Opportunities In The Interruptions: How To Serve Young Adults During COVID
Opportunities In The Interruptions: How to Serve Young Adults During COVID (Vineyard Pilgrimage) [This post was originally shared on the Vineyard Digital Membership Blog. Vineyard Digital Membership Blog Posts are all about resources that can serve you. Now may be the perfect time to run one or more of these studies with the Young Adults in […]
A COVID-19 Vineyard USA Events Update
Dear Friends, Well, we didn’t see this coming but here we are. Jan and I bring you greetings from the state of Maine where we have taken refuge at our home at Slow Rhythm Meadows. These last couple of weeks have been filled with uncertainty and intensity to say the least, as we have watched […]
Convoy Of Hope Responds To COVID-19
Convoy Of Hope Responds To COVID-19 Convoy Of Hope is currently responding to COVID-19. To follow their full national response, please click here. To follow their full international response, please click here. (From convoyofhope.org) OCTOBER 6, 2020 | 4:05 P.M. SPRINGFIELD, MO. We want to share some great news — we’ve officially distributed more than […]
Been Through This Before!
VM offers a re-blog (with permission & editing) from a VUSA long-term cross-cultural worker in China: It is our hope and prayer that this blog finds you well. These are trying and uncertain times. We’ve been through many storms in life. Just like when Jesus came to the disciples in the boat, during the storm, […]
Using Zoom With Your Church — Best Practices And Things We’re Learning With Melisa Keller
In this time where churches are moving their services online en masse , Vineyard Fullerton took another approach using the video conferencing platform Zoom to not only handle their small group meetings but actually run their entire weekend service. Their innovative approach is described in detail by Melisa Keller, Event Director for Vineyard Worship and […]
Taking Your Church Online — Best Practices From Vineyard Columbus Pastor Andrew Oswalt
Vineyard Columbus is a church with 8,000 people in attendance on a normal Sunday. Like the rest of us, with the restrictions brought on by COVID-19, Vineyard Columbus quickly pivoted from a church that only met physically to launching their online ministry platform in a matter of days. This is a look behind the scenes […]
Taking Your Church Online — Best Practices From The Church In Shanghai
This week’s guest is John Willison. John is the senior pastor of Abundant Grace International Fellowship in Shanghai, China. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, Abundant Grace International Fellowship has been innovating out of necessity taking their entire church life online from Sunday worship experience to small groups to daily devotionals to kids’ ministry. […]
A Letter From Phil | March 2020
Friends, It is wonderful to see the changing of the seasons that happens each year in our home state of Maine. . Winter brings heavy snow and thick ice, while spring emerges from the hard desolation of the cold with colors, sounds, and life bursting out everywhere! . As a pastor for most of my […]
Live From The 2020 Multiply Vineyard Summit — The Grasshopper Complex
This is part two of the special three-part series taken from the 2020 Multiply Vineyard Summit held in San Luis Obispo, CA. In this episode, Dr. Charles Montgomery challenges us with a powerful word out of Numbers 13 to face our “giants” and renew our trust in God. “A faith that can’t be tested is […]
Church Planting As Pregnancy
This week we have a very candid and detailed look into the heart and life of a church planter from the initial dreaming and vision stage through to the actual planting. Suhail recounts the many internal leading he felt from the Lord and then also recounts the ways those leadings and dreams were externally confirmed […]