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.

Our hearts are for this city, and for what God is doing all around us. We can't wait to step into the new, to partner with God and amazing people to create a life-giving community to belong, find hope, and inspire change in the world.

As we walk along this path to launch Northwest Vineyard, we’re excited for what God wants to do, for people coming alive, and something beautiful being built here. We can’t wait to to build a life-giving church that puts people on a path to finding Jesus, a church that gives people a chance to have their lives completely changed by His grace.

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

We hope to meet you soon!

Howie and April.

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