Vineyard Justice Network
Since 2013 Vineyard Justice Network (VJN) has empowered pastors, leaders, and churches to get proximate to people in their communities through training, prayer, and support.
A Biblical Framework of Justice
What do we mean by "Justice"?
Justice is something rooted in the heart of God that we see most clearly in Scripture and in His design for creation. Biblical justice is not driven by ideology, but by God’s desire for things to be made right, restored, and brought into harmony.
Wimber to Now: Our History with Justice
We have been a people trying to live out justice in our communities for over 50 years. Faithful obedience often looks simple and ordinary, yet it carries profound Kingdom impact. God uses our small yeses to bring life, hope, and renewal to those around us.
Ways to Connect
We offer lots of ways for churches & individuals to engage with justice work
Upcoming Events
Vineyard Justice Network periodically hosts lab days, trainings, online and in person cohorts to train Vineyard leaders and churches. Email us if you’d like to host a VJN event!
Discipleship Framework of Nonviolence
Learn MLK’s discipleship strategy rooted in the teachings of Jesus and how it can revolutionize our lives, our churches, our cities and towns, our nation and world. Taught by Josh Williams, Vineyard USA Associate National Director of Evangelism & Justice.
Vineyard Justice Directory
Justice is love in action, and many Vineyard churches are showcasing love to their communities. Learn about how Vineyard churches across the country are serving their communities.
Resources by Topic
The Bible tells us that all life is sacred and justice for the poor is God’s paramount concern. In the Old Testament, God’s commands to end the suffering of the poor is second only to commands against idolatry. In the New Testament, one out of every 16 verses concerns the poor. We are designed to be stewards of God’s abundant creation, charged with taking care of the earth and protecting life, especially the life of those who are being oppressed. We learn that anything that gets in the way of this is an affront to God.
Historically, the Christian church has viewed the poor as either those lacking in material wealth or those lacking in spiritual health (“Poor in Spirit”). The church is challenged to approach poverty in all of its many facets to help dismantle the very structures that create poverty: physical, social, spiritual, emotional, educational, racial, etc. If we take seriously God’s many promises to the poor, and if we heed God’s strong admonitions to root out injustice, then the church is called to act with serious, well-thought out and dedicated action.
Wayne Gordon & John M. Perkins
Excerpt from Ch.1 of Separate Societies: Poverty and Inequality in U.S. Cities
Contains selections from John Wimber’s book of the same title, along with other reflections and resources.
Did you know that men, women and children are being bought and sold…right in front of us? We’re talking about human trafficking, the equivalent of modern-day slavery. Across the globe, these victims of modern-day slavery are being forced to live under oppression in the underground sex industry and labor market, and it is happening in the towns and cities where we live – it is happening where we minister.
“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves. Protect the rights of all who are helpless. Speak for them and be a righteous judge. Protect the rights of the poor and needy.” Proverbs 31:8-9
Report a Tip
If you believe you are a victim of human trafficking or may have information about a potential trafficking situation.
Call 1-888-3737-8888 or text “HELP” to 233733.
See who is already doing work in your area where your church might be able to partner with them.
Interactive, educational program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) that provides age-appropriate resources to help teach children how to be safer on- and offline.
Environmental stewardship reflects the responsibilities given to our ancestors by our creator to be cultivators and protectors in the earth. In this very common, human sense, we all join them in being born to be environmentalists. Yet, as many of us know firsthand, creation is in desperate need of care. Both land and sky, earth and ocean, are stressed by over-fishing, environmental degradation and pollution.
We seek to connect those who take up the very present challenge of Romans 8, to reveal ourselves to be the children of God in the ‘now-and-not-yet’ that creation groans for us to be.If you are a practitioner, environmentalist, conservationist, pastor, leader or just someone who cares, check out these resources and, as they say out at the Boise Vineyard: “Let’s Tend the Garden!”
Vineyard Justice Network on How Environmental Degradation Creates Poverty & Makes People Vulnerable to being Sold
PBS documentary about Tri Robinson, rancher and retired Vineyard pastor, and tending creation.
VJN is committed to calling its members and our movement to practice a consistent Kingdom witness that subverts party politics for the sake of being equally pro-life, pro-woman, pro-man, pro-child, pro-immigrant, pro-creation, anti-slavery, anti-poverty, anti-racist, and anti-torture.
Reconciliation is central to the gospel and justice work.
Vineyard Justice Network
Booklet, study, outline, and more from Vineyard USA
Josh Williams
Associate National Director of Evangelism & Justice
