Apple tree illustration

I have for well over a year felt God calling me to be a part of a church plant. We are now full tilt on our way to planting a new church right here in St. Augustine. I have been involved in youth ministry for over 8 years now at a church right here in St. Augustine. Through the years I have found my self just more and more hungry to reach the lost. The verses in Matthew 9:36-38 where Jesus is explaining that the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few hit me like a ton of bricks every time I read them. God has given me a hunger and a burden to reach the lost.
That hunger and burden at times turn to a near depressing state as I feel so helpless in my efforts to be one of the workers in God's harvest.
A few years ago I listened to a sermon about Christ as the vine and us as the branches. As the branches we are to be fruitful and reproduce. The end, nothing else, nothing more and nothing less. Instead, we tend to attach ourselves to Christ as His branches and then we tend to produce fruit and at times seemingly eat the fruit.
Well, that illlustration hit me, but it wasn't exactly how I view things. So last night in our Bible Study I asked what is the true fruit of an apple tree?
1 - Many see it as the tree itself. It is the tree's chief responsibility to reproduce fruit and so the tree is the fruit.
2 - Many see it as the apples that are produced. They feel that the tree's chief end is to produce fruit, so the apple is the true fruit of such a tree.
3 - Many see it as the seed. The tree must reproduce and so the seeds will produce more trees, whereby producing more apples and more seeds.
These are all correct in the minds of those who feel that way. I don't feel like there is any one true answer to such a question. I however, see it much different than any of these choices. When I invision the true fruit of an apple tree I see an orchard. An orchard spanning miles in every direction, full of trees producing apples, seeds and the like.
Where did I get such a philosophy you might ask? From my second favorite verse in the Bible. Ephesians 3:20 Now unto Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine according to his power that is at work within us.
You see when we plant an apple tree we are expecting it to grow. We are wanting it to bear apples. But we never imagine an orchard. "Immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine"
It is my heart and my vision that through this new ministry, Truth Ministries, God is going to do immeasurably more than all we ask or can even imagine, if we will trust in Him, and make ourselves available workers of the harvest.
Thanks for reading and keep on praying for the harvest, right here at Truth Ministries or in your own church.