“Run With It”: Empowering New Leaders Within the Local Church

Brett Kennedy has been the Lead Pastor of Vineyard Church of Wellsboro in PA for 10 years. Located in a rural town of 4,500 people, the church was started in 2001 in the founding pastors’ home. They rented spaces before acquiring their building in 2022. At that time, they had about eighty people, but in […]

Learning to Play the Long Game with Alpha

Derek Heilmann is the Lead Pastor of Vineyard Altoona in PA, which he planted in 2014 out of Vineyard Columbus with Jeri, his wife. They dreamed of starting a thriving church where people would meet Jesus and become disciples, but the spiritual landscape of Altoona was different from Columbus, OH. While Columbus had people from […]

A Way Forward: Leadership, Reconciliation, and Strengthening Our Future

In March 2025, Vineyard USA’s Leadership Council (Regional Leaders, Area Leaders, and Association Leaders) met together in Florida for a time of training and connection. During one of the sessions, Jay Pathak talked about how we interact with each other as pastors, our engagement in online discourse, and our need to develop clear processes for […]