Host: Josh Wiliams [Elm City Vineyard]

Do you want to love your city or town well? Good news! God has a heart for the place where you live already. During this workshop, we’ll unpack how your local church can grow in prayer, learn about your city’s redemptive history, get started with serving, and then serve with an impact. Vineyard National Associate Director Josh Williams will share how he has seen this in New Haven, CT alongside other ministries in his city. You will experience interactive exercises that will inspire you to grow your relationship with your city or town right on the spot. You don’t want to miss this!

Location: Team Vineyard Room

Host: Seth Bazacas [Wellspring Church NYC + Alpha NYC]

Explore how to engage those far from God while also shifting the culture of your church to carry a heart of hospitality and evangelism. Discover what it looks like to have a culture of hospitality, listening, and prayer at the heart of reimagining evangelism for this cultural moment. Learn how Alpha is working all over the world and connect on practical tools and resources to help make this a reality in your church today.

Location: Kids Church wing

Host: Marlene Nathan [Columbus Vineyard]

In this workshop we will ask the question: “Is there still a place today for women’s ministry at church?” to which we will answer a resounding YES! We will explore the understanding that, like all ministry, a women’s ministry needs to be relevant, changing with the times and being about real women living in the real world with all of the very real things that they face. Marlene will be sharing things she’s learned from over 40 years of experience serving women and leading a large women’s ministry at her church, Vineyard Columbus. Open to women and men.

Location: Auditorium

Host: Josh Armstrong [Vineyard Church - Maryville]

In this workshop we will share stories of what God is doing around the world through the Vineyard and will have interactive discussions about how your church can get involved.

Location: Conference Room

Bruce Latshaw [The Barn Vineyard]

The Vineyard was envisioned by our founder, John Wimber to be “the best of evangelicalism and the best of neo-pentecostalism.” John made room for the ministry of the nine gifts of the Spirit to be featured breakthroughs of the kingdom of God. In this workshop, veteran Vineyard pastor Bruce Latshaw explores the dynamics of “naturally supernatural” prophetic ministry in a local church context. Instruction with Q & A will be followed by a clinic that demonstrates and unpacks how prophecy is given by the Spirit and released by Jesus followers.

Location: Youth Room

Host: Josh Williams

Do you want to love your city or town well? Good news! God has a heart for the place where you live already. During this workshop, we’ll unpack how your local church can grow in prayer, learn about your city’s redemptive history, get started with serving, and then serve with an impact. Vineyard National Associate Director Josh Williams will share how he has seen this in New Haven, CT alongside other ministries in his city. You will experience interactive exercises that will inspire you to grow your relationship with your city or town right on the spot. You don’t want to miss this!

Location: Team Vineyard Room

Hosts: Phil Chorlian, Avi Nuñez, Jessica Arboleda, Grimaldi Martinez

In our Eastern Region, we are blessed to be a part of the family of God rich in culture and diversity, including many who are primary Spanish speakers. You might be wondering what our churches can do to reach our Spanish communities, and in this workshop you will hear from our panel of regional leaders who are actively involved in facilitating and leading a weekly Spanish ministry. Come join us and hear our stories and experiences, gain valuable insight, and learn practical ideas and takeaways to start your Spanish ministry.

Location: Youth Room

Host: Mike Turrigiano [The Main + Plain]

Lots of pastors suffer in silence. Overwhelmed, discouraged, and unhappy with their jobs. Unwilling or unable to seek help or even talk about it. On the verge of giving up. Why? Is it simply the stress? Have they simply run out of gas? For many it runs deeper than that. It’s a crisis of calling. Pastors are increasingly doubting whether they’re suited for the job. A recent Barna study reported 55 percent of the pastors polled going through significant periods of doubt concerning their call to the ministry. Up from 24 percent seven years earlier. What’s needed is a redefining and revitalization of their calling to pastoral ministry.

Mike Turrigiano, veteran of over five decades of ministry and founder and director of the Main & Plain, a ministry that cares for ministry leaders, will lead a discussion on “recovering your call”. This workshop is not just for pastors in crisis but for ministry leaders that want to strengthen their sense of call so they can last and thrive in ministry over the long haul.

Location: Auditorium

Hosts: Amos & Alison Groenendyk with Bob Palumbo [Vineyard Church - Chester Springs]

From seeking the Spirit to searching for a candidate to making the hire to a healthy transition for our church, we will share how God has guided our leadership hand-off from “Gen 1” to “Gen 2.” Come hear practical considerations and encouragements as you develop, walk out a plan, and face the emotional realities for you and your church. This is really a conversation about healthy leadership and church cultures! So whether you are in the midst of a pastoral succession or anticipating the future, come join us for this important discussion.

Location: Kids Church wing

Host: Derek Heilmann [Vineyard Altoona]

From the very beginning, we have been a church planting movement. Over the years we have learned a lot of things as a movement about healthy processes that facilitate healthier church plants. Multiply Vineyard has created a process that will help the planter as well as the sending church feel more confident as we participate in the mission we've been invited into. This workshop will cover the current process to plant a Vineyard Church.

Location: Conference Room