Worship God

This will mean being a church focused on knowing God as Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We do this by helping people enter into a real relationship with Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Through that relationship we receive the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit, and we come to know and depend on God the Father as our Father who loves us. We will be diligent to accurately represent God as He has revealed Himself to us through Jesus. We want the people of Vineyard Community Church to have a growing, experiential awareness of God's presence, power and love as a normal part of our everyday lives. And since knowing God as He truly is will always lead us to worship Him, gathering for worship is an essential part of the rhythm of our life together.

Love with His Love

We want to be a church that reflects the community of the Trinity. Vineyard Community Church is to be a place of belonging, a place where anyone and everyone is welcome. We want to be a community where friendships start easily and grow towards intimacy, even in the midst of our racial, ethnic, cultural, socio-economic, and political diversity. We want all of us to feel accepted as we are, and yet challenged to become all God created us to be. We are to be a community where true transparency is possible, where real accountability is available, and where mercy triumphs over judgment.

Serve with His Grace

Our church is to be a center for equipping followers of Jesus. We believe that every one of us has an essential part to play in God's story, and that God does extraordinary things through ordinary people like us. That means we all have a responsibility to serve both in the church and in the world around us. Through faithful teaching and application of the Scriptures, through helping each other discover the gifts and callings God has given us, and through encouraging risk-taking and celebrating attempts, even when we fail, we will equip members of our church to become the people God created us to be and to do the things He created us to do.