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Welcome to part 6 of our special Heart of the Vineyard series, where Caleb Maskell talks with Cindy Nicholson about the topic “Everyone Gets To Play.” Cindy shares how this phrase connected very personally with her own story,  the discipleship relationships required when allowing everyone to play, and the challenge and gift of leading leaders. 

“Everyone Gets To Play” is part 6 of an 8-part series called Heart of the Vineyard, which explores some of the foundational themes in the identity of the Vineyard. Each part contains a teaching video, an interview with a long-standing Vineyard pastor, and small group materials to help you take the information deeper and evaluate how you and your church relate to each theme. You can engage the series here!

Cindy Nicholson retired in September 2020 after 30 years of investing in the church planters and emerging women leaders of the Vineyard USA.

The task force she pioneered with her husband Steve and a large national team helped 100+ church planters in the US and in other countries prepare, launch, and make it through the wild waters of the first years of a new plant. Through the Women’s Task Force she co-led with Dianne Leman, Cindy and her colleagues Cheryll Hanawalt and Adey Wassink led the fledgling effort to get coaching, training and support to women called to lead at every level of church life, and especially those called to full-time pastoral ministry in the local church. Cindy spent her final years of ministry as assistant pastor on staff of Evanston Vineyard in Illinois tending the intercessors and ministry prayer teams.

She devotes her spare time to enjoying their eight gorgeous grandchildren, digging in her garden, writing, and playing piano.

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