| 2:09.6 | And that seems a little bit like asking a butcher to be a shepherd. You can't get the wrong guy for the job. |
| 2:22.0 | This is season five, episode six. |
| 2:27.5 | Touch not the Lord's Anointed. |
| 2:30.8 | When you're talking about people's hearts |
| 2:33.4 | and especially people who are broken, people who have come from the streets and who have had hard lives and they need somebody to care about them. |
| 2:45.0 | Like you really gotta get this right. You need the right person for the job and art was never the person for that job. |
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