Vineyard Music is a non-profit, church-based worship ministry. By imparting the heart and activity of worship through music, events and resources, we encourage people everywhere to pursue a deeper relationship with God.
All of our income is directly re-invested in furthering the development of worship in the Church, aiding in the establishment of new churches worldwide and helping to advance God's Kingdom.
Vineyard Music was established soon after the first Vineyard Christian Fellowship was founded in Southern California approximately 25 years ago. It was set up to record the songs that were being written and sung by the worship leaders during the services. Over the years Vineyard Music has grown and evolved into a world-wide organization.
The Vineyard Worship Resource Team vision is to encourage and facilitate intimate, authentic and accessible worship in Vineyard churches in Africa. In our link with Vineyard Music we seek to impact the broader church through training, conferencing and the distribution of new worship songs.
Alan and Carroll are dedicated full-time to these purposes. They are currently over-seeing worship at Valley Vineyard while still spending much of their time and energy assisting the South African Vineyard worship leaders, planning training for Vineyard Worship leaders throughout Africa and developing new resources for local churches
Alan and Carroll Foster
Alan and Carroll are the overseers of the musical side of worship at Valley and throughout Africa. They are responsible for the pastoral care of those involved in worship as well as the practical management of the teams.
Keep up to date with the Fosters via their blogg: click here
VISION AND MISSION STATEMENTS
VISION
To encourage and facilitate intimate, authentic and accessible worship in Southern African Vineyard churches
MISSION
to develop key strategicregional leaders to encourage and empower worship leaders in their region
to visit churches, building relationships with pastors and worship leaders
spend time with key leaders
workshops with teams
weekend or day retreat/forums with strategic leaders
to continue developing a network of area worship leaders who oversee and equip worship leaders in their specific geographical areas
Encourage local songwriters to start up ‘Songwriter Guilds’ and contribute songs to the ‘New Songs web page’.
STRATEGY
Strategy :
Continue to communicate with the strategic leaders we know, encouraging interaction within the regional churches and leaders.
Observe the leaders we meet as we travel, prayerfully seeking whom God has chosen as new key strategic leaders
Spend time in Gauteng, KZN, W. Cape and E. Cape reinforcing what was started in 2006.
Spend a week in Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique to see how we can contextualise Vineyard worship values in the culture with integrity.
Develop and maintain VWRT/VMSA Website with pages for locally written new songs.
Conferences
church workshops – work with local church leaders and teams
regional forums - work with regional church leaders and teams
national conferences – empower key worship leaders and teams to take on planning and leading
