The Problem of Feelings in Our Prayers
January 29-29, 2012
Willing Series
Luke 11:5-8; Luke 18:1-8

Getting Started

1. Do you have to be “in the mood” to pray? If so, describe the “mood” you have to be in.

2. Is the word “friend” one of the first things you think of when you think of God? If not, who then are you talking to when you bow down to pray?

Going Deeper

3. How would it change the frequency and the way you pray if you really believed God saw your illness, your children, your work situation etc. as his responsibility?

4. What should we do when we pray and pray and nothing happens?

5. What should our attitude be when God simply hasn’t answered?

6. What role does unanswered prayer play in your spiritual growth?

How to Argue Your Case With God
January 14-15, 2012
Willing Series
Genesis 18:16-33; Exodus 32:7-14

Getting Started

1. Do you believe that prayer makes a difference? Why or why not?

2. How would your life change if you believed in your heart that prayer actually made a difference?

Going Deeper

3. Why would God disclose his plans to us?

4. When should we pray, “Thy will be done”?

5. How should we approach God in prayer? How do you approach God in prayer?

6. What does it mean to pray in the name of Jesus?

Join us this weekend for one of the three NYC Mission Trip Information Meetings we're holding this weekend.

You can attend any one of the following meetings:

• Saturday, January 14 @ 6:45pm in room 212
• Sunday, January 15 @ 10:30am in room 212
• Sunday, January 15 @ 12:30pm in room 212

Q: What & Where?

Mission trip to New York City

New York is home to many things — Broadway, Times Square, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State Building, Central Park, Wall Street, the Statue of Liberty, and 8 million of people of hundreds of nationalities. At the heart of the “City that Never Sleeps” are pastors, mission workers, and Christians who desire to see Jesus come alive in the lives of all 8 million New Yorkers. The lingering effects of 9/11 still remind citizens of their vulnerability and their resilience to push for something greater. We have that opportunity to minister to their hearts that are crying out for Someone!

Q: When?

May 26—June 2, 2012 (over Memorial Day)

Q: Why?

We will work with ministries and outreach in the city.  Much of our ministry will include personal evangelism, inner-city missions, homeless shelters, sidewalk Sunday School, and global outreach opportunities.

Q: Who?

Young adults (18-35*)

Current high school seniors, college students, 20 & 30-somethings.
*Some age exceptions may be made; please ask for details if you are truly interested.

Q: How?

Apply and get your deposit in TODAY!

Fill out an application (either download here or pick up a paper copy at the NYC Mission Trip Info meeting this weekend) and submit it with a $50 nonrefundable deposit (cash or check made out to Vineyard OP).

Q: How much?

Estimated costs are $1100 per person for the entire trip

This cost includes lodging, transportation, food, training and ministry materials, background checks, and more. The final cost will be set once the travel deposit is made (middle of February). Personal and corporate fundraising, as well as tax-deductable donations, are available.

Q: What else?

Pre-trip preparation meetings will be held 5 times prior to the trip departure.  Attend the info meeting for more information.

More questions?

Email us at nymissions@vineyardop.org.
More info on Facebook: facebook.com/groups/nycmissions2012

Bring Out the Hero Inside Your Teenager

The Bible is filled with unlikely heroes. A young shepherd boy and a ragtag bunch of disciples are just some of the people God used to fulfill his plans. God doesn’t have a strict set of requirements or an age limit for service. Instead, he uses young people in mighty ways to minister and serve.

Twins Alex and Brett Harris are two young heroes who set out to spark an adolescent “rebelution.” At age 18, they wrote Do Hard Things (Multnomah Books), which challenges teenagers to fulfill their potential and defy the world’s low expectations of them. Although the world views teenagers as irresponsible and adolescence as a vacation, “God calls us to be exemplary,” Alex says, adding that adolescence is really a “launching pad for life.”

The Harris brothers challenge teens to intentionally do five kinds of things:

1. Things that are outside your comfort zone.
   1. Things that go beyond what is expected or required.
   2. Things that are too big to accomplish alone.
   3. Things that don’t earn an immediate payoff.
   4. Things that challenge the cultural norm.

How can you encourage your teenagers to become heroes for God?

TIPS:

Not all superheroes have abs of steel. The small-group resource Guy Talk, Girl Talk (Simply Youth Ministry) offers these insights into real-life heroes:

• Strength comes from recognizing God, the source of strength. Heroes shouldn’t rely on themselves; only God is omnipotent, or all-powerful (see Isaiah 50:2).
• Strength comes from weakness. This seeming contradiction shows that when you recognize that you need help, you become willing to rely on God’s strength (see 2 Corinthians 12:10).
• Hard times build strength. God uses troubles and challenges to test and grow our faith (see James 1:2-4). During tough times, we learn to trust God with our weakest moments so that other people can see his strength.
• Real-life heroes recognize that they’re significant enough to be part of God’s plan. God doesn’t need our help, but he does use us. He created each of us with value, and that means we’re equipped to fit perfectly into what he wants to accomplish here on earth (see Jeremiah 29:11).

Love Mercy
Big Things In Small Packages Series
Micah 6:8
December 3 and 4, 2011

Getting Started

1. What does it mean to reflect God’s nature to the people around you? Cite some positive examples you have experienced.

2. Justice and mercy are both part of who God is. How have you seen both of these aspects of God’s personality play out in your life?

Going Deeper

3. Romans 3:23 says we have all sinned and fallen short. Why do you think it is so popular to teach an “I’m OK, you’re OK” gospel? Why would someone teach this kind of gospel?

4. God showed mercy to Ninevah (Jonah 3), Zaccheus (Luke 19) and the adulterous woman (John 8). What other examples of God showing mercy can you cite from the bible? What examples can you cite from your own life?

5. Have you ever felt tempted to believe you’re better than the people you serve? Why? What happened?

6. What does it mean to be “in the restoration business”? How does God restore people? How is God restoring you?

Yesterday, our crack Operation Christmas Child team delivered 170 shoeboxes to the shipping location here in KC.  From there, the shoeboxes will be sent on to children in countries around the world.

A week ago we talked about how one of the best ways to fight injustice is to introduce people to the mercy and freedom of Jesus Christ.  Operation Christmas Child carries the message of Jesus to children around the world, coupled with a shoebox filled with gifts and toys. It puts into action the message of Christ.

Thank you so much for joining Vineyard OP in supporting Operation Christmas Child!

And a special thanks to Brad Camp and family, who single-handedly led this outreach effort!  Thanks guys!

David Andersen

Yesterday, 56 bold people went out from Vineyard OP to deliver Thanksgiving meals to families in need in our community.  These 56 were divided into 18 teams of families, couples and friends willing to spend a Sunday afternoon serving our community.  Thank you so much to everyone who made the deliveries.

We delievered all of the fixings for a Thanksgiving meal to 67 families right here in the Shawnee Mission school district.  That is the local church serving the local community - one of our core values.  These meals included a turkey (just in time to thaw in the fridge in time for Thanksgiving), a baking pan, green beans, stuffing, gravy, rolls, cranberry sauce and a cake with icing.

And thank you to all who donated!  We paid for the turkeys out of the money we collect from the boxes at the back of the auditorium and the rest of the food was donated by generous people from our congregation.  This is an example of what it means when "Everybody gets to play" in the Kingdom of God.

Thank you so much for your generosity!

David Andersen

Unfortunately, I was so busy coordinating the event that I forgot to stop and take any pictures.  DOH!  Anyway, maybe I'll have some photos next year!

This coming Sunday marks the beginning of a new era in Verb.  On that day at 10:45am 20-25 new students will come strutting (or awkwardly and anxiously baby stepping) into the youth room.   I could not be more excited!  I have been praying for that day and those students specifically for months and cannot wait to see what God does with them.

More importantly for them however is their move scholastically to high school.  I can remember my first day as a freshmen.  Going from top of the junior high food chain as an 8^th grader to being so low I could read the word “insignificant” written on the bottom of the senior’s shoes.  It was one of the few times in life when I could decide who I wanted to be.  Would I be the same complacent, lukewarm, Christian poser or would I finally embrace the faith of my father and make it my own? Fortunately it was the later.

The summer before my freshmen year at a summer camp I made the choice to actually live with my life what I professed with my mouth.   It is a decision like this that I feel is pivotal in the spiritual success of the incoming freshmen.  Taking what they say they believe in and living it out like soldiers of the faith.  Soldiers who are willing to fight, suffer, and ultimately die for their beliefs and to themselves.

So this week could potentially be one of the most important weeks of their lives.  Let’s pray that they stand firm in their faith as Satan and his army marches against them.

Last Thursday, Bob and Robert made the final delivery for the 2011 Summer Food Drive.  Over the past 9 weeks, our Summer Food Drive team, led by Bob and Penny Balfour, coordinated, sorted and prepared 100 sets of food to be given to families in need.  Head Start of Shawnee Mission brought this need to our attention, citing the families that could not afford lunches for their children during the summer months when school lunch programs shut down until school starts again.

The total value of the 100 sets of food was over $4,000!

Thank you to all of you who donated to the food drive!  We couldn't have met this need without your generosity.

And a special thanks to the team that worked in the heat to prepare all of the food for delivery.  If you see these folks out and about at the church, take a moment to bless them.   Thanks to Bob and Penny Balfour, Robert Brendlinger and Kathy Patch for being an amazing team!

Spiritual Dryness and How to Get Going Again

Part 2: The Causes of Spiritual Dryness

There’s a moment in C.S. Lewis’ classic children’s book, The Silver Chair^[1], that always brings a lump to my throat.  A little girl, named Jill, alone in the forest, is desperately thirsty.  Lewis writes:

Crying is all right in its way, while it lasts. But you still have to stop sooner or later and then you still have to decide what to do.  When Jill stopped, she found that she was dreadfully thirsty.  She had been laying face downward and now she sat up.  The birds had ceased singing and there was perfect silence except for one small persistent sound, which seemed to come from a good distance away.  She listened carefully and felt almost sure it was the sound of running water.

Jill got up and looked around very carefully.  There was no sign of the lion; but there was so many trees about that it may easily be quite close without her seeing it.  For all she knew, there might be several lions.  But her thirst was very bad now and she plucked up her courage to go and look for that running water.

She went on tiptoes stealing cautiously from tree to tree, stopping to peer around it at every step.  She finally came to the site of the water that made her feel ten times thirstier than before.  But she didn't rush forward and drink. She stood as still as if she had been turned into stone with her mouth wide open. And she had a very good reason: just on this side of the stream lay the lion.

It lay with its head raised and its two forepaws out in front of it like the lions in Trafalgar Square. She knew at once that it had seen her. Its eyes looked straight into hers for a moment and then turned away as if it knew her quite well and didn't think much of her.

“If I run away, it will be after me,” thought Jill. “And if I go on, I shall run straight into its mouth.”  Anyway, she couldn't have moved if she had tried and she couldn't take her eyes off the lion.

How long this lasted she could not be sure. It seemed like hours and the thirst became so bad she almost felt she would not mind being eaten by the lion, if only she could be sure of getting a mouthful of water first.

“If you are thirsty, you may drink.”

For a second she stared here and there, wondering who had spoken. Then the voice said again,

“If you are thirsty, come and drink.”

The voice was not like a man's.  It was deeper, wilder and stronger, a sort of heavy golden voice, that did not make her any less frightened than she had been before, but it made her frightened in rather a different way.

“Are you not thirsty?” said the lion.

“I’m dying of thirst,” said Jill.

“Then drink,” said the lion.

“May I – could I – would you mind going away while I do?” said Jill.

The Lion answered this only by a look and a very low growl. And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.

The delicious rippling noise of the stream was driving her nearly frantic.

“Will you promise not to – do anything to me, if I do come?” said Jill.

“I make no promise,” said the Lion.

Jill was so thirsty now that, without noticing it, she had come a step nearer.

“Do you eat girls?” she said.

“I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms,” said the Lion.  It didn’t say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it.

“I daren’t come and drink,” said Jill.

“Then you will die of thirst,” said the Lion.

“Oh dear!” said Jill, coming another step nearer. “I suppose I must go and look for another stream then.”

“There is no other stream,” said the Lion.

It never occurred to Jill to just believe the lion.  No one who had seen his stern face could do that.  And her mind suddenly made itself up.  It was the worst thing she ever had to do, but she went forward to the stream, knelt down, and began scooping up water in her hand.  It was the coldest, most refreshing water she had ever tasted.  You didn't need to drink much of it, for it quenched your thirst at once.^[2]

Why are so many so spiritually dry?  Why, when living water is readily available to us, do so few step forward and drink?

A Cautionary Tale

In the aftermath of God’s decisive victory over the prophets of Baal on Mt. Carmel, the prophet, Elijah, God’s principle instrument in that conflict, is on the run.  I Kings 19 says,

Elijah was afraid and fled for his life.  He went to Beersheba, a town in Judah, and he left his servant there.  Then he went on alone into the desert, traveling all day.  He sat down under a solitary broom (or juniper) tree and prayed that he might die.  “I have had enough, Lord,” he said, “Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.”^[3]

“I’ve had enough?  Take my life?”  Elijah was obviously in a really bad place emotionally, spiritually.  In fact, that’s what makes this story so peculiar.  Three days earlier he was celebrating the miraculous intervention of God in one of the finest moments in the Old Testament.  He was, if you will, as high as a kite at church on Sunday and so depressed he wanted to die by Wednesday night.  He was, in effect, begging God to take his life.  How does this happen?  How does a man of God, who has experienced the dramatic intervention of God on his behalf, get so depressed and so far from God he wants to die?  Fear will do that to you.

Here are some other things that contribute to spiritual dryness.

(1)    Physical Exhaustion. Physical exhaustion is a common contributor to spiritual dryness.  Elijah had been traveling all day.  He was, no doubt, exhausted.  The condition of your physical body affects your mind and your emotions.  Exhaustion has a profound effect on our experience of God in prayer.  It’s hard to focus.  It’s hard to concentrate.  Exhaustion weakens your resolve.  If you wonder about the effects of physical exhaustion on your relationship with God think about what it does to your other relationships.  Physically exhausted people are usually cranky and impatient.  You may find them hard to get along with.  It’s hard to maintain an intimate relationship when you’re tired all the time.

How do you combat physical exhaustion?  Take a nap.  Go to bed early.  I probably shouldn’t be the one to tell you this^[4] but even I know the value of a good nap.  Several years ago, I arrived at the location of my annual prayer retreat at about one o’clock in the afternoon.  Excited, I settled in, opened my Bible and started to read.  Just as Jesus healed the man with the withered hand,^[5] I fell asleep.  I couldn’t keep my eyes open.  I was so relieved to be off the treadmill for a couple of days that the exhaustion overwhelmed me.  So I decided to start my prayer retreat with a nap.  Not a bad idea.  At six o’clock, I was wide awake and really ready to go.  Sometimes the best thing you can do for your spiritual life is get some sleep, recharge your batteries.

(2)    Empty Well Syndrome. Empty Well Syndrome is what happens when you give spiritually again and again because you believe God wants you to give but you never take the time to go back to the source and replenish your supply.  To use a metaphor from John 15, you get disconnected from the vine.  Soon, you find that you have nothing left to give, that you’re ministering out of an empty well.  You’ve spent everything you have and the need still remains.  In fact, the need far outstrip your ability to meet it.  What keeps you going when you’re literally running on fumes?  Pride, guilt, a sense of obligation or a combination of the three, if you’re honest.  The question you need to ask is, “Am I working for God more than I’m walking with God?”  If you’re working for God more than walking with God, you need to stop because you’re not doing anyone any favors. Service on fumes is a great contributor to spiritual dryness.

(3)    Problems and opposition. Problems and opposition can contribute to spiritual dryness.  Elijah is the classic example of how problems and opposition affect your spiritual vitality.  After the euphoria of Mount Carmel, we find the prophet running from Jezebel who has vowed to take his life.  In the passage quoted above, he’s huddled under a juniper bush wallowing in self-pity.  Here’s what problems and opposition can do.  They can cause you to...

• Feel sorry for yourself. In verse 4, Elijah says, “I am no better than my fathers.”  Problems have a way of making us see ourselves the way Satan would like us to see ourselves not the way God sees us.  Satan wants us to believe that we’re a lost cause, that we’re defective, dirty or unclean.  He’ll tell you that God has mistreated you, that he’s been unfair, that he’s abandoned you in your hour of need.  Satan is adept at magnifying your circumstances and minimizing your resources.  Believe his lies and it inevitably leads to self-pity.  And self-pity is a dark and troublesome thing.  In A Grief Observed, C.S. Lewis referred to it as “the bath of self-pity, the wallow, the loathsome sticky-sweet pleasure of indulging it--that disgusts me.”  Problems and opposition can cause you to...

• Run from responsibility. When you have all kinds of problems and opposition you have a tendency to want to dump everything and walk away.  You may even be doing something that God wants you to do but you’re running into one obstacle after another.  People are talking behind your back, plotting your demise and you just want to say, “Who needs this?”  You want to drop the whole thing and go hide.  I’ve been tempted to walk away from a lot of situations in my life.  I’ve even done it once or twice.  But walking away didn’t change what God had called me to do.  In verse 9, the Lord looks at Elijah under the juniper bush and says, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”  Good question.  Elijah was where he was by choice.  Running or staying is a choice.  Problems and opposition can cause you to...

• Blame others for your predicament. Elijah says, in verse 10, “For the sons of Israel have forsaken your covenant, torn down your altars and killed your prophets…and I alone am left.”  In other words, “It’s just me, God.  I’m the only one who’s faithful.  I’m the only one you can trust.  I’m all you have left.  I’m the only one who’s truly following you.”  That’s what spiritual dryness often sounds like.  When you’re dry, you tend to look at others and find them wanting.  Spiritually dry people are often very judgmental.  They see themselves as better and more deserving than anyone else.  Is that where you are?  You feel empty and far from God and it’s not your fault?  Somebody else is responsible?  They did it to you?  When you blame your spiritual predicament on others, when you see yourself as a victim of circumstances, when you refuse to take responsibility for where you are spiritually, you’re growing comfortable in the desert.  You say, “This is where I am.  I didn’t do this, God did this.  God let it happen.  It’s not my fault.”

(4)    The cycles of life.  You need to know about these cycles.  You have day cycles—times in the day when you’re more receptive to God and less receptive to God.  I’m less receptive in the morning and more receptive at night, even late at night.  Age is a cycle.  You may be more receptive at different times in your life than you are at other times.  I’m much more receptive now than I was in my twenties.  I guess it’s just the wisdom of age^[6] but I wouldn’t trade my relationship and experience of God now for my relationship and experience of God at that time in my life.  I turned 50 this year and I know what you’re thinking -- my bio pic makes me look 10 years younger!^[7] Advancing age can have an affect on you spiritually.  George Burns said: “You know you’re old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and you ask yourself, ‘What else can I do while I’m down here.’”  These cycles of life don’t have to depress you or take you down or cool your passion for God.  Caleb was eighty years old and he said, “give me that mountain.”  Daniel was in his nineties when he entered the lion’s den.  Abraham was one hundred years old when God blessed him with a son.  Noah was six hundred years old when he built the ark.  Cycles are a part of life.  Here are four cycles that directly contribute to spiritual dryness.

• Transitions in your life. When you are going through a lot of change it can cause spiritual dryness.
• Pressure and stress. Ever heard of that?  Even holidays as joy-filled as Christmas can be stressful.
• Mt. Carmel Meltdown. When you’ve had a big spiritual experience, maybe you’ve gone to some conference where God really spoke to you or you just got back from a three day prayer retreat—the in-between times, the so-called “valleys” can get you down and cause you to become spiritually dry.
• Mood cycles. That’s all I’m going to say about that.^[8]

(5)    Disobedience. I think that this may be the number one cause of spiritual dryness -- just plain disobedience.  When you are engaged in willful, habitual sin, it’s not uncommon to feel far from God.  This may sound obvious to some but you wouldn’t believe how many people I’ve talked to who seem incapable of making the connection.  They want to know why their spiritual life isn’t thriving while, at the same time, they’re holding onto bitterness, are unwilling to forgive, are immersed in a life-controlling habit or are at odds with the people they say they love the most.

No Other Way

Back to Jill. What prevented her, as thirsty as she was, from rushing forward to drink?  Fear.  She was afraid of the lion, afraid of what he might do to her, afraid of the unknown.  She didn’t know him well enough, didn’t trust his character, wasn’t willing to risk it.  In the end, her thirst overcame her fear.  I wonder what it’s going to take for some of us?

Author and pastor, John Piper, frequently says that the problem in our lives is not that we want too much out of life.  It's that we’re satisfied with so little.  We’re regularly trying to quench our thirst with stuff that only increases our thirst, stuff that only increases our sense of emptiness.  To drink deeply you have to come to Jesus.  The streams of God are channeled through Jesus.  Not through another person.  Not through a relationship.  Not through material goods.  Only Jesus!  There is no other stream!  Only the one that runs through the Lion of Judah can satisfy.   Only the one that forces you to risk everything is really worth having.  If you’re ever going to get going again, you have to press in.  There is no other way.

Next -- Part 3:  The Cure for Spiritual Dryness

Lifechange Camp and Retreat Center and our group from VOP will never be the same.  With 12 excited students and 2 over caffeinated leaders, we swooped in and “Got’er Done”.   For 4 days we worked and played hard and left exhausted, sun burnt, itchy, and yet completely satisfied by all of the above.

While at Lifechange our main objective was to build a trail that ran along the backside of the camp’s property.  This was 660ft of dense southwest Missouri forest.  So armed with rakes, machetes, and hedge clippers we started the job.  I was skeptical how a bunch of City folk would handle being in the woods, but if you would have seen those students work you would have thought you were looking at the teenage children of Louis and Clarke themselves.  They cut, sliced, and cleared every branch, tree, and log that got in their way.  What started as thick foliage and underbrush was nothing but dirt when they were finished.  It was amazing what they got done with a heart of service and the willingness to finish the task set before them.

All that happened during the day, but at night we started clearing a different kind of trail. There were no trees which needed to be chopped or brush that needed to be raked but just as many snares and thorns which needed to be identified, cut down, and burned.  So with the help of James, each other, and God’s clippers (conviction and reproof) we began/continued the journey of our faith whose destination is the very heart of God.

The trip was wonderful.  I gave the students a survey the morning of our last day.  The number one thing they said they would change if given the chance was that they would make it longer.  If that isn't what a youth pastor wants to hear after his first mission trip, I don't know what is.  So 660ft of trail finished, 14 people exhausted yet fulfilled, 1 camp changed forever.  Mission (trip) accomplished.

Numerous Kansas City churches are pulling together to support the Convoy of Hope again this year in Swope Park on June 11^th, 2011.  Convoy of Hope has been doing community outreaches like the one happening on June 11^th since 1994.

The Kansas City Convoy of Hope is being held in Swope Park – Kansas City, MO, and the gates will open at 10:00 a.m.  This is a massive public outreach with 35,000 pounds of free groceries, a health fair, a job fair, haircuts, family portraits, a free BBQ lunch for all in attendance, and live entertainment.

You can help out with the event by volunteering in one of the numerous support roles.  Please head over to the Kansas City Convoy of Hope website to check it out!

You can find out more about volunteer opportunities here.

You can find out more about Convoy of Hope here.

You can find out more about Kansas City Convoy of Hope here.

David Andersen

Vineyard Church of Overland Park

We just got the final count for the Bottles for Babies drive, and we are happy to announce that you raised $4,598.49 for the Light House here in Kansas City!  225 bottles went out, and 184 bottles were returned.  This gives us a great opportunity to help an agency that has been serving young expectant mothers here in Kansas City since 1985 in the name of Jesus Christ.  To learn more about the Light House, check out their website.

If you forgot to bring back your baby bottle, please go ahead and return it to us – even if it is empty.  I’m sure the Light House would like to have them back.

Thank you to all who participated in this drive.  You are helping us demonstrate Jesus and come alongside agencies that are in relationship with people in the city.  This helps continue the work done in Jesus’ name here in Kansas City!

David Andersen

Vineyard Church of Overland Park

With the devastation left by the tornado in Joplin, Missouri, many people have been asking how they can help. In general, people are being discouraged from just going down to Joplin to help because of concerns about the supplies needed to support so many volunteers while continuing to care for the victims of the tornado.  If you want to volunteer in Joplin, it is best to contact one of the agencies below and volunteer through their established channels.  Additionally, donations are being accepted by all of the agencies below.

These resources are available on the web, and we have pulled them together here for you.

How to help in Joplin - CNN.COM

How to help the victims of the Joplin tornado - NBC Action News

The American Red Cross

Convoy of Hope

The Salvation Army

Heart To Heart International

Samaritan's Purse

World Vision

Please be in prayer for the city of Joplin.

Many of you are familiar with our in-house publication called "The Mix". We print this for people who want to have a printed big-picture view of everything that is going on at Vineyard OP. The printed copies are always available at the Info Desk in the lobby at church building, but now you can get The Mix online!

Just click the link below to download a PDF version of The Mix.

The Mix

Thanks,

Your beloved Vineyard OP Staff