Vineyard Missions

• Puerto Rico Partnership & San Juan Vineyards Celebrate
  A team from the U.S. partnership joined with the Vineyards in Puerto Rico for the one-year anniversary celebration of the San Juan Vineyards. It was a great time! One U.S. team member recounts a personal highlight of her trip: " A local radio station host was hesitant to go with us to a certain neighborhood for an Evangelical Outreach.  Her 40 year old uncle had been killed in that area the few years before. She overcame her reluctance about going on the outreach and actually participated in leading the "Godfather of the Neighborhood" to Christ!  She commented afterward saying, "This week has been the best week of my life!" 

• Ukraine Partnership – Helping Kids with Bone Disorders
  Ukraine Partnership Team Reports:  “We're back from the Ukraine! God is awesome! We had a great time being with the 300+ kids at the bone disorders summer camp. The camp brought together orphans and non-orphans, rich and poor. Our team was the first church or organization to serve there in a long time. God gave us amazing favor. Both the kids and or team were ministered to by the love and presence of God. It seems like this is the start of many years of God's Kingdom breaking through in this area. God really wants us to “love the least, the last, and the lost!”

• Worship Conference - Ecuadorians Experience the Vineyard
  In the words of our missionary/pastor in Ecuador:  "There are no Vineyard churches in Ecuador. People say “what is the Vineyard?” and I have to explain it with words. But it’s something that is more caught not taught. " A 3-day worship conference seemed the perfect venue to provide the “caught” experience for the budding membership of the Quito Vineyard.   Rodrigo Garcia (La Viña, Santiago-Chile) came to lead worship, teach and lead ministry Times. Victor and Yolanda Ibagon (La Viña, Bogotá-Colombia) were also on hand to preach and lead ministry. The Ecuador Partnership Team (US) “was a huge help, because they exemplified what the Vineyard is by their loving attitude and willing hearts to serve.  The Quito group ate it up. They embraced the teaching, fell in love with the worship, and participated in the ministry times. The group continues to talk about what they experienced."  Pray that the “multinational flavor" of this Vineyard worship conference will be a significant part of the DNA of the Vineyard Movement in Ecuador for years to come.  

JUNE 2008

• Central Asia Update
  "This country has no future," this winter caption from the daily news read like a portent of death” from a prophet.  Yet this dire prediction came instead from a quiet spoken family man in Central Asia. His desperation gave rise to an even greater question: “Is this what you call life?"  The Central Asia Partnership is responding to this heart cry.  The partnership leader reiterates further: “It’s not about us being able to bring life, but about our great God doing it! Jesus died so that we can enter the “portals of eternal life”.  His death is truly the doorway that can bring forth His life! Two teams from one partnership have been to Central Asia since the spring, believing for God to continue to bring life and deliverance. Let us continue to pray, believe and GO!”

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Vineyard Values for Intercession

1. God's Glory. We are seeking the elevation of God’s reputation and magnificence; and we aim to resist anything that detracts from it. Conversely, excessive focus on evil powers, principalities, stratospheric strategies of prayer, praying with hidden or personal agendas, or seeking personal gain or recognition - all these can undermine our needed focus on God’s glory and dependency on God’s power.
2. Holy Spirit as Helper and Scripture as Plumbline. Our highest aim in prayer is for God to pray His prayers through us. This can only happen by means of the Holy Spirit guiding and empowering our prayer (Rom. 8:26-27; Eph. 6:18). We discern the source and significance of the spiritual influence that guides us by means of the normal-language interpretation of Scripture (the Old and New Testaments of the Christian Bible), which is our plumbline of Truth. Consequently, the Spirit-wielded Word becomes our offensive weapon in advancing God’s Kingdom amidst opposition from spiritual wickedness (Eph. 6:17).
3. Genuineness and Simplicity. We want our hearts, prayers, relationships, and ministry marked by genuineness and simplicity to the core. We seek to be naturally supernatural. We should resist the air of unnatural spirituality like we find with religiously affected language. Pretentiousness, presumption, religious externalism, and judgmentalism are offensive to God and should be to us, as well. Our prayers should be simple and consistent with the truths and promises of God’s Word (Matt. 6:7-13, 5:37).
4. Humility. To be pleasing to God, our prayers should be drenched in humility (1 Pet. 5:5; Ps. 51:17; Isa. 57:15). They should be characterized by poverty of spirit, absolute dependence on God, and emptiness of self. This means we often learn to wait on God rather than fill the air with words, which will result in asserting our agendas and self-will.
5. Unity. There is great power in agreement before God in prayer – with Him and each other (Matt. 18:19; Acts 1:14; 4:24ff; Rom. 15:5-6). This is reflected in our loyalty to God, to the leaders God has placed over us, and to each other (Heb. 13:17; Eph. 4:3). Moreover, our prayers should reflect concern for the whole church, not just the cause of certain individuals or groups within the church. We must avoid elitism.
6. Expectancy. We wait on God with the expectation that He will act. We anticipate God’s intervention in the affairs of people (Heb. 11:6; Ps. 37:4-7). Faith is God’s gift, not our work. Therefore, we humbly wait on God and call out to God. He will give us the faith to trust Him for the great things He wants to accomplish (Isa. 64:4, 65:24, I Cor. 12:7, 9-10; 1 John. 5:14-15).
7. Perseverance. We must persist with God in prayer. Against any discouragement or opposition until we either receive from God what we request or are released from that burden of prayer. We must persist until God redirects us, stretches us, or grants our request (Lk.11:5-13, esp. vv. 9-10; 18:1-8; 2 Cor. 12:7-10; Acts 16:6-10; 21:3-4, 10-14).