Vineyard HLI: Staying The Course
The Heroic Leadership Institute (HLI) exists to create on-ramps for young adults in the Vineyard Movement. With the desire of creating more ways for young people to deeply connect with their local church and grow in their leadership potential, we have expanded what we offer! Staying the Course is a 10-week class offered by HLI. […]
Why Celebrate Christmas And Advent?
WHY CELEBRATE ADVENT & CHRISTMAS? By Dan Wilt for the Vineyard Digital Membership “It’s the most wonderful time of the year…” ring the words of an old Christmas song. But why? Why does celebrating Christmas, and the season of Advent that leads up to it, matter? Yearly Rhythms Help Us Remember In the early centuries of the […]
Church Plants Are New Wells Bringing Life to Our Cities
In this episode of the How To Plant A Healthy Church podcast, Corey Garris shares his testimony of salvation and journey towards becoming a pastor, and the scripture the Lord spoke to him about the value of the local church and expanding the number of “wells” in his city. His story inspires faith in asking […]
Planting As A Couple and Leaving Your Sending Church Well
In this episode of the How to Plant a Healthy Church podcast, Jason and Betsy Patrick share about hearing the call to church plant and the emotional honesty, vulnerability, and patience required in the discernment process. As champions of leaving the sending church well, Jason and Betsy are a wealth of helpful tips on how […]
Leadership & Unity
“God’s heart is for unity, and He wants to show us how we can lead people toward this truth.” :: About Julie Yoder Growing up as the only girl amongst four brothers and being raised by pastor parents was incredible preparation for the challenges of ministry! Julie has spent a decade now on staff at […]
Follow Well To Lead Well
Just the other day, my oldest son, Silas (age 7) ran to me and indignantly announced that his younger siblings were not listening to him. He brought this to my attention because he obviously felt I needed to respond to this grave injustice. I felt sympathy for him… for maybe 3 seconds. Then I quickly […]
EDLD: An Introduction
We have all been given, by God Himself, the gift of one short hour on the earth. Deep in our bones, we know that people need to experience the overwhelming, transforming love of God. We also know that we have the opportunity to participate with God in bringing His Good News to every last person […]
Into The Desert: Consenting To What We Did Not Choose And Fighting The Right Enemy
On this episode, return guest Jared Boyd provides a counter-intuitive posture for those seeking spiritual formation in a time of global pandemic. Knowing how and what to fight against begins only when we can move from thinking we are in isolation to embracing solitude. This is very personal look into what God has been doing […]
When The Story of COVID-19 Gets Told, Let’s Make Sure We Have Stories Worth Telling
Pacific City Church was planted in 2018 by Chris Meekins and his team in Santa Monica, CA. In this episode Michael and co-host Liz Moore (also a church planter in Princeton, NJ) talk through the issues facing church planters in the era of COVID-19. Chris and his team have tackled these new challenges with lots […]
The Asian-American Experience And Confronting Racism Amplified By COVID-19
Vineyard of Harvest Church is a multi-generational, multi-lingual, and multi-cultural church in southeastern Los Angeles County in Southern California. Pastor Dennis Liu has recently transitioned into a co-lead pastor role with the founding pastor (and Dennis’s father-in-law) Kenneth Kwan. Vineyard of Harvest is an amazing church community on many fronts but in this season of […]
