The Vineyard exists to care for and build up people, not programs. Fellowship begins with our relationship with Jesus. But fellowship is more than our own individual relationship with Jesus. It also involves our commitment to Christ's body.

We believe that this commitment to Christ's body can best be expressed in small groups and other church ministry involvement. We must know one another in order to love one another and to share one an­other's burdens. It is important to us that every member receives pastoral care—our small groups are where a primary level of pastoral care occurs. Small groups are the basic structure in the Vineyard for comfort and counsel, service to one another, intimate relationships, heaing, and prayer. In these groups we stress such things as honesty, integrity, reality, acceptance, and love. Small groups are also a basic structure in the worldwide expansion of the church today.

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