Meet the Team.

Leadership & Accountability

Senior Pastor
- Preaching

Senior Pastor
Worship

Families Pastor & Safeguarding Lead

Operational Development Pastor

Esther Veal

Finance Partner - CV Family

Vicki Walter

Dan Walter

Deborah Hicks

Anya Willis

Northampton East Pastor

Compassion Pastor

Martyn Hicks

Kate Adams

Michelle Newstead

Pete Willis

Pastor in Secondment - Vineyard Global

Creative Pastor

Central Vineyard is affiliated to Vineyard Churches UK & Ireland, a member of
the Evangelical Alliance and works coopera­tively with other mainstream Churches.

The Vineyard is a worldwide movement of churches with roots in both traditional Evangelicalism and Pentecostal renewal. In stead of the customary ‘Charismatic’ label, however, Vineyard prefers ‘Empow-ered Evangelicals’. The name ‘Vineyard’ is based on the Bible passage, Isaiah 27:2-3.

The first Vineyard churches were planted in California in the 1970s. By 1982, there were half a dozen Vineyards in a loose-knit fellowship of churches.

At this point, a man called John Wimber assumed the leadership of the emerging movement. Wimber’s influence profoundly shaped the theology and practice of Vineyard churches from their earliest days until his death in November 1997.

As John and his congregation, made up mostly of former Quakers, sought God in intimate worship, they experienced empowerment by the gifts of the Holy Spirit and saw significant church growth through conversions.

Scholar George Eldon Ladd’s theology of the ‘already and not yet’ presence of the Kingdom of God provided the intellectual basis for Wimber’s understanding that the biblical gifts of the Holy Spirit should be active in the church today.

There are now more than 2,500 Vineyard Churches around the world, including over 120 in the UK and Ireland. For more on Vineyard Churches, visit the website:
www.vineyardchurches.org.uk

To discover more about the distinctive theology of Vineyard, we recommend the book Empowered Evangelicals, by Rich Nathan and Ken Wilson, which explains Vineyard spirituality and how it differs from classic Pentecostalism.