FLOW °31: Lessons From Pastoring Belfast City Vineyard (Harmony Smith)

Kristian Reschke interviews Harmony Smith, co-lead pastor of Belfast City Vineyard, about the long road of leadership. Smith, raised in Vienna after her parents moved from Yugoslavia, describes meeting the Vineyard and encountering the Holy Spirit at university in Evanston, which redirected her into ministry and eventually to Belfast, where she and her husband Andy have served for 25 years. She shares how illness, severe pain, and therapy brought deep healing, greater compassion, and trauma awareness, and how leadership requires boundaries, slower rhythms, and being pastored by community. She reflects on COVID disruptions, losing members, buying a building in North Belfast, and a call to peacemaking amid sectarian wounds and current racism, and prays for DACH churches to be “good soil”, faithful with small seeds.Vineyard Flow beleuchtet zentrale Werte und aktuelle Schwerpunkte der Vineyard-Bewegung im deutschsprachigen Raum. Der Podcast gibt Einblicke in die gelebte Praxis prägender Persönlichkeiten und lädt dazu ein, Gemeinde und Alltag von Jesus her neu zu denken. Habt ihr Fragen, Wünsche oder Feedback? Wir freuen uns, von euch zu hören!Kontakt: [email protected], Redaktion und Host: Kristian ReschkeProjekt- und Redaktionsleitung: Fülke Wagner Wenn dir unser Podcast gefällt und du unsere Arbeit unterstützen möchtest, freuen wir uns über deine Spende per PayPal an [email protected], Stichwort „Flow“