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Dear Friends,After more than a decade of gospel work, our network has seen that churches and leaders desperately need a harbor - a safe place to rest and renew, find their bearings, and be restored for more ministry and mission. Since 2011, we’ve honed our services and structure to offer the safety and support needed to launch, lead and multiply thriving churches. We are proud of what we have accomplished, but also realistic with our expectations and pacing. Our organization has grown from a handful of charter members to a national network of 112 churches. More churches are coming to us and counting on us. We need a stronger harbor built to support and strengthen more called leaders so that more peo-ple can experience renewal through the gospel of Jesus Christ. To that end, we have been working hard over the last 18 months towards “estab- lishing one harbor.” We desire to firmly establish Harbor Network: build our core ministry areas, implement a new strategy to launch more churches, and grow in operational maturity. Through six strategic focus areas, we have addressed critical threats and weaknesses and built on strengths to pursue new opportunities. We are in a much-improved cash position compared to early 2022; our member churches are giving over 100% of pledged amounts and our donor cultivation efforts are maturing as we seek to di-versify our revenue sources. Our program revenues are also expanding along with our offerings.In other words, by God’s grace, we are establishing and strengthening one Harbor. In the pages of this annual report we will try to show how we are doing this, why we are doing it, and our hopes for the next few years. Thank you for being part of this movement!In Him,DAVE OWENSHARBOR NETWORK | 2

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HARBOR NETWORK | 3The Last Few Years2023In 2023, as we transitioned from a calendar fiscal year to a July-June pattern, we feel the momentum growing! But we are at a crucial point in our organization’s history. We are not quite ready to call it an “established” Harbor. We plan to take more time to continue to strengthen our harbor; we need to solidify a senior leadership team to better serve you; and we need to focus more on diverse revenue streams in order to fund our growing movement. 2021In 2021 we had our most challenging fiscal year in our history, and, because of the generosity of our member churches, we recovered financially in 2022 without major negative consequences. 2022In 2022, we wrote our first strategic plan since pre- pandemic days: Establish One Harbor. This plan revealed six focus areas for our staff and board to prioritize. 2020It seems like a long time ago, but just in 2020, we rebranded our network as Harbor, bringing clarity to our mission, vision and values and outlining the primary contours of our ministry through three departments: church planting, leader renewal and church multiplication.

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Six Focus Areas for Establishing One HarborCore Curriculum DevelopmentMany churches look to Harbor Network for counsel and train-ing on what a thriving church looks like and how to keep their church headed in that direction. We have been working steadi-ly on this project, called the Anchor & Compass, for the past 12-18 months, which is the framework from which we will develop needed coursework for our churches. • First drafts of the curriculum, based on our three theo-logical distinctives and five core values, were reviewed earlier this year. • Led by Rob Maine, the writ-ing team has done amazing work and the plan is to be-gin prototyping this training pathway this fall.Strengthen our Leader Renewal InitiativesWithout healthy, renewed church leaders our mission can’t succeed and, more importantly, churches can’t thrive. We want to increase our initiatives that help renew church leaders who are coming up for air after the last few years of ministry.• Renewal gatherings have grown substantially in the last 12-18 months (we now host around 10 per year)• We tested a cohort model in early 2022 that served 52 leaders and generated a net revenue of $9,000. • The Harbor Wives Connect team expanded in 2023, serving many women in the network. Roll out the initial phase of our SEA Strategy (Surface, Equip, Activate)Our S.E.A. strategy is a church planting and multiplication initiative to build the infrastructure needed to launch 125 new churches over the coming 5-7 years.• Surfacing focuses on out- reach primarily to churches and educational institutions with the purpose of uncovering potential church planters. • Equipping ensures that our planters receive the training they need before and after they launch. Since the beginning of 2022, we have developed a well-structured residency program, a rhythm of periodic in-person retreats, an inclusive coaching collective and a quarterly continu-ing education initiative.• The activating phase ensures there’s a conducive environment for establishing structures that promote health and growth in church plant-ing on a regional scale. The team has begun the work on missional collaboratives that will work to-gether to move this phase forward. HARBOR NETWORK | 4

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HARBOR NETWORK | 5Increase Partner EngagementFrom financial partners to lead pastors, church members to lay elders, we are creating resources that provide education, enhance enthusiasm, and ultimately in-crease engagement among our church and individual partners. • We launched a new weekly newsletter The Current, which reaches more than 2600 people and averages a 50% open rate. • We also developed assets to distribute to member churches to help coordinate a Harbor Sunday in order to get more people involved and informed about the network. Establish Core Ministries and Partnership PathwaysWoven throughout the focus areas above is an assumed focus area: we need to establish our core central services and support portfolio to make it easy for pas-tors and leaders to find, engage, and enjoy the growing suite of support available to them as part of their membership in Harbor. • We have made major gains in this area over the past 18 months with each of our core ministries (Church Launching, Leader Renewal and Church Multiplication) all having lead-ers, clear contours, key activities and corresponding budgets.Deepen Operational CapacityJust as “deepening” a harbor allows it to welcome more ships, deepening and maturing our infrastructure, data tracking, pro-cesses, staff, financial resources, compliance and risk management will provide a strong foundation to accommodate our growing orga-nization and early scaling efforts over the next few years. Over the last 18 months, we have:• Added new staff • Completed an HR audit • Reviewed and tightened cyber-security• Retained the Church Law Group for ongoing legal counsel• Evaluated and improved internal systems for managing data and donations• Intentionally pursued 100% in member pledges

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22/23$67,369$140,905$117,188$1,365,74521/22$3,169$112,516$ 121,915$1,337,5232022/2023 Financial Data HARBOR NETWORK | 6Individual and Foundation Giving Program and “Other” revenue Strengthening the Harbor Contributions Church givingRevenue, 21/22 vs. 22/23REVENUES & EXPENSES 202122 202223Church Giving $1,337,523 $1,365,745Program and “Other” Revenue $112,516 $140,905Strengthening the Harbor Contributions $ 121, 915 $ 117,18 8Individual and Foundation Giving $3,169 $67,369Total Revenue $1,575,123 $1,691,206Total Operating Expenses $1,653,106 $1,671,631Operating Surplus/Deficit -$77,980 $19,57522/23 Expense ChartPartnership Engagement --------------------------- 10%Planting ------------------------------------------- 36%Leader Renewal -------------- 29%Multiply ------------------------------------------------ 8%G&A ------------------------------------------------------ 14 %Fundraising ------------------------------------ 3%

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Strengthening the Harbor CampaignWe have been steadily moving towards less reliance on member church giving and more revenue from program income and individual donors, in order to have a more stable and diversified financial system. Early in 2022 we anticipated a gap, though, as we made this adjustment, and the gap was around $500,000. Our team worked to fill in that gap with above-and-beyond giving from a variety of sources.The “Strengthen the Harbor Campaign” took place over the last 18 months and raised nearly $250,000 from 16 churches and organizations. We are beyond grateful for these churches for stepping up to close this gap:• Soma Midtown, Indianapolis, IN• Redeemer Community Church, Bloomington, IN• The Vine Community Church, Deer Park, WA• Veritas Dayton, Dayton, OH• City on a Hill Somerville, Somerville, MA• The Table Community Church, Hillsboro, OR• Summit Church, Ft. Myers/Naples, FL• Emmaus Church, Redlands, CA• Apostles Church, New York, NY• Redeemer Church Chesapeake, VA• Pleasant Valley Community Church, Owensboro, KY• Valley Bible Church, Radford, VA • Four Oaks Community Church, Tallahassee, FL• Local Church, Bay Village, OH• King’s Cross Church, Santa Rosa Beach, FL• Equipt (formerly Launch Global, Inc.)HARBOR NETWORK | 7

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MAY 2022Pastor Danny Wright hit the 20-year mark of service at Greenville Grace, one of our network’s charter churches located in Greenville, OH. Congrats, pastor! JUNE 2022Pastor Matt Guertin, from Local Church in Cleveland, Ohio, baptized several new believers in Lake Erie. He is pictured above (far right) alongside his people!AUGUST 2022 The Table Community Church, A Harbor church in Hillsboro, Oregon, baptized 10 new brothers and sisters in the faith! You can watch a pow-erful video recapping these baptisms here. AUGUST 2022Paul Boekell baptized his kid-dos at Mercy Village Church. His son testified that the plant-ing of the church was a catalyst for their desire to follow Jesus forever! Paul said, “I just can’t shake that…we almost didn’t plant…but God did!!” FALL 2022Future church planters worked with three seasoned Harbor pastors (Reid Monaghan, Jesse Furey, and Bret Johnson) who have officially begun prototyping a Harbor Network residency in partnership with the Bonhoeffer Haus in Rad-ford, Virginia.SEPTEMBER 2022The Vine Community Church launched! The Vine is led by Vince & Kara Oliveri in Blacksburg, Virginia.Stories From Around the HarborHARBOR NETWORK | 8

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SEPTEMBER 2022Maranatha Community Church, Pickerington, Ohio, which is led by Jeff and Jennifer Beisel, launched as a Harbor Network church plant in 2017. Fast forward five years and they have planted their own baby church in a different neighborhood in Pickerington, led by David and Rachel Appelt. Full circle! OCTOBER 2022Redeemer Church in Chesa-peake, VA celebrated their 35th anniversary as a church with donuts before and a church-wide chili picnic after the gathering. In addition to this incredible anniversary milestone, they also welcomed 25 new members to the church! JANUARY 2023Byron Cogdell, one of our church planters who launched pre-pandemic as one of Harbor’s supported churches, reflected on his journey: “That’s part of what was made clear to me last week as we prepared to worship together in our first building. We’ve gone from a living room to a small theater to a middle school to Facebook & Zoom to worshiping outside to a storefront and now we’re in a building in our com-munity. God is good. And sometimes you just have to continue in the faith knowing that hardships are usually the gateways to the kingdom of God being present where you are.”EARLY SUMMER 2023Rob Maine, who has been part of Harbor Network since 2016, reflected on Renais-sance Church’s (Pittsburgh, PA) journey with the network during a visit with Dave Ow-ens and several others from Sojourn Midtown. This is what he said: “Harbor has helped us navi-gate eight building transitions, raise up and send out leaders, launch pastoral and planting residencies, as well as multiply and plant another church that is thriving in our city. None of this was easy, but with Harbor our small ship in Pittsburgh was able to stay the course and remain anchored in the Gospel. This network, while it has effective strategies, con-ferences, and gifted leaders, it’s more than that to us; it’s a home where we get to both be needy and needed. It’s a place where we don’t have to perform, but simply be present. To put it quite simply: Harbor is family.”HARBOR NETWORK | 9

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New Church Plants2022JB & Jessie Van Hoogen planting Boise Gospel Church in Boise, IDNick & Anna Abraham planting Reformation Bible Church in Navarre, OHTim & Kim Pollock planting Cedar Church in St. Augustine, FLIke & Arianysis Todd, and Rechab & Brittany Gray, planting New Creation Fellowship in Orlando, FLReynier & Leydi Martinez planting Summit Espanol in Fort Myers, FLPaul & Sarah Beth Boekell planting Mercy Village Church in Barboursville, WVDavid & Rachel Appelt planting Maranatha Church in Canal Winchester, OHVince & Kara Oliveri planting The Vine Church in Blacksburg, VA2023Jamal & Sabrina Hyman planting Abide Bible Church in Kinston, NCMason & Valerie Good launched New City Church in Chillicothe, OHJosh & Maggie Stewart launched Oaks Community Church in Naples, FLCasey & Kelly Lute launched Peace Bible Church in Salem, ORClay Myatt launched King’s Cross Church in Cleveland, OHJason & Danielle Hudson launched Church of the Redeemer in Fort Thomas, KYHARBOR NETWORK | 10

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New Church Adoptions2022 AdoptionsRiver City Church Grand Rapids, MIPlanted in 2018 by Brad Kidder, River City is a non-denominational church who, like many churches planted in 2018-2020, enjoyed steady early growth only to experience challenges once COVID hit in March 2020. The church joined because “we desire camaraderie and outside support from a network to promote spiritual health, we desire to be a part of something bigger than ourselves to be able to do more than we could alone, and to partner and work hard alongside others to see people around the globe meet and worship Jesus.” Redeemer Church Tomball, TXFounded in 2008, Re-deemer has grown into a vibrant church community serving a growing Houston suburb. Now under the leadership of Kevin Bowles, the church enjoys a strong sense of community and care within the body, a love for God’s word, an unabashed celebration of the gospel, and a healthy plurality of Elders. Redeemer joined Harbor “to be connect-ed to other churches who share a common doctrine and mission, to enjoy opportunities for their leaders to learn from Harbor and the churches in the network, to be part of a network that will serve as a good family of support in which to birth future plants, and serve/help other like-minded churches across the Harbor family.” Table Community Church Hillsboro, OROriginally planted in 2015 as part of a non-denominational, multi-con-gregational church in the Portland, OR metro area, The Table became its own autonomous church in 2020 and began seeking a network to join. Led by pastor Justin Peterson alongside a great elder team, they joined Harbor this year “for two main rea-sons: for kingdom collaboration and help with church planting. Kingdom collaboration is one of our core values as a church and we see joining this network as a tangible way to practice this. Additionally, we desire to see more churches planted, here in the Pacific NorthWest and beyond. Harbor Network seems to provide the structure and support needed to do this.” Lakeside Church Worthington, MN Lakeside Church was started as First Baptist Church in 1893 in Worthing-ton, MN. They built the building they are currently using in 1975. In 2013 they changed their church name to Lakeside Church. Under the leader-ship of pastor Wesley Kouba over the last 7 years, the church is enjoying a season of renewal. The church is joining Harbor because “we see a vibrant, relevant group of individuals and organizations all pulling in the same direction. Recognizing there are differences among their churches, they look to celebrate vs. sepa-rate. The premise of a Harbor as a place to go to get repairs, renewed and rested and go back out to do battle in the open water is a very accurate picture of what we face today. However, most of us are doing it without the chance to do much of the rest and recovery part of that. We love the intentionality of connection and care for church leaders and pastors.”HARBOR NETWORK | 11

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2023 AdoptionsThe Village Church in DentonDenton, TXThe Village Church Denton is a multi-ethnic church serving the heart of Denton, TX. Established in 2015, we ex-ist to make disciples of Jesus Christ and to love the Lord will all of our heart, minds and souls. The church is led by Beau & Kimberly Hughes. City Life Church Wichita, KS City Life Church was planted in the heart of Wichita, Kansas in 2011. Five years later, City Life and First Baptist Church united together under City Life’s name, and led by Andy & Melanie Adkison. As a merged congregation, their vision is to demonstrate and declare the goodness of Jesus from the heart of Wichita to the world. With each person who enters their fellowship, the desire is to help them grow to increasingly know and follow Jesus, connect with others in authen-tic relationships, and engage in the mission of making disciples.”HARBOR NETWORK | 12

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What’s Next?Our network is growing, and we are so grateful. We are on track to plant our 100th church in 2024! We have a big vision to see the gospel of Jesus Christ bring renewal to people and places across the U.S., and beyond, through movements of thriving churches. We are dreaming big and asking God to multiply our efforts, without sacrificing our values, convictions or the health of our churches and leaders for the sake of launching more churches. You can be part of our movement in the following ways:Subscribe to our newsletters on our web site.Give to our network at www.harbornetwork.com/give.Pray for our churches. harbornetwork.com

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