The Harvest Is Plentiful: Jesus Festival 2026, Love on The World & the Road to SIX33

Frontlines · By Daniel Ziedins · 2026-10-06 · 10 minute read

On Labour Day weekend 2026, a metal water tank sat on the pavement in the middle of Gage Park in Hamilton, Ontario. All weekend a line formed beside it. One by one, people stepped into the water, were lowered down, and came up into new life — while worship rolled out from the bandshell and families, churches, and complete strangers stopped to watch.

By the time the weekend was over, the Jesus Festival team's early reports counted more than seventy people who had given their lives to Jesus and more than fifty baptisms. In a city park. On a holiday weekend. For free.

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 9:37–38

This is a harvest report. It is the story of what God did at Jesus Festival 2026, how it grew out of twelve years on the streets of Hamilton, where the mission is heading next — through Love on The World, e3 Canada, and a culture brand called SIX33 — and how Kingdom business owners can stand inside it. Because every business in the Lions Den Alliance exists, in the end, for moments exactly like the ones that happened beside that water tank.

What God did at Gage Park

The festival team is careful to call these early reports rather than a final audited count — and to remind everyone that every number is a person with a name and a story. Alongside them came many testimonies of healing and freedom, altar calls on both Friday and Saturday, and what JesusFestival.ca describes as a record turnout. 2026 was also the first Jesus Festival Niagara, where the festival reports that the City lit Niagara Falls yellow in recognition.

Overheard at the baptism tank

Numbers tell you how wide the net was. Testimonies tell you how deep the catch went. These are words the festival team heard from people coming up out of the water:

I have no desire for my vape anymore and threw it away.

Baptism, Jesus Festival 2026

My back is healed!

Said coming out of the water, Jesus Festival 2026

I was lost — who would have thought Jesus led me here!

Baptism, Jesus Festival 2026

Heaven does not treat those moments as small. Jesus said there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents (Luke 15:10). Multiply that by seventy, and you begin to understand why a holiday weekend in a Hamilton park might have been the loudest party in the universe.

It did not start on a stage. It started on a street corner.

None of this began with a festival. It began in 2014, when Daniel and Katie Ziedins stepped onto the streets of Hamilton with food, prayer, and the Gospel and called it Love on Hamilton. Week after week — rain, snow, or heat — they showed up for the city's homeless community, sharing Jesus with anyone who would listen.

What began as a small outreach grew into 20+ weekly outreach teams and a movement of 50+ people evangelizing in Hamilton every week. In 2022 they launched Overflow, a Sunday evening service where, in their words, the Holy Spirit was given full permission to move. Along the way they have watched what they describe as lives healed, chains of addiction broken, people delivered, and baptisms and salvations becoming regular testimonies of God's grace.

Who dares despise the day of small things?

Zechariah 4:10

If you run a business, you know this pattern. Nothing great begins great. It begins faithful — one more Tuesday, one more conversation, one more meal handed across a table on a cold night. The fruit at Gage Park in 2026 was twelve years in the making.

Love on The World: from one city to the nations

As word spread, believers in other cities asked how to start the same thing where they live. Between 2020 and 2022, Love on The World (LoveonTheWorld.com) was established to help start and grow outreach groups everywhere. Today Love on The World groups meet weekly in 12 cities for street outreach, prayer, and practical compassion, with prayer going up for 36 nations.

Anyone can begin a Love on [City] outreach where they live. Applications are reviewed by a real person, and approved groups appear on the shared movement map at Evangelize.World. The tools are free and need no account: an evangelism field guide, a city prayer-walk builder, a seven-day journey for new believers, and prayer points for the nations. Newcomers need no experience and no training beforehand.

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.

Habakkuk 2:14

Jesus Festival: a city-wide altar call

Jesus Festival Hamilton (JesusFestival.ca) is a free, family-friendly Christian festival held each year at Gage Park, 1000 Main St E — a weekend of worship, Gospel hope, testimonies, prayer, food, and practical love for the city. No ticket is required. Churches serve side by side across denominational lines, and the whole thing is designed so that someone who would never walk into a church building can wander in with their kids and meet Jesus.

The festival team says it plainly: a festival is a catalyst, not the finish line. Follow-up, prayer, and discipleship continue all year through Love on Hamilton and tools like KingdomBase.App, and the Jesus Festival Movement (JesusFestivalMovement.com) helps other cities host a celebration of their own. Dates for 2027 have not been announced yet — and the team is already praying about the next one.

e3 Canada: equip, evangelize, establish

Daniel and Katie serve in partnership with e3 Canada and I Am Second — organizations dedicated to equipping believers to evangelize and establish multiplying, life-changing churches around the world. Through Love Overflow Trainings they equip churches and ordinary believers to make sharing Jesus a confident, everyday lifestyle: equip, activate on the streets, and multiply.

The vision now in front of them is enormous: to help establish 100 multiplying outreach groups — anywhere and everywhere — ordinary believers equipped and sent to bring the Gospel and practical love into their own communities. In Daniel's own words on their e3 Canada page:

We believe Canada is on the verge of its greatest revival, and we're stepping into dark places to shine His light. But we can't do this alone.

Daniel & Katie Ziedins, e3 Ministry Canada

That last sentence is where you come in. Missionaries and evangelists serving through e3 Canada are supported by partners — people who pray, and people who give so that someone else can keep going back into the dark places.

SIX33: carrying the Kingdom into culture — coming soon

Revival does not stay inside church buildings, and it cannot stay inside festival weekends either. It has to reach the gym, the street, the feed, and the culture people actually live in. That is the heart of SIX33 (SIX33.World): a Christian lifestyle and performance culture brand built on Matthew 6:33, being built into a world of limited apparel drops, athletes and creators, events, stories, and real-world impact.

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Matthew 6:33

SIX33 is unashamedly a faith brand — it exists to glorify God and remind people to seek Jesus first — and everyone is welcome in the community. A big part of its heart is raising funds for Love on The World: as SIX33 grows, the giving grows with it. There is no launch date yet and no fake countdown. When the doors open, the Inner Circle walks in first, starting with DROP 001, a small first run revealed to them before the public.

For Kingdom business owners, SIX33 is also a picture of the whole Alliance thesis: build something genuinely excellent that people want, and let it carry the Gospel and fund the frontline at the same time.

Why the ones who send share the victory

After David's men recovered everything at Ziklag, some of the fighters did not want to share the plunder with the two hundred who had stayed behind guarding the supplies. David refused to let that stand, and made it a law in Israel:

The share of the man who stayed with the supplies is to be the same as that of him who went down to the battle. All will share alike.

1 Samuel 30:24

Not everyone is called to stand beside a baptism tank. But everyone who prays, gives, and holds the rope shares in what happens there. Paul told the Philippians that their gifts to his mission were being credited to their own account (Philippians 4:17). When a business owner funds a frontline evangelist, the fruit is not only on the evangelist's record. It is on theirs.

That is the meaning behind the phrase we keep coming back to: plunder hell, populate heaven. Jesus said He came to bind the strong man and carry off his possessions (Mark 3:27) — to rescue people the enemy considered his. Every salvation at Gage Park was a rescue. Every partner who made it possible stood in that victory too.

For business owners: turn your margin into harvest

• Set up a monthly partnership through e3 Canada and treat it like a fixed line in your budget — the frontline runs on consistency.
• Sponsor the next Jesus Festival so every family can keep walking in for free.
• Give in kind: printing, food, equipment, vehicles, design, legal or accounting help — ministries pay full price for what you already have.
• Give your team paid time to volunteer at an outreach night or the festival weekend.
• Pray by name — for Daniel & Katie, for a Love on The World city, and for the people in your own customer list who do not yet know Jesus.

The Lions Den Alliance exists to make this normal: Christian entrepreneurs building with excellence, championing one another, and deliberately routing profit toward the places where people are meeting Jesus. The 2026 harvest is proof of what happens when ordinary believers keep showing up — and when the people behind them keep sending.

Every nation, tribe, people, and language

John saw where all of this is heading: a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people, and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb (Revelation 7:9). Some of the people who will stand in that crowd came up out of a water tank in a Hamilton park this September. Some of them are still on a street corner, waiting for someone to stop.

Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.

Daniel 12:3

The harvest is plentiful. The workers are few. And the Lord of the harvest is still sending. Pray, go, give, train, build — plunder hell and populate heaven, in Jesus' name.

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