The Vineyard Movement

We are part of a worldwide network of over 2500 churches.

The Vineyard Movement is committed to seeing each generation reached by the power of the Gospel. With a view to embrace integrity in Christian character, along with the activity of the Holy Spirit, each Vineyard church seeks to be an outpost of God’s compassionate love in a broken world.

Vineyard DNA

The genetic make-up (the DNA) of the Vineyard significantly influences who we are and what we prioritise.

  • We aim to centre everything we do around Jesus. We believe he is the head, owner and operator of his church. Jesus always obeyed his Father’s voice and did his works, and we aim to do likewise.

  • The Bible is central to our teaching, life and faith. We aim to hear and obey God’s Word and to do what it says as we are continually transformed into people who reflect the life and character of Jesus. It is not enough to be biblically literate, we want to be biblically obedient too.

  • The lens through which we see things is the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is the future reign of God breaking into the present through the life and ministry of Jesus. We are committed to proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom and bearing witness to the ‘now and not yet’ of the Kingdom.

  • This is our highest priority. God is worthy of our everything, and worship changes us as we look upon Jesus and encounter him.

  • Worship leads us into the presence of Jesus and, by his Holy Spirit, He stirs compassion within us. We are committed to generously spending time, money and resources on others.

  • We are committed to being a church that acts like a hospital, school, community and army:

    • Hospital – to find healing, freedom and wholeness

    • School – to be trained and equipped to do the stuff that Jesus did

    • Community – to be known, belong and know others

    • Army – a group of ordinary people seeking to do extraordinary things, empowered by the Holy Spirit

  • We want to equip people to live out their faith in a way that changes their lives, the lives of others and resets the very culture of our nation. We want to resource people to practically live out their faith.

  • We are committed to planting churches, including other expressions of the Vineyard across the UK and Ireland and beyond. We also long to work with, learn from and honour the wider church.