In January 2011, at a church winter camp I was stricken with the desire to learn more about God than what I was getting on Sunday.  Fortunately, even after I left winter camp this desire burned within me and could not be ignored.  So I decided to take practical steps to achieve this:  I began to look through my church bulletin for any classes or Bible studies starting, and I found 2 different free classes were just starting up—Christianity Basics and Ministry Basics.  So I started to go to these classes.  In Christianity Basics I was able to develop a relationship with my youth pastor.  During this class I was able to engage in...

On July 30 through August 3, at the Southeast Regional Pastors’ Conference in Asheville, NC at the Ridgecrest Conference Center in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, something incredible happened. Seventy-one teenagers, mostly pastors’ kids, banded together to pray, seek and create 12 outreaches that will change lives. These 12 outreaches, completely conceived, created and written by these teens, have been published into a booklet and sent out to various Vineyard Churches in regions across the United States. Some churches have already used some of the 12 outreaches that the teens created and other churches have plans to use the...

My name is Kiah Jones. I’m 15 and from the Vineyard Boise. God moved me. Broke me. Changed me over Cultivation Generation 2012. This is my story….what I could express. My spirit has so much more to say about what I experienced over this past week than my words could ever express. If I was to be completely honest in this, I would have to admit that my moods were swinging on extremes that I’d never felt before. This conference wasn’t all awesome. It was a battle. I fought. Hard. My entire body shook uncontrollably. Hands gripped tightly to my scalp; interlocked in my hair as my flesh struggled to deal with what was...