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“Breathe” and “Eres Mi Respirar” are brand new recordings of the iconic Vineyard Worship song, “Breathe.”
This bilingual (English and Spanish), dual single featuring Tina Colón Williams, provides an approachable reimagined arrangement with a slightly modern gospel twist. “Breathe” is a timeless anthem of hope that has resonated with worshippers worldwide for decades through simple yet profound lyrics, “And I, I am desperate for You. And I, I am lost without You.”
Vineyard Worship’s prayer for the latest recording is that this reimagined version will help generations unlock deeper intimacy with the living God.
Listen to Breathe and Eres Mi Respirar on your music streaming platform of choice!
Vineyard Worship exists to gather, train, document, and inspire the worship community in the Vineyard and beyond.
If you are a worship leader or worship team member, join us in exploring what it means to be a worship leader in the Vineyard movement. Our Essentials series, led by experienced Vineyard worship leaders, offers a comprehensive training program for worship leaders at all stages of development. Each module delivers topical teaching on essential worship leadership skills, including musical proficiency, leading a team, and creating a worshipful environment.
Whether you’re just starting out or looking to hone your skills, we’re excited for you to discover how God is calling you to this incredible ministry of leading others into worship. Join one of our upcoming cohorts and take the next step in your journey!
For more information visit vineyardworship.com/essentials
¡Las cohortes también están disponibles en español!
Jay Pathak is the National Director of Vineyard USA, starting in January 2022. He also serves as the Lead Pastor of the Mile High Vineyard, a family of neighborhood churches in Denver, that he, Danielle, and a small team planted in 2001.
Jay co-wrote the book, The Art of Neighboring, with Dave Runyon. His passion for sharing his faith with the people around him is at the center of his calling. He is a humble, empowering leader who is passionate about raising up leaders around him. His strengths, in particular, lie in strategically placing people on teams where they thrive. Additionally, he regularly thinks of ministry in the context of culture and developing relationships and partnerships in the city, government, and across denominational lines.
Jay has led in various contexts throughout the Vineyard starting as an intern for Rich Nathan at the Columbus Vineyard in his early ministry days, and stretching into various positions of translocal leadership including serving on the Vineyard USA Executive Team for many years. He is a sought-after speaker and coach while keeping strong ties to the local community.
Jay has a BA in Philosophy from The Ohio State University and is a graduate of the Vineyard Leadership Institute.
Miguel Aviles, alongside his wife Rocio Hernandez, serves as the lead pastor of La Viña Burnsville in Minnesota. They are proud parents of Samantha and Miguel, both married and building their own lives.
Throughout their ministry journey, Miguel and Rocio have dedicated their lives to advancing God’s Kingdom, contributing to the planting of three Vineyard churches in Minnesota, including their own. They also had the privilege of serving for many years in Vineyard Multiplica, driving the growth of the movement, and for approximately seven years, they served as area leaders, providing guidance and support to other churches in the region.
La Viña Burnsville is a vibrant and diverse community, representing people from 17 different Latin American countries and highlighting the cultural richness of the body of Christ. Additionally, the church is home to a flourishing Brazilian ministry, led by a dedicated team, which continues to grow and impact lives with the message of the Gospel.
Driven by their passion to see God’s Kingdom thrive and transform lives, Miguel and Rocio serve with love, dedication, and inspiring leadership, leaving a meaningful legacy at every stage of their ministry.
Tina Colón Williams is an immigration attorney, worship pastor, and vocalist based in New Haven, Connecticut. Born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida, Tina moved to New Haven in 2005 to attend Yale University. She graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 2014, and she currently leads an immigration litigation practice at Esperanza Attorneys at Law, a small, low-bono law firm based in New Haven that represents immigrants from countries around the world in humanitarian immigration applications, removal proceedings, and immigration appeals.
She and her husband, Josh, lead the Elm City Vineyard church in New Haven, where Tina serves as the Worship Pastor. Tina has also served as a vocalist and songwriter for a number of Vineyard Worship releases over the past several years. Tina and Josh have two young girls, Zoe and Joy, and a new baby boy, Moses. They love the city of New Haven, beaches, eating new foods, singing and dancing, and following Jesus in community with others.
Robb Morgan is the Managing Director of Vineyard USA. Robb grew up in Danbury, CT, before going to college at The Ohio State Universit,y where he played for and captained the OSU Men’s Soccer Team from 1991-1995, graduating from OSU with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1996.
In 1998, following a very dark and difficult few years, Robb encountered Jesus while on a business trip to Southern California. Over the course of one week, a bartender at the hotel where Robb was staying, and who happened to attend a Vineyard Church, proclaimed the love of God and demonstrated the power of Jesus. At 2 am on September 1, Robb surrendered his life to Jesus – just a few hours before hopping on a plane and going back to Ohio.
Upon returning to Columbus, Robb immediately got involved with Joshua House, the young adult ministry at Vineyard Columbus. It was there that Robb met his wife, Julie, and they attended a small group led by Jay & Danielle Pathak. At Vineyard Columbus, Robb led multiple small groups, attended Vineyard Leadership Institute, and interned with Bill Christensen. In 2001, along with a team of young adults, Robb and Julie moved to Colorado to be a part of the Arvada Vineyard church plant led by Jay & Danielle.
In 2004, Robb, Julie, and their three-month-old daughter Emma returned to the Columbus area and joined the Vineyard Church of Delaware County, serving on staff with Danny and Penny Meyer. Robb served as an Associate Pastor until he and Julie sensed the call to plant again and in 2009 were sent across the county to plant the Delaware City Vineyard. On September 6, 2009, Delaware City Vineyard held its first service and for the past twelve years has faithfully tried to live out its simple mission statement – “in the city, for the city.” Much of the ministry of Delaware City Vineyard focuses on children, the poor, the margins, and the lost. The Delaware City Vineyard released the Neighborhood Church plant in Marion, OH, in 2017 and has recently sent a church planter to join Vineyard61 in South London.
Throughout his time in the Vineyard, Robb has served as an Area Leader, a Missions Partnership Leader, on the Multiply Vineyard team, and in a variety of other translocal roles and task forces. Robb has spoken at regional and national events with Multiply Vineyard and Vineyard Justice Network.
Robb and Julie will be celebrating their 20th anniversary in 2022 with a trip to Iceland. They are the parents of two teenagers, Emma and Via. As a family, they enjoy good music, good food, and the great outdoors. You may have seen some of the adventures in their converted school bus on Instagram (@mor.to.explore). Currently, they are working hard to raise some chickens, shelter some kittens, and prepare for spring gardening and orchard planting.
Author and speaker Beth Moore is a dynamic Bible teacher whose conferences take her across the globe. She has written numerous best-selling books and Bible studies and recently celebrated a landmark 25 years of Living Proof Live conferences and she’s still counting. She can be seen teaching Bible studies on the television program Living Proof with Beth Moore aired on the Trinity Broadcasting Network and YouTube. Beth and her husband Keith reside in the country just outside of Houston, Texas where they share a gleeful love of dogs and wildlife. She has two adult daughters she calls her best friends and an armful of grandchildren.
Ranjo Clements is the Associate Pastor at GCF Vineyard in Wilmore, KY. Born in India, he is a “third culture kid,” having spent significant time in both India and the United States. Ranjo served as a worship pastor in India before returning to the U.S. in 2008 to pursue an M.Div. in worship studies at Asbury Theological Seminary (ATS). Although he initially planned to return to India, he met a girl from China, and they found a home at the Vineyard in Kentucky, where they have served for the past fifteen years.
He is passionate about fostering multiethnic spaces, equipping worship leaders, and helping people encounter God and operate in their gifts. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate at ATS in the intercultural studies program. His research interests include Asian American identity and theology, worship, ethnodoxology, and missiology. He also serves as Vice Chair of the AAPI association and is a member of Vineyard USA’s missions team. Ranjo and Aletha are proud parents of five beautiful daughters. They enjoy hosting people, singing, sharing stories, laughing, and eating all kinds of ethnic foods, especially spicy food!
Susan Van Riesen has been serving as Palo Alto Vineyard Church’s Lead Pastor since 2017. She served on staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship for 16 years at 6 different college campuses before spending time as a full-time mom of three very energetic, passionate children. She has great love for adoption, children with special needs, and gardening.
Julie Yoder serves as one of the Senior Pastors at The Vineyard Church of Central Illinois, where she leads alongside her husband, Mike. Together, they also serve as Regional Leaders for VUSA in the Midwest Central Region. Raised in the Vineyard, Julie is a gifted communicator, passionate leader, and developer of others. She leads the preaching team and is deeply committed to helping people encounter Jesus in their everyday lives. Before stepping into full-time ministry, Julie earned a degree in Elementary Education from Olivet Nazarene University and worked as a public school reading teacher.
She is a graduate of Vineyard Leadership Institute and brings a heart for equipping the church and cultivating a culture where everyone gets to play and Jesus stays at the center. Julie and Mike have four children—Ty, Tate, Maggie, and Molly—and love serving in ministry together. In her free time, Julie enjoys long walks, daily chocolate, beach trips, and getting lost in a good book.
Sparkle Sanders is Founder & Speaker of Beautiful Truth, LLC, a global encouragement ministry that uses God’s word to encourage more than 10,000 “Truthers” all over the world through social media, devotionals, bible studies, retreats, and more daily. In 2017, Sparkle wrote her first book, 180 Days of Beautiful Truth, a devotional designed to help believers renew their minds and get the life Christ died for them to have.
She is a long-time member of The Vineyard Church of Central Illinois (TVC) and is one of the church’s Kingdom Unity & Diversity Coordinators. She is also a member of TVC’s Pastoral Advisory Committee (PAC) and serves as a leadership consultant/trainer, executive coach, and speaker to the pastoral teams.
In addition to her work at TVC, Sparkle is a certified Leadership Consultant, Coach, and Speaker with Maxwell Leadership and has 20 years of experience in business, marketing, leadership development, executive coaching and strategy/organizational planning. Sparkle graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a Bachelor of Science in Business and a Master of Business Administration (MBA). She currently resides in Champaign, Illinois, with her husband, Nick, and son, Micah.
Learn more about Sparkle and her work at sparklesanders.com
Akwasi Boakye and his wife, Millie, are continuing to join God in extending His Kingdom with Vineyard North and then hopefully to other states and nations as God leads. They were blessed and sent to plant Vineyard North Church as Senior Pastors. Akwasi and Millie are blessed with eight children (five biological, three adopted) and two foster children. Full house, full ministry, full life. They planted and pastored churches in Africa before joining Vineyard Columbus.
Andy Crouch is partner for theology and culture at Praxis, a venture-building ecosystem advancing redemptive entrepreneurship. His writing explores faith, culture, and the image of God in the domains of technology, power, leadership, and the arts. He is the author of five books (plus another with his daughter, Amy Crouch):
- The Life We’re Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World
- The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place
- Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing
- Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power
- Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling
Andy serves on the governing board of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. For more than ten years he was an editor and producer at Christianity Today, including serving as executive editor from 2012 to 2016. He served the John Templeton Foundation in 2017 as senior strategist for communication. His work and writing have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and several editions of Best Christian Writing and Best Spiritual Writing—and, most importantly, received a shout-out in Lecrae’s 2014 single “Non-Fiction.”
From 1998 to 2003, Andy was the editor-in-chief of re:generation quarterly, a magazine for an emerging generation of culturally creative Christians. For ten years he was a campus minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Harvard University. He studied classics at Cornell University and received an M.Div. summa cum laude from Boston University School of Theology. A classically trained musician who draws on pop, folk, rock, jazz, and gospel, he has led musical worship for congregations of 5 to 20,000. He and his wife, Catherine, raised two children and live in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
Glenn Packiam is the Lead Pastor of Rockharbor Church in Costa Mesa, California.
He is also the author of several books, including The Resilient Pastor, Blessed Broken Given, and the most recent title, co-authored with his wife, Holly, The Intentional Year.
He earned a Doctorate in Theology and Ministry from Durham University, and is a Senior Fellow at Barna Group, a Visiting Fellow at St. John’s College at Durham University, and an ordained priest with the Anglican Church of North America. Glenn has written over 65 worship songs published with Integrity Music, including “Your Name”, co-written with Paul Baloche.
Glenn and Holly have four children and live in Orange County, California.
Andy Saperstein has been a Vineyard person since 1987 and has lived and worked in Asia and the United States for the past nearly 40 years as a linguist, pastor, church planter, missionary, and scholar. Completing his BA in Linguistics at the University of Chicago and his MA and PhD in Linguistics at The Ohio State University, he worked among Afghan refugees in Pakistan as a Fulbright Scholar and linguistic consultant; served in Samarqand, Uzbekistan investing in the emerging church, educational development, academic teaching, and literary translation; and served in senior leadership roles in a major international Christian organization. Andy returned to the U.S. in 2006 to work at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture in a Muslim-Christian dialogue and reconciliation program, and then in 2009 to Vineyard Columbus in Columbus, Ohio, where he served as Pastor of Global International Ministries and Leader Formation, as well as in multiple other leadership roles. Since Autumn 2024, he has served as Associate Pastor of Elm City Vineyard Church in New Haven, CT, which he and his wife, Kathryn, helped plant in 2007.
Andy is passionate about helping Christian communities and individuals grow in nearness to God, spiritual formation, devotion to the local church, and participation in God’s mission in the world. He delights in helping missional people cultivate rich formational lives as they labor outwardly for Jesus’ sake, both at home and abroad in multicultural contexts. Most recently, he has published 12-for-12: A Practical Guide for a Year of Spiritual Formation in Community, and for the past 15 years has led communities of leaders who have helped hundreds of others grow into more deeply formational and missional lives in community with Jesus and his people.
Andy is a committed commuter cyclist and enjoys hiking, camping, reading, writing poetry, and working as an amateur philosopher-plumber. He has been married to his wife, Kathryn, for more than forty years and has four children and five grandchildren.
Caleb Maskell is the Associate National Director of Theology and Education for Vineyard USA. Born in London, he immigrated with his family to New Jersey in 1986, at the age of nine.
Caleb has been involved in leadership in the Vineyard movement for twenty-five years. After spending a gap year at the Toronto Airport Vineyard School of Ministry in 1995, he went to the University of Chicago to study theology, philosophy, and literature in the interdisciplinary undergraduate Fundamentals program. While there, he joined the core planting team of the Hyde Park Vineyard Church, where he served as a worship leader, a small group leader, a setter-up of chairs, and whatever else Rand Tucker asked him to do.
After college, full of questions that had emerged from the beautiful collision of serious academic study and the practical realities of church planting, Caleb enrolled in the M.Div. program at Yale Divinity School. For four years, he immersed himself in the study of theology, church history, and scripture, while also leading worship and working with middle school and high school youth groups. After graduating in 2004, he worked for three years as the Associate Director of the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University.
In 2007, along with his wife Kathy and their friends Matt and Hannah Croasmun, Caleb planted Elm City Vineyard Church in New Haven, Connecticut. That year, he also began a Ph.D. program at Princeton University, focusing on the history of American religion, with an additional emphasis in African-American Studies. After moving to Manhattan for four years while Kathy went to seminary, the Maskells ended up in suburban Philadelphia, where Caleb completed his Ph.D, while teaching regularly at Princeton Theological Seminary, and serving as the Worship Pastor at Blue Route Vineyard Church.
Since 2010, Caleb has led the Society of Vineyard Scholars, which exists to foster and sustain a community of theological discourse in and for the Vineyard movement. Caleb is passionate about developing leaders and institutions that will help to produce a healthy, courageous, and hospitable future for the church in the twenty-first century. Caleb and Kathy now live with their two kids, Josiah and Emmanuelle, in the heart of Denver, where Kathy pastors East Denver Vineyard Church.
Janette H. Ok is Associate Professor of New Testament at Fuller Seminary. Her research interests include 1 Peter, 1–3 John, the Catholic Epistles, and the formation of early Christian identity, with an emphasis on Asian American, intersectional, feminist, and social-scientific approaches to biblical interpretation. Janette is the author of Constructing Ethnic Identity in 1 Peter: Who You Are No Longer (2021) and coeditor of and contributor to The New Testament in Color: A Multiethnic Bible Commentary (2024). Currently, she is writing a commentary on the letters of John and a book on reading the New Testament as Asian Americans.
As a teacher, Janette is passionate about helping students grow in the art of interpreting Scripture and introducing them to a diversity of perspectives and critical methodologies. She challenges students to consider textual and contextual factors at work in the interpretive process and how their interplay can provide new insights for biblical and theological reflection.
As a church leader and preacher, Janette brings over 25 years of ministry experience to the classroom. She is an ordained minister who pastors at Ekko Church in Anaheim, California. Her interdisciplinary interests and ecclesial commitments have shaped her preaching, teaching, and scholarship, giving her a practical focus on church ministry and Christian leadership. Janette is passionate about forming wise leaders for the church.
Jay Pathak is the National Director of Vineyard USA, starting in January 2022. He also serves as the Lead Pastor of the Mile High Vineyard, a family of neighborhood churches in Denver, that he, Danielle, and a small team planted in 2001.
Jay co-wrote the book, The Art of Neighboring, with Dave Runyon. His passion for sharing his faith with the people around him is at the center of his calling. He is a humble, empowering leader who is passionate about raising up leaders around him. His strengths, in particular, lie in strategically placing people on teams where they thrive. Additionally, he regularly thinks of ministry in the context of culture and developing relationships and partnerships in the city, government, and across denominational lines.
Jay has led in various contexts throughout the Vineyard starting as an intern for Rich Nathan at the Columbus Vineyard in his early ministry days, and stretching into various positions of translocal leadership including serving on the Vineyard USA Executive Team for many years. He is a sought-after speaker and coach while keeping strong ties to the local community.
Jay has a BA in Philosophy from The Ohio State University and is a graduate of the Vineyard Leadership Institute.
Miguel Aviles, alongside his wife Rocio Hernandez, serves as the lead pastor of La Viña Burnsville in Minnesota. They are proud parents of Samantha and Miguel, both married and building their own lives.
Throughout their ministry journey, Miguel and Rocio have dedicated their lives to advancing God’s Kingdom, contributing to the planting of three Vineyard churches in Minnesota, including their own. They also had the privilege of serving for many years in Vineyard Multiplica, driving the growth of the movement, and for approximately seven years, they served as area leaders, providing guidance and support to other churches in the region.
La Viña Burnsville is a vibrant and diverse community, representing people from 17 different Latin American countries and highlighting the cultural richness of the body of Christ. Additionally, the church is home to a flourishing Brazilian ministry, led by a dedicated team, which continues to grow and impact lives with the message of the Gospel.
Driven by their passion to see God’s Kingdom thrive and transform lives, Miguel and Rocio serve with love, dedication, and inspiring leadership, leaving a meaningful legacy at every stage of their ministry.
Tina Colón Williams is an immigration attorney, worship pastor, and vocalist based in New Haven, Connecticut. Born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida, Tina moved to New Haven in 2005 to attend Yale University. She graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 2014, and she currently leads an immigration litigation practice at Esperanza Attorneys at Law, a small, low-bono law firm based in New Haven that represents immigrants from countries around the world in humanitarian immigration applications, removal proceedings, and immigration appeals.
She and her husband, Josh, lead the Elm City Vineyard church in New Haven, where Tina serves as the Worship Pastor. Tina has also served as a vocalist and songwriter for a number of Vineyard Worship releases over the past several years. Tina and Josh have two young girls, Zoe and Joy, and a new baby boy, Moses. They love the city of New Haven, beaches, eating new foods, singing and dancing, and following Jesus in community with others.
Robb Morgan is the Managing Director of Vineyard USA. Robb grew up in Danbury, CT, before going to college at The Ohio State Universit,y where he played for and captained the OSU Men’s Soccer Team from 1991-1995, graduating from OSU with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1996.
In 1998, following a very dark and difficult few years, Robb encountered Jesus while on a business trip to Southern California. Over the course of one week, a bartender at the hotel where Robb was staying, and who happened to attend a Vineyard Church, proclaimed the love of God and demonstrated the power of Jesus. At 2 am on September 1, Robb surrendered his life to Jesus – just a few hours before hopping on a plane and going back to Ohio.
Upon returning to Columbus, Robb immediately got involved with Joshua House, the young adult ministry at Vineyard Columbus. It was there that Robb met his wife, Julie, and they attended a small group led by Jay & Danielle Pathak. At Vineyard Columbus, Robb led multiple small groups, attended Vineyard Leadership Institute, and interned with Bill Christensen. In 2001, along with a team of young adults, Robb and Julie moved to Colorado to be a part of the Arvada Vineyard church plant led by Jay & Danielle.
In 2004, Robb, Julie, and their three-month-old daughter Emma returned to the Columbus area and joined the Vineyard Church of Delaware County, serving on staff with Danny and Penny Meyer. Robb served as an Associate Pastor until he and Julie sensed the call to plant again and in 2009 were sent across the county to plant the Delaware City Vineyard. On September 6, 2009, Delaware City Vineyard held its first service and for the past twelve years has faithfully tried to live out its simple mission statement – “in the city, for the city.” Much of the ministry of Delaware City Vineyard focuses on children, the poor, the margins, and the lost. The Delaware City Vineyard released the Neighborhood Church plant in Marion, OH, in 2017 and has recently sent a church planter to join Vineyard61 in South London.
Throughout his time in the Vineyard, Robb has served as an Area Leader, a Missions Partnership Leader, on the Multiply Vineyard team, and in a variety of other translocal roles and task forces. Robb has spoken at regional and national events with Multiply Vineyard and Vineyard Justice Network.
Robb and Julie will be celebrating their 20th anniversary in 2022 with a trip to Iceland. They are the parents of two teenagers, Emma and Via. As a family, they enjoy good music, good food, and the great outdoors. You may have seen some of the adventures in their converted school bus on Instagram (@mor.to.explore). Currently, they are working hard to raise some chickens, shelter some kittens, and prepare for spring gardening and orchard planting.
Author and speaker Beth Moore is a dynamic Bible teacher whose conferences take her across the globe. She has written numerous best-selling books and Bible studies and recently celebrated a landmark 25 years of Living Proof Live conferences and she’s still counting. She can be seen teaching Bible studies on the television program Living Proof with Beth Moore aired on the Trinity Broadcasting Network and YouTube. Beth and her husband Keith reside in the country just outside of Houston, Texas where they share a gleeful love of dogs and wildlife. She has two adult daughters she calls her best friends and an armful of grandchildren.
Ranjo Clements is the Associate Pastor at GCF Vineyard in Wilmore, KY. Born in India, he is a “third culture kid,” having spent significant time in both India and the United States. Ranjo served as a worship pastor in India before returning to the U.S. in 2008 to pursue an M.Div. in worship studies at Asbury Theological Seminary (ATS). Although he initially planned to return to India, he met a girl from China, and they found a home at the Vineyard in Kentucky, where they have served for the past fifteen years.
He is passionate about fostering multiethnic spaces, equipping worship leaders, and helping people encounter God and operate in their gifts. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate at ATS in the intercultural studies program. His research interests include Asian American identity and theology, worship, ethnodoxology, and missiology. He also serves as Vice Chair of the AAPI association and is a member of Vineyard USA’s missions team. Ranjo and Aletha are proud parents of five beautiful daughters. They enjoy hosting people, singing, sharing stories, laughing, and eating all kinds of ethnic foods, especially spicy food!
Susan Van Riesen has been serving as Palo Alto Vineyard Church’s Lead Pastor since 2017. She served on staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship for 16 years at 6 different college campuses before spending time as a full-time mom of three very energetic, passionate children. She has great love for adoption, children with special needs, and gardening.
Julie Yoder serves as one of the Senior Pastors at The Vineyard Church of Central Illinois, where she leads alongside her husband, Mike. Together, they also serve as Regional Leaders for VUSA in the Midwest Central Region. Raised in the Vineyard, Julie is a gifted communicator, passionate leader, and developer of others. She leads the preaching team and is deeply committed to helping people encounter Jesus in their everyday lives. Before stepping into full-time ministry, Julie earned a degree in Elementary Education from Olivet Nazarene University and worked as a public school reading teacher.
She is a graduate of Vineyard Leadership Institute and brings a heart for equipping the church and cultivating a culture where everyone gets to play and Jesus stays at the center. Julie and Mike have four children—Ty, Tate, Maggie, and Molly—and love serving in ministry together. In her free time, Julie enjoys long walks, daily chocolate, beach trips, and getting lost in a good book.
Sparkle Sanders is Founder & Speaker of Beautiful Truth, LLC, a global encouragement ministry that uses God’s word to encourage more than 10,000 “Truthers” all over the world through social media, devotionals, bible studies, retreats, and more daily. In 2017, Sparkle wrote her first book, 180 Days of Beautiful Truth, a devotional designed to help believers renew their minds and get the life Christ died for them to have.
She is a long-time member of The Vineyard Church of Central Illinois (TVC) and is one of the church’s Kingdom Unity & Diversity Coordinators. She is also a member of TVC’s Pastoral Advisory Committee (PAC) and serves as a leadership consultant/trainer, executive coach, and speaker to the pastoral teams.
In addition to her work at TVC, Sparkle is a certified Leadership Consultant, Coach, and Speaker with Maxwell Leadership and has 20 years of experience in business, marketing, leadership development, executive coaching and strategy/organizational planning. Sparkle graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a Bachelor of Science in Business and a Master of Business Administration (MBA). She currently resides in Champaign, Illinois, with her husband, Nick, and son, Micah.
Learn more about Sparkle and her work at sparklesanders.com
Akwasi Boakye and his wife, Millie, are continuing to join God in extending His Kingdom with Vineyard North and then hopefully to other states and nations as God leads. They were blessed and sent to plant Vineyard North Church as Senior Pastors. Akwasi and Millie are blessed with eight children (five biological, three adopted) and two foster children. Full house, full ministry, full life. They planted and pastored churches in Africa before joining Vineyard Columbus.
Andy Crouch is partner for theology and culture at Praxis, a venture-building ecosystem advancing redemptive entrepreneurship. His writing explores faith, culture, and the image of God in the domains of technology, power, leadership, and the arts. He is the author of five books (plus another with his daughter, Amy Crouch):
- The Life We’re Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World
- The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place
- Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing
- Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power
- Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling
Andy serves on the governing board of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. For more than ten years he was an editor and producer at Christianity Today, including serving as executive editor from 2012 to 2016. He served the John Templeton Foundation in 2017 as senior strategist for communication. His work and writing have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and several editions of Best Christian Writing and Best Spiritual Writing—and, most importantly, received a shout-out in Lecrae’s 2014 single “Non-Fiction.”
From 1998 to 2003, Andy was the editor-in-chief of re:generation quarterly, a magazine for an emerging generation of culturally creative Christians. For ten years he was a campus minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Harvard University. He studied classics at Cornell University and received an M.Div. summa cum laude from Boston University School of Theology. A classically trained musician who draws on pop, folk, rock, jazz, and gospel, he has led musical worship for congregations of 5 to 20,000. He and his wife, Catherine, raised two children and live in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
Glenn Packiam is the Lead Pastor of Rockharbor Church in Costa Mesa, California.
He is also the author of several books, including The Resilient Pastor, Blessed Broken Given, and the most recent title, co-authored with his wife, Holly, The Intentional Year.
He earned a Doctorate in Theology and Ministry from Durham University, and is a Senior Fellow at Barna Group, a Visiting Fellow at St. John’s College at Durham University, and an ordained priest with the Anglican Church of North America. Glenn has written over 65 worship songs published with Integrity Music, including “Your Name”, co-written with Paul Baloche.
Glenn and Holly have four children and live in Orange County, California.
Andy Saperstein has been a Vineyard person since 1987 and has lived and worked in Asia and the United States for the past nearly 40 years as a linguist, pastor, church planter, missionary, and scholar. Completing his BA in Linguistics at the University of Chicago and his MA and PhD in Linguistics at The Ohio State University, he worked among Afghan refugees in Pakistan as a Fulbright Scholar and linguistic consultant; served in Samarqand, Uzbekistan investing in the emerging church, educational development, academic teaching, and literary translation; and served in senior leadership roles in a major international Christian organization. Andy returned to the U.S. in 2006 to work at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture in a Muslim-Christian dialogue and reconciliation program, and then in 2009 to Vineyard Columbus in Columbus, Ohio, where he served as Pastor of Global International Ministries and Leader Formation, as well as in multiple other leadership roles. Since Autumn 2024, he has served as Associate Pastor of Elm City Vineyard Church in New Haven, CT, which he and his wife, Kathryn, helped plant in 2007.
Andy is passionate about helping Christian communities and individuals grow in nearness to God, spiritual formation, devotion to the local church, and participation in God’s mission in the world. He delights in helping missional people cultivate rich formational lives as they labor outwardly for Jesus’ sake, both at home and abroad in multicultural contexts. Most recently, he has published 12-for-12: A Practical Guide for a Year of Spiritual Formation in Community, and for the past 15 years has led communities of leaders who have helped hundreds of others grow into more deeply formational and missional lives in community with Jesus and his people.
Andy is a committed commuter cyclist and enjoys hiking, camping, reading, writing poetry, and working as an amateur philosopher-plumber. He has been married to his wife, Kathryn, for more than forty years and has four children and five grandchildren.
Caleb Maskell is the Associate National Director of Theology and Education for Vineyard USA. Born in London, he immigrated with his family to New Jersey in 1986, at the age of nine.
Caleb has been involved in leadership in the Vineyard movement for twenty-five years. After spending a gap year at the Toronto Airport Vineyard School of Ministry in 1995, he went to the University of Chicago to study theology, philosophy, and literature in the interdisciplinary undergraduate Fundamentals program. While there, he joined the core planting team of the Hyde Park Vineyard Church, where he served as a worship leader, a small group leader, a setter-up of chairs, and whatever else Rand Tucker asked him to do.
After college, full of questions that had emerged from the beautiful collision of serious academic study and the practical realities of church planting, Caleb enrolled in the M.Div. program at Yale Divinity School. For four years, he immersed himself in the study of theology, church history, and scripture, while also leading worship and working with middle school and high school youth groups. After graduating in 2004, he worked for three years as the Associate Director of the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University.
In 2007, along with his wife Kathy and their friends Matt and Hannah Croasmun, Caleb planted Elm City Vineyard Church in New Haven, Connecticut. That year, he also began a Ph.D. program at Princeton University, focusing on the history of American religion, with an additional emphasis in African-American Studies. After moving to Manhattan for four years while Kathy went to seminary, the Maskells ended up in suburban Philadelphia, where Caleb completed his Ph.D, while teaching regularly at Princeton Theological Seminary, and serving as the Worship Pastor at Blue Route Vineyard Church.
Since 2010, Caleb has led the Society of Vineyard Scholars, which exists to foster and sustain a community of theological discourse in and for the Vineyard movement. Caleb is passionate about developing leaders and institutions that will help to produce a healthy, courageous, and hospitable future for the church in the twenty-first century. Caleb and Kathy now live with their two kids, Josiah and Emmanuelle, in the heart of Denver, where Kathy pastors East Denver Vineyard Church.
Janette H. Ok is Associate Professor of New Testament at Fuller Seminary. Her research interests include 1 Peter, 1–3 John, the Catholic Epistles, and the formation of early Christian identity, with an emphasis on Asian American, intersectional, feminist, and social-scientific approaches to biblical interpretation. Janette is the author of Constructing Ethnic Identity in 1 Peter: Who You Are No Longer (2021) and coeditor of and contributor to The New Testament in Color: A Multiethnic Bible Commentary (2024). Currently, she is writing a commentary on the letters of John and a book on reading the New Testament as Asian Americans.
As a teacher, Janette is passionate about helping students grow in the art of interpreting Scripture and introducing them to a diversity of perspectives and critical methodologies. She challenges students to consider textual and contextual factors at work in the interpretive process and how their interplay can provide new insights for biblical and theological reflection.
As a church leader and preacher, Janette brings over 25 years of ministry experience to the classroom. She is an ordained minister who pastors at Ekko Church in Anaheim, California. Her interdisciplinary interests and ecclesial commitments have shaped her preaching, teaching, and scholarship, giving her a practical focus on church ministry and Christian leadership. Janette is passionate about forming wise leaders for the church.
Elementary Kids (Grades 1-5)
The “Time to Fly” Kids Conference for Elementary Kids (Grades 1-5) is designed to help kids discover five Kingdom identities that Jesus embodied, and have the opportunity to explore which one they personally identify with the most.
The Kingdom identities are: The Dreamer – dreamers gotta dream, The Revolutionary – release a revolution, The Peacemaker – lead the way, The Activist – be the change, The Artist – shine your light.
This year the Elementary program is all day!!
We will serve the Elementary Kids lunch as part of our program. Check-in opens 15 min prior to the start of the session and pick up begins immediately after the session ends.
Our sessions will include group worship experience, story/ministry, games, craft & snack. Lunch block has time for bounce house fun, game room, and chill. Make sure to wear your conference t-shirt everday with us!
If your child has any dietary restrictions, please send them with their own lunch.
Monday
7:30 – 9:30 PM
VKIDS TEAM DAY | Wear your conference T-Shirt, put on some VKids tattoos, and make some friendship bracelets to rep your small group!
Tuesday
9 AM – 5:30 PM
GOLDEN-GLOW DAY | We’re celebrating the Vineyard’s 50th birthday! Put on ALL the golden bling and get ready to partaayyy!
Lunch: Pizza & Dreamy Whip (GF Soft Serve; DF options available)
Wednesday
9 AM – 5:30 PM
WILD WEDNESDAY | In honor of Wild Ones (a new VK song), let’s get wild. Wear your wildest and wackiest outfit – animal prints encouraged… RAWRRR!
Lunch: Jimmy John’s Sandwiches & Sweet Treats
Thursday
9 AM – 5:30 PM
TROPICAL THURSDAY | Break out your Hawaiian shirts, grass skirts, and get ready to cool off!
Lunch: Boom Box Sliders (cheeseburger or hamburger) & Sweet Treats
Early Childhood program (Ages 1 – Kindergarten)
Our Early Childhood program will include crafts, games, music, stories and free play centers. The little kids can play and learn each session in a safe, comfortable environment while enjoying a high quality program staffed by professionally trained childcare workers.
A special story and worship time will be led during each of the conference main sessions
in the childcare rooms.
The Early Childhood program runs on the traditional schedule
Parents pick up their child at 11:30 am and keep them for the lunch break. Kids can be checked back in at 2:45 pm. Check in opens 15 min prior to start of session/ pick up begins immediately after session ends.
Mon: 7:30 – 9:30 PM
Tues: 9 AM – 11:30 AM, 3 – 5:30 PM
Wed: 9 AM – 5:30 PM, 3 – 5:30 PM
Thurs: 9 AM – 5:30 PM, 3 – 5:30 PM
We’re stoked to have your teens here at the National Conference! Email Christian Dunn with any questions before the conference, or during the conference Samuel Worden at 402-302-1102 or samuel.worden@tvc.us
If you haven’t filled out a waiver for your teen, please do so now.
Schedule
Mon Night: 7:30 – 9:30 pm
Tues Morning: 9 – 11:30 am (Color War & “Crews”)
Tues Afternoon: 3 – 5:30 pm
Wed: All Day Fun Day
Thurs Morning: 9 – 11:30 am (Color War, Worship, Panel, & “Crews”)
Thurs Afternoon: 3 – 5:30 pm
Fun day on Wednesday
All day trip to Kings Island!
We’ve been watching the weather and tomorrow just isn’t looking good for King’s Island, so we’ve decided to pivot. Here is the new plan:
9:00 -11:30 am – Hang out at the Student Union Building (where youth normally meet). We’ll have free time to play all the games that are in the building (bball, soccer at indoor turf, ping pong, pool, foosball, video games, etc).
11:30 am – Get on buses and head to Main Event
12 – 5 pm – Main Event – we’ll spend the afternoon INDOORS at Main Event. Lunch will be provided and we will get unlimited games, bowling, laser tag, etc.
5:30 pm – Pick up at the church (right after the afternoon session)
Lunch:
Veggie Pizza
Mini Pretzel Dogs with Habanero
Honey Mustard
Boneless Buffalo Wings with
Celery Sticks and Ranch
Garlic Butter Pretzel Sticks with Thai
Chili Caramel Sauce
House Salad with Ranch, Lemon Vinaigrette
and Balsamic Vinaigrette
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