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Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. Thank you for joining us online. We hope that you enjoy being part of our online worshipping community.Please do check the website or Saturday Contact to see what is happening here at Encounter Vineyard. There are a number of significant dates to take note of in the coming months and well worth getting in the diary. One key date for us is Baptism Sunday on the 31st May where we have a number of people getting baptised. If you are a follower of Jesus and are not yet baptised, this may be your opportunity, so do please make contact with us and let us know.As a church we are now in our year long journey through the book of Mark and in week four of our series we dive into Mark 1:16-20 where Jesus calls His first disciples and calls them to a life of flourishing. The message is called ‘How do we Flourish?’ as Mark looks at how we are called out of our comfort zones to take bold faith-filled risks!We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. As we celebrate the first Sunday of May and our first May Bank Holiday, we are reminded of how quickly times flies! Thank you for joining us online, we hope that you enjoy being part of our online worshipping community.Please do check the website or Saturday Contact to see what is happening here at Encounter Vineyard. There are a number of significant dates to take note of in the coming months and well worth getting in the diary.We are now in our year long journey through the book of Mark and today Mark is bringing a message called ‘Following God.’ He is looking at how Jesus was baptised to identify with us and how He will never ask us to do something that He hasn’t already done. He is also exploring how we can use fasting and prayer to equip us for the challenges of life.We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today.

Welcome to Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard this weekend.As always, we are sending out our Sunday message, praying it serves you, encourages you, and helps you continue to find and follow Jesus in the everyday rhythms of life.Last weekend we began our year long journey through the book of Mark. Over the coming months, we will be walking slowly and attentively through this remarkable fast paced account of Jesus’ life. We are praying it shapes us, challenge sus, and awakens us again to who Jesus is and all He calls us to. The chance not just to observe Jesus, but to respond to Him.This weekend Mark shares the story of John the Baptist as John encourages others to get baptised so that they can get ready for Jesus. Mark will be exploring how we can stay grounded in a disorientated world.We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today.

Welcome to Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard this weekend.As always, we are sending out our Sunday message, praying it serves you, encourages you, and helps you continue to find and follow Jesus in the everyday rhythms of life.Staring today, we are beginning a journey through the Gospel of Mark. Over the coming months, we will walk slowly and attentively through this remarkable account of Jesus’ life, allowing it to shape us, challenge us, and awaken us again to who He is. Mark’s Gospel is vivid, fast-moving, and deeply compelling; it invites us not just to observe Jesus, but to respond to Him.At its heart, Mark is a call to action - a call to follow. Again and again, we see Jesus step into ordinary moments and transform them with the presence and power of God. And as we journey through this Gospel together, our prayer is simple: that we wouldn’t just learn more about Jesus, but that we would encounter Him afresh—and in doing so, become more like Him.We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today.

Welcome to Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard this weekend.If you are joining us for the first time, a very warm welcome to you, we are thrilled to have you with us. If you regularly join with us online, thank you for travelling with us as a community of faith, who seek to follow and practice the ‘Way of Jesus’ together.This weekend sees us draw our Easter celebrations to a close and Susie Wiltshire is speaking with a message called ‘The Road that Changes Everything.’ She will be helping us focus on all that we are meant to carry and reflect on as a ‘post Easter resurrection people’ as we journey on the Road to Emmaus.Next weekend our we will be starting a new series which will carry us all the way through the year to Easter 2027. We are going to be looking at the whole of Marks Gospel together during the year! It is an exciting journey that awaits us as we look at the life of Jesus, from beginning to end, and allow the lessons we embrace to shape and change us.We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today.

Happy Easter and welcome to Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. If you’re here for the first time, a warm welcome to you. We are thrilled that you have wanted to join us this weekend. If you are part of our regular extended family then welcome back!Every year on Easter Sunday we celebrate with the World-Wide Church the Resurrection of Jesus Christ! The first Easter Sunday changed the world and we cannot wait to celebrate Easter with you today!2,000 years ago Jesus walked the earth to know what it was like to be with us. He also knew what it would cost Him to save us … and yet He chose to do it anyway. Today, we celebrate His power over death with His resurrection and remember that because He lives, so can we!Mark is speaking this weekend with a message that celebrates the decisive nature of Easter called ‘Hope to Hold on To.’Thank you for choosing to be a part of our weekend celebration on what is one of the high points in the life of the church.We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. We are so pleased that you’ve joined us and we hope that you enjoy being part of our online worshipping community.For the past six weeks, we have found ourselves in the Season of Lent where we have been in our annual series ‘Awaken.’ Today marks the beginning of Holy Week and Jesus’ Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem two thousand years ago. It was a week when people made decisions to either cry out “hosanna” or “crucify him!”In today’s message Mark is linking our ‘Awaken’ series to Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week with a message called ‘The Triumphal Entrance and Jesus’ Generosity.’During the rest of the week, we remember both the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ and how the first Easter changed the world. We can’t wait to celebrate these momentous events with you over the next seven days. If you want to know what is happening during Easter, do please look below or check out our Holy Week programme on the home page of our website: www.encountervineyrad.org.ukWe pray that you are able to enjoy the experience of being part of our extended community and that you can encounter God’s transformative presence as we worship together today.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. We are so pleased that you’ve joined us and we hope that you enjoy being part of our online worshipping community.Today Mark continues our Awaken series by stepping into one of the most powerful and hope-filled moments in the Gospels - the raising of Lazarus. It’s a story that meets us in the tension between grief and glory, where Jesus stands before what seems final and speaks life. In a world that can sometimes feel heavy or uncertain, we’re reminded again that Jesus is not distant from our pain, but present within it and that His voice still calls things back to life.We are also still carrying the momentum of Vision Sunday from a couple of weeks ago, where we reflected on being Formed by the Presence. It felt like a significant moment for us as a church family — remembering God’s faithfulness, realigning with our call to find and follow Jesus, and stepping forward again with faith that anything is possible with Him. If you haven’t yet heard the message, can we encourage you to do that. If you have, can we also encourage you to prayerfully consider your response as we move towards all the Lord has in store for us.Thank you for being part of this journey — for your faith, your prayers and your wholehearted commitment to all that God is doing among us.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. We are so pleased that you’ve joined us and we hope that you enjoy being part of our online worshipping community.Last weekend we had our Annual Vision Sunday where we were looking back and giving thanks for all that we have seen the Lord doing here at Encounter Vineyard over the last seven years, as well as looking forwards and highlighting what we sense the Lord is calling us to ‘lean into’ in the coming year.If you haven’t yet had the chance, we would love you to listen to last weekend’s message from Mark. Can we encourage you to pray about how we can respond to the opportunities and challenges that are before us. You will find response details below.Today Mark is speaking again in our Awaken series and brings the message ‘Only Jesus Satisfies Thirsty Hearts’, as he continues to encourage us to step into all that the Lord has in store for us.We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today as we look forward to the adventure that awaits us and all that the Lord has in store for us!

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. We are so pleased that you’ve joined us and we hope that you enjoy being part of our online worshipping community.This Sunday is a special day in the life of Encounter as we have our annual Vision Sunday. It is a special time, where together we look back and give thanks for all that the Lord has done amongst us over the last year, as well as pondering and anticipating all that the Lord has in store for us in the season ahead.Do please make today a priority to connect online or be in the building for what is an important weekend for us, as Mark brings a fresh message of vision called ‘Formed by Presence, not by Pressure.’ He will be reminding us of how God has blessed us over the last seven years, as well as looking forward to the move of the Spirit that he believes God has in store for us.

Dear Friends A very warm welcome to this week’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard and a very happy St. David’s Day for all those who are Welsh! Thank you for joining us. We do hope and pray that you enjoy being part of our online worshipping community.This weekend marks another turning of the page in 2026 as we begin March and as we come to the second Sunday in Lent. Lent is the season that invites us to - pay attention again, to wake up to God and to clear space. To pay attention to where our hearts may have drifted and to gently return to the One who has never drifted from us.We are also continuing in our new series ‘Awaken’ where we are exploring what it means to awaken our faith, our prayers, our hope and our expectancy. Today, Mark is speaking on ‘Preparing for a Miracle’ as we meet a woman who had suffered for twelve years and yet dared to believe that one touch of Jesus could change everything. In the middle of the crowd, in the middle of disappointment and delay, she reaches out — and finds not only healing, but tenderness, dignity and restoration.We really hope you enjoy worshipping with us this weekend and that you are blessed, strengthened and renewed for the challenges of the week ahead.

A very warm welcome to this week’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. Thank you for joining us, we hope that you enjoy being part of our online worshipping community.We are so glad you are part of the Encounter Vineyard family. There is something beautiful about knowing that, across homes and lives and stories, we are walking this journey of faith together — finding and following Jesus in the ordinary and the extraordinary moments of life.This weekend marks another turning of the page — not just another Sunday, but the beginning of the season of Lent. For forty days, the Church around the world slows down, recentres, and prepares its heart for Easter. Lent invites us to pay attention again. To wake up to God. To clear space. To notice where our hearts may have drifted and to gently return to the One who has never drifted from us.It also feels significant that as Lent begins, we are launching our new series, Awaken. Over these coming weeks, we’ll be exploring what it means to awaken our faith, our prayers, our hope and our expectancy. This Sunday Mark is speaking on Encountering Jesus — because awakening doesn’t begin with better habits or stronger effort, but with meeting Him afresh. When we encounter Jesus — not just as an idea, but as a living presence — everything begins to stir.We really hope you enjoy worshipping with us this weekend and that you are blessed, strengthened and renewed for the challenges of the week ahead.

Welcome to another Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. Thank you for joining us, we hope that you enjoy being part of our online worshipping community.Please do check the website or Saturday Contact to see what is happening here at Encounter Vineyard. There are a number of significant dates to take note of in the coming months and well worth getting in the diary.Today is slightly different for us online as the talk will not be available immediately but will be available later on in the day via the homepage of our website. It was Valentine’s Day yesterday and Karen will be speaking today and bringing a message specifically for this weekend called “Sharing the Love.’We really hope you enjoy worshipping with us this weekend and that you are blessed, strengthened and renewed for the challenges of the week ahead.

Welcome to another Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. Thank you for joining us online, we hope that you enjoy being part of our online worshipping community. Please do check the website or Saturday Contact to see what is happening here at Encounter Vineyard. There are a number of significant dates to take note of in the coming months and well worth getting in the diary. Today Mark is bringing the final message in our series ‘Momentum’, where we have been looking at the life of Moses and exploring what momentum is, how to know whether we do or don’t have it and how to get it for the areas in life that matter most. He is looking at what it means to be ‘Embracing God's Calling’ as well as reminding us that no matter how big our call is, God has prepared us for it. We really hope you enjoy worshipping with us this weekend and that you are blessed, strengthened and renewed for the challenges of the week ahead.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. As we celebrate the first Sunday of February, we are reminded of how quickly times flies! Thank you for joining us online, we hope that you enjoy being part of our online worshipping community.Please do check the website or Saturday Contact to see what is happening here at Encounter Vineyard.There are a number of significant dates to take note of in the coming months and well worth getting in the diary.Today Mark is bringing the next message in our series ‘Momentum’, where we are exploring what momentum is, how to know whether we do or don’t have it and how to get it for the areas in life that matter most. He is looking at what it means to ‘Encountering God’ out of the life of Moses, as well as how we say ‘yes’ to God when He is moving.We really hope you enjoy worshipping with us this weekend and that you are blessed, strengthened and renewed for the challenges of the week ahead.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. We are so pleased that you’ve joined us and we hope that you enjoy being part of our online worshipping community.Please do check the website or Saturday Contact to see what is happening. There are a number of significant dates to take note of in the coming months and well worth getting in the diary.Today Malcolm Hayes will be bringing the next message in our January series ‘Momentum’ where we are exploring what momentum is, how to know whether we do or don’t have it and how to get it for the areas in life that matter most. He will be looking at the ‘Miraculous Beginnings’ of the life of Moses and how we can discover our identity in God and how His identity gives us the courage to live life to the full.We really hope you enjoy worshipping with us this weekend and that you are blessed, strengthened and renewed for the challenges of the week ahead.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. We are so pleased that you’ve joined us and we hope that you enjoy being part of our online worshipping community.Please do check the website or Saturday Contact to see what is happening. There are a number of significant dates to take note of in the coming months and well worth getting in the diary.This week also sees us start our next Alpha Course. Alpha is completely free — and everyone’s welcome!If you or someone you know is exploring faith, asking big questions about life, or just wondering what you believe — Alpha is a great place to start. It’s relaxed, friendly, and open to everyone — whether you are brand new to church, coming back after a while, or simply curious about who Jesus really is. We share food, watch a short film together, and open up space for honest conversations. Every question is welcome, and every viewpoint is respected.Today Mark will be bringing the second message in our new series ‘Momentum’ where we explore what momentum is and how to know whether we do or don’t have it and how to get it for the areas in life that matter most. We will be looking at how we can ‘find faith in the wilderness’ as we continue to look at lessons we can learn from the life of Moses.Finally, please don’t forget that we are on a journey of fasting and praying with The Vineyard Movement and that it’s never too late to join in.We so look forward to joining with you in the adventure of 2026 and all that the Lord has in store for us!

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. We are so pleased that you’ve joined us and we hope that you enjoy being part of our online worshipping community. If we haven’t had the chance to say this to you yet, ‘Happy New Year’!It has been a joy and delight to begin the New Year with our celebration last weekend and we are now back into the swing of all our regular ministries and activities. Please do check the website or Saturday Contact to see what is happening this coming term. There are a number of significant dates to take note of in the coming months and well worth getting in the diary.Today Mark will be beginning our new series ‘Momentum’ where we explore what momentum is and how to know whether we do or don’t have it and how to get it for the areas in life that matter most.Finally, please don’t forget that we are on a journey of fasting and praying with The Vineyard Movement and that it’s never too late to join in. Please see the link below.We so look forward to joining with you in the adventure of 2026 and all that the Lord has in store for us!

Happy New Year to you all and welcome to Encounter Vineyard online and our first celebration of 2026.We do hope that you have had a good Christmas and that you have enjoyed some connection with your family and friends, as well as the wider church family.As we gather back together this weekend, we are so looking forward to continuing to celebrate ‘God with Us’, as we look forward to the beginning of a new year and all that God has in store for us.This January we begin the year with a series called ‘Momentum’ and we explore what momentum is. We will be looking at how we can know whether we have it or not, how to spot when momentum is moving and how it can be the energy to keep us moving forward.Today’s message is called ‘Run the Race’ as Mark brings us a message out of Hebrews 12 to begin the new year.We so look forward to joining with you in the adventure of 2026 and all that the Lord has in store for us!

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. If you are here for the first time, a very warm welcome to you, we are so pleased that you have wanted to join us. If you are a part of our regular extended family then welcome back!As a church we are now continuing in our celebration of Advent with our series ‘Advent Joy’. Advent is a special season in the life of the church, where in the midst of all the busyness of our last-minute preparations for Christmas, we pause to remind ourselves of what lies at the heart of this season – our celebration of the arrival of the Messiah, both 2000 years ago and as we await His return!Today, not only will we be lighting the fourth candle on our Advent Wreath but Mark will be bringing the final message in the ‘Advent Joy’ series with a message called ‘Behold.’ A message that reminds us that even when things are hard and the world seems dark, God wants to make himself known and that we can be touched by the wonder, beauty and light of all that lies at the heart of this season.We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today and, we pray that today would be a blessing for us all.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard for what is a very special time in the life of the church.This evening, as we continue to celebrate the Advent season, we have our Carols by Candlelight Celebration in the building starting at 6:00pm. There will be carols, readings, a beautifully decorated church, lots of candles and a message from Mark.Unfortunately, we are unable to record the whole celebration online but we do have a taster of what is happening in the building as well as Mark bringing his Christmas message which we hope will bless and encourage you this Christmas time.Next weekend on Sunday the 21st we have another Advent morning celebration at 10:00am and then on the 25th Christmas Day, we have our Family Celebration at 10:00am.If you are new to Encounter and want to find out a little more about us then do please visit our website: www.encountervineyard.org.uk If you are part of the wider Encounter Family and a regular worshipper with us, thank you for joining us once again today.We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us and we pray that today’s Carols by Candlelight celebration would be a blessing for us all.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. If you are here for the first time, a very warm welcome to you, we are so pleased that you have wanted to join us. If you are a part of our regular extended family then welcome back!Today is the second Sunday in Advent, the season that invites us to remember that joy isn’t the same as cheerfulness or denial—it’s deeper, steadier, and rooted in hope. Advent reminds us that God is with us. Even in the waiting, even in the ordinary, His presence brings light and life.To maximise joy this Advent is to make space for gratitude, worship, and wonder — to slow down long enough to notice His goodness at work in and around us.Today, Mark is continuing our series ‘Advent Joy’ with a message that looks at how we can ‘Maximise our Joy.’We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today and we pray that today would be a blessing for us all.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. If you are here for the first time, a very warm welcome to you, we are so pleased that you have wanted to join us. If you are a part of our regular extended family then welcome back!Today is Advent Sunday, the beginning of a season that invites us to remember that joy isn’t the same as cheerfulness or denial—it’s deeper, steadier, and rooted in hope.Joy comes not because everything is right with the world, but because Christ has come into the world. It’s the quiet confidence that light is breaking in, even in the dark.As we light the first candle of Advent, we remember that joy doesn’t wait for perfect circumstances; it grows in the soil of trust, nourished by the promise that God is with us, and that His coming changes everything.Today, Susie Wiltshire is beginning our new series ‘Advent Joy’ with a message that looks at how we can find joy, even in difficult circumstances, called “Spreading Joy”.We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today and we pray that today would be a blessing for us all.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. If you are here for the first time, a very warm welcome to you after a very cold week! We are so pleased that you have wanted to join us. If you are a part of our regular extended family then welcome back!This weekend we are drawing our ‘Made for More’ series to a close. In this series we have been reminding ourselves of how we have been made for relationship with God and in today’s message, Mark is looking at the church in Corinth again, as he explores why we need the church – broken and messy as it might be!As we enter into the winter months, we have decided to draw our evening celebrations to a close for this season. These gatherings have offered a gentle space of worship, reflection, prayer, encounter and community — and we’re deeply grateful for all that God has done among us through them. We sense though that this is a natural pause, a time to rest, acknowledge the limited appetite for this, as well as to consider what may be next. We may well revisit these evenings in the future or do something different. We will be listening to the spirit and trying to discern where God is leading in the year ahead.We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today and we pray that today would be a blessing for us all.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. If you are here for the first time, a very warm welcome to you. We are so pleased that you have wanted to join us. If you are a part of our regular extended family then welcome back!After Remembrance Sunday last weekend, we are back to normal this Sunday – in the building and online. We are continuing in our series ‘Made for More’ as we are reminded that we were made for relationship with God.In today’s message, Mark Bailey is looking at what it means to enjoy and experience ‘More With God’ – a message that speaks to the heart of our yearning for more as he gives us the ‘one word’ that can help us find the answer to our infinite desires.We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today and we pray that today would be a blessing for us all.

We will be back in the building for our 5:00pm evening celebration where we will be worshipping, ministering and sharing communion together as Ruth Bourne, who heads up our Healing Rooms Ministry, will bring a message called ‘Stretching the Tent’ in our ‘Made for More’ series.We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today and we pray that today would be a blessing for us all.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. If you are here for the first time, a very warm welcome to you. We are so pleased that you have wanted to join us. If you are a part of our regular extended family then welcome back!October is now behind us and we are now half way through our Autumn Term. We have finished our ‘Formed in the Cave’ series and begin a new series today ‘Made for More.’ This November series will be reminding us that we were made for relationship with God, who from the very beginning, demonstrates His desire for relationship with us.In today’s message, Malcolm Hayes, one of our trustees and a regular speaker here at Encounter Vineyard, is bringing a message called ‘Abundance’  A message that will explore how the life of Jesus offers, is abundant, overflowing, and rooted in His presence.

Welcome to the final Sunday Online for October here at Encounter Vineyard. The final weekend of British Summer Time 2025. We hope you enjoyed the extra hour in bed!Thank you for joining us and we hope and pray that you enjoy being a part of our online teaching, worship and ministry today. If you are here for the first time, a very warm welcome to you. This weekend we are wrapping up our series ‘Formed in the Cave,’ where we have been on a journey through the life of King David, not just the high points, but into the shadows, into the caves — the hidden places when David wasn’t yet king, but where God was forming a king.This Sunday Mark will be looking at Psalm 142 with a message called ‘Freedom’ where we look at David fleeing from persecution and finding refuge in a cave, which eventually leads him to finding a new found freedom.We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today and we pray that today would be a blessing for us all.

Welcome to another Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. We are thrilled that you have joined us and hope that you enjoy being a part of our online teaching, worship and ministry. If you are here for the first time, a very warm welcome to you.This weekend we are continuing our series ‘Formed in the Cave,’ a series where we are going on a journey through the life of King David, not the palace parts but into the shadows, into the caves — the hidden places where David wasn’t yet king, but where God was forming a king.This Sunday Mark will be looking at Psalm 57 with a message called ‘Finding the Way.’ This is where we see David giving his turn-by-turn instructions on how to find a cave – and more importantly – on how to find the merciful King of Kings in the cave.We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today and we pray that today would be a blessing for us all.

Welcome to Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. We are thrilled that you have joined us and hope that you enjoy being a part of our online teaching, worship and ministry.This weekend we are continuing our new series ‘Formed in the Cave,’ a series where we are going on a journey through the life of King David, not the palace parts but into the shadows, into the caves — the hidden places where David wasn’t yet king, but where God was forming a king.This Sunday Mark will be looking at Psalm 34 and focussing on the importance of ‘Perspective’ and how it is essential in all aspects of human life. Whilst he was ‘on the run’ from King Saul, David gained a unique perspective from his time in the cave of Adullam. Through this profound song, born out of refuge and hardship, we learn key lessons about perspective.We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today and we pray that today would be a blessing for us all.

Welcome to Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. We are thrilled that you have joined us and hope that you enjoy being a part of our online teaching, worship and ministry.This weekend we are beginning our new Autumn series ‘Formed in the Cave.’ This is the first of this terms series where we are going on a journey through the life of King David, not the palace parts but into the shadows, into the caves — the hidden places where David wasn’t yet king, but where God was forming a king.This Sunday Mark will be looking at the theme ‘Becoming a King’ and how the cave was an essential part of God’s preparation for His calling on David’s life as a future king.We just want to remind everyone that we have now restarted our evening celebrations and if you are unable to join us in the mornings maybe the evenings will suit you.We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today and we pray that today would be a blessing for us all.

Welcome to Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. We are thrilled that you’ve joined us and hope that you enjoy being a part of our online teaching, worship and ministry.This weekend we are drawing our ‘Walking by Faith’ series to a close. In this series we have been exploring what it means to be people who are able to live with the uncertainty of life, but to do that with confidence, reminding ourselves that ‘in Christ’ all things are possible.This Sunday Mark will be looking at the ‘The Challenge of Faith’ as he explores some of the obstacles we can have to faith, how we can navigate trials and how me can move towards maturity in faith.This weekend we are also restarting our evening celebrations and if you are unable to join us in the mornings maybe the evenings will suit you.We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today and we pray that today would be a blessing for us all.

Welcome to Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. We are thrilled that you’ve joined us and hope that you enjoy being a part of our online teaching, worship and ministry.This weekend we are continuing our ‘Walking by Faith’ series, where we are exploring what it means to be people who are able to live with the uncertainty of life with confidence, reminding ourselves that ‘in Christ’ all things are possible.This Sunday Mark will be looking at how we ‘Dealing with Decay’ and whilst it looks like some things in life are irreversible, God is in the business of reversing the irreversible.Today we are also having our final BBQ of the summer after the celebration and this is another great occasion and opportunity to connect as a church family. We really hope you can join us.Next Sunday also sees the re-start of our evening celebrations, so for those of you who particularly enjoy this celebration ... see you there!We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today and we pray that today would be a blessing for us all.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. If you are here for the first time, a very warm welcome to you. We are so pleased that you have wanted to join us. If you are a part of our regular extended family then welcome back!We are now well into September and we are making our way through our summer series ‘Walking by Faith’ before we begin our Autumn series in October.In today’s message, Steve Hodgetts, one of our celebration leaders and a regular speaker here at Encounter Vineyard, is bringing a message called ‘Trusting God in the Everyday’, where he will be reminding us that no matter what we may be struggling with or going through, God promises to walk with us and that He is always nearby.Please don’t forget that we have our final BBQ of the year on Sunday 21st September. It will be another great opportunity to connect and enjoy each other’s company in and around food!We are also beginning our evening celebrations again on Sunday 28th September!We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today and, we pray that today would be a blessing for us all.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. If you are here for the first time, a very warm welcome to you. We are so pleased that you have wanted to join us. If you are a part of our regular extended family then welcome back!August is now behind us and whilst a few of us may still be away, many of us have managed breaks for rest and refreshment over the last few months. Now we are in September we are making our way through our final summer series ‘Walking by Faith’ before we begin our Autumn series.In today’s message, Malcolm Hayes, one of our trustees and a regular speaker here at Encounter Vineyard, is bringing a message called ‘We Walk By Faith’, where he reminds us of how we are called to take Jesus at His word and follow His example!Please don’t forget that we have our final BBQ of the year on Sunday 21st September and we would love to see you there. It will be another great opportunity to connect and enjoy each other’s company in and around food!We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today and, we pray that today would be a blessing for us all.

Welcome to Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard on this final weekend of the summer holidays. We are thrilled that you’ve joined us and hope that you enjoy being a part of our online teaching, worship and ministry.Next weekend we move into September and we will start sending out weekly Saturday Contacts again. This means that all the Church News you need to be aware of will be communicated via this avenue or on the home page of our website. However, we have a number of things coming up this month and we don’t want you to miss any of them so do please take note below some of these events and activities.Please note that we are having our final BBQ of the summer after the celebration on the 21st September and this will be another great occasion and opportunity to connect as a church family.This Sunday we are continuing our final summer series ‘Walking in Faith’ and Mark will be reminding us of how, with God, ‘All Things are Possible!’We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today and we pray that today would be a blessing for us all.

Mark shares a message about miracles and light and God's purpose for us to spend eternity with Him and how to experience a miracle of salvation.

Mark starts off our new series "Walking by Faith" with a challenging message about "Living with Uncertainty".

Karen wraps up our words series by reflecting on what it means to grow in self-understanding and an understanding of our shadows in her message shadows and self-understanding.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. If you are here for the first time, a very warm welcome to you. We are so pleased that you have wanted to join us. If you are a part of our regular extended family then welcome back!We are in our summer holidays now here at Encounter Vineyard, as well as working our way through our current summer series ‘Words.’ This is a series which looks at how we choose the words we live by and how the use of words brings great responsibility. Today Mark continues our series with the message ‘A Grateful Heart’’ a he looks at how we can say thank you and how God notices our gratitude.We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today and, we pray that today would be a blessing for us all.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. If you are here for the first time, a very warm welcome to you. We are so pleased that you have wanted to join us. If you are a part of our regular extended family then welcome back!The sun continues to shine, the school holidays have begun, people are coming and going and we are now well into our new summer series ‘Words.’ This is a series which looks at how we choose the words we live by and how the use of words brings responsibility, with the catalytic ability for the creation or destruction and the power to shape generations. Today Mark continues our series with the message ‘Apologies and Atonement.,’ a message that looks at why we don’t apologise to others to be made right with God, we apologise because we have been made right with God.We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today and, we pray that today would be a blessing for us all.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. If you are here for the first time, a very warm welcome to you. We are so pleased that you have wanted to join us. If you are a part of our regular extended family then welcome back!Last weekend we began our new summer series ‘Words.’ This is a series which looks at how we choose the words we live by. We all know that language holds incredible power. From the beginning, divine words set the stars in place — a cosmic act of love. In Scripture, words bring peace (Psalms), offer wisdom (Proverbs), and carry the weight to heal, stir hearts, or inspire hope. But with that power comes responsibility — because words can build or break, shaping not just moments, but generations.Today Mark continues our series with the message ‘Motivated by Love,’ a message that looks at giving love, receiving love and making love a priority all through our lives.We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today and, we pray that today would be a blessing for us all.

This week we start off a new series called words and Martin Dickie kicks it off with a message called "I wish."

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. If you are here for the first time, a very warm welcome to you. We are thrilled that you have wanted to join us. If you are a part of our regular extended family then welcome back!We are having a series of slightly different Sunday celebrations at the moment. Last weekend we had Church at the Farm and this weekend, in our morning celebration, we have Charlie Cleverly speaking on Subversive Psalms for Abundant Living . This means that today’s talk will be available later on today via the homepage of our website. We also have this month’s Firefall as our evening celebrationCharlie is an old friend, who along with his wife Anita, led St Aldates Church in Oxford, one of the most influential Churches in the UK, for many years. He is a regular speaker at Christian festivals, helped lead New Wine Central South West with us and is a well know author. He is also seen as a spiritual mentor to many leaders in the wider Church.We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today and, we pray that today would be a blessing for us all.

Welcome to what has been a different weekend here at Encounter Vineyard.If you are joining us for the first time, a very warm welcome to you. If you regularly join with us online, thank you for travelling with us as a church, where together we seek to follow the ‘Way of Jesus.’We will be having our first Church at the Farm Weekend over this weekend and are so grateful for the richness of this weekend. The team, led by Sara Prince, that has helped pull this all together have been incredible and we have also been blessed with amazing June weather. We are also, so grateful to Alex, Liz and their family for sharing their beautiful farm with us this weekend.The theme of the weekend is ‘Abundant Life’ and Mark will be bringing a special message, delivered in the barn, to all there. Here is the link to that talk for all those that couldn’t make it. We also attach our questions to accompany the message for those who want to follow this up either in their personal devotions or in Life Groups.Please remember that next weekend we have Charlie Cleverly coming as a guest speaker at our morning celebration and that we have Firefall in the evening.We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today and that you are encouraged and renewed as we worship together.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard on what is Pentecost Sunday.If you are joining us for the first time, a very warm welcome to you. If you regularly join with us online, thank you for travelling with us as a church, where together we seek to follow the ‘Way of Jesus.’ Today, along with the world-wide church, we celebrate the Gift of God’s presence through His Spirit being poured out on the early followers of Jesus while they were in Jerusalem, waiting for that which Jesus had promised them. It really is a celebration of the birth of the church. Today, Mark will be wrapping up our Revive series where we have been journeying through the book of Acts together and will he be bringing a message called ‘Bringing the Outsider In.’Please note that there is only a morning celebration in the building today as it is one of our all-church celebration moments!We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today and that you are encouraged and renewed as we worship together.

Welcome to this weekend’s Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. We do hope that you have had a good Bank Holiday and for some a Half Term week. If you are joining us for the first time, a very warm welcome to you, we are thrilled to have you with us. If you regularly join with us online, thank you for travelling with us as a community of faith who seek to follow and practice the ‘Way of Jesus’ together. We are now well into our series called ‘Revive,’ where we have been looking at the pouring out of the Spirit in the book of Acts and what that means for us today, as we retrace the steps of the early church and what it means for us here in the Cotswolds. A week today will be Pentecost Sunday, which will mark the end our season of prayer and fasting and we are continuing to encourage all of us to come with hunger and expectancy in these final days of this season.  Today Malcolm Hayes is speaking and encouraging us to continue in the ministry and mission of Jesus and the adventure that the early church embraced.  Today we also have our first Church BBQ of the year so please do come and join us for what will be great opportunity for connection together.

Welcome to this long Bank Holiday weekend and our Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard.It really does feel like summer is here now and we have all sorts of summer events coming up. Please do check the home page of our website to get all the dates in your diary. We are also in the season of Pentecost where we are in a series called ‘Revive.’ In this series we have been looking at the pouring out of the Spirit in the book of Acts and what that means for us today as we retrace the steps of the early church and what it means for us here in the Cotswolds.In this season we have also entered into an intentional time of prayer and fasting that we are calling Revive 25. If you haven’t yet joined the journey, there is still time!We are praying that we experience a fresh awakening during this season as we use the book of Acts as our prayer and mission guide. We also have various resources available on the homepage of our website to help equip us on the journey.Today we have a morning celebration where Mark is bringing a message called ‘Freedom in the Midnights.’ In the evening we have our monthly Firefall, as we continue to pray for an awakening in the church and all around us.We are grateful for all that’s ahead — and as always, praying for you as you play your part in what God is doing through this church, in this region.

Welcome to another Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard this weekend.If you are joining us for the first time, a very warm welcome to you, we are thrilled to have you with us. If you regularly join with us online, thank you for travelling with us as a community of faith who seek to follow and practice the ‘Way of Jesus’ together.We are now well into our summer term and we have BBQ’s, Church at the Farm and all sorts of other summer events coming up!  We are also in the season of Pentecost and a couple of weeks ago we began a series called ‘Revive.’ This series is looking at the pouring out of the Holy Spirit in the book of Acts and what that means for us today. In this series we are retracing the steps of the early movement of the church we belong to and what it means for us here in the Cotswolds.In this season we have also entered into an intentional time of prayer and fasting that we are calling Revive 25. This is born out of a dream God has given us to see a greater renewal in the church and revival in the region. If you haven’t yet joined the journey, there is still time!We are praying that we experience a fresh awakening during the season as we use the book of Acts as our prayer and mission guide. We also have various resources available on the homepage of our website to help equip us on the journey.Today we have our morning and evening celebrations where Mark is bringing a message called ‘The Influential Church.’We hope that you enjoy worshipping and celebrating with us today.

Welcome to Sunday Online at Encounter Vineyard. If you’re here for the first time, a very warm welcome to you. We are thrilled that you have wanted to join us this weekend. If you are part of our regular extended family then welcome back!Today is slightly different for us online as in the morning celebration we have Emma Worrall speaking about prayer lessons from the most persecuted. Emma is the Strategic Opportunities Lead at Open Doors and is based down the road from us in Witney. She has been part of the Open Doors team for many years. Open Doors is an organisation that supports persecuted Christians around the world in the call to follow Jesus courageously. Today’s talk will not be available immediately but will be available online later on today via the homepage of our website.This evening in our celebration we will have a time of worship and sharing testimonies. For those who want to, it will be an opportunity to share either how we came to faith, how are lives have been transformed by Jesus or how He has worked in our lives through provision or healing. After a powerful Sunday last weekend, we are excited to be returning to our Revive series next weekend where we are retracing the early steps of the church we belong to as we move towards Pentecost.We really hope you enjoy worshipping with us this weekend and that you are blessed, strengthened and renewed for the challenges of the week ahead.