‘Back to School Youth & Parents Night’ is this Sunday, August 2nd.  We’ll meet at 5pm in the Vineyard Cafe.  This is a great way for our kids to begin the new school year!  We will spend time in prayer for our kids, our youth group, and our schools!  We will share the vision of youth ministry and meet the new youth ministry leadership team.  Our youth will be asked to purchase a $10 devotional that we will be going through for the next 3 months.
We hope you can make …

If you’ve never been in a pair of waders in waist deep water…it’s an odd experience–kind of like an awkwardly strong hug from the water…that may or may not crush you! I was talking about this at staff meeting this week and Sharon and Teri got curious. We hadn’t yet drained the tank from Sunday, so they gave it a shot!

Baptisms are my absolute favorite thing about doing church!  It’s the public testimony part that so excites me.  It’s the newly redeemed of God declaring to all that they have …

Sharon and I had the opportunity to worship at the Chattanooga Vineyard this past Sunday.  The Chatty Vineyard is not just another church…they are the church that ‘planted’ our church.  I’m so thankful for our sending church!  I’m thankful for their pastor, Jeff Anderle, who had the courage and the faith to give his blessing to a 23 year-old church planter.  I’m thankful for their people, who supported us financially and in every other way.
God has blessed and grown our church.  We’ve been able to send out a church, too: …

Back in March, we set a goal to see 100 people come to Christ through the ministries of our church in 12 months.  We’ve never been fixated on numbers, or on measuring things.  The truth is, we’ve not really kept count of salvations until…uhm…about four months ago!
We also recognize that you can’t keep a completely accurate count of something that is inherently spiritual and completely supernatural.  On the other hand, we want to be able to look back and have some sort of indicator of our effectiveness in bringing the …

Christy Hendirckson is our new Tykes ministry Team Leader!  Christy is married to Erik Hendrickson and they have twin boys, Seth and Jacob.  Christy is a full-time  mom and a part-time occupational therapist.  Christy has lots of kids’ ministry experience and loves working with the 3-5 age group!  Make sure you meet her and thank her for serving our kids!
The Tykes Class is located on the main floor, next to the bathrooms.  If you want to volunteer to serve on the Tykes team or any other kids’ ministry team, just …