On Monday night, August 23rd, Vineyard OP held the third-ever Free Haircuts For Kids event at the Paul Mitchell School over at 95th and Antioch. We had 3 licensed stylists give 4+ hours of their day to come cut hair for kids from our community. We had families come from Overland Park Elementary ...

This past Saturday morning, sixteen people from Vineyard OP went down to Hope Faith Ministries to help serve breakfast for 300 homeless men and women in downtown Kansas City. It was hot, hot, hot (!), but the team persevered and made almost 1000 eggs, 800 slices of bacon and 72 pounds of ...

On Saturday night, August 14th, 45 people gathered to close out the 2010 Ecuador Mission trip experience. 21 people for Vineyard OP and Vineyard KC North went to Ecuador back in July. This meeting gave the team a chance to recount what God did on that trip, and to share their experiences with the ...

On Monday, July 19th, the intrepid world travelers from Vineyard OP returned from Quito, Ecuador to the Estados Unidos. They were part of a larger team comprised of members from the churches involved in the Vineyard Ecuador Partnership. The team did medical clinics in Tena (on the far western ...

It was a smoldering Thursday night on June 24th when nine of our Vineyard OP travelers who will are headed to Ecuador for the 2010 Summer Outreach got together. They made the trek to the Smithville, Missouri area to visit our friends at Vineyard KC North, and to participate in a packing party....

Twenty Breakthrough students and leaders met for the third consecutive year at Indian Creek Nursing home on May 22nd to serve the Senior Citizens. We call this the "Serve Your City Breathrough Service Project". We pulled weeds, prepared flower beds, and picked up trash. After three hours of ...

On May 22 and 23, before and after all weekend services, there was many a muffin to be had in the lobby. The 2010 Ecuador Mission Trip team held a "Muffins for Missions" fundraiser in the lobby. OK, so it wasn't just muffins - it was more like a bake sale. But, man, did we have some good eats ...

Vineyard OP took another crew of servers out to Hope Faith Ministries this past Wednesday. We cooked up another 1080 eggs, 1080 slices of bacon, and 72 lbs if hash browns for the homeless men and women of Kansas City.

Hope Faith Ministries is a day-center that serves breakfast to the homeless ...

On April 23rd, 22 high school girls and 3 adult leaders got together for 12 hours for fun! Everyone had a blast getting to know each other better and perhaps even starting a few new friendships. Those 12 hours were packed with many fun activities, including worship, group games, movies, exploring ...

What If The Church finished last week with two great events: The God of this City Worship and Prayer Night (on Wednesday, April 28th) and the Serve Day (on Saturday, May 1st). We'll have pictures as soon as we get them.

Worship and Prayer Night - Over 1,500 people from 24 different churches ...

Our Small Group Fair was another huge success at Vineyard. Most of our groups were able to receive people looking for a place to connect. And "connecting" was our theme; as in how is your connection? The 28 groups represented outdid themselves again this year with offerings of pizza rolls, ...

On Sunday, March 28th Breakthrough middle school students came together to eat tons of Pizza and pack school supplies for the children of Head Start. In two hours, the students packed and decorated 78 bags of school supplies, participated in several intense games of Steal the Bacon, and stuffed ...

On Sunday night, March 28th, over 200 people gathered to worship God together and to demonstrate God's generous nature. The evening started with people bringing their lightly used and new shoes to the front of the auditorium and stacking them on the stage. Then the crowd worshipped together for ...

On Sunday, February 28th, Vineyard OP partnered with Paul Mitchell School at 95th and Antioch to offer free kid's haircuts for families in need. This was done to bless the families of our city in this time of financial uncertainty. 61 kids from right here in Overland Park received free haircuts...!

On Sunday morning, February 21st, the final session of the most recent Fruit of the Vineyard class was concluded. 62 people had attended the 3 week course where David Andersen and Fred Hoffman instructed participants on the values, vision and history of VOP. On this final Sunday attendees were ...

On Saturday morning, February 20th, 14 folks arrived in the Gallery at VOP to receive training to become small group leaders. For the next four hours the participants received instructions from Fred Hoffman and Andy Lovelace covering every aspect of small group life. It was a time for these ...

Just shy of thirty Vineyard OP people headed down to Hope Faith Ministries to cook and serve breakfast for over 300 homeless men and women from downtown Kansas City. Many also worked downstairs in the clothing shop, helping Hope Faith's clients pick out clothing and helping sort donations. Check ...

EPIC packed the gym with fifty-six middle school students over the weekend of February 5th & 6th for a time of laughter, worship, hearing God's voice, night games, late night conversations, and BAGELS. We talked about the unconditional love that God has for us and the need for us to stay in tune- ...

On Wednesday, January 13th, 23 people from the Vineyard OP community packed up enough food to feed 350 homeless men and women and headed to Hope Faith Ministries in downtown Kansas City. They fixed 900 scrambled eggs, 1,200 strips of bacon and over 30 pounds of hash browns. Vineyard OP goes ...

On Saturday, December 5th, twenty + Vineyard OP folks got together to prepare and serve lunch for over 200 homeless men and women at Hope Faith Ministries in downtown Kansas City. We made enough chili for 350 people in the new church building kitchen, and then transported it down to Hope Faith. The ...