Our Pastors

Meet our Pastors

Hello, we’re Howie and April, and we’re the Pastors and Church Planters of Northwest Vineyard. We’ve been married since 2004 and have two amazing children, and one cat. We love drinking coffee, sitting with friends, eating good food… and of course Jesus.

Over the years, we’ve been involved in various leadership roles. Previously, we’ve been teaching in local West Auckland schools, we love to teach and have a heart for working and being around children, families and people in general. We’ve also been involved in working with youth as Youth Pastors, as well as other various pastoral roles. In 2011, we discovered the Vineyard Church movement and realised that we had found our family. Over this time, we served on staff at Urban Vineyard, and also in a role as the national Children’s Ministry coordinators for Vineyard NZ.

Looking back, we can see Gods fingerprints on our lives to prepare us for this adventure. We love this part of the city, and we love the dream and vision God’s given us for it.

As this dream has begun to grow and come alive, we can’t help but sense that God is up to something beautiful. We began to wonder what would it look like to establish a church that would play our part in this city, that will meet people right where they are, that will bring hope, belonging and inspire change in our world. And so, it’s for such a time as this that we step out, follow in his leading, and trust him to do the miraculous.

With excitement, we’re doing what God has planted in our hearts, and we’re so excited to share more about this as you read through the pages of this website.

We can't wait to step into this exciting new journey, to meet new friends, and see what God will do through Northwest Vineyard Church, together.

Our heart is that whatever has caused our paths to cross, you know that there’s room for you in our story yet to be written.

We can’t wait to meet you!

Howie and April.

Here’s more about the church we see.