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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.