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  As anyone from Texas will tell you, Springtown is only a forty minute drive from Fort Worth, but after questioning strangers, doing u-turns on dead ends and generally having no clue about the windy roads I was traversing down, I arrived at Pastor Scott Mendes’ ranch almost 3 hours after leaving Fort Worth.

   On arrival, there sign on the fence which says:  “Western Harvest Ministries: impacting lives with extreme sports and God’s Love”   I drive inside.  The ranch consists of a house and three portable buildings.  Fifty metres behind the portable buildings, there is a large cattle yard which separate three bulls and seven horses. 

   There are kids playing around the house, I ask them if they know the whereabouts of Scott Mendes.

  “Yessir, he’s back in them buildings,” a red haired boy informs me.  I thank him and drive to the portables.  Scott bounds out.  “You must be Sullivan.” 

  Scott Mendes is 41 years old.  There is a scar running underneath his right eye which is, no doubt, a legacy of his bull riding days.   He was an extremely accomplished bull rider, winning the World Championship in 1997, but now is a devoted church minister.  He gives me a tour of the ranch.  One of the portables buildings is a bunk house, one is an office, and the other is a church.  Inside the church, there are a row of pew’s, an alter and a drum kit in the corner.  We go to the back of the church and he shows me posters of the rodeo events that the church has organized.   Inside his office, I read a poster that says: “Spur’n with Jesus.” 

  We walk outside to the cattle yards and he reveals a plan for the ranch.  It will be a Christian outreach centre.  The bunk house will be used to accommodate and feed troubled youths, and provide them with a wholesome environment to teach them part of the American heritage – the rodeo.   The bull riding arena will be used for training camps and rodeos, and the church will be used to host seminars and a Sunday service. 

  “We need as much help as we can get,” he tells me.  “You’re arrival is a miracle from God.”

We wonder down to the cattle yard.  I ask him if I will have a chance to ride the large white and black bull called Spec.

  “Sure mate,” he replies.

  Excited by the prospect of something new, I grab my bags and move into the bunk house.

  On my second day at the ranch, I drive my jeep for two hours to pick up Justin Snow (aka Snow Man)  Snow Man is a 22 year old youth minister from Mississippi.  He also has been riding bulls for five years and had some pretty good results at local rodeos.  Justin is the creative type; amongst his gear is a book on creative writing, a guitar, and a video camera.  We have been raised in countries thousands of miles apart but I feel that I will gel with him easily.  Back at the ranch, Pastor Scott Mendes, Snow Man and I formulate a plan.  We design a year schedule of prospective training camps, seminars and rodeos and formulate a proposal for business sponsorship of the events.

  There is much work to be done…..next blog coming soon.

 

 

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Hello Friends and Partners,

Just a reminder that Western Harvest will be conducting our very first 4 D Open Barrel Racing event. We will start at 10:00 am and run throughout the day with many different classes and levels. If you enjoy fast horses and great fellowship please stop in and visit us. This event will be held at our Ministry ranch.  The Address is 6577 Old Springtown Road, Weatherford, TX 76085. It is approximately 5 miles South of Springtown and around 12 miles north of the Weatherford Courthouse on the downtown square, heading north on Hwy 51.

On behalf of Western Harvest Ministries and the Scott Mendes Family, we would like to send you a quick reminder that on Sunday April 11^th at 11:00 am at the Western Harvest Fellowship Center in Springtown, TX, we will be hosting a very special friend, who is also both an original WHM board member and also the founder and president of the International Living Streams ministry. This is a ministry that conducts many powerful outreaches around the world. We know that Brandon Darnell will, as always, bring us a loving and strong word from the Lord for each and every person and their families. Don’t miss this time of ministry. Like Brandon, we have a desire to see God help and restore lives and that is why we are so very excited for you and your family to join us in hearing this dear friend and lifelong mentor.

Please see our web site www.westernharvestministries.com for driving instructions and details.

Western Harvest Fellowship Center

400 East Hwy 199 Suite 400 ( In the Family Dollar Parking Lot Across the street from McDonalds’…)

Also you can contact me at the following numbers WHFC office 817-523-BULL (2855) or 817-995-9087.

Thank you for your time, we would be so honored to have you join us as we all seek more of the Lord.

Blessings

Scott and Angel Mendes

Western Harvest Ministries   

 

March Men’s Meeting                  Special Guest ------- Coach Mike Shklar Lawton, OK              Saturday night March 6^th 6:30 eat and 7:00 start

Hello Friends,

I personally wanted to write to you and to share with you about our Men’s meeting this Saturday night March 6^th at 7:00pm at our Western Harvest Fellowship Center in Springtown, TX .Many of you know that we are driven by seeing God move in people’s lives and watching them being equipped to fulfill their destinies. We also believe that each and every time we come together that the Lord through his precious Holy Spirit wants to minister to us. This is why it is so important for us to learn how to discern to be open and ready at all times to receive from him. Many times, he will come when we least expect it and in ways that might not be familiar to us. Never the less, we need to be ready when the opportunity arises….  

It is our desire to host a men’s meeting once a month and how better to start the ball rolling  then with a special visitor.  Mr. Mike Shklar is a very dear and personal friend from Lawton OK.  Angel  and I first met Mike and his beautiful wife Jonna when we committed to Advocare for our families health and sports nutrition around 10 years ago. The Shklar family has been such a tremendous blessing to us and along the way; Mike became a personal mentor to me in the ministry as well.  Today Mike and Jonna are a major part of our advisory board of WHM.

We asked Mike to come down and spend the day with us so that we could share both his knowledge and wisdom with all of us here at the WHM Fellowship center. We have invited other partnering ministries such as Teen Challenge and U-turn World ministries, along with a handful of professional rodeo cowboys….We are going to have pizza and videos on the big screen around 6:30pm and at 7:00pm we will have praise and worship and a testimony then Mike will bring us a very challenging and powerful word from the Lord. I know that all who will be present will leave inspired to go forth and be a greater leaders in their own individual places of influence…

 

On another note: Mike and I will be available in the fellowship center on Saturday afternoon between 12:00pm and 2:00pm. to answer any questions anyone might have about World Class Nutrition through Advocare and the opportunity it presents to help families. Hope to see you there and if you need driving instructions to the fellowship center you can get them at www.westernharvestministries.com.   Click on the “about us” tab and go to “locate us”.  Also for any other needs please call 817-995-9087. Scott Mendes

 

 

 

 

 

Western Harvest Ministries and it's entire staff would like to say Thank you very much to all of are Partners and Friends for all of the wonderful support and your many faithful prayers..We are working very hard to have this great new site up and running in a way that will help us minister more effectively to the world..We are so excited about our arena being up and having camps and clinic here at our home base.Please pray that we will operate in Godly wisdom and that we will have the confidences to faithfully follow the lords leading's.We have many plans for this year and have all ready seen the Lord's favor coming to pass.I will be writing to you more now with this BLOG now in place ,so please continue to seek the Lord about where you might be able to partner with us so that we can see many more lives impacted with God's unconditional Love and grace in every arena of their lives ...

P.S. We will have the TBN interview up for you real soon right here on our site...

I look for word to hearing from you all real soon and remember God Loves you and so do we.....Never give up on your God given Vision........

Scott Mendes

About the program:

Be a part of the world’s largest prayer and praise gathering.  Joining us from the International Production Center in Irving, Texas, are: Lawrence Bishop II, Scott Mendes, Ted K. Pressley, Mike Fletcher, David Hinton, Del Way and our host Dwight Thompson.

“There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life – fear of death, fear of judgment – is one not yet fully formed in love”
(1John 4:18, The Message Bible).

I truly believe that fear is one of the deadliest forms of warfare that comes against the believer’s life. In our country today, the spirit of fear has been released in such a way that not even history has ever seen anything like it before. This surely confirms your heavenly Father’s soon coming return. However, you as his beloved child should not fear (2 Timothy 1:7), but rather live life to the fullest each day doing what he has called you to do. And do it with all your heart in such a way that you will glorify your Father in Heaven here on earth. As you can imagine fear is the driving force behind my professional sport of bull riding, and every time we compete we have a choice. To either accept it or to use it to our advantage. Notice I didn’t say that we get rid of it. Because in the natural what we are doing is, to say the least, dangerous and can be quite scary. However, fear can be simple as an emotion, but by know means should it ever drive you under its own terms. That is where it crosses the line and you must deal with it according to the word of God. It’s like there is a real fear, which is an emotion, but then there is a fear, which has a spirit of death on it. I know personally speaking that my ability to put the spirit of fear under my feet (when I was preparing to ride a bull) was because I had confidence in knowing that I was doing what I was born to do. As a result, a deep love was birthed in me for both the Lord and for the sport. There is no greater satisfaction in this world than knowing that you are in your perfect place with God and in life. (Psalm 37:4). But on the other hand, millions upon millions of people will succumb to the spirit of fear causing them to reject the very life in which Jesus suffered for them so they could live free. You must know the word (Proverbs 4:20-23) and whatever you do, don’t give place to the devil (Ephesians 4:27). The only power he has over you is what you give him. God wants to perfect you in His love so that you will have no room for fear in your life.

Get Serious: God has done his part in Jesus (I John 3:8), and now it’s your responsibility to take action and fight to rid yourself of the spirit of fear. God will empower you all the way as you learn to trust him.

Go Deep: Psalm 91, Proverbs 9:10, Proverbs 29:25, Isaiah 41:10, Matthew 10:28, Romans 8:15, and Hebrews 2:15.