The Vision is…

“To see a Gospel rooted/Kingdom focused church of Real People

dedicate themselves to extending Real Life to their sphere of relationship,

the city of Canterbury, SE Kent and beyond thru equipping leaders, resourcing visionaries,

releasing creativity & planting tribes & churches everywhere we can.”

Canterbury Vineyard longs to be a community of grace AND mission.  It is our passion to be a place where humanity touches humanity and people feel understood, accepted, and loved for who they are, not their performance.  Yet we also believe that when that penny genuinely drops we are desperate to do something for the One who made it so.  We respond to grace with action or maybe we never really understood that grace.  And you know what?  The longer we live in the rays of this grace we are more & more changed into people who embrace His values and have His Heart and therefore…. act differently.  Simply put, we believe that grace… acts.

And we believe that these "acts" begin with our real lives.  If Jesus doesn't change our wednesday afternoons at 1:53pm then He is irrelevant to life.  The good news is... He does!  He whispers to us that we are all created with a white hot purpose that is "Us-shaped" and involves the real stuff around us everyday.  Family.  Friends.  Neighbours.  Work colleagues.  etc... this is the Mission field.  And you?  You're a Missionary. 

CV is passionate to see "Life as it is meant tobe lived" infect SE Kent thru a gang of people who have been touched by Real Life & simply allow God to use them in their real lives!  Like a virus, we'll see communities planted, lives changed & cities revolutionized.  

But it all starts... with His Smile.  "God is in a good mood."