You can expect to experience the welcome of God through friendly people and His presence. That is our goal for our Sunday services. Our services generally run an hour and half. There is 20 minutes of worshipping God through modern music followed by announcements. We then have 35-40 minutes of a talk from the Bible. We close with a time of ministry where people are free to receive prayer and all of us expect God to touch our lives.
The most common two words we hear from guests are “real” and “welcoming”. Most guests say that this church is real. They talk about how we dress down. They talk about how from the people they meet to our pastors that there is a genuineness about us. We’re real with our successes and failures in our journey. By welcoming most guests mean they were greeted not only at the door (by ‘greeters’ who are supposed to do that) but by regular folks in the lobby and in the sanctuary. They felt accepted and listened to. They sensed the Vineyard was a place where they could belong.