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Leadership + Legacy
We're a movement of about 500 churches of various shapes & sizes committed to the practice and theology of the Kingdom of God.
Here is the tentative schedule for transitioning into these new regions and eventually new regional leadership:
Southeast
Sharon McCarter of Vineyard Church Maryville, TN
Mountain
Paul Watson of Downtown Vineyard Church, Grand Junction, CO
Eastern
Phil Chorlian of North Jersey Vineyard Church, South Hackensack, NJ
Midwest North
Dany and Letty Mercado of La Viña Gurnee, Gurnee, IL
Northwest
Marshal Prewitt of Vancouver Vineyard Church, Vancouver, WA
Great Lakes
Van and Laurie Cochrane of Vineyard Church Northwest, Cincinnati, OH
Gulf Coast
Joel Seymour, Super Regional Leader, serves as Interim Regional Leader into 2024 with the following team representing different demographic and geographic groups:
Carmen Suarez of Iglesia La Viña Mayagüez, Mayagüez, PR
Kevin Fischer of Miami Vineyard, Miami, FL
Jamie & Kim Stilson of Cape Vineyard, Cape Coral, FL
Rachel Burnham of Vineyard Church of Jackson, Jackson, MS
Josh Harder of Houston Vineyard, Houston, TX
SoCal
Mike Safford of Tehachapi Vineyard, Lancaster, CA
Midwest Central
Mike and Julie Yoder of The Vineyard Church of Central Illinois, Urbana, IL
If you aren’t sure who your Area Leader (AL) currently is, please contact your Regional Leader (RL) or the Super Regional Leader (SRL) for your region, and they will put you in touch with your current AL.
Our primary considerations were around these four criteria:
*Resource churches are established churches that are exemplifying Vineyard theology, practices, and values, and who give away everything they have to serve the larger Vineyard movement. They are generally doing this organically as part of their calling without title or recognition.
We wanted regions to be big enough to have momentum and a number of resource churches, and small enough to keep travel as reasonable as possible.
The SRLs talked to existing Regional Leaders, many Area Leaders, former Executive Team members, the new National Team Members, and many local Pastors who would be most affected by the changes. Throughout this process, the map went through many changes.
2022 Regional Conferences will line up with this new Regional Map. Starting in June, these new regions will host a Regional Conference, and current Regional Leaders are working together with each other to represent our nine new regions for these events. Save the date information for each region will be sent out soon, so stay tuned.
We are so grateful for all the ways our current RLs and ALs have served and poured out their hearts for years. If you have additional questions, we invite you to talk to your SRL if you have any questions.
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