Listening And Loving As A Way To Hope And Healing
What will we remember about 2020? The year has been unrelenting in rapid fire devastation. We are in a pandemic. Thousands have died in the U.S. and millions around the world; and the future health of many is in uncertain. The effects of COVID-19 have closed down businesses, produced an even more volatile stock market, […]
A Message From Phil Strout (English & Spanish)
A Message From Phil Strout A Message From Phil Strout (Español)
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 […]
La Diversidad En El Reino De Dios Es Como Un “Potluck”
Diversity In The Kingdom Is Like A Potluck (Español) âÂżQuĂ© es un potluck?â Le preguntĂ© a mi esposa. Este correo dice que habrĂĄ potluck para la cena. âNo sĂ© que sea pero suena como pato en una cazuela. Yo no sĂ© lo que come esta familia. Voy a buscarlo en google.â Potluck: comida o fiesta […]
Diversity In The Kingdom Is Like A Potluck
Diversity In The Kingdom Is Like A Potluck âWhat is a potluck?â I asked my wife. This email says: âpotluck for dinner.â âI donât know what it is, but it sounds like a duck cooked in a pot. I donât know what this family eats. Letâs google it.â Potluck: a meal or party to which […]
Get Proximate: The Art Of Radical Mercy & Staying Hopeful In COVID Times
Get Proximate: The Art of Radical Mercy & Staying Hopeful We know we want to develop a Kingdom-life centered approach to the myriad hot-button issues of our time, but do we know how to âget proximateâ? Oftentimes, we, the church, can shy away from issues like immigration, abortion, racism, and mass incarceration, instead of getting […]
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 […]
COVID Check-In: How Are Worship Leaders Doing?
As we enter into the third quarter of “pandemic church” it seems only a distant memory when churches were buying cameras and light stands, sound techs were cursing at computers, and worship leaders were staring into phone cameras asking, “Is this thing on?!â . HOW we worship has changed (for some more radically than others), […]
The Gospel Of The Kingdom Remains Unhindered: Musings From Mark Fields
[Original Post By Vineyard Missions USA] God is still on the move even during the pandemic! Yes⊠let me say that again⊠God is still at work in this challenging season. I know it can be harder to see when we are faced with our limited human perspective, especially being restricted in our travel and […]
Thoughts On God’s Mercy | Musings From Mark Fields
[Original Post By Vineyard Missions USA] Recently I have had quite a few people ask me about resources related to the Jesus Prayer or share their experiences praying it themselves. The Jesus Prayer dates back at least fifteen hundred years in some form and is grounded in the prayer of a blind man found in […]
