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Invasion:WinterCamp
Calvin Culverwell tells us about it
24/05/12 15:00 View entire series at: Events
We spoke to the youth pastor of Shore Vineyards, Calvin Culverwell, about the up-coming Vineyard youth event Invasion WinterCamp.
Invasion:Wintercamp
6-8 July, 2012 (middle weekend of the school holidays)
Lake Taupo Christian Camp
Feat. Ben Hughes (Grace Vineyard youth pastor) and Laura Thomson (Youth worker)
An event for all youth and youth leaders of Vineyard youth groups in New Zealand
Cost is $100 until June 15th, $110 after June 15th till camp
Register here!
The Danger of Emphasis
24/05/12 10:00 View entire series at: Next Level | Grow 2012
This GROW 2012 excerpt is taken from Vineyard College’s Next Level on Spiritual Gifts, which you can download in it’s entirety here
“In 1990, I visited Kansas City to attend a conference run by Mike Bickle and the Kansas City Prophets. On the way, a group of us met with John Wimber and he told us that since inviting that type of prophetic ministry into his church in Anaheim, conversions per year had fallen dramatically. In contrast, people were now driving hundreds of miles to get a word from the special prophet at a conference.
The danger of an emphasis on the “Five-Fold Ministry” is an unintended reversion to an Old Testament model where the Spirit rests mightily on a few and the majority do little. This is in direct contrast to the New Covenant prophecy of Joel, the priesthood of all believers and the ideal of “everyone being able to play”.”
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Invasion:WinterCamp
15/05/12 09:00 View entire series at: Events
It gives us great pleasure to announce that our annual winter gathering of the Vineyard youth groups of the North Island is all go! This will be the 11th WinterCamp, and this year we have renamed it Invasion:WinterCamp due to several Vineyard youth groups around New Zealand sharing the name Invasion now.
Over the next couple of weeks we will be interviewing the camp organiser, Calvin Culverwell, and asking him some more about this great event - but till then, know this:
Invasion:Wintercamp
6-8 July, 2012 (middle weekend of the school holidays)
Lake Taupo Christian Camp
Feat. Ben Hughes (Grace Vineyard youth pastor) and Laura Thomson (Youth worker)
An event for all youth and youth leaders of Vineyard youth groups in New Zealand
Cost is $100 until June 15th, $110 after June 15th till camp
Register here!
New Vineyard Records UK site
Our wider family over the other side of the world, Vineyard Records UK, have recently launched a new website full of great material and inspiration. Get your worship teams and leaders onto it! In particular, the Inside Worship part is very good…
GO TO vineyardrecords.co.uk
It's in the practice
07/05/12 11:00 View entire series at: Next Level | Grow 2012
This GROW 2012 excerpt is taken from Vineyard College’s Next Level on Spiritual Gifts, which you can download in it’s entirety here
The only way to really learn about spiritual gifts is by practice and being there. There is little, in my opinion, that can really be learned by reading or developing a long, authoritative and systematic definition of each gift, even though people like myself hunger for that. It is noticeable that while the Bible refers a lot to spiritual gifts in both the Old and New Testaments, it also provides no systematic definitions of them. Instead it provides numerous stories in which God works with people through gifts in a great variety of ways. Furthermore, these stories defy our attempts to classify and define gifts except in the most generalised ways. But they do create a hunger for God to do the same things through us and those we know.
The variety of ways God works in these stories and Paul’s teaching also makes it hard to try and develop any method whereby we may do the same. Healing in the Bible, for instance, can occur by mixing mud and spit, by command for a person present or somewhere else, in public or in private, whether they seek it or not, by the laying on of hands, by handkerchief, by an angel stirring the water of a pool, by inadvertently touching the bones of a dead prophet, by getting in a river, by being breathed upon, with the help of faith, or in the presence of unbelief or even anger at it happening. It happens and doesn’t happen to the deserving and the undeserving, to those who persistently pray and cry out to God in desperation and those who do not. In short, God grants these gifts and we cannot box him into a method or a system.
All we can do is hunger, be there when it is happening, read the biblical stories, learn some general principles, take a risk and try while being willing to look like a fool if nothing happens and do this over and over again. We may feel full of the Holy Spirit, experience bolts of electricity coursing through us or absolutely nothing at all and wish we weren’t there.
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What should be on your bookshelf:
Pete Greig - God on mute
01/05/12 11:00 View entire series at: What shoud be on your bookshelf
As a person reading here on a Vineyard website, you probably know about “tension” all too well. We live in the now and the not yet. God On Mute by Pete Greig is an incredible work by a man passionate about prayer (Greig started the international ministry 24/7 Prayer) and his journey of struggling with suffering in the midst of that.
Greig asks the timeless questions of what it means to suffer and to pray and to suffer through the silence because your prayers seem unanswered. This silence, Greig relates, is the hardest thing. The world collapses. Then all goes quiet. Words can’t explain, don’t fit, won’t work. People avoid you and don’t know what to say. So you turn to Him and you pray. You need Him more than ever before. But somehow…even God Himself seems on mute. In this heart-searching, honest and deeply profound book, Pete Greig looks at the hard side of prayer, how to respond when there seem to be no answers and how to cope with those who seek to interpret our experience for us. Here is a story of faith, hope and love beyond all understanding.
This book is perfect for any leader wanting to look into prayer in a deeper way and especially on the not-so-popular side of the suffering pray-er. While you’re ordering it, throw his first book Red Moon Rising in there for good measure too...
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A Presence-led movement
01/05/12 00:00 View entire series at: Lloyd's Leaders Letter | Grow 2012
This GROW 2012 excerpt is taken from Lloyd’s Leadership Letter The Importance of Using Spiritual Gifts, which you can download in it’s entirety here
One of the significant promises God gave me when we started this movement of churches in New Zealand was Exodus 33:14, “The Lord replied, ‘My Presence will go with you and I will give you rest’.”
We are a Presence-led church-planting movement more than a purpose-led, or programme-led movement, though purpose and programme are important. We are churches and people who are looking for the Lord’s Presence. Outside of the church gathering we are looking for the “breaking in of the Kingdom”. There is a swirl of activity around the advancing edge of the Kingdom and we seek to spend as much time as possible with people who are at the advancing edge of God’s Kingdom. It seems that certain people attract more supernatural activity than others. There are some who the Lord seems to draw near to especially – people in pain, the poor and the marginalised, the foreigners, the brokenhearted, the needy, the humble and those in transition (life stage transitions, geographical transitions, relationship transitions etc).
It is good to remember that the results of using spiritual gifts, which produce “signs, wonders and miracles”, are all signs – they point people to Jesus. While they certainly alleviate suffering, they are not an end in themselves – they draw people to their God. Our adventure is looking for the times and places that the Kingdom breaks in and God draws nearer to a person, and in that moment, taking a risk and partnering with Him as He brings His Kingdom to people.
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