Engage
Working for God’s Justice & Compassion
We are committed to becoming just communities, welcoming the gifts and voices of those who have been excluded. Vineyard Engage inspires and empowers Canadian Vineyard people to engage with justice locally, nationally, and globally: setting things right in our relationships and society.
Dawn Humphreys
National Catalyst of Vineyard Engage
Dawn leads Strathcona Vineyard, located in downtown eastside Vancouver. She seeks to empower those on society’s margins to find a place of belonging and purpose in the Kingdom of God, and to inspire and equip others to engage with God’s heart for the poor and oppressed; she currently works as a Pastoral Representative at Regent College, Vancouver.
Resources
Honouring Indigenous Day
Andy Wood, our national Engage Catalyst and pastor of Winnipeg Centre Vineyard, wrote this prayer for a WCV worship gathering. Feel free to adapt it for use in your own church context. The image behind the prayer is of the "Mending Mural", a very celebrated mural...
Racism & Power
Barna provides a helpful article and video resource addressing racism and the Church that we recommend!
Conversations on Race and the Church: A Call to Action, Part 1
Barna provides a helpful article and video resource addressing racism and the Church that we recommend!
Perfecting Our Lean Towards Diversity In The Vineyard
Geno Olison, is the lead pastor of the South Suburban Vineyard, a multiethnic church in the south suburbs of Chicago. He is a gifted leader and communicator who has devoted his life to church planting and cross-cultural ministry. On this video he addresses the power...
A New Way Forward (series)
Vineyard Engage produced this video series in 2018, exploring what it looks like for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to walk together in a good way. Interviews with indigenous theologian Dr. Terry LeBlanc and other local practitioners provide context and a rich...
Raw Conversations: Racism, Reconciliation & the Church
It's easy to minimize the necessity of church structure, or to simply think of it as a "necessary evil," but what if there's no healthy ecclesiology without church structure? When we minimize the administration of leadership as less valuable or spiritual than other...