CHURCH TO CELEBRATE ITS CAMPUS EXPANSION DESERT VINEYARD HAS NEW CAFE, COURTYARD, FOUNTAIN.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER -- After a three-year project to expand its campus, the Desert Vineyard vineyard, land on which cultivation of the grape—known as viticulture—takes place. As many as 40 varieties of grape, Vitis vinifera, are known. has issued an invitation to people to visit for its Oct. 14-15 open house. The church will celebrate the opening of its new ministry center at Challenger Way and Avenue I and addition of three new weekend worship services, bringing the total weekend worship services to seven. Recording artist David Ruis will be featured during the open house weekend, concluding with a special evening worship Sunday at 7 p.m. ``The Desert Vineyard continues to be a great church for people who aren't all that crazy about going to church. It's a welcoming place where people from any background can reach for faith and come explore the meaning of Jesus for their lives,'' the Vineyard's lead pastor, David Parker David Parker is the name of:
Service times are Saturday at 6 p.m. and Sunday at 8 a.m., 10 a.m. and noon. The church's new Cafe Sanctuary, named for its licensed Starbucks cafe and bookstore, provides an additional 400 seats separate from the existing 1,100 seat main sanctuary. Services in the Cafe Sanctuary are led by a host pastor and worship band, with Parker shown on a large screen via live video feed from the main sanctuary. Each of the four weekend services in the main sanctuary has a contemporary style with Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, soft rock worship music. Sunday's noon Reel Life service features classic movie clips along with the message on video. The simultaneous Cafe Sanctuary services each have distinctive music styles: At 8 a.m., Vineyard Classic offers a laid-back acoustic style with Vineyard worship song favorites and a few traditional hymns. The 10 a.m. Cafe Service offers an up-tempo acoustic style with a primary appeal to young adults. At noon the Cafe Sanctuary hosts Vineyard Latino, a monthly Spanish language Spanish language, member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages). The official language of Spain and 19 Latin American nations, Spanish is spoken as a first language by about 330 million persons service with translated video teaching and a Latino musical approach. Desert Vineyard's new youth center for middle school and high school students contains a warehouse-style auditorium, the middle school Surf Shack meeting room, a game room and the Nosh Pit snack bar. The youth services run concurrently with the church's four weekend service times, but include a youth worship band and the teaching of youth pastors A youth pastor, or Christian youth minister, is a pastor who is trained specifically to work with youth. Most youth pastors serve young people between twelve and eighteen years old. , Jason Grundy and Sandy Bowles. Children's ministry is provided during all weekend services for infants through children in fifth grade. The Discoveryland program features teaching, crafts and music, with drama and small group interaction for grades one through five. The Courtyard Cafe and Bookstore sells Starbucks specialty coffee as well as Christian books and CDs. It will soon be open to the general public with extended business hours BUSINESS HOURS. The time of the day during which business is transacted. In respect to the time of presentment and demand of bills and notes, business hours generally range through the whole day down to the hours of rest in the evening, except when the paper is payable it a bank or by a . The church offices occupy the second floor of the new Ministry Center and the staff has relocated there from a smaller rented space about two miles from the church campus. A new courtyard and fountain area located between the original building and new ministry center provide room for members to talk and drink coffee there before and after services. ``We're making room for more people who need answers to the real issues of life,'' said church member Jeri Bowman. ``We all need that.'' The Desert Vineyard began in 1978 and met at the Sage Pavilion on the original Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. prior to 1997. Parker came to the church following the death of founding Pastor Brent Rue rue, common name for various members of the family Rutaceae, a large group of plants distributed throughout temperate and tropical regions and most abundant in S Africa and Australia. Most species are woody shrubs or small trees; many are evergreen and bear spines. in 1993. The church, which has grown to more than 5,000 members, moved to its present location at 1011 E. Ave. I in July 1997 after renovating an empty strip mall strip mall n. A shopping complex containing a row of various stores, businesses, and restaurants that usually open onto a common parking lot. Noun 1. previously anchored by an Alpha Beta
Alpha Beta was a chain of Californian supermarkets started by Albert and Hugh Gerrard. supermarket. In December 2003, the church began to expand its parking to the east and construct the 30,000 square foot. ministry center to house its Cafe Sanctuary, youth center, church offices and the Courtyard Cafe and Bookstore. The church can be reached at (661) 945-2777, or online at www.desertvineyard.org. |
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