We Are Vineyard

Preaching In The Vineyard: Women Who Preach with Melanie Forsythe-LeeShow Podcast InformationThis episode of We Are Vineyard is a continuation of our miniseries on preaching hosted by Adam Russell (Lead Pastor of Vineyard Campbellsville in KY and Director of Vineyard Worship) and Ted Kim (Lead Pastor of Evanston Vineyard in IL). Today’s guest is Melanie Forsythe-Lee, Lead Pastor of LIFE Vineyard Church in Columbus, OH and leader of Vineyard USA’s Women’s Association. In this episode, Melanie shares about finding her voice as a young female pastor and how that was influenced by becoming a mother, the differing approach to female pastors in Australia vs. the US, and some of the practical barriers to women preaching. Melanie talks about the changes she’s seen in Vineyard USA over the past 30 years regarding female pastors, and she shares some advice both to women who feel called to preach and men who are in a position to mentor and platform female preachers.    Show Notes:  Register for the 2024 Vineyard USA National Conference: Seed & Soil  Vineyard USA’s Women’s Association    Vineyard History and Identity Resources:  The Way It Was by Carol Wimber  The Quest For The Radical Middle by Bill Jackson  Empowered Evangelicals by Rich Nathan and Ken Wilson “I’m a Fool For Christ”– John Wimber’s testimony  

Preaching In The Vineyard: Preaching as a Team with Julia PickerillShow Podcast InformationThis episode of We Are Vineyard is a continuation of our miniseries on preaching hosted by Adam Russell (Lead Pastor of Vineyard Campbellsville in KY and Director of Vineyard Worship) and Ted Kim (Lead Pastor of Evanston Vineyard in IL). Today’s guest is Julia Pickerill, co-Senior Pastor of Vineyard Columbus. In this episode, Julia shares about the unique teaching team approach employed by Vineyard Columbus, and how it fulfills their desire to provide their church with a diverse set of teaching voices. Julia talks about the pros and cons of the team approach, how they ensure the church is hearing a cohesive voice, and how a church might approach developing a teaching team.    Show Notes:  Register for the 2024 Vineyard USA National Conference: Seed & Soil  Listen to Julia’s talk at the 2021 National Conference: The Way On   Vineyard History and Identity Resources:  The Way It Was by Carol Wimber  The Quest For The Radical Middle by Bill Jackson  Empowered Evangelicals by Rich Nathan and Ken Wilson “I’m a Fool For Christ”– John Wimber’s testimony

Preaching In The Vineyard: Preaching The Gospel with Rich NathanShow Podcast InformationThis episode of We Are Vineyard is a continuation of our miniseries on preaching hosted by Adam Russell (Lead Pastor of Vineyard Campbellsville in KY and Director of Vineyard Worship) and Ted Kim (Lead Pastor of Evanston Vineyard in IL). Today’s guest is Rich Nathan, founding pastor of Vineyard Columbus and Director of their Pastors Residency Program. In this episode, Rich shares some of his preaching journey and some ways in which his preaching has changed over the last 45 years. Rich also talks about the role of empathetic imagination in preaching to a diverse audience, why whole-person communication is the heart of preaching, and how the Good News informs the shape of his sermons.    Show Notes:  Register for the 2024 Vineyard USA National Conference: Seed & Soil  Preaching by Tim Keller    Vineyard History and Identity Resources:  The Way It Was by Carol Wimber  The Quest For The Radical Middle by Bill Jackson  Empowered Evangelicals by Rich Nathan and Ken Wilson “I’m a Fool For Christ”– John Wimber’s testimony  

Preaching In The Vineyard: What’s A Good Sermon with Jay PathakShow Podcast InformationThis episode of We Are Vineyard is a continuation of our miniseries on preaching hosted by Adam Russell (Lead Pastor of Vineyard Campbellsville in KY and Director of Vineyard Worship) and Ted Kim (Lead Pastor of Evanston Vineyard in IL). Today’s guest is none other than…Jay Pathak! That’s right, Jay is on the other end of the questions today, and he has some great things to say about what makes a good sermon and some key questions to ask yourself while you prepare. Jay also shares his opinion on what specifically makes a good Vineyard semon, why being a skilled speaker is not the ultimate goal, and the difference between regular Sunday sermons and the “big moment” sermons for things like holidays or community events.   Show Notes:  Register for the 2024 Vineyard USA National Conference: Seed & Soil    Vineyard History and Identity Resources:  The Way It Was by Carol Wimber  The Quest For The Radical Middle by Bill Jackson  Empowered Evangelicals by Rich Nathan and Ken Wilson “I’m a Fool For Christ”– John Wimber’s testimony      

Preaching In The Vineyard: Finding Your VoiceShow Podcast InformationFor the next several weeks of the We Are Vineyard podcast, we are launching a miniseries on preaching hosted by Adam Russell (Lead Pastor of Vineyard Campbellsville in KY and Director of Vineyard Worship) and Ted Kim (Lead Pastor of Evanston Vineyard in IL). In this introductory episode, Adam and Ted each share their early journey as a pastor, how they realized they were called to preach, and the insecurities they faced while finding their unique voice. They talk about how to learn from influential pastors without mimicking them, how they approach sermon prep each week, and each of their superpowers and kryptonite as pastors.    Show Notes:  Register for the 2024 Vineyard USA National Conference: Seed & Soil    Vineyard History and Identity Resources:  The Way It Was by Carol Wimber  The Quest For The Radical Middle by Bill Jackson  Empowered Evangelicals by Rich Nathan and Ken Wilson “I’m a Fool For Christ”– John Wimber’s testimony  

We Are Vineyard Church Story: Travis and Jennica Conklin – The Vine Church – Goshen, INShow Podcast InformationIn this episode of We Are Vineyard, Super Regional Leader Joel Seymour talks with Travis and Jennica Conklin about their early experiences with Jesus, marrying young, and joining a tiny church plant in Montana. Travis and Jennica share about discerning a call to plant in Goshen, IN, the season of preparation they used to get themselves and their finances in order before planting, and the growth the church experienced before and after COVID. Finally, they share some of the cool stories that have happened in their church in recent years.  Travis Conklin is the Lead Pastor of The Vine Church in Goshen, IN. He grew up in the mountains of Montana and has been serving in ministry since his youth, and spent most of the first decade of marriage helping church plants. It was through helping other pastors with church planting that they discerned their calling to plant The Vine Church in 2014. Travis is a natural-born entrepreneur and often dreams up business ideas he’ll never use, just for the fun of it. In his free time, he prefers any activity that gets him outside and into the woods. He is passionate about helping people connect to God and each other through intentional relationships. Jennica Conklin serves as the Discipleship and First Impressions Pastor at The Vine Church. Passionate about discipleship, Jennica loves helping others to know, love, and follow Jesus wholeheartedly. Fun and joy for her come through things like jumping and screaming at concerts, dominating at game nights, playing in the waves of Lake Michigan, worship nights, or time with family.  Travis and Jennica have three children: Ezekiel, Elliet and Judah.   Show Notes: Register for the 2024 Vineyard USA National Conference: Seed & Soil    Vineyard History and Identity Resources:  The Way It Was by Carol Wimber  The Quest For The Radical Middle by Bill Jackson  Empowered Evangelicals by Rich Nathan and Ken Wilson “I’m a Fool For Christ”– John Wimber’s testimony    

Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling with Nijay GuptaShow Podcast InformationIn this episode of We Are Vineyard, Caleb Maskell (Associate National Director of Theology and Education) talks with return guest Nijay Gupta about his new book Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling. They discuss the hierarchy of the Roman gods, the dynamics of Roman faith, and how the infrastructure of Roman life was disrupted when Christians showed up. Nijay also describes how Jesus broke the mold of religious culture and disrupted dynamics of power and control.  Nijay K. Gupta is professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary. He has written several books including A Beginner’s Guide to New Testament Studies, Paul and the Language of Faith, 15 New Testament Words of Life, and Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church. He is a senior translator of the New Living Translation and co-hosts the Slow Theology Podcast with Dr. A.J. Swoboda.   Show Notes:  Strange Religion by Nijay Gupta Tell Her Story by Nijay Gupta   Vineyard History and Identity Resources:  The Way It Was by Carol Wimber  The Quest For The Radical Middle by Bill Jackson  Empowered Evangelicals by Rich Nathan and Ken Wilson “I’m a Fool For Christ”– John Wimber’s testimony  

Know The Theologians with Jennifer and David McNuttShow Podcast InformationIn this episode of We Are Vineyard, Caleb Maskell (Associate National Director of Theology and Education) talks with Jennifer and David McNutt. Jennifer shares about growing up as the daughter of two pastors, receiving her call to ministry at the age of ten, and experiencing a time of discovery in college. David talks about growing up in the Church of Christ and eventually attending Princeton Seminary where he met Jennifer. David and Jennifer share their desire to bridge the academy and the church in an accessible way, and how their book “Know the Theologians” is like a family reunion. They talk about what we can learn from all who came before us, the value in discovering that the big issues of our day rhyme with the past, and why humanizing historical figures really matters.  Jennifer Powell McNutt (PhD, University of St Andrews) is Franklin S. Dyrness Chair of Biblical and Theological Studies and associate professor of theology and history of Christianity at Wheaton College. She is the author of the forthcoming The Mary We Forgot: What the Apostle to the Apostles Teaches the Church Today (Brazos, 2024) and award-winning author of Calvin Meets Voltaire: The Clergy of Geneva in the Age of Enlightenment, 1685-1798 (Routledge, 2014) and the co-editor of the forthcoming The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation (OUP, 2024) and The People’s Book(IVP Academic, 2017).  David W. McNutt (PhD, University of Cambridge) is senior acquisitions editor at Zondervan Academic, an imprint of HarperCollins Christian Publishing. He is also an associate lecturer of Core Studies at Wheaton College, where he teaches courses in theology, theology and the arts, and philosophical aesthetics. They are the co-authors of Know the Theologians (Zondervan, 2024), they are both ordained ministers in the Presbyterian Church, and they are the co-founders of McNuttshell Ministries, a teaching, preaching, and writing ministry that bridges the church and the academy by sharing the Christian faith “in a nutshell.”    Show Notes: Know The Theologians by Jennifer Powell McNutt and David W. McNutt  McNuttshell Ministries   The Know Series by Zondervan  Strange Religion by Nijay K. Gupta Social Media:  insta/X/threads: jpowellmcnutt X: McNuttShell_Min Vineyard History and Identity Resources:  The Way It Was by Carol Wimber  The Quest For The Radical Middle by Bill Jackson  Empowered Evangelicals by Rich Nathan and Ken Wilson “I’m a Fool For Christ”– John Wimber’s testimony  

Miracles Today with Craig KeenerShow Podcast InformationIn this episode of We Are Vineyard, Jay and Caleb Maskell talk with Craig Keener. Craig shares about growing up as an atheist, asking the big questions when he was a small child, and having a physical experience of the Holy Spirit when he prayed to accept Jesus at fifteen. Craig talks about why he chose to be a Biblical scholar instead of an astrophysicist, how he got started writing books about miracles, and he shares some stories of miracles and opportunities he’s had for his faith to be strengthened.   Craig S. Keener (PhD, Duke University) is F. M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary. He is the author of thirty-five books, together 19,000 pages, with some 1.4 million copies of his books in circulation. The books have won fifteen national or international awards, including six in Christianity Today. At a popular level, these include The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament. He has also authored roughly one hundred academic articles, seven booklets, and roughly two hundred popular-level articles. In 2020 Craig was president of the Evangelical Theological Society. Craig is married to Dr. Médine Moussounga Keener, who was a refugee in her home country of Congo for eighteen months; her experience and their romance appear in Impossible Love (Chosen, 2016). They attend a Vineyard church where Médine is an elder.  Show Notes:  Register for the 2024 Vineyard USA National Conference: Seed & Soil  Craig’s Blog Craig’s Youtube Channel Miracles Today by Craig S. Keener Miracles: The Credibility of New Testament Accounts by Craig S. Keener Testing Prayer by Candy Gunther Brown    Vineyard History and Identity Resources:  The Way It Was by Carol Wimber  The Quest For The Radical Middle by Bill Jackson  Empowered Evangelicals by Rich Nathan and Ken Wilson “I’m a Fool For Christ”– John Wimber’s testimony

We Are Vineyard Church Story: Vineyard Church at Trash BarShow Podcast InformationIn this episode of We Are Vineyard, Super Regional Leader John Elmer chats with Mike Turrigiano about growing up in South Bronx and looking for approval and leadership, getting involved in drugs, and ending up at Teen Challenge where he met Jesus. Mike shares about planting a church and meeting John Wimber, and watching from the East Coast as the Vineyard was established. He talks about starting a church in a bar and creating a stereotype-breaking community where people felt loved and welcomed. Mike Turrigiano serves as the Pastor of Leadership Development at North Jersey Vineyard and is a valuable resource to their staff, offering support and coaching in both professional and spiritual contexts. Mike is a veteran of over four decades of ministry and a Vineyard pioneer on the East Coast. He spent thirty-eight of those years church planting and pastoring in New York City. Mike is also the Director and Senior Missional Coach for the Main & Plain, a ministry that provides coaching and care for pastors and ministry leaders as well as equipping for local churches. He lives with his wife Char in Brooklyn, NY. They have two sons, six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren Show Notes:  Register for the 2024 Vineyard USA National Conference: Seed & Soil  How I Got There by Mike Turrigiano  Teen Challenge Roots Worship- Live at the Trash Bar Church at Trash Bar#1,  2010  Church at Trash Bar #2: Interviews   Vineyard History and Identity Resources:  The Way It Was by Carol Wimber  The Quest For The Radical Middle by Bill Jackson  Empowered Evangelicals by Rich Nathan and Ken Wilson “I’m a Fool For Christ”– John Wimber’s testimony