Vineyard East Worship

Our vision for Crop ’10 was to praise God with our locally grown songs. This project has truly revealed the great value and excitement the community in our region has for worship (with roughly 70 songs submitted).

Congratulations to Justin Barney, Patrick Abendschein, Ryan Green, Spring Goutte, Rebekah Vasquez, Roy Gernhardt, Seth Andreson, Charles Brown, Chris Orza, and Walt Janusz!

The Crop ‘10 concert was a great night of singer/songwriters performing their songs. All of the artists were present except for Spring Gouette and Roy Gernhardt. Seth Andreson finished off the night with a spontaneous blues tune.

Special thanks to Abbey Harrington for leading this project. She did this as a volunteer and put in hours of work to make it happen. Thanks to the house band Chris Shinall on drums, Mike Ward on bass and Ron Halsey on electric guitar.

We have the fun opportunity ahead to host an Integrity worship conference at the Greater Boston Vineyard, featuring Brian Doerksen, Kathryn Scott, and Paul Baloche. The conference takes place Friday and Saturday, Oct. 29 & 30, culminating in a worship concert featuring these three in tandem with a really deft band. I went to such an event last year, and they’re a complementary trio with a lot of breadth, depth, and spiritual authority. And they’re impressively supported with top quality technology. (The fact that AudioEthics will be taking over our sanctuary, installing their own lights, sound and projection systems means it’s a rare opportunity for behind the scenes training on every level.)

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The deadline for song submissions has been extended until April 15, Tax day. We hope the extension will help more of you finish your project and give us a great representation of East coast songwriting. (VineyardUSA Eastern Region’s collecting of locally written songs)!

Download the PDF form (Eastern Crop 2010 Submission Form) & send via snail mail by April 15, 2010 If you prefer you can email an mp3 file to crop2010@vineyardeastworship.com

Eastern Crop ‘10
attn: Abbey Harrington
The Vineyard CHurch
312 Lakeside Rd.
Syracuse, NY 13209

Get writing & please spread the word to the worship leaders & musicians in your churches. Also, lets chat on the forum about any ideas or questions that you have.

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Crop 08 was such a huge success that we are going to do it again with Crop 10.

We will showcase the talents of the songwriters in our region at the regional conference in July of 2010.

Check out the interview by Seth of Roy Gernhard as he talks about the two songs he wrote for Crop 08.

I am very excited to share with you an exciting development among the Vineyard Worship Ministries in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Birthed out of conversations among some worship leaders in Maine and Area leadership, the Tri-State Worship Network is a collaboration of the worship leaders across the Tri-State Area. The Network’s purpose is to help equip and encourage all those who serve in the “worship trenches” in the Area Vineyard churches, from the small group worship leader, to the sound personnel, to the Sunday morning worship teams/leaders.

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Photos from workshop held at the North Jersey Vineyard for worship leaders & band members in Fall of 2008.

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