Pandemic Power Evangelism
Let’s be honest. Church as we know it looks a lot different than it did BC… 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 […]
A Conversation On Loneliness & Anger With Dr. Thomas Campion & Phil Strout
In this two part conversation, Phil Strout (National Director, Vineyard USA) and Dr. Thomas Campion (Licensed Clinical Psychologist and President & CEO of Campion, Borrow, & Associates) sit down to discuss what happens when loneliness and anger go unchecked in our lives.
Unprecedented Times. Unchanging Mission.
Considering the source of this little article, it may seem strange to hear from “the book lady.” But as a member of the Vineyard USA team, I have the privilege of “sitting in the eagle’s nest” and seeing the moving parts of our Movement working together – in all their local contexts – 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, now to nearly a hundred nations, nor that my on-going travel would be restricted by a global pandemic for an indefinite period of time. It’s been an amazing journey, but it was not what I had planned. Today […]
COVID-19 Church Check-In: La Viña Burnsville
Greetings! I would like to share with all of you what we have recently been doing at La Viña Burnsville. We could not have imagined all the changes that would take place as the pandemic struck. We thank God that for more than three years we have our services online, and because of this we […]
A COVID-19 Update From Phil Strout (English & Español)
A COVID-19 Update From Phil Novedades Sobre El COVID-19 De Phil (Español) :: For COVID-19-related articles and resources, click here.
No Lockdown For The Gospel | A Story From Alpha USA
When life goes differently than ever before, it gives us the chance to try things we’ve never imagined were possible. This Spring was supposed to be a season of finish lines, finals and farewells for my 18-year-old son Luke who was graduating from high school. It turned out to be a season of starting lines, […]
Serving A Food Desert During COVID-19
La Viña Saint Paul was established to not only serve the spiritual needs of our communities in Saint Paul, Minnesota, but also the physical needs of our at-risk neighbors. In fact, we started a food shelf prior to opening our church plant! In 2017 our location had the highest poverty and lowest income levels in […]
Being The Church Without A Building
These last months have been a wild ride for all of us! We have had to wrestle with questions we never anticipated we would need to wrestle with. “Should we shut down? When do we open? How do we “be the church” without access to our building?” At the Syracuse Vineyard we made the decision […]
Being A Reconciling Community: One Church’s Story
When I think about what it means to be a reconciling community, a few things come to mind. There is so much good material available on the topic that I don’t want to just state the obvious, but hopefully can add a little context from our experience in this arena. First, as obvious as it […]
