Archive for July, 2011

Welcome Elias Lloyd Swartzendruber!!

Posted by Vineyard Central on July 31, 2011
baby, meals / No Comments

If anyone would like to help the Drubers with meals, here is the meal registry that our friend Tiffany Miller set up for us.

Thanks much!
Becca Swartzendruber

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Options for Structure (how we organize ourselves)

Posted by nathan on July 11, 2011
communication, discernment gatherings, members / 5 Comments

Hello to everyone viewing this post.  This post is specifically for persons who would self-identify as a part of Vineyard Central.  If you are not, please welcome this post as an opportunity to see the work of our community from afar; in challenge and in joy.

As we spoke about yesterday, we are moving in our Discernment Process as a church towards more specific conversations about

1. who we are,
2. how we organize ourselves, and
3. what it means to be Vineyard Central together.

Together with the grassroots thinking of those who have regularly participated in the discernment gatherings, we have discerned that there are several prominent themes that we will focus on going forward to gain clarity about what decisions we need to make.  Those themes are: Structure, Leadership, Membership, Building, and Neighborhood.

We introduced the conversation around Structure yesterday in our worship gathering.  We put together a sheet that has three viable options for how our community could organize ourselves.  The sheet is not intended as a “final draft,” but instead as a “rough draft” that helps to give people something specific to look at and consider.  Please click on the below link entitled “Structure Options” to access the document.  If you have problems, please comment  underneath the post, and we’ll find a way to get you a copy.

Thank you,

The Discernment Team

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Swartzendruber baby on the way! Let’s help get their house ready!

Posted by Vineyard Central on July 11, 2011
baby, members, ministry / No Comments

The following comes to us from Becca Swartzendruber. She and her husband, Nathan, are expecting the arrival of their first child in about two weeks!  

Nathan and I are asking for help with house projects such as scraping, painting and moving furniture in the next few weeks as our due date approaches. Any help you could offer would be much appreciated. Email us at beccajayne1@gmail.com or fishpatrol@gmail.com.

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