Welcome to Vineyard at Home

Vineyard at Home is a new blog about our house church experiences, philosophy of ministry, quirks, adventures and points of view. In it, I will be sharing not only my own insights and experiences, but also those of others who are meeting in simple church / organic church / house church modalities. Should be pretty interesting - and fun!

Vineyard at Home is the name of our house church "network" in Orange County, California. We are affiliated with the Vineyard USA which is the community of Vineyard Churches in America. However, as a house church, we are definitely breaking new ground for our movement and for ourselves. We don't mind (too much) that people don't always get why we would move away from more traditional/conventional church life to house church. Indeed, there are things we sometimes miss about the "old days" when we were a small church in Southern California meeting in a rented building and reaching out as churches in our neck of the woods do. But, after two years in house church mode, we're pretty hooked on the chance to "empower everyday people to bring the ministry of Jesus to everyday places". Oh, and you'll notice that - while we take God very seriously - we don't take ourselves too seriously at all!

We welcome comments, questions and the experiences of others who, like us, are launching out into the sometimes lonely paths of alternative church modalities. Please don't hesitate to weigh in!

So, welcome!

Bill Faris, Director and Blogger

Vineyard at Home