Kendrick Vinar

Community is something that we long for. We want to live in harmony and get along. We desire there to be a love and unity between people of all different walks of life.
How does community and living in harmony come about?
One answer: Reading Scripture and receiving encouragement, hope and endurance. How many people do you [...]

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This past week a great opportunity has come to Grace Church. I (but really we) have been asked to oversee and help plant a church in Charlotte.
Tommy Zukoski is the lead pastor/planter. He’s been building relationships, taking a church planter’s class, went through a church planter’s assessment, and getting to know his community. He’s determined [...]

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Grace Church is partnering with charity: water to raise funds for the one billion people on the planet who do not have access to clean safe drinking water.
Twestival is a global meeting of the Twitter community on Feb. 12 in 185+ cities around the world to raise support for those without clean water.
Check out the [...]

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I just finished three days of meetings with a group called Interlink. Interlink is six networks of churches that are endeavoring to cooperate in church planting, missions, and reaching the next generation. They are diverse in theology and style, but unified in heart and vision. The theme of the gathering was Courageous Leadership.
The most impressive [...]

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Will McFarlane was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame on Oct. 28th. 
The Raleigh N&O ran an article today about his induction. 
Way to go, Will. We’re proud of you. In case you don’t know… Will is one of our worship leaders and pastors at Grace Church. Here’s a link to the full article.

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We just finished up a series on Revolutionary Love at Grace Church. The whole concept was that we’d look for ways to spread God’s love in a practical way – surprise someone with a random act of kindness.
The revolution is spreading… Loveland, CO is experiencing it as an epidemic.

Check out this spot on CNN: Starbucks [...]

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Our team from Grace Church had a blast serving in Delft, Holland with David Koerts and Levend Water. They participated in a city-wide outreach called “DiverseCity” – bringing God’s love to Delft.
Here’s a video that Michael Fuller put together to capture the time.

A photojournalist from Levend Water put together an awesome slideshow of one of [...]

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We finished up a great weekend with GraceMart. We collected a massive amount of clothing, furniture, household items, appliances, books, toys, food, and whatever else for the needy. There was a deluge of people leaving with arms full and hopefully hearts touched with God’s love. 
We had some media coverage:
ABC Channel 11 Report
Chapel Hill News Article
A [...]

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Thursday, May 1st is the National Day of Prayer. When Christians unite under the common banner of Jesus Christ to pray – it’s great to show up and support the effort. 
There are two events in Chapel Hill – both at noon. One is at Grace Church, 200 Sage Road. Jim Reklis will be leading prayer [...]

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We took out the best admin staff in the Triangle this week – just to say thanks. Okay, it was administrative assistant’s week. We really are blessed to work with Arielle, Emily, Aska, and Kathy. They are behind the scenes helping so many things happen. Nothing healthy about this lunch: Red Robin burgers and fish-n-chips. [...]

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