A Letter From Phil | May 2020

Dear Friends, Greetings from Maine, where we are still waiting for the full reality of spring! Last week I was chatting with a pastor in Arizona where it was 105 degrees, while that morning it was spitting snow in Maine …not a complaint, just a fact. As you know, there are so many different realities […]

Caring For Caregivers | A Conversation With Todd Hunter & Phil Strout

In this video, Phil Strout (National Director, Vineyard USA) has a conversation with Todd Hunter (Founding Bishop of The Diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others, and Former National Director of Vineyard USA) on what it looks like to care for yourself while you’re caring for others. .

A COVID-19 Encouragement From Phil Strout

Friends, We hope that wherever you are in the world, that you and your family are well, and that you sense the Holy Spirit near as you navigate these strange times we are in. We remember John 16:33 in which Jesus says, “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have […]

A Letter From Phil | March 2020

Friends, It is wonderful to see the changing of the seasons that happens each year in our home state of Maine. . Winter brings heavy snow and thick ice, while spring emerges from the hard desolation of the cold with colors, sounds, and life bursting out everywhere! . As a pastor for most of my […]

A Letter From Phil | February 2020

Friends, There is a moment recorded in the Gospels where Jesus is walking through a town and meets a tax-collector who will forever have a place in history – Matthew. . We are given no back story on Matthew’s life. All we know is that one day he will pen a Gospel that will be […]