Investing where you see growth

Church Planting, Leadership, Prioritizing

Michael Gatlin, pastor of Duluth Vineyard and director of Multiply Vineyard, follows the practice of “investing where you see things growing.”  When you see a particular harvest field yielding good crops, how can you send in more workers to tend and harvest that...

Vineyard movement: Everybody gets to play

Leadership, Training

Everybody gets to play– that’s one of my favorite sayings from the Vineyard movement. But here’s a question: If everybody gets to play, where’s the playbook? What are the little pieces that you can help people with so they can participate more easily? Here are...
A conversation with Bob Logan

A conversation with Bob Logan

Coaching

Developing a coaching culture greatly enhances ministry fruitfulness. Whether a church or a network of churches, mobilizing and multiplying coaches to come alongside of people provides personalized support and increases results. This week the Vineyard Multiply...

Launching Leaders booklet

Developing, Leadership

I’m always on the lookout for really helpful but simple tools. The Launching Leaders booklet by Michael Gatlin is just that. It essentially covers a six-step process for developing and overseeing leaders. Put out by the Vineyard Group, this has been selling like...

Are you making church disciples or missional disciples?

Missional

  In a conversation I had recently with Tad Blackburn, one of the pastors at The Vineyard Church in Long Island NY, he used an interesting phrase: “becoming missional disciples instead of just church disciples.” He used that phrase to describe the change his...

Where spiritual formation retreats meet leader gatherings

Leadership

Today’s entry is by Mark Fields, National Missions Director for Vineyard USA, about his work with the Vineyard Churches of Brazil. Brazil is a large country, covering 49% of the South American continent. Consequently, it’s also a very diverse country. Southern Brazil...

Looking for multiple confirmations

Leadership

I taught at a Vineyard conference recently and I noticed their practice of looking for multiple confirmations.  They’re not looking for just one person to say, “Hey, I think we should do x, y, or z.” They’re looking for multiple indicators pointing in the same...