National Gathering

Just Jesus: National Vineyard Celebration

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Every four years the Canadian Vineyard family gathers together to celebrate the life we share as followers of Jesus and his way. This July we will be gathering in Calgary!

These times are always significant and encouraging. This is an opportunity to be refreshed by the Holy Spirit, learn together and connect with others from across the Vineyard Canada family.

This year, there are a few unique opportunities including one-on-one Spiritual Direction, Coaching and Prayer Ministry sessions. Make sure you take advantage of this – these are available on a first come, first served basis. There will also be amazing tracks for kids and youth.

Kathy MaskellKathy Maskell will be one of the guest speakers. Kathy leads the Vineyard Justice Network and is the lead pastor of East Denver Vineyard. She is an amazing communicator with a deep love of the poor and the work of the Holy Spirit.

Check out the Vineyard Canada website for more details including registration info, schedule, etc.

July 20-23

Calgary, Alberta

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When the Church Seeks First the Kingdom

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Here is an important message given by David Ruis at our National Gathering in Montreal this past summer. Situating us as a Vineyard movement in Canada in the context of where we’re coming from and where God is leading us. It’s an inspired talk. Please take the time to listen – especially in this time of shaking.

>>Click here to download the talk and to view the speaking notes.

 

The end game was never to be signs and wonders. The end game was never to be the published song. The end game was to be “Jesus getting his church back.”

 

Zeus. Poseidon. Aphrodite. Mammon. Consumerism. Racism. Privilege. Abusive power. Lust. Rage. Insanity. Greed. The Lamb has disarmed you, making a public spectacle of you at the cross. We will not bow. We will not submit.

 

“The other really disarming thing for me was the current fruit of a Quaker branch, this capacity to wait. To rest. To not hype or coerce not only the work of the Spirit, but our engagement in the church. All of this impacted the worship. Not only the songs themselves, which reached for a level of intimacy and authenticity like I had never experienced but “why” the songs were not only sung, but set in this certain sacramental way full of expectation and hope, yet not afraid of an almost uncomfortable ease with the place of brokenness.

 

“Oh Lord, have mercy on me. And heal me.
Oh Lord, have mercy on me. And free me.
Place my feet upon a rock.
Put a new song in my heart. In my heart.
Oh Lord. Have mercy on me.”

We were to continue to grow up and into these aspects of “our lane.” Peter Davids, I think, nailed it in 2004.  We were not to camp here. The racial middle of 2018 is not perhaps the radical middle of 1987.”

 

You’re part of something that is in motion and will not stop in its violent commitment to reach, to dream, to prophetically embody and cooperate with, surrender to and engage in in the transforming power of this kingdom coming. This kingdom here.

Repent.

Think again.

Reach again.

Believe again.

Dream again.

The kingdom is upon us. It is here, now, and yet with still a whole lot more to come.

Maranatha! Come Lord Jesus. The Spirit and the Bride cry out. Creation groans. Can you hear the cries of the oppressed? The hurting? The dying? Those entangled by the power of their greed? Their need to consume? Their need to belong? To be something?

The endless cycle of the oppressor and the oppressed. The relentless whirlpool of wounding and revenge. The crippling disease of a consumerism that will never. Never. Be enough.

Come. Come all who thirst. Come all who bleed. Come out all who are hiding. Come all who long.

Vineyard Canada National Gathering – “Portage: when the church seeks first the Kingdom”

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Make your plans! The quadrennial Vineyard Canada National Gathering is this summer in Montréal. July 23-26. We’re calling this time together “Portage – When the Church seeks first the Kingdom”. In this video, National Director David Ruis unpacks this for us. Register here.

 

 

Metanoia National Gathering Audio

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Back in June we hosted Vineyardites from across the country (and a few others as well!).  It was a wonderful time of experiencing God’s presence, being re-tooled for the season ahead and being challenged to “think again” about a number of topics.

Michael Raburn brought some amazing teaching on being people who tell the truth.  If you listen to his talk from Thursday night, you’ll be sure to want to listen to the follow-up from Saturday morning.  David and Anita Ruis shared about what it means to be a people who “dwell in the borderlands”.  Be sure to add these sessions to your summer “listening playlist”.

>>Listen here.

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Vineyard Metanoia: Dwelling in the Borderlands

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June 16 – 18, we’re hosting a National Metanoia event.  Make sure you sign up soon, since space is limited.  All are welcome (including children and youth)!

Here’s an invite from Brian Doerksen, who will be joining us:

Join Michael Raburn, David & Anita Ruis and many other Vineyardites from across our family as we set our hearts to “Think Again”.

Besides prayer & worship we’ll explore together:

  • Lectio Divina – rhythm of lectio divina (Colossians 4) centering around the Eucharist
  • Academic engagement – with Michael Raburn, a theologian and Vineyard pastor from North Carolina
  • Interview sessions – fun and engaging interview sessions with our National Catalysts with Michael responding in “TED talk” style presentations we describe as “here’s what I heard you say, and here’s what I think
  • Connection – great opportunities to connect share pray/listen with one another

Schedule:

JUN 16 Thursday: 6:30 PM (doors open at 5:30)
JUN 17 Friday: 9:30 AM / 2 PM / 6:30 PM
JUN 18 Saturday: 9:30 AM

JUN 18 Saturday: 6:30 PM
Saturday nite worship (open to public – no registration required)

Register:

Make sure you register soon, because space is limited.  Children and youth are welcome!

Register here: Vineyard Metanoia.

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Dwelling in the Borderlands – National Gathering

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Hey there WCV – we’re hosting a new kind of national gathering this year!  People from all across the Vineyard landscape in Canada will be converging here, for a Vineyard Metanoia (means think again – usually translated as repent) initiative called “Dwelling in the Borderlands.”  It will be a time to come together in a posture of prayer, reflection, worship and liturgy to hear and discern what the Spirit is saying to us as a community of communities.

Find out More:

For speakers, schedule, registration, etc, go here.

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Space is limited, so you’ll want to register soon.  If you can’t attend for some reason, the sessions will be broadcast live online.

Help Out

We’d really love to be great hosts for our national family.  If you would like to contribute, here are a few ways we need help:

  1. Billet guests –  please let us know details (how many beds, male, female, couples, etc).
  2. Help with general hospitality (food, snacks, coffee, etc).
  3. Design & Vibe creators – these events are intended to be experiential and creative which means we need help setting up & decorating the main gathering space!
  4. There will be other ways to help – keep posted.

Please contact the office if you’re interested in any of these.

June 16 – 18

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Enlive: Make it Part of your Summer Plans

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The Canadian Vineyard’s National Celebration is happening this year in Kitchener, Ontario!

Monday, July 28 – Thurs, July 31.

You can register now at Vineyard Enlive!

Featured Speakers
Cheryl BearCheryl Bear is Nadleh Whut’en from the Carrier Nation in Northern British Columbia. Her story includes having earned a doctorate, and being an award winning First Nations recording artist and national and international speaker. She and her family are living the story by visiting every one of the 1000 First Nations communities, Reservations, Reserves and settlements in the USA and Canada sharing the Great Story of the Creator’s love and helping Native people to encounter Jesus. They have been to over 600 locations so far…and amazingly seem to have found “cuzzins” in every one. Cheryl is well known for her wisdom, sense of humour and ability to raise awareness of the value and uniqueness of Indigenous people and their culture.
David RuisDavid Ruis is a well-respected worship leader, songwriter and communicator who has opened the way for many people around the world to encounter Jesus. Together with his wife Anita, he is also known as a church planter and pastor having established churches in Canada and the US within the Vineyard family of churches. For the Ruis family, living the story involves a lifestyle that integrates creative worship expression with community that is engaged with the issues of poverty and social injustice. David has also been instrumental in seeing Vineyard communities established in Nepal and India. Much of his focus tends to be in indigenous settings, working amongst the poor as well as facilitating leadership development and fostering originality in songwriting and the arts in various cultural settings.
Robby DawkinsRobby Dawkins has been called by God to live the story by helping equip and release the church in the power ministry of the Holy Spirit. Power encounters with Jesus leading to radically changed lives have been a mark of the church he planted with his wife Angie in Aurora, Illinois and in his itinerant ministry all over the world. Robby teaches on prophetic ministry, healing, ministry of the presence of God and deliverance from demonic power: all ministries in which he, and others he has mentored, have been significantly used as God’s Kingdom breaks in with signs and wonders. He was recently featured in the movies “Furious Love” and “Father of Lights”. His book “Do What Jesus Did “ was released in June 2013.
REGISTER NOW AT www.VineyardEnlive.caLocation – Kitchener, Ontariohttp://www.bingemans.comWe’re very pleased the be gathering together at Bingemans in Kitchener, Ontario. This location features a conference centre, onsite camping, a waterpark, a golf course and an onsite restaurant. Additionally, there are lots of dining opportunities in close proximity. There will be lots of ways to have all kinds of great family fun together!

We’ve negotiated very reasonable rates for onsite camping.

Campsites: $35 per night (hydro or non)

Cabins and Yurts: $60 per night (limited availability).
– Cabins sleep 6
– Yurts sleep 5

To book your campsite, phone toll free: 1-800-565-4631

Featured Focus Interaction Group Tracks

These daily sessions will be extended conversations facilitated by seasoned leaders in our movement. Each one of these dialogues speaks to the leading edges of our committment to see the story of Jesus lived and experienced in our communities.

  • Kingdom Multiplication
  • International Mission
  • Kids
  • Healthy Church Structure
  • Community Discernment/Discourse/Instructing One Another
  • Social Justice
  • Holding the Centre (Moral Discourse)
  • Neighbouring/Missional Living
  • Worship

Children and Youth

Children and Youth are a major emphasis of our movement. During our time together there will be lots of focused activities and events for nursery, preschoolers, grade schoolers and teens. Each of these tracks will run concurrently with our Focussed Interactive Groups.
David, Cheryl and Robby will each have the opportunity to speak into the lives of our teens during their time together.

****If your family total cost exceeds $375/early registration or $425/regular registration, please email events@vineyard.ca for a 10% family discount code.