North Brooklyn Vineyard church

As many of you know the NY Board of Education notified our church that they would not be renewing the contract for the elementary school we’ve been renting for the past six years on Sunday mornings and that we had to be out by February 12^th.

I immediately called our Advisory Team to fast and pray, each member covering a day of the week, until he found a new home for our church. Well great news, St. John’s Lutheran, a beautiful old, neo-Gothic-style church located in neighboring Greenpoint, has graciously agreed to allow us to become their tenant congregation! Read more ›

If you’ve read the Wall Street Journal or the NY Times this week you saw that the Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal of the Circuit Court’s ruling that forbids churches from renting public school space for worship services.

This will affect some 160 religious groups in the city. What this means is that as of Feb 12th, we’ll no longer be permitted to rent P.S. 132 for our Sunday morning services.

Now what? Well after getting over the initial shock I got in touch with our Advisory Team to put together a plan. This is what we’ve come up with so far: We’ve initiated a facility search in the Williamsburg and Greenpoint areas. Read more ›

Well, the holidays are now here! Read more ›