August 26, 2015

Radical Resilience - Katrina Recovery Reflection

August 26, 2015/ Matt Brichetto

After decades of decline and decay, Hurricane Katrina seemed to be the inevitable end to a once great American city. What has transpired over the past decade—not just in a few New Orleans neighborhoods, but across the whole greater New Orleans region—is an amazing story. At this important milestone, as the nation remembers how far we’ve come since 2005, it is also important to note that in some ways the real work is still ahead in this region's journey towards the next 2 decades. Over the past 7+ years, my family and I have been involved in the recovery in several avenues throughout our city. Most recently, the last few months, Pastor Rob Wilton and I have had the opportunity to serve alongside an organization that is leading the leaders of this region. Michael Hecht and GNO Inc. are a constant motivational voice inspiring our region as we together not only rebuild but reach new heights.

August 20, 2015

Lead Pastor & vStudents Pastor...Let's do this!!!

August 20, 2015/ Rob Wilton

Marshall has been serving as our Generations Director and has focused on leading and building our vStudents ministry. He has done a great job laying a foundation for our church of the future. Marshall and his family will be leaving us in a couple weeks as he is pursuing God's call to serve with a church in North Alabama. This was as much of a surprise to the Henderson family as it has been to us. The Vintage Pastors have affirmed that Marshall has received a call from the Lord.

Vintage Church exists for Gospel Multiplication. This has been accomplished in many ways. One person telling another person about Jesus. One community group multiplying to start another community group. One location for worship multiplying to two locations for worship. We have also accomplished this vision by sending church leaders around the world. We have church planters, church leaders, and missionaries all over the world that have been SENT OUT by Vintage. We are excited to consider this move by the Henderson family in the same way. Our church not only celebrates our gathering capacity, we celebrate our sending capacity.

So...what about vStudents?

August 19, 2015

Children Need the Gospel

August 19, 2015/ John Meche

The parent/child relationship is a mirror, reflecting to us the relationship between us and our heavenly Father. The writer of Hebrews in chapter 12 encourages the church to endure the race that God has set before us, because "God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?" (Hebrew 12:7). Parenting is a unique opportunity for the parent and child alike to understand symbolically the nature and character of God. Parents provide, love, nurture, discipline, correct, bless, and teach. All of these things are done out of love in hopes that the child will grow into godly maturity.

August 17, 2015

Offering Our Lives: How the Tabernacle Teaches Us to Worship

August 17, 2015/ Dustin Turner

Over the past two weeks, we’ve discovered two truths about the tabernacle: (1) the presence of God dwelt in the tabernacle and (2) God was worshipped in the tabernacle. As a part of that worship, we also briefly discussed how God allowed his people to participate in worship. Building upon the idea of participatory worship, we’re going to delve deeper into how the Israelites participated in worship and what their experience means for us today.

August 14, 2015

CHANGED Sunday with Caz McCaslin of Upward Sports

August 14, 2015/ Vintage Church

Upward Sports began in 1995 with a vision from Caz McCaslin to promote the discovery of Jesus through sports. His driving passion is to reach young athletes and their families through a first-class sports experience. Today Upward is the world’s largest Christian sports league for young athletes with more than half a million children playing in 4,200 multi-sport clinics, camps, leagues, development programs, and travel teams in 44 states. Athletes learn sportsmanship, teamwork, leadership, effort, and respect.

August 13, 2015

SERVE the CITY Opportunities for Katrina 10

August 13, 2015/ Vintage Church

August 29, 2015 marks the 10th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. These past 10 years our city has been rebuilt by thousands of locals and hundreds of thousands volunteers from around the world. Our city has made many strides and grown. The story that is being written is truly amazing. We as New Orleanians and Vintage Church are a part of this story. We have a huge role to play as Christians and a church.

August 12, 2015

Respond: Music Arts at Vintage Church

August 12, 2015/ Robert Hargrove

Highlighted throughout the Bible and so richly painted in the Psalms, we see response to the Lord through musical worship. I recognize that today in most congregational settings guitars, keyboards, and many other instruments have replaced the lute, harp, and lyre, but the Lord’s steadfast love remains the same. Jesus never changes. Yes, He is worthy of all our praise. And we have the blessing of song to usher in that holy praise. “It is good to give thanks to the Lord.”

August 11, 2015

Join Us for Vintage's "Advanced Giving Rally" — Wednesday, August 12th 6:30 PM

August 11, 2015/ Vintage Church

Pastor Rob explains the MORE Intention card. We would love to receive one of these from you, as this card is an important aspect of the MORE Initiative to help us plan as we journey through the initiative.

Advanced Giving Rally

Wednesday Night, Aug 12th (6:30–7:30pm)
Vintage Jefferson Tent
*vKids Care Provided

The Advanced Giving Rally will be an opportunity for our Vintage Partners and Leadership to lead the way for the rest of our church as we jump into the MORE INITIATIVE over the next two years. During this time, we will pray, worship, and turn in our MORE INTENTION CARDS. This event will be open to anyone who is ready to respond and will be promoted this Sunday.

Intention Sunday & CHANGED

August 23rd
Vintage Jefferson Tent

Intention Sunday will be a great time of reaching people for Jesus through CHANGED and also turning in our MORE INTENTION CARDS. Most of our leaders would have already turned there cards in as an encouragement to the rest of our church. We are praying that our church will make a commitment to accomplish this vision.

August 10, 2015

From Tabernacle to Spirit: How We Participate in Worshipping God

August 10, 2015/ Dustin Turner

The word “worship” conjures up all sort of images, experiences, and ideas in our minds. For some of us, the idea of worship takes us back to previous experiences in church. We think about prior worship services we have experienced. This might include the different styles of worship we’ve encountered, including the singing of hymns with a piano and organ or the singing of new, contemporary worship songs with a praise band. Each of our experiences are different and culturally defined. If you go somewhere else in the world, you might experience a very different worship service.

August 06, 2015

Answers to Common MORE Questions

August 06, 2015/ Vintage Church

The MORE initiative has launched. MORE is the expanded vision for Vintage Church over the next two years. There are 3 aspects of MORE: MORE resources for our church, MORE environments for our city, and MORE impact for our world. Materials are posted online at www.vcnola.com/more.

In effort to be as helpful and informative as possible, we want to provide some answers to some common questions. The complete list of Questions & Answers can be found on pages 21-22 of the MORE booklet. Also Pastors and staff will facilitate a time after the gatherings on August 9th & August 16th to answer questions. We invite you to join us.

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