Most of the people who come to our counselors at the Vineyard Counseling Center come with one fundamental problem, anxiety. This is because anxiety is an underlying component in almost every other diagnosis, symptom or mood disorder people have. The fact is, life can be very scary, and God has given us the capacity to feel anxiety to help protect ourselves when threats arise.
Suffice to say, intentionality matters. Showing up with a posture of curiosity matters. Showing up in inclusive ways to represent the kingdom of God matters. So as we move into this next chapter of Vineyard Columbus, let us continue to be people who practice the hospitality and the love of Jesus by being winsome, curious, and intentionally inclusive.
As we complete these days of Holy Week, let us, as the author of Hebrews admonishes, fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who went back to Jerusalem, and for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despised its shame, and accepted the hostility of the very ones he came to save. He went back so that we too might also return to the One who we have abandoned and forsaken, just as the disciples did during the first Holy Week, and yet who nonetheless waits with arms of embrace open to us and to all others as we respond to his invitation to return to Him.
At Vineyard Columbus, our value life ethic extends meaningfully in multiple directions: Toward protecting the unborn, whom we believe are made in the image of God just as much as their mamas. And at the same time, toward caring meaningfully for mothers caught in pregnancies they weren't expecting or are struggling to support. Toward looking squarely at the truth and the pain found in those situations, and toward receiving with grace and welcome those who feel they have no options.
I don’t always show up well to family gatherings. Better put, I intend to show up well but slowly as the evening goes on, I find myself irritated, getting into the same little arguments I always fall prey to, and leaving at best disappointed, and at worst with a bad attitude. Is there anyone else out there like me?
Thirty years have passed since Vineyard Columbus started its food outreach ministry. Started by the vision and dedicated mission of a single mother distributing peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, the pantry has now grown into a functioning center of ministry for the poor and unsheltered in our city.
Vineyard Community Center continued to provide services to 900 patients, served by nearly 70 volunteers clocking over 2000 hours of professional services. Similarly, Lower Lights Christian Health Center also continued to provide service after a temporary closure. In addition to resuming services, the two organizations worked together to host a pop-up COVID-19 vaccine distribution event.
En la capilla (Chapel) de la Iglesia Vineyard Columbus Estacionamiento Norte
Domingos a las 11am
