To Understanding the Vineyard it is helpful to understand the following:

1. Our Genetic Code - the ten ministries we believe are essential to be a healthy church.

2. Our Values of how we want ministry to occur.  We desire to be “naturally supernatural” like the gospels picture Jesus ministering to people.

3. The Radical Middle - We describe ourselves as being in the middle between conservative evangelicals on one hand and pentecostals on the other.  We want to receive and include the best of both these groups and yet leave behind is unhelpful. “Take the best and go.”

4. Our Statement of Faith - which is a conservative evangelical faith, yet believes that all the gifts of the Spirit mentioned in the Bible are for today.

Helpful Books

• Power Evangelism and Power Healing by John Wimber.
• The Quest for the Radical Middle, a history of the Vineyard by Bill Jackson.
• The Way it Was, a biography of John Wimber by Carol Wimber.

Helpful Websites

• Providence Vineyard - www.providencevcf.org
• Vineyard Resources - www.doin-the-stuff.com
• Vineyard Music - www.vmg.com/usa/
• Northwest Vineyards - www.vineyardnw.org
• National Vineyard - www.vineyardusa.org

Our Vineyard Name - One day in 1974, when reading Isaiah 27:2-3 the name “Vineyard” came alive to one of our early leaders in the Los Angeles area.  Many things the Father wants to do in the life of the church can be seen in a vineyard: ground preparation, planting, husbandry, pruning, the production of fruit, grafting, beauty, the joy of wine, etc...”

Isaiah 27:2-3  In that day-- "Sing about a fruitful vineyard:  I, the LORD, watch over it;  I water it continually. I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it.

John 15:5  "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.