History
The Vineyard Movement
The Vineyard Movement was founded by John Wimber. In Wimber's early career as a musician, he created, produced and managed the Righteous Brothers. (Wimber's song, "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" was voted one of the most popular rock songs of all time.) Wimber had a radical religious conversion in the late 1960s and in time became the pastor of a growing church. From there, he went on to head up the Church Growth Institute at Fuller Theological Seminary and consulted with churches all over the country on church growth strategies. Later, he founded the Vineyard movement in the 1970s. There are now over 1200 Vineyard churches worldwide, with 600+ in the USA. Several of these churches have over 2000 in attendance each weekend. The Vineyard Movement is one of the fastest growing denominations in America.
Three of the differentiating trademarks of Vineyard Churches are the contemporary use of worship music, serving the poor and being known as a church for people without a previous religious background. Vineyard Music is now used by the majority of churches in America, and is particularly relevant for young people.
Vineyard Church of Davenport
The Vineyard Church of Davenport (formerly Quad Cities Vineyard Christian Fellowship) was founded in 1993 as a church plant from the Vineyard Christian Fellowship in Anaheim, California. At that time, the Anaheim Vineyard was the headquarters of the National Association of Vineyard Churches in the USA. A California church planting team led by John Paul Jackson joined with a group of about 15 people here in Moline and the first Quad Cities Vineyard was born.
Once the church was established, Jeff Hamric served as Senior Pastor from 1994-2001. In 1996, we moved across the river to 824 W 3rd Street, Davenport. In 2001, Patrick Street, who had served as the Staff Pastor under Hamric, took over as Senior Pastor of the Vineyard. Upon outgrowing the 3rd Street location, we purchased a new facility in northwest Davenport (the former Kimberly Pines Skate Center) and began holding services there Resurrection Day (Easter) 2004.
What's next for VCD? We plan to give the 3rd Street building to The King's Harvest, Inc. (our compassion ministry) in order to continue and expand our ministry to the poor and homeless in that area. Since church planting is something in which we believe strongly, our vision is to plant several other Vineyard Churches in the Quad City Area and around the country. We have already sent teams to Gatlinburg, Tennessee and Lawrence, Kansas and will have many more to come!