Evanston Vineyard

Chris Gow- What is this life that Jesus came to bring?

On this week’s Coping With COVID, Renée Cunningham will host a conversation with Geno Olison, lead pastor at the South Suburban Vineyard in Flossmoor and member of the Vineyard Executive Team. 

This week’s guest is Matt Dobschuetz, longtime church member and host of the Porn Free Radio podcast, which you can learn more about at recoveredman.com. In addition to the podcast, Matt works as a professional coach helping guys live porn free and create a greater vision and purpose for their lives.

Matt and Ted talk about how to meet real needs during COVID and why people often turn to unskillful behaviors like pornography to escape.

How Jesus helps us overcome the painful side of life.

Our guest for tonight’s Coping with COVID class is Pam Larkin, LCPC. Pam is a clinical therapist in Chicago with a background in community mental health. She is one of the cofounders of Color-Full: a group of women of color who fully embrace our Christian and cultural identities. Pam attends The Neighborhood Campus is a part of the leadership team there.

Renee Cunningham will interview Pam about peer and family relationships in a COVID world. They will talk about building healthy relationships and navigating the complexities many are facing.

Cindy Nicholson looks back over a lifetime of experiencing a life lived well to capture stories of God bringing life that has been grace-filled, peaceful and joyful in the midst of difficulties and challenges.

Today we’re bringing you the first of two Coping with COVID conversations from the last two weeks, a conversation between Ted Kim and Brenda and Michael Gatlin, pastors of the Duluth Vineyard in Minnesota.

In addition to leading a large, vibrant church, Brenda is the Regional Leader for the Vineyard in our region, the Midwest North. Her husband, Michael, leads Multiply Vineyard, the national church planting arm of our association of churches.

Today’s guests will need no introduction to longtime Evanston Vineyard members — they are Bill and Cheryll Hanawalt, part of the founding team of the Evanston Vineyard.

Bill served as the Executive Pastor of the Evanston Vineyard and Cheryll pastored in the areas of counseling, global connections and women’s ministry. Last summer, they retired after 40-plus years of service.

Death tries to tell us all sorts of doomed stories. Jesus came so that we might have life. Life with Jesus is about flourishing through formation! Formation requires us to show up, clean house and keep going. -Renée Cunningham