Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard as we draw another half-term to a close here. We do hope and pray that you have all had a great last week. Thank you for joining us online, we hope that you enjoy being part of our online worshipping community.

As it is half-term our message will not be available until later today, both via email and our website. It will also only be the live spoken recording from the building.

Please do check the website or Saturday Contact to see what is happening here at Encounter Vineyard. There are a number of significant dates to take note of in the coming months and well worth getting in the diary. One key date for us is today as we have our Baptism Celebration in the building, where we have a number of people getting baptised.

We are now in our year long journey through the book of Mark and today Mark is bringing a message called ‘The Secret to Living a Life Like Jesus.’ In this message he is looking at how we see Jesus model what it looks like to spend time alone with the Father and how the power of prayer can fuel us, just as it did for Jesus.

We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard as we celebrate another May Bank Holiday weekend here in the UK! Thank you for joining us online, we hope that you enjoy being part of our online worshipping community.

Please do check the website or Saturday Contact to see what is happening here at Encounter Vineyard. There are a number of significant dates to take note of in the coming months and well worth getting in the diary. One key date for us is a Baptism Celebration next Sunday 31st May where we have a number of people getting baptised. If you are a follower of Jesus and are not yet baptised, this may be your opportunity, so do please make contact with us and let us know.

We are now in our year long journey through the book of Mark and today Mark is bringing a message called ‘Why Healed People Never Stay the Same.’ In this message he is looking at how Jesus teaches, frees and heals with full authority and full vulnerability. He looks at how Jesus doesn’t just confront brokenness but He restores it.

We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. Thank you for joining us online. We hope that you enjoy being part of our online worshipping community, although this Sunday, things are a little different.

Today we have Hannah Hawking’s joining us again to speak in the building. Hannah is incredibly well known to us; she is our daughter! She is also the Chief of Staff of Alpha Global and we so look forward to having her speak this weekend.

Please check out your inbox later in the day for the link to today’s message. You will also be able to find the message on the homepage of our website.

Please do check the website or Saturday Contact to see what is happening here at Encounter Vineyard. There are a number of significant dates to take note of in the coming months and well worth getting in the diary. One key date for us is Baptism on Sunday the 31st May where we have a number of people getting baptised. If you are a follower of Jesus and are not yet baptised, this may be your opportunity, so do please make contact with us and let us know.

Next week we return to normal as Mark picks up our series in Marks Gospel with the message ‘Why Healed People Never Stay the Same.’

We so look forward to joining with you as we celebrate today.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. Thank you for joining us online. We hope that you enjoy being part of our online worshipping community.

Please do check the website or Saturday Contact to see what is happening here at Encounter Vineyard. There are a number of significant dates to take note of in the coming months and well worth getting in the diary. One key date for us is Baptism Sunday on the 31st May where we have a number of people getting baptised. If you are a follower of Jesus and are not yet baptised, this may be your opportunity, so do please make contact with us and let us know.

As a church we are now in our year long journey through the book of Mark and in week four of our series we dive into Mark 1:16-20 where Jesus calls His first disciples and calls them to a life of flourishing. The message is called ‘How do we Flourish?’ as Mark looks at how we are called out of our comfort zones to take bold faith-filled risks!

We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. As we celebrate the first Sunday of May and our first May Bank Holiday, we are reminded of how quickly times flies! Thank you for joining us online, we hope that you enjoy being part of our online worshipping community.

Please do check the website or Saturday Contact to see what is happening here at Encounter Vineyard. There are a number of significant dates to take note of in the coming months and well worth getting in the diary.

We are now in our year long journey through the book of Mark and today Mark is bringing a message called ‘Following God.’ He is looking at how Jesus was baptised to identify with us and how He will never ask us to do something that He hasn’t already done. He is also exploring how we can use fasting and prayer to equip us for the challenges of life.

We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today.

Welcome to Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard this weekend.

As always, we are sending out our Sunday message, praying it serves you, encourages you, and helps you continue to find and follow Jesus in the everyday rhythms of life.

Last weekend we began our year long journey through the book of Mark. Over the coming months, we will be walking slowly and attentively through this remarkable fast paced account of Jesus’ life. We are praying it shapes us, challenge sus, and awakens us again to who Jesus is and all He calls us to. The chance not just to observe Jesus, but to respond to Him.

This weekend Mark shares the story of John the Baptist as John encourages others to get baptised so that they can get ready for Jesus. Mark will be exploring how we can stay grounded in a disorientated world.

We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today.

Welcome to Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard this weekend.

As always, we are sending out our Sunday message, praying it serves you, encourages you, and helps you continue to find and follow Jesus in the everyday rhythms of life.

Staring today, we are beginning a journey through the Gospel of Mark. Over the coming months, we will walk slowly and attentively through this remarkable account of Jesus’ life, allowing it to shape us, challenge us, and awaken us again to who He is. Mark’s Gospel is vivid, fast-moving, and deeply compelling; it invites us not just to observe Jesus, but to respond to Him.

At its heart, Mark is a call to action - a call to follow. Again and again, we see Jesus step into ordinary moments and transform them with the presence and power of God. And as we journey through this Gospel together, our prayer is simple: that we wouldn’t just learn more about Jesus, but that we would encounter Him afresh—and in doing so, become more like Him.

We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today.

Welcome to Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard this weekend.

If you are joining us for the first time, a very warm welcome to you, we are thrilled to have you with us. If you regularly join with us online, thank you for travelling with us as a community of faith, who seek to follow and practice the ‘Way of Jesus’ together.

This weekend sees us draw our Easter celebrations to a close and Susie Wiltshire is speaking with a message called ‘The Road that Changes Everything.’ She will be helping us focus on all that we are meant to carry and reflect on as a ‘post Easter resurrection people’ as we journey on the Road to Emmaus.

Next weekend our we will be starting a new series which will carry us all the way through the year to Easter 2027. We are going to be looking at the whole of Marks Gospel together during the year! It is an exciting journey that awaits us as we look at the life of Jesus, from beginning to end, and allow the lessons we embrace to shape and change us.

We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today.

Happy Easter and welcome to Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. If you’re here for the first time, a warm welcome to you. We are thrilled that you have wanted to join us this weekend. If you are part of our regular extended family then welcome back!

Every year on Easter Sunday we celebrate with the World-Wide Church the Resurrection of Jesus Christ! The first Easter Sunday changed the world and we cannot wait to celebrate Easter with you today!

2,000 years ago Jesus walked the earth to know what it was like to be with us. He also knew what it would cost Him to save us … and yet He chose to do it anyway. Today, we celebrate His power over death with His resurrection and remember that because He lives, so can we!

Mark is speaking this weekend with a message that celebrates the decisive nature of Easter called ‘Hope to Hold on To.’

Thank you for choosing to be a part of our weekend celebration on what is one of the high points in the life of the church.

We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. We are so pleased that you’ve joined us and we hope that you enjoy being part of our online worshipping community.

For the past six weeks, we have found ourselves in the Season of Lent where we have been in our annual series ‘Awaken.’ Today marks the beginning of Holy Week and Jesus’ Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem two thousand years ago. It was a week when people made decisions to either cry out “hosanna” or “crucify him!”

In today’s message Mark is linking our ‘Awaken’ series to Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week with a message called ‘The Triumphal Entrance and Jesus’ Generosity.’

During the rest of the week, we remember both the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ and how the first Easter changed the world. We can’t wait to celebrate these momentous events with you over the next seven days. If you want to know what is happening during Easter, do please look below or check out our Holy Week programme on the home page of our website: www.encountervineyrad.org.uk

We pray that you are able to enjoy the experience of being part of our extended community and that you can encounter God’s transformative presence as we worship together today.