"College-age" is just this term we use to describe people who are out of high school, may be going to community college or some big-time university, or may already be a slave to Corporate America, or may just have "college-brain" (whatever that means).  If you fit into one (or more) of these categories, then the 1820's group is for you.  Join us for fun, worship, great food, discussion & prayer!  We meet every Tuesday @ 7pm @ 10537 Goddard St. Apt 326 Overland Park, KS 66214.  For more info contact:  Sarah Wessel:  sarahwessel@vineyardop.org or 816-217-7834.

If you are in high school, then you should join us at one of our weekend services:

• Saturdays @ 5pm in the Youth Room
• Sundays @ 10:45am in the Gym

During our weekend services you'll get a chance to worship God through music, hear some relevant teaching, get to discuss the message with the other high schoolers there and get to hang out with people your age.  We do more than just weekend services, so come some Saturday or Sunday to find out more!

If your kids are in grades 5 through 8, we have a place for them to plug in and make new friends.  Our middle school group meets:

• Saturday night @ 5pm in the Gym
• Sunday mornings @ 9am in the Gym

We want your middle schoolers to experience the Kingdom of God on a regular basis - as part of this community of Christ-followers.  We want to join with you to help demonstrate how they can actively live their faith, serve through leadership in the church, and engage their world through the power of God.  Contact Alexis Dasari (contact info below) for more information.

If your kids are grades 1 through 4, then we have classes for them during all three regular weekend services.  Just bring them to the Vineyard Kids check-in station, and we'll take care of them.  Here at Vineyard OP, we're called to do more than childcare: we believe kids can encounter God in very real ways, sometimes better than the adults can!  We want the time your kids spend with us to be an opportunity to experience God through worship, teaching, small group time and fun!  Talk to Matt Branson (contact info below) for more info.

Be sure and check out the latest ParentLink Newsletter!

If your children are ages birth through five years old, then this is the place for you.  As with all of our children's ministry, we don't believe in just childcare - even with these wee ones.  We desire to help even the smallest people in our community to experience God.  Classes are available for these ages during all weekend services.  Just come in and one of our greeters will point you in the right direction.

For more information, please contact Becca Andersen, our early childhood director (contact info below).

Be sure and check out the latest Childrens Parentlink Newsletter!

If you are already serving in Early Childhood, you can go to the Early Childhood Schedule.  You'll need the login ID and password, and Becca Andersen can get it to you.

As a community of people who follow Jesus, we get together a lot to serve together.  We do this in a lot of ways, whether serving at a homeless shelter or praying for people at the city festival or offering free haircuts for kids.  Those are just some of the outreaches we've cooked up, and we're always looking to see what God wants us to do next.  Come and join us.

Watch for Missions and Outreach events in the Event Center to serve along with us.

You can also join the Outreach email list or find out more about outreach here at Vineyard OP by contacting David Andersen (contact info below).

Vineyard OP takes the whole "going to all nations and making disciples" mandate seriously.  We believe in putting our resources into planting churches led by indigenous leaders in the areas around the world where God leads us.  We do this through joining in partnerships with other Vineyard churches.  We are currently involved in South America, as well as North and South-East and Asia, and we are looking to join more partnerships in the years to come, as God leads.

You can sign up to join the Missions Awareness email list, or you can learn more by talking to our Missions pastor, David Andersen (contact info below).

The "walking school bus" is a fun, safe and active way for children to travel to and from school with adult supervision.

Each "bus," or group of students, walk to school with one or more adults, who serve as "drivers," and are responsible for getting the students to and from school safely.

Freedom KC is an association of Freedom and Partner Groups that meet confidentially and with accountability in the Kansas City metro area. Due to this confidentiality, the meeting times and places are not published here.
Vineyard OP Freedom Groups are Christ-based support groups for men who are serious about getting free from sexual addictions. If you want to join a Freedom Group, or learn more about Freedom KC, please call Steve Fugate (contact info below) or visit the FreedomKC website.

Partners Groups are Christ-based support work groups for those desiring to heal from the affects of living with a sex addict. Vineyard's Partners Group is for women only.  Many spouses of sex-addicts experience a renewed intimacy with the Lord as He brought comfort and healing to their wounded hearts.

For more information on Freedom KC partners groups, please contact Laurie Fugate or Jamie Englis (contact info below).

Living Waters is designed to enable the individual to manifest God's image and his/her own personal identity through trusting, gender affirming and genuinely holy interpersonal relationships. Participation for a given session is limited to a maximum of 10 women and 10 men, and is by application only in order to provide participants a confidential and safe environment to freely discuss sometimes difficult issues.

Please watch the Event Center for the next session of Living Waters.

To find out more about Living Waters or to apply, please contact the Vineyard OP office or the Living Waters leader, Lisa Kelley (contact info below).

Vineyard OP's Lighthouse Marriages group focuses on building marriage relationships that are grounded in God's Word. God created us for relationship - and in our group, we focus on building our relationship with God and with one another.  Lighthouse Marriages is an open and on-going group so all are welcome at any time! If you're married, engaged, want to be married or want to build a healthy Biblical perspective and foundation for your relationships, please come and see what God has in store for you!

Please watch the Event Center for the next Lighthouse Marriages session.

For more information, please feel free to contact the leaders of the Lighthouse Marriages group, James and Cindy Upton (contact info below).

Most people will tell you that separation and divorce are the most painful and stressful experiences they've ever faced. It's a confusing time when you feel isolated and have lots of questions about issues you've never faced before.  Vineyard OP's DivorceCare group meets weekly to help you face these challenges and move toward rebuilding your life.

Please watch the Event Center for the next session of Divorce Care.

To learn more, please contact the leader of the Divorce Care group, Greg Hensley (see contact info below).  You can also find a wealth of additional resources at the DivorceCare website.

You can also sign up to receive the "Daily Encouraging Email" from DivorceCare.com.

We are going to be offering personal prayer ministry soon.  Individuals will be able to sign up for a soaking prayer session for up to an hour.  If you might be interested in taking advantage of this ministry, please let us know by clicking here.  We'll have more details to come.

If you would like to know more about personal prayer ministry contact the church office at 913-381-5577 or email John Hix (johnhix at vineyardop.org).

All of our weekend musicians and vocalists are volunteers. They do this for free because they get to use their gifts and talents to serve God and others.  We're always looking for people who want to serve in this way, but you should know we don't put just anybody up on the stage.  We're looking for people who love to worship as a lifestyle (not just a "Sunday-morning thing"), who have a sensitivity to God's presence, are humble and love to serve and who have musical ability on their instrument of choice.  There are other things we consider as well, but you get the general idea.

If you are interested in auditioning to join the weekend worship team, then please fill out the Worship Team Audition form and we'll get back to you.  For more information, you can contact our worship arts pastor, John Hix (contact info below).

Often times, the dramatic arts can communicate truth straight to people's hearts in ways that talking and teaching can't.  We love that.  God made us to experience him in many different ways, and so our drama team takes this idea and runs with it.  This is another opportunity for people to use their gifts and talents to serve God and others.

Our drama team is led by Susan Randall (contact info below), and she's the one you'll want to call if you are interested in joining the team.

Are you both creative and technically minded?  Our media tech team is a volunteer team that gets to use their gifts and talents to serve God and others through audio and video presentation and production.  Our media tech team includes:

• Running sound for weekend services
• Running lights and video presentation for weekend services
• In-house video production

If you are interested in joining the media tech team, or if you just want to know more about the team, please contact our worship arts pastor, John Hix (contact info below).

So maybe you don't consider yourself to be a super-talented musical artist worship leader type, but you think that maybe you could be, if someone would just take the time to show you how.  Well, we created this thing called "School of Worship Arts" as a training facility for developing people's gifts and talents so they can use them to serve God and others in new ways.  So, if you think you might have some talent as a musician, vocalist, actor, painter, photographer, graphic artist, director, producer, videographer, etc. then be watching for the next School of Worship Arts session over at the Event Center.  Then sign up and join in.  Together, we can work to release the "Creative Class" to serve God and others.

For more info, contact our Worship Arts pastor, John Hix (contact info below).

Many of our small groups have a time of musical worship, which is usually led by a small group worship leader.  We also have small groups that don't have a small group leader, but would like to have one.  Maybe you already have the skills needed to lead a small group in worship.  If this is you, please contact our Connecting and Small Groups pastor, Fred Hoffman (contact info below) to learn where you might be able to serve.

If you are interested in learning to be a small group worship leader, we recommend you attend the next session of the School of Worship Arts worship leader training.  You can watch for this over at the Event Center.

We are pleased to announce the launch of The Hub (a Vineyard Community Center) and introduce you to the first set of classes that we are offering this Fall. You'll notice a wide variety of classes offered throughout the Fall. Whether you are looking for a new hobby or want to learn something practical, we've got a little something for everyone.

The Hub exists to build relationships with the members of our community while providing both fun and educational opportunities. We hope that you will find something here that will benefit you and your family.  You can browse throught the titles below to see what is available or click on the link at the bottom of the page titled "The Hub Activities Guide" below to open the PDF of the activities guide.  If you pull up the activities guide and see a class you want to sign up for, just click on the title in the PDF and it will take you to the registration form. You can also sign up by clicking on the name of the class below.

*If you currently attend Vineyard, you must bring a member of the community with you (that does not attend Vineyard) in order to register for any of these classes.

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY ENRICHMENT CLASSES

Prepare for Marriage: Enrich Your Existing Marriage - Wednesdays at 7:00pm

Keeping Your Family Safe on the Internet - Thursdays at 6:00pm

Parenting for Dummies: How to Raise Your Kids When You Don't Know How - Thursdays at 7:00pm

Early Literacy Techniques for Parents with Children Learning to Read - Tuesdays at 7:00pm

The Language of Children: Art & Play - Saturdays at 10:00am

THE ARTS

Watercolors - Wednesdays at 7:00pm

Making Bowls - Saturdays at 10:00am

Adult Ballet Class - Tuesdays at 6:30pm

Basics of Voice and Music - Wednesdays at 7:00pm

Beginning Quilting - Wednesdays at 7:00pm

Yard Art - Tuesdays at 6:00pm

BUSINESS AND FINANCE

Worklife 101: Job Search Skills - Thursdays at 7:00pm

Beginning and Managing Your Business - Tuesdays at 7:00pm

How to Avoid the High Cost of Auto Repair - Tuesdays at 7:00pm

SPORTS, HEALTH AND NUTRITION

Healthy Nutrition and Weight-Loss - Thursdays at 6:45pm

Fit Now - Mondays and Wednesdays at 8:00am

Vineyard Warriors: Tae Kwon Do - Wednesdays at 6:00pm

Youth Soccer Skills Camp - Saturdays at 10:00am

EDUCATION AND OTHER CLASSES

Basic Sign Language - Thursdays at 7:00pm

English as a Second Language - Tuesdays at 6:30pm

Model Kit Building and Appreciation - Wednesdays at 6:00pm

Understanding Depression and Exploring Treatment Options - Wednesdays at 7:00pm

Growing from the Pain of a Break-Up - Tuesdays at 7:00pm

Keys to Talking with Teens - Thursdays at 6:30pm

Electrical Know-How - Tuesdays at 6:00pm