A HISTORY OF VINEYARD MISSIONS

Since 2002, Vineyard Missions USA has served as the missions arm of the Vineyard, A Community of Churches.  Each of the more than 550 churches belonging to the Vineyard community is an independent local congregation and has full autonomy, with responsibility for its own decisions, including its missional efforts. Vineyard Missions serves these churches by interacting with interested individuals and organizations internationally, organizing various volunteer groups (e.g., the Missions Task Force and country partnerships), and reporting back to the churches on the development of church planting efforts internationally. It also provides capacity building in cross-cultural skills, leadership development and for the care of long-term, cross-cultural workers (LTCCWs) supported by the individual churches of the community.