Harvest House

Harvest House

Help Us, Help Her

Harvest House, located in Dayton, Ohio, is a mentoring program for young women in challenging situations. Our goal is to come alongside them as they face various life challenges. The young ladies meet with a staff mentor where they receive the attention and care they need to set individual goals based on their unique situation and hopes for the future. Our team then works closely with them to help achieve those goals.


Harvest House consists of ongoing mentoring and support while YOU work to meet YOUR goals. This is a highly individualized program designed to meet people where they are.  To date we have helped in a variety of areas including job security and training, transportation needs, schooling including college level and GEDs, child care and parenting training, and much more!


We align our program with solid Biblical teaching. This program is offered free of charge.


Mission: Preparing disadvantaged young women to take on the world with new hope and life skills.


Vision: Harvest House will transform the lives of young women through God's love.

Sometimes a non-conventional approach to healing allows young women a restart they need to carry hope (and a light) out into the world.  Rather than try to make a one-size-fits all program that kind of works for the masses, we have tried to create a very individual approach that meets the specific needs of the young people we are working with. We help with both practical needs as well as mentoring, goal setting, and a little bit of mom-ing.

Harvest House Blog

In It Together!

By Elizabeth Kilby • 01 May, 2024
So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor. 1 Corinthians 3:7

Father of Lies?

By Pastor Jim Kilby • 01 May, 2024
"When he (Satan) lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies." John 8:44b (NIV) Dear Friends, I got a call from a young woman last week who was wondering why a beautiful butterfly had landed on her arm for a brief moment the day before. She wanted to know if I’d help her figure out which of her late relatives had visited. She had earlier posted the same question on social media and a flurry of “keyboard spiritualists” had convinced her she’d been visited by her grandmother who recently passed. For better or worse, I can be pretty blunt when I’m speaking the Truth to lies. And so I said, “You were visited by a beautiful bug!”. We went on to discuss how Jesus made it clear no one can pass from this life and then come back (Luke 16:19-31) (with the obvious exceptions of when He was involved in bringing someone back from the dead). I don’t think she actually believed me, but that’s likely because lies like this are so ingrained in our culture. What’s more, lots of well-meaning and sympathetic people who want to comfort grieving hearts perpetuate these lies without realizing they actually come from anti-Christian “new age” religions. What’s probably the saddest thing, in my opinion, is that so many young people have been so insulated from actual Biblical truth for so long, when they see it, they either immediately discount it or refuse to even listen. But some might ask me, does it really matter if she believes her grandmother visited her in the form of a butterfly. Yes, it does. Because it’s a lie, and all lies come from a root of evil. And… because it works against the Truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He has been quite clear with us: “Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.” Hebrews 9:27-28 Blessings in Christ, Pastor Jim Kilby

Worst Case?

By Pastor Jim Kilby • 09 Apr, 2024
Dear Friends, Last month I shared my woes with rupturing my Achilles tendon and how my surgeon told me to go "slow, slow, slow!" Well, I was trying! I really was! But that didn't help me when one of my crutches slipped on the smooth concrete in my garage and I fell...hard! I knew it wasn't good, but after a few minutes of catching my breath I was able to get myself back together and get into the house. A few days after that, increased pain told me something more serious had happened and that something was wrong. The doctor worked me into his schedule that very morning so he could take a look. With one glance, his concern was obvious. He told me I wouldn't be going home that day and I'd be having another surgery. As he put it, "this is the worst-case scenario!" "You've re-ruptured your Achilles and this time the surgery is much more invasive and quite a bit more complicated." And so, I'm back to the beginning of my healing process. This time the doctor called my bluff on how careful I told him I'd be, and he put me in a cast up to my knee. He also promised it wouldn't be coming off anytime soon! Now, I get more practice in going slow. Since there's no getting around it, I also get more work on my attitude and my patience. Although I'm very grateful for wonderful medical care, I would argue one point with my surgeon... This is NOT the worst-case scenario! For starters, I still have two legs, and some people don't have any. I go home to a warm and cozy house, and many don't have anything near that. Of course, the real "worst case scenario" would be never hearing or believing the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Of the reality of the Cross and of the Resurrection of my Lord and Savior, I have no doubt! And that my friends is an unrevokable gift from God, the absolute best case scenario there has ever been or will be! Blessings in Christ, Pastor Jim Kilby
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