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So I thought I’d take some time today to list both a bunch of events that we have coming up and to share a few other things we are working on.

Currently we are in the middle of a series of messages geared around the vision of our church. So obviously that has got me thinking a lot about how our vision impacts what we do (and just as importantly what we don’t do as a church).

When Liz and I were still in the pre-planting stages of the Ithaca Vineyard, we would go to any church planting conference we could find.  And while a lot of the stuff didn’t really make sense until we were actually starting the church, there was one thing that I kept hearing over and over…In fact [...]

One of the core values that we have as a church is that we want to see people at the Vineyard forming strong, vibrant relationships. More than simply a quick, “Hey, how’s it going?” “Great, you?” type of relationships. But rather relationships where people are real with each other.

Here we are at the final day of 2009, and just a year ago many of you probably decided “one of my goals for 2009 is to read through the bible next year.” So how did you do?

Maybe you haven’t noticed, but the weather has turned a bit colder over the past few weeks.  And while the storm that hit the east coast missed Ithaca, we can count on getting hit at least a couple times this year. When we were meeting downtown, said that regardless of how bad the weather was, [...]

Earlier in the week we asked people to vote for their choice of coffee to replace the blend we have been serving, Platinum Blonde, and the people’s choice for the new Gimme! Coffee blend is …drum roll please…Piccolo Mondo.  We are not sure if was the flavor or the fact that it is organic & fair [...]

Over the past few months we’ve had a number of new leaders step in here at the Vineyard.  I am really amazed with the quality leaders God has consistently brought to our church!  Over the next week or so, I want to introduce you to some of our new leaders @ the Vineyard.  But for [...]

If you’ve been around the Ithaca Vineyard much at all, one thing you’ve realized pretty quickly is we like coffee…& not your normal “big-silver-church-urn-overcooked-coffee…”  We’re talking good coffee. When the Ithaca Vineyard first started, we were given $5,000 (1/2 from our sending church, & 1/2 from the national Vineyard HQ). While we put some in [...]

During the month of December, we are working through a series of messages based on Isaiah 9 called “what’s in a name?”  Three of our Ithaca College students (Jay Salbert, Amy Ginsberg & Lisa Zulawski) put together 4 man in the street interviews to lead into each of the messages. Here is the first one [...]