Prairie Vineyard

05/30/2026

Bring those work gloves! We’re doing some cleanup and maintenance this morning (9am-12pm) at Prairie Vineyard. After a quick lunch together, we will conduct our annual general meeting. A big day!

05/23/2026

Tomorrow, Sunday May 24 at 10:00am, the team from Adult & Teen Challenge will be joining us!
You can too! We’ll worship together. We’ll be encouraged. It’ll be awesome. See you there?
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05/11/2026

Today we honour and celebrate the mothers, grandmothers, spiritual mothers, mentors, caregivers, and women who have nurtured others with love, strength, wisdom, and faith.

We also recognize that this day can carry many emotions, joy, gratitude, grief, longing, or remembrance. Wherever you find yourself today, may you know the nearness and compassion of Jesus.

05/07/2026

04/27/2026

For three days leading up to Pentecost (May 20, 21, 22) we will be gathering again on zoom from coast to coast!

You can expect a guided devotional time featuring worship, liturgy, the arts, scripture, and listening to the Holy Spirit together.

We will begin promptly at 7AM PT each morning May 20th, 21st and 22nd and we will gather for 45mins.

Register to receive zoom link here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15iqcYzkDT17bPD6SQ0d1eKjk1hsPKK6D0yredcmRF-A/edit

04/03/2026

From the Table to the Tree | by David Ruis

Artwork: “John 19:14” by Full of Eyes

Already having used clandestine means to enter the city of Jerusalem at the beginning of what we call Holy Week – a simple “the Master needs it” code phrase securing the donkey on which he would make his entrance to Jerusalem, fulfilling the prophecy of Zechariah 9 – Jesus once again gives his disciples a pre-arranged “spy call-sign” of a man carrying a jar of water inside the city walls – typically woman’s work – which would let them know he was the one who would provide a secure room for them to meet in for their observation of the Passover Seder, and where they could have the secrecy needed to discuss what Jesus was up to in the city.

Such intrigue.

Jesus is up to something. But, as would become clear, the disciples are incapable of truly understanding what it is exactly. Believing that Jesus was the promised Messiah and laying all aside to follow him, they still were blinded by a preconceived belief that the Messiah of Israel would fulfill His role as Prophet, Priest and King through some triumphant fusion of religious fervor and political power, and believed Jesus was the One. Their Neo, if you will, who would liberate them from the matrix of Roman oppression and power, setting them free from all other pagan power forever, establishing Israel as God’s chosen nation once and for all. Amen.

Yet from the moment they entered this secret room they couldn’t comprehend the shadow of the cross that was already cast upon all of them and how central it was to framing the entire work, ministry and mission of Jesus. How key it would always be to understanding and following in His Way. The whole vibe of their time together at “the Table” was cruciform, and they didn’t like it....

To read the full reflection see the link in our bio:
https://www.vineyard.ca/from-the-table-to-the-tree/

03/28/2026

Here’s part two of John’s gospel summary…

Watch our overview video on the Gospel of John, which breaks down the literary design of the book and its flow of thought. In John, Jesus becomes human as th...

03/27/2026

Are you getting ready to celebrate the anniversary of Jesus’ resurrection with us? We’re about to conclude our gospel teaching series and switch our focus to life in the early church. Here’s the first part of the Bible project’s summary for John’s gospel.
Stay tuned for part two tomorrow… (or find it on YouTube if you don’t want to wait)

Watch our overview video on the Gospel of John, which breaks down the literary design of the book and its flow of thought. In John, Jesus becomes human as th...

03/24/2026

This video concludes the summary of Luke.

Watch our overview video on the book of Luke, which breaks down the literary design of the book and its flow of thought. In Luke, Jesus carries the covenant ...

02/19/2026

Ash Wednesday. The beginning of Lent.

The word Lent comes from an old English word for “lengthen,” and refers to the lengthening days of spring.

In anticipation of Easter, the church prepares with forty days of fasting and reflection. Exposing our hunger and frailty, the practice of lent helps us to prepare our hearts, making room for the nourishment of the great feast of Easter when it comes.

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Blessing the Dust -For Ash Wednesday
by Jan Richardson

All those days
you felt like dust,
like dirt,
as if all you had to do
was turn your face
toward the wind
and be scattered
to the four corners

or swept away
by the smallest breath
as insubstantial—

did you not know
what the Holy One
can do with dust?

This is the day
we freely say
we are scorched.

This is the hour
we are marked
by what has made it
through the burning.

This is the moment
we ask for the blessing
that lives within
the ancient ashes,
that makes its home
inside the soil of
this sacred earth.

So let us be marked
not for sorrow.
And let us be marked
not for shame.
Let us be marked
not for false humility
or for thinking
we are less
than we are

but for claiming
what God can do
within the dust,
within the dirt,
within the stuff
of which the world
is made
and the stars that blaze
in our bones
and the galaxies that spiral
inside the smudge
we bear.