Editing Rod Parsley (section)

==World Harvest Church==
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Parsley founded his church in 1977, after leading a Bible study in his parents' backyard while still a college student. Seventeen people attended the first meeting.<ref name="whclife.com"/> They soon decided that the Bible study group should become a church. It originally became known as Sonrise Chapel, and later Word of Life Church.

The church's first permanent facility was built in 1979. This is now known as Alpha Hall, one of four buildings on what for many years was the campus of Valor Christian College (the college moved to the main church campus in 2011). Growth soon required an addition to that building, and several years later the church built a bigger structure adjacent to Alpha Hall, now known as Dominion Hall. In 1986, ground was broken on {{convert|57|acre|m2}} to begin what is now the church's main campus in Canal Winchester (with a Columbus address). When it was dedicated, it was renamed as World Harvest Church in honor of [[Lester Sumrall]], who had befriended Parsley years earlier and became the younger pastor's mentor and spiritual father.<ref name="whclife.com">[http://www.whccolumbus.com/our-story "About World Harvest Church"]; retrieved November 9, 2017.</ref><ref>[http://www.rodparsley.com/assets/pdf/Prp-Biography.pdf Parsley's official biography]</ref>

World Harvest Church Columbus now includes a 5,200-seat sanctuary, children's and youth ministries, Connect Centers and administrative offices. Harvest Preparatory School, a private [[Christianity|Christian]] school serving students in preschool through grade 12, and Valor Christian College also operate on the church grounds.<ref name="whclife.com"/> About 10,000 people attend services at World Harvest on a weekly basis.<ref name="Dennis M. Mahoney 2005">Dennis M. Mahoney, "Higher aspirations", ''The Columbus Dispatch'', August 21, 2005.</ref>

In 2013, World Harvest added a satellite campus in Elkhart. That church is located near Christian Center Church in [[South Bend, Indiana|South Bend]], the church founded by Parsley's mentor, Sumrall.