Harvest Time Church is now called Our Savior’s Church

Harvest Time Church will no longer exist after 44 years on Wildcat Drive in Abbeville. The new name of the church and school is Our Savior’s Church.
The Meridional recently learned that the entire five acres and all the buildings, including the school, were donated to Our Savior’s Church, a regional church in Acadiana.
Our Savior’s Church already has six churches throughout Acadiana, including two in Lafayette, one in Youngsville, Church Point, Broussard and New Iberia.
Pastor Jacob Aranza is the lead pastor at the Abbeville church.
Former lead pastor Steve Delino will continue to preach, just not at Our Savior’s Church. In 2019, Delino began praying to God for a direction for Harvest Time.
That direction came when Pastor Aranza recently called him asking about Harvest Time possibly donating its grounds and buildings to Our Savior’s Church.
“It makes sense,” said Pastor Delino. “There are a lot of people from Vermilion Parish who attend Our Savior’s Church in Lafayette.”
Our Savior’s Church was in the process of looking for a location in Abbeville before contacting Delino.
This will be the second school that Our Savior’s Church inherits.
A few years back, Our Savior’s Church took the reigns of Acadiana Christian School in New Iberia.
One of the strengths of Our Savior’s is its regional focus with churches all over Acadiana, and Delino said the school could use those resources to help the school prosper.
Brother Brad Broussard of Pecan Island began the nondenominational Harvest Time church in 1978.
As the church expanded, a pre-K through high school was eventually opened.
Pastor Robert Wells Sr. was the lead pastor at Harvest Time for 31 years. When Pastor Wells began, the church started with 13 people. Over time, it grew to as big as 400 followers. Today, that number is cut in half.
Delino and his wife Shelia were youth pastors for 15 years under Wells, who retired.
In 2013, Steve and Sheila assumed the role of lead pastors of Harvest Time.
Steve, an Abbeville native, will continue to preach. For the last 17 years, he has been the pastor at the Glad Tidings Church in Pecan Island.
He recently launched “Steve Delino Ministries Inc.” He plans to be active in the Abbeville community.