Planting As A Couple and Leaving Your Sending Church Well
In this episode of the How to Plant a Healthy Church podcast, Jason and Betsy Patrick share about hearing the call to church plant and the emotional honesty, vulnerability, and patience required in the discernment process. As champions of leaving the sending church well, Jason and Betsy are a wealth of helpful tips on how […]
Alpha Online – For Such A Time As This!
Who would have thought that something we used in the early days of our church plant would be just the thing that would serve us and our community so well 30 years later during this global pandemic! Alpha is a series of sessions exploring the Christian faith, typically run over eleven weeks. Each talk looks […]
The Holy Spirit At Work In West Africa: An Update From Vineyard Missions
[Original Post By Vineyard Missions USA] Editor’s Note: The names of the nations referenced here have been removed for the protection of individuals and churches. . As some international travel is beginning to open up to limited parts of the world, a few folks have been able to be out and about, and we, at […]
Pastoring Through A Natural Disaster
Dealing with natural disasters is a seemingly ever-increasing reality. Sometimes we find ourselves amid an entire community that’s been affected (e.g. hurricane). Other times, we’re walking with just a couple of people through a more localized situation (e.g. house fire). In any event, understanding the impact natural disasters have on our communities and those who […]
COVID Church Check-In: Mission Vineyard Church
Our church was feeling distanced. Our community and our neighbors were experiencing a sense of isolation. In April we realized that the circumstances surrounding this virus were not going away. Mother’s Day was usually a fun day of celebration for us at the Mission Vineyard, but we were now asking, “what would it look like […]
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 “get proximate”? 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?!” . 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 […]
