Several years ago I was driving through Chicago. In one moment I am in awe at all the buildings and the melting pot of people moving so fast. In the next moment I am looking at all the sad faces and graffiti painted buildings. I prayed and asked God what I can do to bring […]
Something happened recently that made me very proud to say I am part of HVC. Our daughter was baptized last month. After her baptism, she went to school and told her class all about it. During recess, a classmate asked her why she got baptized. Our daughter explained why she got baptized and answered her […]
I’m Tanya Robinson and my husband’s name is Mark. We live in Cedar Rapids. Mark works at General Mills and I am a stay-at-home mom. We started coming to church here 11 years ago because we heard of Heartland Vineyard’s connection with Mexico missions. We had a teenage daughter that we wanted to take on […]
I have the great privilege of meeting with our senior pastor (my dad), Amos and Chandar every Monday to talk, pray and plan around things that are happening in our church. We call this time our Senior Leadership meeting, and it has become one of the best parts of my week. Every Monday, we start […]
Earlier this spring, my wife Christie went to the first night of the Ed Tandy McGlasson conference. She asked me to join her for the following Saturday morning conference. I was very hesitant to go because we had eight teen girls at a motel celebrating our daughter’s 14th birthday. Our 22 yr old daughter said […]
My wife, Deliah, and I came to Heartland Vineyard Church a little over two years ago, just about this time of year. We were struggling in our marriage and I was dealing with severe anger issues. The first Sunday we were here, we sat right there in the front row. We asked Dan before we […]
I have an operator that missed work on due to an emergency with his wife. Without going into detail, he informed me that the night before, something happened to his wife’s back/spine and that she was currently without use of her legs or “paralyzed” from the waist down. I received a text from him at […]
Suppose you never owned a toothbrush. And if you did you had to share it with everyone in your family! My name is Mugs Barnes and I’d like to tell you why I love Operation Christmas Child. A 10 year old boy in India, where it is 100+ degrees, received a shoe box. Some Norwegian […]
Who am I that God would even be mindful of me… and the Son of God… that He would die for me!? I’m so humbled by His presence in my brokenness. At Jr. & Sr. youth night I have a small group of about eight girls. Wednesday there was a new friend who came. She […]
I’d like to share a short testimony of what it looks like to answer the Holy Spirit’s calling. I’ll call this Off the Bench and on to the Playing Field, actually doing the stuff! Over my years at the Vineyard, I’ve learned many things, but one thing in particular thing stands out. This is that […]
You always hear people say that when you serve you come away feeling more blessed. After several years of serving in KidZone I can say that it’s no exception and a special privilege. One of the ways that it has blessed us the most is in bringing our family and our church family closer together. […]
I am a beloved son of God, or as I recently started calling Him, Papa. I must admit, when I first started hearing the leaders of this church refer to God as Papa it struck me as odd and kind of bothered me. Are we really going to refer to the Almighty, creator of heaven […]