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God's Picnic: Stories from the Harvest Vineyard

Published on: 04/03/2009
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VUSA: So tell us the story of the Harvest Vineyard, and the “Picnic in the Park”.

JM: Well, The Heartland Vineyard had a vision to plant a church in downtown Waterloo in the urban community. In order to do this, they knew that they had to establish relationship first. So, in the 1990s, Heartland had launched "Picnic in the Park", a free meal in Lincoln Park, a downtown city park, with broken neighborhoods all around it.

Start Small And See Where God Takes It

Published on: 04/03/2009
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Vineyard USA

Mario Fernandez is an Associate Pastor at Vineyard North Phoenix. A graduate of L.I.F.E Bible College, Mario oversees Small Groups, Compassion Ministries, and Men's Ministries. His wife, DaNetta, is Missions Coordinator. They have three children: Lindsay, Matthew, and Grace.

VUSA: It seems there is a lot going on with compassion ministry in the North Phoenix Vineyard today. How did you get started?

MF: In 1996 my pastor, Brian Anderson, asked me to come on staff at the church. I had already been a part of the church for about five years. One of the areas that he wanted me to work with was developing a compassion ministry here at our church. The first thing we looked at was starting a food bank. It was a start up, we really didn't have anything in place.

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