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TRAINING
We run a number of conferences and seminars each year. A number of them are presented by visiting teams from our partnering churches, with an emphasis on equipping and training people (especially leaders) for more fruitful ministry and practical Christian living.
In addition to this, those of us who are resident trainers and leaders then focus on mentoring and workshops with an emphasis on personal and leadership development. We are also assisting in encouraging "health" and growth in the local churches. In this regard, our practice leans towards providing "tools rather than imposed solutions from the outside" and encourages personal and corporate discovery, rather than the mere transference of information.
We are continually challenged by the expression of our biblical values and philosophy of ministry in different cultures. We seek to expose and cut through the destructive and binding aspects of religious subculture. This necessitates continually grappling with issues understanding paradigms and where appropriate seeing these shift to a more biblical perspective.
In this regard we recognize that we are on an ongoing journey of discovery and have a quest for a practical, prophetic and relevant expression of our faith that is firmly rooted in different contexts.
We believe that Africa must discover its own godly way and solutions that will produce more indigenous models of church and ministry. We are sure that these as against imitating the West or First World will be more effective in the transformation of society that is evidence of the Kingdom of God breaking through.

KENYA
A leaders' Bible Study group developed into the Karen Church led by Gerald and Penny Hutton, which became part of the Vineyard in 1996. At the beginning of 2001, Costa Mitchell, the National Director of AVC South Africa sent Peter and Judy Twycross to pastor the Karen Vineyard Church and oversee church planting and leadership development in the region. Later that year, Wendy Ludovici our worship leader and ethnomusicologist from the Evanston Vineyard in Chicago returned to Kenya.
There are now a number of Vineyard churches in Nairobi and the vicinity, two in Mombasa and another on the South Coast. Currently there are clusters of churches in the Kisumu, Kitale, Muranga and Kisii areas. There are also churches in Nakuru, Kapsabet, Eldoret, Kakamega, Nanyuki and Bissil.
BURUNDI
After an initial ministry trip by Peter Twycross, Wendy Ludovici and Mudekereza Nsibula, Peter returned and met with Ananias and Clarette Munana, who had gathered a group in Bujumbura the capital. This has since become a growing Vineyard Church with much potential.
SOUTHERN SUDAN
At the end of 2003, Peter Twycross visited Tonge where members of the Karen Vineyard Church, Sebat and Suzy Kuj work as missionaries. After a week of teaching and training a number of church leaders, three newly planted churches have arisen.
Currently we have contacts and opportunities are opening up to plant churches in Bor on the river Nile and we are looking to God for openings in Rumbeek.
ETHIOPIA
Through contact with and as a result of a ministry trip in 2004 led by Ramon Mayo of the Xtreme Vineyard, a church has been planted in Addis Ababa with a ministry to students at the university.
TANZANIA
In 2002, Peter Twycross asked Tim and Ingrid Briscoe who were concluding their term as missionaries on Mafia Island to plant a Vineyard church in Dar es Salaam.
This church has gone from strength to strength in the expatriate community and became a base for ministry into other parts of the country.
There are now Vineyard churches in Iringa, a cluster of churches in and around Mbeya as well as another church in Dar Es Salaam and an outreach on Pemba Island. Japheth a Kenyan pastor from Lunga Lunga is involved with church planting on the North Coast. In 2004, Gary and Judy Woods, previously members of the Karen Vineyard Church in Nairobi planted a Vineyard church in Arusha, where there are also other church planting opportunities being pursued, as is the case in Mwanza.
UGANDA
In 2000 Brian and Tricia Pill, serving with Mission Aviation Fellowship started a Vineyard church in Kampala. In 2001, this became Kampala International Church. More Recently, Dickson Byarubaga, a young student at the university has started a work in the city amongst young people. He has been helped by the visit of a team from a Vineyard in California led by Aaron Searle. Currently interest is being shown in the North Western part of the country with the possibility of planting Vineyard churches there. John Willison from the Evanston Vineyard is now leading the Kampala International Church.
RWANDA
In 2003 Ananie Bagaragaza, a pastor with churches in the North Western part of the country became involved with the Vineyard. He has recently planted a church in Kigali the capital, where a young couple Joel and Annie Sengoga are in the process of planting another church.
Patrick and Val Finnerty from the Halifax Vineyard in Canada, sensing a call from God to this area will be moving there in the later part of 2005.
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
In 2003, Mudekereza Nsibula started a Vineyard church in Bukavu, which was followed by others being planted in the city and some villages nearby. Since then, another church has been planted in Goma which is also impacting nearby villages. There are contacts and opportunities in Kinshasa as well as other parts of the country. Byamumgu Bikaya who pastors a church for French speaking Congolese refugees in Nairobi serves churches in the country too.