Puerto Rico One Year Later: Thriving Through Maria
September 20, 2017. It was a perfectly normal rainy day in Puerto Rico. Until it wasn’t. Sure there was a hurricane coming, but the whole event was only supposed to take 12 hours. The hearty, family-oriented communities built within cities, tucked away in mountain villages, and spread across the rolling countryside of Puerto Rico took […]
Virginia Beach To Mazatlan: The Story Of One Vineyard’s Call To Go
Nineteen years ago our church family, VCC Virginia Beach, first dipped our toes in the water of missions. Our congregation was 4-5 years old at the time, when Pastor Fred Collom, a long-time Vineyard guy from the Wimber era, who had a vision to see the Kingdom of God roll through Mazatlan, Mexico came as […]
Missions Highlight: Tabitha
Tabitha came into our lives in June of 2009. She wandered in on the very first day we met in our brand new effort to plant a church in the nation of South Sudan. She had spent her entire life in and around the town of Bor, but she didn’t look like she was at […]
A Reconciling Movement: Excerpts From Vineyard Global Family
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Better Together: Race, Reconciliation, And The Multiethnic Church
Recent events in the United States, and around the world, have evidenced the need for the Body of Christ to be an agent of God’s reconciliation in society. This unique and important conference is focused on the topic of diversity. We are gathering to engage Vineyard pastors and leaders on the issue of racial reconciliation, […]
The Fast I Have Chosen
A Compassionate God When I think of the word compassion, I think of Jesus. He never failed to act when He felt sympathy or pity for someone. Over the years, I have become more and more aware of God’s enormously compassionate nature, but this was not always the case. I grew up learning about a […]
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 […]
Remember The Poor – What The Poor Mean To Us
Giving What We Have Been Given In our Vineyard Core Values statement we say: “We lean toward the lost, the poor, the outcast, and the outsider with the compassion of Jesus as sinners whose only standing before God is utterly dependent on the mercy of God. This mercy can only be truly received inasmuch as […]
Remember The Poor – What Jesus Said About The Poor
The Poor In The Old Testament In the Gospels, we see Jesus spending a considerable amount of time among the poor, serving them, encouraging them, and even standing up for them. He was carrying on the deep, rich Jewish biblical tradition of providing for those in need. These words from the book of Deuteronomy reveal […]
