Every year around the beginning of September, we relaunch our small groups and take time to remind ourselves that we are a church made up of small groups.

Small groups are essential to growth and to show that we are part of God's family - receiving encouragement and exhorting each other to go deeper with Jesus.

In this episode, Ben teaches from Hebrews 10 where the author encourages the readers to prioritise meeting together and unpacks how small groups work and the biblical basis for them.

Glen talks about stepping into a new season at our New Ash Green site, teaching from 2 Timothy 4 about Paul's encouragement to serve both in season and out of season - and encouraging each other to find the place that God has for us in serving the church and His creation.

Some gifts just don't hit the headlines, do they? Gifts like prophecy, healings and miracles make the front pages; however it's easy to overlook gifts like administration, serving/helps, encouragement and giving etc.

In this episode that concludes our summer series on using gifts everday, Glen teaches about these gifts and how they are necessary and valuable in the Kingdom - and how people who prefer to work "behind the scenes" are just as valued as those who have more profile.

We had a blast with Laura, Senior Pastor of Rayleigh Vineyard (also our Area Leader!) when she came and taught on prophecy, ending with a practical session where everyone got involved.

This super practical talk demystifies what prophecy is and firmly equips every believer to know that they can hear from God and use prophecy as a powerful tool for releasing God's Kingdom in our communities - and for reaching individuals with God's love.

Ben kicks off our series on embedding spiritual gifts into our daily lives by looking at hospitality - a radically powerful gift that broke down social and spiritual barriers to the Good News of Jesus, both 2000 years ago and today.

Listen out for his 3 step model for engaging with this gift!

This week Glen unpacks how we in the Vineyard Movement view the Kingdom of God - which was the central message that Jesus taught on and demonstrated.

We look at how expecting the future age of the Kingdom to break into the now gives us purpose and hope - and how ordinary followers of Jesus can do the things that Jesus and the early church did, in terms of seeing people healed, delivered and comforted in Jesus' Name.

We had a fantastic time as the kids and youth took over the Sunday meeting, celebrating both natural and spiritual fathers who have supported and nurtured us. In today's talk, Dani looks at Biblical aspects of being a father.

Tim speaks from Acts 2 about the Holy Spirit coming on the believers together, how their response was worship, overflowing to witness to the surrounding community.

Ben shares about how we can get a greater appreciation of who God is, and how to make scripture come alive as we see Jesus in the Old Testament (also known as the Jewish Scriptures). He concludes with a challenge to prayerfully and slowly read one of the Minor Prophets this month.

A continuation of our series for our site in New Ash Green on the distinctives of the Vineyard family. In today's talk Amanda and Michael share about the values that guide how we worship God together.