Take a moment and picture someone tossing a ball in the air. All of their attention is on the single ball. Both hands and both eyes are on it. Now, add a second ball into the picture. One is in the air and one is in their grip. It’s still somewhat manageable, yet their attention […]
Anchors For Healthy Church Planting Families
Church planting is a wild ride with ever-changing relationships and the need for fast and flexible movement. When our family was planting our church, we started by hosting small groups in town before we began holding Sunday services. It was a great space to engage with God and each other. We grew quickly and with […]
A Tool for Pastoral Care of Marriages: Couple’s Date Night
As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, I have become well acquainted with the struggle, the isolation, and the distance couples experience in the normal rhythms of life. I hear more and more stories of couples who do not have a single example of a vibrant marriage they can identify in their network of relationships. […]
Parenting & Planting: How to Raise Kids, Start a Church, and Stay Healthy
Are you a parent who is discerning if church planting could be your calling? Have you ever worried about how planting will impact your family? Watch this conversation about how to stay healthy through the stressors of both parenting and planting. Hear from pastors who have children at various ages on what is working for […]
How God Called Us To Church Plant…Again
After 20 years in the Vineyard and 10 years in ministry, we had been on two church planting teams, but never planted a church ourselves. I felt that God was asking us to do this, but my wife, Jacinda, wasn’t sure she wanted to step into planting again. We knew it would impact not only […]
Engaging in Ministry and Staying Healthy as a Family
My church planting journey began as I rocked my daughter to sleep. I had been considering leaving vocational ministry in order to pay off our family’s debt, but someone in our church had felt God tell them that we were supposed to stay in ministry and plant a church. That week they had given us […]
Tending Marriages and Growing Church Plants
Are you working on creating systems that support families and marriages in your church plant? Watch this discussion on how healthy marriage and family ministry has supported the mission and grown church plants in the Vineyard. What You’ll Learn: Ways to build a system of care that reaches your community Tools for cultivating healthy marriages […]
How to Have A Fruitful Fight
One call. One text. One sentence. One word. It doesn’t take much for a great day to turn into something completely different. Simply put, as we pursue the kingdom and serve faithfully in the local church, conflict happens. It occurs at home, in the board room, with volunteers, staff, church members, and people in the […]
