FAQ’s

We’d be honoured for you to partner with this beautiful dream. Here a three ways you could join in:

PRAY FOR US

This is a significant God-sized dream, and every God-sized dream begins with prayer. Join us and pray for the city, Northwest Vineyard and the team. Let us know so we can keep you updated - email us at: northwestvineyard.org.nz/joininfo@northwestvineyad.org.nz.

JOIN THE LAUNCH TEAM

We’d love to have you journey with us. For us to reach this city with the hope of Jesus, it will take other people stepping out and saying "YES" to this dream. We’d love to meet you and hear your story. Let’s chat! Contact us and we'll help you take the next steps - email us at: info@northwestvineyad.org.nz today.

BECOME A LAUNCH GIVER

God’s dream for this city is only possible through the generosity and support of people like you. If you have a heart for our dream and would like to join the team in another way, we invite you to become a Launch Giver - a giver to this journey. You can partner through a one-time gift, or even an ongoing monthly gift. To set this up, follow the instructions on our “Give” tab.

Throughout this season we gather on Sundays at 10.30am, enjoying a relaxed time of building community, meeting new friends and eating brunch together as part of our ‘pre-launch gatherings’.

We think there is something about sharing food and drink with one another that brings people together and naturally builds and deepens relationships through shared stories and laughter, all the while good food is enjoyed.

At our Sunday brunches you’ll hear more of the vision and connect with some amazing people as we build for the future. This is the first stage of establishing Northwest Vineyard together, and we just can’t wait for more.

Come along as you are and bring whoever you want, bring your kids along too if you have any, we’ve got a special area just for them to hang out and have some fun.

We love meeting new people and we'd love to meet you. We’d love to host you for brunch and get to know you!

Connect with us - info@northwestvineyard.org.nz

- We’ll also make space on other occasions for Team Gatherings to pray, dream and make plans for our launch.

- There’s also other fun-filled adventures and events threaded throughout where community, connection, and friendships are formed as we build for the future.

Over the next several months, we’re focusing on gathering a beautiful, healthy community of people to bring this vision to life. We want to connect people with our story and together we’ll walk in this journey. We’re in anticipation for meeting people, for people coming alive, and something special being built here.

We have a timeline that we’re using as a trajectory, the goal is to Gather - Pre Launch - Launch, each with its own set of criteria, plans and key indicators. Our desire is to launch Spring 2025.

There's a saying that goes like this "If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together.” We want to go together and we’d love to build this community with you-what better time to get involved than now.

Take the step and see if this is the place for you! info@northwestvineyard.org.nz

Absolutely! We love meeting new, little (and not so little) friends. At Northwest Vineyard we LOVE kids and young people, we value them and believe they’re an important part of who we are. We believe they’re the future, now.

We can’t wait to meet your family and walk this journey together!

Vineyard churches embrace a form of episcopal church government, along with the majority of Christian churches today.

Vineyard churches are charitable trusts registered with the Justice Department, and are legally autonomous. The board is made up of team members, Lead Pastors and external people. The board undertake and fulfil all the legal requirements for the Trust, and who make decisions regarding all the churches legal, financial and business matters within Northwest Vineyard. Matters relating to the spiritual life of the church are entrusted to the leadership team. The Lead Pastors are accountable to the board.

Our ultimate authority for living out our faith is found in scripture, we believe that the bible is the Inspired living word of God. For us, the Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed are two early confessions of faith that sum up our beliefs. What we believe about Jesus returning has a massive impact on the way we live now. It affects our priorities, our relationships, what we do with our time and resources, and how we engage with our environment. We are a church plant wanting to partner with God in what He’s doing right now, and play our part in His restoration of all things.

Foundationally, at Northwest Vineyard, we align ourselves completely with the Vineyard Statement of Faith which you can read here - vineyard.org.nz/our-vision-and-values