OUR MISSION

Investing in dreams. Partnering in visions.

The Harvest Foundation exists to support the dreams and callings of God’s people around the world through intentional investments of time, resources and/or labor that help to steward the work & realize the vision.

Those contributions may vary from one-time sponsorships to long-term partnerships that help develop multi-phase projects and equip people to embrace their fullest potential. Harvest Foundation endeavors to enter into each potential sponsorship by prayerful consideration, as God opens the doors of His choosing.

OUR STORY

Harvest Founder and CEO Wayne Berthiaume is a Biddeford, Maine businessman, who serves as a general contractor and notary public.

He and wife Dina Berthiaume have been married since 1986. They have four adult children and three grandchildren.

The couple are longtime members of New Life Church in Biddeford, Maine where Wayne serves on the church’s board of directors. He has been actively involved with the church’s Missions Department since 1999, serving alongside frontline missionaries on a variety of global outreach projects in places like Afghanistan, Ghana, India, Israel, Kenya, Nigeria, Russia and Turkey.

The relationships Wayne formed during many of those journeys, fueled his desire to be more involved in missions work beyond the typical two-week outreach trip.
“I wanted to support the work of God and bring encouragement to people,” said Wayne, who, for more than a decade, prayed about how to make a greater impact in the lives of the people he met. He wanted to bless others outside of the traditional church setting but his questions were always: “How” and “Where?”

The answer came in early 2016 when Wayne accepted an invitation by Bishop Elijah Sebuchu (founder and pastor of Kampala International Christian Centre (KICC), Global Discipleship Ministries (GDM) & the Hands of Love Foundation of Uganda, Africa) to come and participate in KICC’s annual Youth Ablaze Conference in Uganda. Sebuchu’s non-denominational, Evangelical church is one of the fastest growing home cell-based churches in Kampala-Uganda, with more than 1,500 members and 283 church plants or local churches that recognize him as their Bishop.

Wayne accepted the Bishop’s invitation, helped to raise nearly $4,500 to make the journey Africa, and traveled more than 7,000 miles to attend the youth conference that September.

That conference was attended by more than 8,000 youth, ages 15 to 35, who gathered to worship God and learn how to model His character and integrity as future leaders in Africa. Wayne volunteered to help feed and encourage the youth attendees that weekend, one of whom was a very young boy, who made a four-day journey – alone and on foot – just to be part of what God was doing there. The boy’s level of passion and desperation inspired Wayne to consider how far he’d personally be willing to go to experience God’s move in his own life.

The conference served as a pivotal moment in his life when he understood how he also could play a greater role in advancing God’s Kingdom simply by stepping out to share his own story with others and invest what he’d been given into the people and places of God’s desire.

Wayne returned home and embraced the dream God placed in his heart a decade earlier. In 2017, he founded Harvest Foundation, a non-profit 501c3 that exists to support the dreams and callings of God’s people around the world through intentional investments of time, resources and/or labor that help to steward the work & realize the vision.

Bishop Sebuchu and Wayne have since partnered on a three-phase project to build an educational and worship center campus in Kayunga, Uganda.