Harvest Christian Fellowship

Harvest Christian Fellowship was founded in 1973 by Greg Laurie, who has been the senior pastor since that time. In 2009, it opened a new building, with a 5,000-seat auditorium, a gymnasium, and a High School. In 2017, while remaining a member of the Calvary Chapel Association, the church partnered with the Southern Baptist Convention, after a request from Laurie, because of the important programs of national and international evangelization of the latter. According to a church census released in 2022, it claimed a weekly attendance of 14,560 people and 4 campuses in different cities. ==Harvest Crusades==

In 1990, Greg Laurie started holding his first public evangelistic event which would soon be called the Harvest Crusades. ==SWAT Team==

SWAT stands for Students With A Testimony and is a group of high school and college aged youths to evangelize or conduct what they call "street-witnessing." The SWAT Team roams local streets inviting people to the event and sharing their faith. ==Complaints Against Harvest Riverside==

Lawsuits were filed in September 2025 against former Harvest Riverside pastor Paul Havsgaard accusing him of severe abuse of children at a shelter in Romania where Havsgaard and other members of Harvest Riverside Church participated in missionary activities. The lawsuits also name the church’s founder and senior pastor, Greg Laurie, a well-known evangelist and author, as well as other senior church leaders, claiming they failed to prevent abuse. ==References==