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Greg Laurie Podcast

Throwback: Harvest Crusade Origins and Behind the Scenes Stories with Chuck Smith

Greg Laurie Podcast

Greg Laurie

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Revisit this timeless interview as Pastor Greg Laurie sits down with his mentor, the late Pastor Chuck Smith, to share the origins of the Harvest Crusade and captivating behind the scenes stories.

Since its inception as the “Summer Harvest” in 1990, the Harvest Crusade has far exceeded the expectations of both pastors. Over the years, millions have attended, and hundreds of thousands of coming to faith stories have been created. Join us for the 2025 Harvest Crusade on July 19 and become part of this remarkable story!

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0:00.0

I've just had anxiety over my whole life and like I didn't know where I was going to end up.

0:06.1

I didn't know if I was going to be alone forever.

0:12.3

Pastor Greg Lorry helped you find the hope you're looking for at the Harvest Crusades.

0:16.9

The Harvest Crusade, July 19th at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, free admission to tales at harvest.org.

0:29.6

Evangelism can happen neighbor to neighbor or speaker to stadium.

0:34.6

God can touch hearts with his words set to music, be it stringed instruments or

0:39.8

clanging symbols, pipe organs, or fender stratacasters. Today, we want to focus on one slice of church

0:47.1

history, how the Lord use those tools to touch hundreds of thousands of lives through a move of God

0:52.9

called the Harvest Crusade.

0:55.0

And I'm happy to introduce a couple of gentlemen who know more about this move of God's hand

0:59.9

than perhaps anybody else this side of eternity.

1:03.3

Pastor Chuck Smith is Senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa,

1:07.4

and Pastor Greg Lorry is Senior Pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside,

1:12.1

California, and the speaker of the Harvest Crusades. Gentlemen, thanks for talking with us today.

1:17.1

Good to be here. It's a joy. Well, Pastor Chuck, let me ask you about this idea you came up with.

1:22.2

More than 260,000 people have made decisions for Christ through the Crusades. How did this idea come to you?

1:30.0

And what did Greg say when you suggested it to him? Well, Greg was doing the Monday night

1:36.0

studies for the young people here at Calvert Chapel. And the church was just crowded,

1:42.2

packed to capacity, and kids were outside and all.

1:46.3

So I just was wondering, you know, if we took it to a larger venue, just how many would come out.

1:53.2

And it was just a curious kind of an idea on my side of it, just how many would come.

2:00.4

So I talked to Greg about maybe getting the

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