About | Vineyard Covington

Who We Are

ONE CHURCH living as an extended family on mission all around Covington & beyond.
WE GATHER on Sundays to celebrate, connect, equip and send.
WE SCATTER during the week to cultivate community through shared life together.

In 2019, God united the leadership of what would become Vineyard Covington through a series of events that were too significant to be coincidental. It started with two house groups of families on mission. Those families were introduced to the Garveys, who were searching for the right place to plant a Vineyard church. We knew we would be friends, but over the months that followed realized God was inviting us into even more. In early 2020, we made it official and planted a Vineyard church called Vineyard Covington. A pandemic tried to throw us off course, but since then we’ve been doing our best to develop a way of life following Jesus that we are actively inviting our beautiful city into.

We're also part of the Vineyard USA family of churches.

What We’re Doing

We exist to welcome people home to a family being transformed by love of Jesus. This goodness can not be contained and spills into the hearts, homes and streets of the city, as we release the powerful peace, joy, hope and love of the Kingdom of God.

We do this by cultivating pockets of welcoming communities that commit to a shared way of life we can invite the city into. Our dream is to see a thick web of interconnected, hot pockets of hope and life bubbling up all throughout Covington and beyond!

What if we could reorient our everyday lives around Jesus to experience the fullness he came to give us together? We are being formed by the people, practices, and rhythms of life we commit to.

Our Beliefs

The Vineyard is a God-initiated, global movement of churches committed to the theology and practice of the kingdom of God, rooted in the vision of the Hebrew prophets, and fulfilled in the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth.

We have been commissioned to proclaim the Good News of the kingdom, bearing witness to the already and not yet of the kingdom in words and deeds. The Vineyard is a movement distinctively centered in a renewed understanding of the centrality of the kingdom of God in biblical thought. We view the kingdom of God as the overarching and
integrating theme of the Bible.

From our beginnings, the Vineyard has been committed to the proclamation of the kingdom of God and to bearing witness to the deeds of the kingdom through healing (physical, emotional, and social), doing justice, and delivering those held captive by evil.
Since the kingdom of God is the future reign of God breaking into the present through the life and ministry of Jesus, we are a forward-leaning movement emphasizing the ever-reforming nature of the church engaging the world in love.

Read more about our beliefs in our Statement of Faith.

CORE VALUES

Core values give depth and texture to the culture Jesus is building in us as a church and help remind us who we are and what’s most important. Each of these values is a lens that informs how and why we do everything we do as we live as a compelling alternative to the world based on the good news of the Kingdom of God breaking in through Jesus.

Healthy Family — We were made to belong, and in a culture marked by radical individualism, God places the lonely in families. (Ps 68:6)
Transformational Rhythms — In an age of hurry and distraction, Jesus invites us into practices that shape us to live and love like him. (Matthew 11:28–29)
Intentional Mission — The Father sent the Son to seek and save the lost, and now He sends us. (John 20:21; Luke 19:10)
Relational Hospitality — In a world of division and exclusion, we're called to welcome others as Christ welcomed us and freely share our gifts to build up. (Romans 15:7)
Naturally Supernatural — In a time of spiritual skepticism, we live with expectancy for God’s power to move through ordinary people in everyday lives. (Acts 4:13; 1 Cor 2:4-5)