Finding Peace & Holding Hope

“The Spirit is hovering over all of this chaos, starting in our own personal lives, our churches, our communities, our nations, and this world. The Spirit is hovering to bring new life out of this present chaos and out of our present struggle.” :: Rose Swetman is a Vineyard pastor who is the founding co-pastor […]

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, […]

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 […]

VIDEO: How Can You Help? Phil Strout On Hurricane Harvey

Want To Download This Video To Show Your Church? YouTube: http://bit.ly/2wKX1ns Vimeo (download): http://bit.ly/2ekSbCK Vineyard Digital Membership (download): http://bit.ly/2wljzKM How You And Your Church Can Help We have two options here for connection. 1. CONVOY OF HOPE is our VUSA Disaster Relief Partner, on the ground with first-response supplies and aid. Vineyard USA partners with Convoy […]

A Letter From Phil: Recent Events & The Ministry Of Reconciliation

“All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.” | 2 Corinthians 5:18-19 Friends, These are troubling times in which […]