Why Does Vineyard Church North Phoenix Plant Churches?
Since its beginning, the Vineyard movement has made the planting of new churches in the United States and around the world one of its highest priorities. Vineyard Church North Phoenix has joined the Vineyard movement in prioritizing church planting. We have planted 7 new churches in the Phoenix area from our congregation, and we are going to be planting 2 more in 2008. Greg and Diana West will be planting Victory Vineyard in the Sunnyslope area on February 24th, and Marty and Shelia Kaiser will be planting a church in the Surprise area on June 22nd. Why do we plant new congregations? Arent there enough churches in America already? With so many empty churches, why would anyone want to plant a new church? There are at least five good reasons for Vineyard Church North Phoenix to engage in church planting today. • Church planting is necessary because America is becoming increasingly de-churched. In the year 1900 there were 27 churches for every 10,000 Americans. In 1950 there were 17 churc
