Pray With Us

2026 Vine Goals:

  • Serve Like Jesus - Pray for us to be intentional about serving our community and tracking hours served. Pray for us as we develop our 12-month calendar and communicate it.  

  • Pray for us as we facilitate a community-wide serving efforts for our community with Walker Hope Collaborative.  

  • Share Jesus’ Warmth and Hospitality - Pray for us to strengthen Sunday morning hospitality and make our groups more accessible on Sunday mornings and throughout the week.  

  • Become Great at Communication - Pray for us to become great at helping our Vine Family and our neighbors in NW Grand Rapids know how they can serve and be served.  

Provision & Guidance:

  • Pray for refugee families connected with Harvest Partnership in Grand Rapids in need of housing.

  • Pray for others at The Vine in need of Housing.

Ministries:

  • Discipleship: For The Vine to be a church full of disciples who are intentional about making disciples.

  • Children & Youth: That the Holy Spirit would equip and strengthen parents to disciple their children.

  • Vine Care Club: That children and families would know Jesus, and that God would strengthen and raise up volunteers.

  • Walker Hope Collaborative: That God would keep this ministry open, provide meaningful community projects, and be glorified as our Hope.

Outreach:

  • Pray for the Equipping in Neighboring and Witness at The Vine to be relevant and received.

  • That the Holy Spirit would give us each courage as witnesses and gentleness and respect.  Pray for opportunities to build relationships with our neighbors.  Check out the BLESS app.

  • Harvest Partnership - MI as Pastor Jim continues to work to establish Harvest Tables with Pastors who represent 3 to 5 churches that gather regularly to pray, support one another in mission, and seek to begin new Gospel work and plant new churches in 3 to 5 years or less.

Partnerships:

  • Harvest Partnership Grand Rapids as we have an opportunity to begin new ministry in Allendale and to GVSU students.  St. John’s Lutheran church in Allendale is lovingly and courageously giving their property to The Michigan District for this purpose.  Pray for the Holy Spirit to give us wisdom, courage, servants, and resources to step into this God-sized Kingdom opportunity according to His will and way.