Engaging Our Communities With Love: The Vineyard Church Mahomet
Loving Our Community Practically We feel honored that we have the opportunity to love and serve our community in practical ways. Our church is made up of lots of young families, so we tend to aim a lot of our outreach in that direction. We also want to partner with what the community is already doing. […]
Sharing The Gospel As Story
Humans need stories. They help us answer the big existential questions, like who am I; what is my purpose? We long to be part of a great story, which is why inviting people to follow Jesus into the epic story of the Kingdom of God is very good news. And, like any good epic, when we step […]
Gaining Traction In Reaching Out To Your City
When considering how to reach out to our city a few moments come to mind. The moments are probably not your typical city outreach events, rather events where we partnered with God in what it seemed like He was doing in our area. Caring For Our Church; Caring For Our City In 2011, the Mayor […]
The VUSA YouTube Channel
The Vineyard USA YouTube Channel has videos that are perfect as Sermon Starters or Small Group Discussion Starters on a wide range of topics. See all our Playlists here and subscribe to the Channel. Ways To Use The Channel There are many powerful ways you can use the hundreds of short video clips on the […]
Surprises For The Vineyard
Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Vineyard, Ever since I started saying yes to God, He has lead me into unendingly unexpected places and situations. Every time I think I know what is up ahead, a new challenge and a new opportunity to know God better seems to appear over the horizon. Surprises Keep Our […]
Bubble Parties For Jesus In Milwaukee
When we moved to Milwaukee almost three years ago (without a church planting team), my wife and I were trying to find ways to engage people. So we looked at what “normal peopleâ like to do in our city. Milwaukee people love to party. Taking a page from the book The Art of Neighboring, we […]
A Simple Act Of Obedience
Five years ago Happy Leman challenged the Midwest region to pray into how we could reach the people in our community that other churches arenât trying to reach. We prayed and felt God moving us to expand our facility and feed the community around us. Â It Started With A Need Our local food shelf said […]
Evangelism: Share the Good News
We talk about what we love. Evangelism is talking about the Good News that Jesus is the Lord of the universe, the Savior of humanity, and the Lover of each and every person that ever lived. Mark reports the inauguration of Jesusâ ministry with this mini-sermon: âThe time has come,â he announced. âThe kingdom of […]
Power For A Purpose
In the Old Testament, the Kingdom of God was related to Jewish messianic expectation. It was connected with Jewish eschatology, their hope for the future. In historic Judaism, the Kingdom of God was understood in a nationalistic sense. The people carried a military hope Â(geographic and political) Âthat a nationalistic kingdom might once again be […]
Jesus Is For Me
A Refugee Family My story is interesting and random, but a lot of it is not intelligible unless you start from the beginning. As my wonderful husband Jeff has said, I love to greet people who I donât know, and those who might feel like they’re new and don’t know if they belong. That’s very […]
