Our Vision
Our
Vision and heart is to enable everyone that the Lord gives us to help establish
a productive local church that is fulfilling its calling as a gathering,
healing, and sending agency,
and to help other churches do the same. We will endeavor to impact the
city of Windsor with the Gospel -- the
words and works of Jesus --
and to make the Vineyard of Windsor a center of resource and blessing to
the body of Christ in our city and county.
Our
Values
We Value God's Word.
We seek to teach the Bible
in a simple, understandable, relevant way so that it can be applied to
everyday life.
We Value Intimacy with God.
We are hungry to know God's presence, hear His voice, and follow after
Him.
We Value Christ Likeness.
We desire to become a people who will not just hear, but also do, the words
and works of Jesus. We desire Jesus' love, mercy, grace, truth, purity,
power and integrity to shine through all we do.
We Value Being Spirit-led.
We are a people who believe in, practice, and value the power of God. We
seek to be responsive to the Holy Spirit in our daily life,and when we
gather each Sunday for Celebration.
We Value Servant Leadership.
We believe that leadership is a function,
not a title. Leaders are people who are anxious to be led so that they
can lead, anxious to be discipled so that they can disciple, anxious to
be healed so that they can heal, and anxious to be taught so they can teach.
We believe that Jesus has put significant leadership authority in the hands
of the pastor and his associates. We also believe that we are to raise
up leadership from those that gather with us.. We aim to exercise leadership
with humility, selflessness, grace, care for one another with a sincere
desire to build up one another.
We Value Training and Discipleship.
We believe our job is to equip everyone that wants to be like Jesus. We
see this as an on-going process of training and personal growth, enabling
each of us to function in the local church and our community at large.
We Value Being a Sending Agent.
We seek to impact our church, community, city and county through outreach,
church planting, renewal and world-wide missions.
Our
Purpose
To Gather and Win
People to Christ.
We seek to remove any and all stumbling blocks as we reach out to others
under the power and direction of the Holy Spirit.
To Bring Wholeness and Care.
We seek to help people get theirs lives together. As we receive God's acceptance,
affirmation, and healing, we can convey God's love to those around us.
To Train and Equip People.
We seek to train and equip people to accomplish the vision we believe Jesus
gave us. We desire to train by the model Jesus used , a show and tell and
then give those trained the chance to do it by themselves.Acts of kindness
done in the name of Jesus, which we call Servant Evangelism is just one
of those ways. We feel we all can do what Jesus, did not just the pastor.
Opportunities
For Our People.
We
want to give lots of opportunities for our people to show the love of God
throughout the city of Windsor. We believe that one of the roles of the
pastor is to train and equip people to do what Jesus did .Each Sunday we
give opportunities for all who want to learn to pray more effectively,
the time they need to do this. We also arrange opportunities to learn to
be like Jesus in the community . We want to both to know the words
of Jesus and
to do the works of Jesus.