Vineyard Church of Ithaca

Being regular The Pastoral Search Team has resumed its bi-weekly meeting schedule. Wading through the web Our initial search included contacting Vineyard churches we had connections with and the regional overseers across the country. This utilized a more personal network of people that we hoped would provide applicants closely suited to our church. No one [...]

This past Sunday, Bob & James shared an update about our upcoming transition. If you have any thoughts or questions about this process, contact us. We would love to hear what you’re thinking. The following is the transcript from this Sunday: Bob: Before we get into this week’s message, we wanted to take a few [...]

In our last Pastoral Search Team (PST) update, we’d shared that we were entering a new stage of the process. We had gone through the first round of interviews without having a clear sense that any of the candidate were the person God had to become our next lead pastor. Beginning this new stage involved [...]

Starting on Monday, December 12, we are having 5 days of prayer and fasting to seek God concerning our pastoral search. While many of us have been doing this individually, we would like to tak Monday through Friday of next week and ask people to consider taking a 24 hour period of time to pray [...]

Usually, when I think of meetings and committees and group projects, I think of a million other things I’d rather be doing. Being on the Pastoral Search Team has been a different story- It’s actually fun and exciting. I look forward to doing the work in preparation for our meetings, and enjoy the time we [...]