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This past weekend I got to reconnect with one of the Cornell students who helped plant the Ithaca Vineyard way back in 1999. Dennis Liu began attending the Cornell Vineyard in the Fall 1998 semester, and immediately began attending the Syracuse Vineyard with us. When we started the Ithaca Vineyard in February of 1999 Dennis [...]

Dry wall is going up fast! Thursday & Saturday are our next work days! But I wanted to update you all on how the building fund raising campaign. This past week we received another $988, and with the current matching funds we have that takes our total up to $20,000 of the $30,000 that we [...]

Exciting week ahead before going on vacation for a couple weeks starting Monday…quick list in case you are interested: Monday: A couple meeting to look over how some of our ministries are structured.  We’ll be working on some job descriptions & stuff like that.  Later tonight we’ll take the girls out to shop for some [...]

If you were at the Vineyard this past Sunday, you may have heard Bill Williams make this announcement.  Starting this past Monday, we are passing out tickets to people who work up at the new building (one ticket per hour).  Then when the building is finished & we move in, we are going to have [...]

Although it took us 7 months to get a building permit, the framing inspection and the electrical inspection both went amazingly well, and at this point we are ready to start putting up some dry wall.  Our hope is to have a bunch of people show up tonight & on Saturday so that we can [...]

Just got back from working up at the building…small crew tonight, but we got all of the electrical stuff ready for our inspection tomorrow @ 8:30 am.  If we pass, we will be able to start sheetrocking both sides of all the walls.  So please be praying for this. I also wanted to give a [...]

As we mentioned on Sunday, things are moving along pretty well at the building site.  We are hoping to begin drywalling in the next week or so, and if we can get a good crowd up there, we can know that part off pretty quickly. There will be a work day this Thursday from 6 [...]

I am not cool.  If you doubt that assessment, feel free to ask my kids or anyone who knew me in high school, you will get a unanimous response, “He has never been cool.”  Over the past few weeks some of the big name, “cool pastors,” have come out and talked about how pastoring is [...]

Those of you who know me well know that I love books.  I love reading them and I love giving them away to people.  But a couple years ago I realized that  I was only reading about 20 to 25 a year, so I set a goal at the start of 2008 to read 52 [...]