This year’s offering

Our hope in the Vineyard has always been to look for where the Father is moving and go there, and our offering this year reflects this. We want to give to facilitate two key and related focuses:

(1) The Cause To Live For Generation

Wonderful things are happening among our young people. Teenagers impacted and blessed by DTI are ‘graduating’, and we want to facilitate their journey together into the next chapter of their development.

We are seeing glimpses of what happened in Asbury, a little over a year ago, being experienced here among our ‘Cause to Live For’ generation.

For instance, on one evening of last November’s ‘Cause To Live For’ conference, the profound sense of the presence of the Holy Spirit and the depth of quiet but intense engagement with him, was unlike anything many of us had ever seen. There is an evident move towards holiness, consecration and a deep hunger for a fresh move of God.

Many of our young adults are sensing a call to live for Jesus in radical ways. We want to invest in providing spaces and places for them to thrive in their life’s calling as they engage with the Lord and with each other, and take hold of the adventures that God is placing before them.

(2) The acceleration of church planting

For some that adventure may include leading or joining a team to plant a church. One of the fruits of the Vineyard Ministry Pathway taking off so well, is that there is an increasing number of people considering church planting.

When someone is trained, equipped, and released to plant, they go with a vision to reach people who are far from God or who are not involved in church. Their focus needs to be on connecting with people, and communicating the gospel as they build a new worshipping community. The reality, however, is that in recent years there has been a growing number of necessary tasks to be done which can sap energy, time, focus - and joy!

The church planter is not likely to find very life-giving the tasks of setting up the finance system, crafting the various policies, managing expense claims and doing risk assessments. With so many of these kinds of things needing attention, their passion for the main task can suffer.

We want to remove as many hurdles as possible, and we see the opportunity to invest significantly in creating systems and resources which will relieve church planters of such tasks, so that they can do what they feel called to do and are passionate about doing.