Welcome to what has been a different weekend here at Encounter Vineyard.

If you are joining us for the first time, a very warm welcome to you. If you regularly join with us online, thank you for travelling with us as a church, where together we seek to follow the ‘Way of Jesus.’

We will be having our first Church at the Farm Weekend over this weekend and are so grateful for the richness of this weekend. The team, led by Sara Prince, that has helped pull this all together have been incredible and we have also been blessed with amazing June weather. We are also, so grateful to Alex, Liz and their family for sharing their beautiful farm with us this weekend.

The theme of the weekend is ‘Abundant Life’ and Mark will be bringing a special message, delivered in the barn, to all there. Here is the link to that talk for all those that couldn’t make it. We also attach our questions to accompany the message for those who want to follow this up either in their personal devotions or in Life Groups.

Please remember that next weekend we have Charlie Cleverly coming as a guest speaker at our morning celebration and that we have Firefall in the evening.

We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today and that you are encouraged and renewed as we worship together.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard on what is Pentecost Sunday.

If you are joining us for the first time, a very warm welcome to you. If you regularly join with us online, thank you for travelling with us as a church, where together we seek to follow the ‘Way of Jesus.’ 

Today, along with the world-wide church, we celebrate the Gift of God’s presence through His Spirit being poured out on the early followers of Jesus while they were in Jerusalem, waiting for that which Jesus had promised them. It really is a celebration of the birth of the church. 

Today, Mark will be wrapping up our Revive series where we have been journeying through the book of Acts together and will he be bringing a message called ‘Bringing the Outsider In.’

Please note that there is only a morning celebration in the building today as it is one of our all-church celebration moments!

We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today and that you are encouraged and renewed as we worship together.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. We do hope that you have had a good Bank Holiday and for some a Half Term week.

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.

We are now well into our series called ‘Revive,’ where we have been looking at the pouring out of the Spirit in the book of Acts and what that means for us today, as we retrace the steps of the early church and what it means for us here in the Cotswolds. A week today will be Pentecost Sunday, which will mark the end our season of prayer and fasting and we are continuing to encourage all of us to come with hunger and expectancy in these final days of this season. 

Today Malcolm Hayes is speaking and encouraging us to continue in the ministry and mission of Jesus and the adventure that the early church embraced. 

Today we also have our first Church BBQ of the year so please do come and join us for what will be great opportunity for connection together.

Welcome to this long Bank Holiday weekend and our Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard.

It really does feel like summer is here now and we have all sorts of summer events coming up. Please do check the home page of our website to get all the dates in your diary. 

We are also in the season of Pentecost where we are in a series called ‘Revive.’ In this series we have been looking at the pouring out of the Spirit in the book of Acts and what that means for us today as we retrace the steps of the early church and what it means for us here in the Cotswolds.

In this season we have also entered into an intentional time of prayer and fasting that we are calling Revive 25. If you haven’t yet joined the journey, there is still time!

We are praying that we experience a fresh awakening during this season as we use the book of Acts as our prayer and mission guide. We also have various resources available on the homepage of our website to help equip us on the journey.

Today we have a morning celebration where Mark is bringing a message called ‘Freedom in the Midnights.’ In the evening we have our monthly Firefall, as we continue to pray for an awakening in the church and all around us.

We are grateful for all that’s ahead — and as always, praying for you as you play your part in what God is doing through this church, in this region.

Welcome to another 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.

We are now well into our summer term and we have BBQ’s, Church at the Farm and all sorts of other summer events coming up!  We are also in the season of Pentecost and a couple of weeks ago we began a series called ‘Revive.’ This series is looking at the pouring out of the Holy Spirit in the book of Acts and what that means for us today. In this series we are retracing the steps of the early movement of the church we belong to and what it means for us here in the Cotswolds.

In this season we have also entered into an intentional time of prayer and fasting that we are calling Revive 25. This is born out of a dream God has given us to see a greater renewal in the church and revival in the region. If you haven’t yet joined the journey, there is still time!

We are praying that we experience a fresh awakening during the season as we use the book of Acts as our prayer and mission guide. We also have various resources available on the homepage of our website to help equip us on the journey.

Today we have our morning and evening celebrations where Mark is bringing a message called ‘The Influential Church.’

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

Welcome to Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. If you’re here for the first time, a very 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!

Today is slightly different for us online as in the morning celebration we have Emma Worrall speaking about prayer lessons from the most persecuted. Emma is the Strategic Opportunities Lead at Open Doors and is based down the road from us in Witney. She has been part of the Open Doors team for many years. Open Doors is an organisation that supports persecuted Christians around the world in the call to follow Jesus courageously. Today’s talk will not be available immediately but will be available online later on today via the homepage of our website.

This evening in our celebration we will have a time of worship and sharing testimonies. For those who want to, it will be an opportunity to share either how we came to faith, how are lives have been transformed by Jesus or how He has worked in our lives through provision or healing. 

After a powerful Sunday last weekend, we are excited to be returning to our Revive series next weekend where we are retracing the early steps of the church we belong to as we move towards Pentecost.

We really hope you enjoy worshipping with us this weekend and that you are blessed, strengthened and renewed for the challenges of the week ahead.

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.

As we begin the summer term and the season of Pentecost, we begin a key series for us called ‘Revive.’ This series looks at the pouring out of the Holy Spirit in the book of Acts and what that means for us today. In this series we will retrace the steps of the early movement of the church we belong to and what it means for us.

In the run up to Pentecost we are also entering into an intentional time of prayer and fasting that we are calling Revive 25. This is born out of a dream God has given us to see a greater renewal in the church and revival in the region. 

We are praying that we experience a fresh awakening during the season between Easter and Pentecost and this year the book of Acts is going to be our prayer and mission guide. This weekend we will be making various resources available to us all as we go on this journey together.

Today we have what we believe will be an exciting and significant day. In the morning celebration Mark will be bringing a message called ‘From Restlessness to Fulness.’ In the evening we will be having a very special Firefall as we begin our Revive series together with an evening of corporate prayer and worship. 

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 we are both online with just our morning celebration in the building. Today also sees us draw our Easter celebrations to a close and David West is speaking with a message called ‘Then What?’ He will be helping us focus on all that we are meant to carry and reflect on as a ‘post Easter resurrection people.’

Next weekend our celebrations return to the morning and the evening and we will be starting a new series called “Revive’ where we will be working our way towards Pentecost Sunday and looking at the pouring out of the Holy Spirit in the book of Acts and what that means for us today

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

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, so He knew what it was like to be 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 ‘What and Who do you believe?’

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. If you are joining us for the first time, an especially big welcome to you. 

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

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!

For the past six weeks, we have found ourselves in the Season of Lent where we have been in our series ‘Everyday Altars.’ 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 wrapping up our ‘Everyday Altars’ series by focusing on the biblical story of Jacob in Genesis 28 and the concept of making significant life decisions during times of discomfort and change.

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 check out our Holy Week programme on the home page of our website: www.encountervineyard.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.