UTAH is Experiencing the Conditions of a Once-in-100-Years Harvest Window
Once in a Century Harvest Window
By the unknown Prophets
Are you a follower of Jesus?
Are you a person of faith?
Do you have eyes that see what God is doing?
Do you have ears that hear what He is telling you?
Are you willing to follow the unpredictable winds of the Spirit?
Pioneering pastors who established churches in Utah in the 1980’s to the early 2000’s plowed hard spiritual ground at a great cost. From the early 2000’s to 2020 we began top see gospel growth in people’s hearts. Starting in 2020 we began to see the harvest in the now and near future.
Jesus challenged his disciples to not procrastinate.
“Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’?
I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.” John 4:35
Don’t YOU have a saying: Jesus addresses our tendencies to put things off.
I tell YOU, open YOUR eyes: Jesus addresses our tendencies to be unaware of his movements.
LOOK at the fields: Jesus is instructing us WHERE to look – at HIS harvest fields.
THEY are ripe for harvest: Jesus is referring to lost souls that he has been cultivating and now THEY are ripe.
Throughout church history, we’ve seen what we refer to as “revivals” or “moves-of-God”. Often these are a result of prayer movement, political persecutions, a loss of trust in the prevailing religious cultural. We have also seen revivals come and go when the wind of the Spirit blows and God’s people rise to the challenge of spreading the Gospel.
UTAH is experiencing the conditions of a once in 100-Years harvest window
Only the Bravest and Humblest Christian Leaders
The spiritual receptiveness in Utah is becoming evident. It requires spiritually strategic Christian leaders and churches that are willing to change. We need humble learners and brave souls. Since 2000, Utah has been quietly moving into a post-Mormon, post-religious, high-transplant phase. The LDS percentage is slowly declining. Protestant growth is flat or shrinking. Catholicism is growing, but largely because of Latino immigration, not conversion. And most of the fastest-growing parts of Utah are filled with unaffiliated, highly educated, mobile adults who are not looking for institutions — they are looking for meaning, belonging, and healing.
That means the future of the church here does not look like building bigger versions of what already exists. It looks like networks of spiritual families, disciple-makers, and culturally bilingual leaders moving into new neighborhoods and apartment corridors. Utah is not becoming more secular in the European sense. It’s becoming spiritually open but institutionally allergic. Latinos will soon be the largest Christian missionary force in the state, not Protestants.
Young professionals, singles, and transplants will be the largest unreached people group — and they are not reachable through attractional church. A new kind of mission field is becoming visible: educated, burned by politics, wounded by religion, anxious, lonely, and open to God if it comes through relationships. That’s why micro churches are multiplying.
Sending must be the Primary Metric of Success
We need to would stop measuring success by attendance and start measuring it by how many people we are sending. The churches that are growing are the ones mobilizing ordinary people. The future of Utah Christianity is not mega-churches. It’s hundreds of spiritual households. We need to train planters to expect to multiply from day one, not stabilize. Internships, residency and staff development and lay leader training all need to start with creating disciple-making ecosystems rather than putting most resources on Sunday services.
Latino Christian Leaders are ready. So, go all-in on Latino leadership Not “outreach to Latinos” Leadership by Latinos. They are already: younger, more family-centered, more spiritually expectant, less institutionally cynical. We should have at least 10 qualified Latino leaders working together to create a Latino planter pipeline, build bilingual training tracks and use Latino churches to re-evangelize Utah. They will reach people white evangelical churches never will.
This is Not a Normal Season
The foundations of the Mormon church and culture are crumbling. Latino growth is breaking Mormon cultural dominance. Utah is becoming bilingual, multiethnic, and immigrant driven. Mormonism is still culturally white, middle-class, conservative American. Genealogical Latino Christianity is relational, emotional, prayer-driven, and gospel-centered. That collision always produces spiritual openness.
The opening of harvest windows has happened before — just not here. This moment in Utah looks eerily like: Ireland after Catholic collapse, Eastern Europe after Communism, Latin America after state churches fell, China after Mao. When the dominant spiritual narrative loses moral authority, the gospel spreads fastest. Not through argument but through presence, healing, and family.
Cracked Foundations and Open Doors
Utah is opening. We should treat Latter-day Saint’s openness as a once-in-a-century window. Utah has never been more open to the gospel. Not because Mormonism collapsed — but because it no longer answers trauma, doubt, and identity. We must mobilize the Kingdom in a once-in-a-generation moment.
The harvest is here. There are workers that are ready and there are many more coming. Now is the time to act:
Train missionaries with Latter-day Saint backgrounds
Normalize spiritual conversations
Make prayer and Scripture feel safe again
Recognize and partner with Frontline movements like Faith Reimagined.
Raise money like a wartime general – faster and with more boldness. Because if you don’t, God will find someone else who will. — This is the right question — because if it isn’t true, you should slow down. If it is true, you should not.
People who study religious movements, Latter-day Saint history, and secularization all quietly agree something unprecedented is happening in Utah and Mormonism right now. This in not hype, but an earthquake that has cracked the foundation of the Mormon religion. Mormonism has never faced this kind of trust collapse before. Every religion survives doctrine debates but very few survive a collapse of credibility.
Since 1830 Mormonism had three pillars:
Moral & spiritual authority: prophet authority comes from God, resting in the President of the Church, considered a prophet, seer, and revelator, who holds all priesthood keys and speaks for God to guide the Church and world.
Historical claims of authenticity: They believe it's the "only true and living church"
Community loyalty: Members have a high bar that is tied to temple sealing of marriages and sealing families together for eternity. There are many ordinances like baptism and temple sealing, temple marriage that are required to progress to the highest levels of heaven.
All three are now cracking simultaneously. The internet destroyed the ability to control their Church history: Joseph Smith documents, Polygamy records, Book of Abraham fraud, DNA evidence, CES Letter. For the first time ever, a 16-year-old Mormon can verify in 30 minutes what their grandparents could not in 50 years. That has never happened before in LDS history.
Latter-day Saints are losing the people it must keep to survive. Here’s the key: they aren’t losing “rebels,” they’re losing the faithful middle. These are: Returned missionaries, seminary grads, temple-married couples, elders Quorum presidents, Relief Society leaders. The majority are not atheists. They are spiritually hungry people who feel betrayed. When that group cracks, religions unravel and doors fly open.
“When Jesus saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.’” Matthew 9:36-38
Strategic Discipleship aimed at Singles and Transplants
In the fastest growing cities and across Utah, transplants are drastically changing the dynamics of a once Mormon-centric culture
60–70% living alone
Highly educated
Renters
Spiritually curious
Emotionally isolated
These people will not come to “church.” But they will come to tables, prayer, Scripture, and belonging.
We need to train church planters to build house-church ecosystems and teach leaders how to parent spiritual orphans, prioritizing shared meals, prayer culture, and the spiritual practices of making disciples who make disciples.
Today’s Religious Open Market
Since 1847 Utah was a closed system: Mormon or nothing. Now it’s becoming: Mormon, Ex-Mormon, Latino Catholic, secular, Christian, spiritual-but-not-religious. And this trend is accelerating. Pluralism creates comparison, curiosity, choice and when people can choose, authenticity wins. Most Latter-day Saints are not becoming atheists — they are becoming spiritually homeless This is the biggest misunderstanding outsiders have. Most are not rejecting God. They are rejecting Institutional control, gaslighting, shame, and control.
They still pray.
They still believe in Jesus.
They still want community.
They just don’t trust the machine anymore.
That is what a once-per-century window looks like.
This Won’t Last Forever
Windows close. Latter-day Saint leadership will adjust messaging, soften public tone, rebrand, stabilize membership and secularism will also move in. The harvest window is when: “I don’t trust them anymore… but I still believe in God.” That’s right now.
If we miss this… we will look back in 15 years and say: “We were there when the ground was soft — and we planted too little.”
We are not chasing hype. We are in a spiritual are in a spiritual windstorm: demographic change, spiritual trauma, religious institutional collapse, gospel hunger That alignment happens maybe once per century in a place like Utah.
What’s you’re Next Move?
“The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” John 3:8