Asking “why should you collaborate” is a lot like asking “why don’t you sew your own pants?” Sewing my own pants costs more time, money, and headache, and results in pants that look terrible and make me a source of ridicule. On top of this, it is a declaration that I am opting out of […]
3 Things We Were Reminded About the Vineyard at Exponential 2019
Last week, we sent a team of Vineyard pastors and leaders to the largest church planting conference in North America, Exponential in Orlando, Florida. 6,000+ people all gathered around the mission of God, leaning in to learn how to plant more churches and reach their communities with the gospel. It’s a beautiful thing to see […]
A Different Kind of Partnership: Urban Missions
In the Vineyard, we love partnerships. Recognizing that we can do more in ministry while working together is a big part of who we are. So we’ve used partnerships for foreign missions since the early days of the Vineyard, and we also have domestic church planting partnerships, like Small Town USA and La Viña. But […]
Missional Leaders Meeting 2014 Audio
165 Vineyard leaders attended the Missional Leaders Meeting in the fall of 2014. Once again, we were at the beautiful Glen Eyrie in Colorado Springs. This conference was a joint effort between Vineyard Missions and Multiply Vineyard (AKA Church Planting). In addition to hearing from the directors of both (Michael Gatlin and Mark Fields), we […]
Building Grit: Growth Mindset and Vision
If you read my first post about grit from the other week, then maybe you, like me, have found yourself thinking about the impact of grit all over the place—you see it (or don’t see it) in people you meet, in coworkers, in yourself. Some seem to have that quality of sticking it out through […]
2014 Missional Leader’s Meeting
I just returned home from the 2014 Vineyard Missional Leader’s Meeting in beautiful Colorado Springs, and what a great week it was! If you’re not familiar with this gathering, then let me tell you about it. This is the yearly meeting where the missional leaders of our movement get together to refocus and pray and […]
Church Planting Partnerships: Doing More Together Than We Could On Our Own
Maybe you’ve heard the word “partnership” floating around church planting circles, or noticed that we have a page devoted to church planting partnerships on the Multiply Vineyard website, but you’re not sure what a church planting partnership actually is. Well, here’s your answer: A partnership is a group of people and churches working together to […]
