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, […]

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 […]

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 ā€œget proximateā€? Oftentimes, we, the church, can shy away from issues like immigration, abortion, racism, and mass incarceration, instead of getting […]

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?!ā€ . 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! Yesā€¦ let me say that againā€¦ 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 […]

How Do We Evangelize In A Global Pandemic?

:: Melanie Forsythe is the Lead Pastor of LIFE Vineyard Church, a vibrant community of Jesus followers in the heart of Columbus, Ohio. She came to faith in the post Christian landscape of Australia. There, Melanie was a youth pastor for many years before moving to America alongside her now late husband and co-founder of […]

Pandemic Power Evangelism

Letā€™s be honest. Church as we know it looks a lot different than it did BCā€¦ before COVID! This interruption, replete with chaos of all shapes and sizes, forces Church leaders everywhere to re-evaluate what matters most now. Our in-person gatherings, the way we Church online, community outreach initiatives, even the way we pastor our […]

Unprecedented Times. Unchanging Mission.

Considering the source of this little article, it may seem strange to hear from ā€œthe book lady.ā€ But as a member of the Vineyard USA team, I have the privilege of ā€œsitting in the eagleā€™s nestā€ and seeing the moving parts of our Movement working together ā€“ in all their local contexts ā€“ as a […]

Stories Of Experience As An Expression Of Trust: Musings From Mark Fields

[Original Post By Vineyard Missions USA] I never imagined that this phase in my ministry journey would involve worldwide travel,Ā now to nearly a hundred nations, nor that my on-going travel would be restricted by a globalĀ pandemic for an indefinite period of time. Itā€™s been an amazing journey, but it was not what I hadĀ planned. Today […]