About Us

We first encountered the Vineyard movement in the early 80s. Much impacted by the teaching and example of John Wimber, we started home fellowships and began praying for the sick. In the years that followed, we trained and provided oversight for ministry teams in several Vineyard churches and helped support new church plants.  We believe our calling is to help conserve, preserve and protect the teachings and practices that the Lord has given his Church through John. Our simple premise, which we learned from John, is that to effectively grow the church one should focus on advancing the kingdom of God the way that Jesus and his first disciples did.

We created BuildPlant.org so we could freely share everything we've learned over the years about building and planting churches and home fellowships. In our series of Simple Kingdom books we are sharing everything we've learned about worship, fellowship, discipleship, spiritual warfare, the Bible and other keys for advancing the kingdom of God. Our first two books Simple Kingdom: Home Fellowships and Simple Kingdom: Worship are now available as free PDF downloads and can also be read directly on this website. Additional titles in this series will be available in the near future.

We also believe as John taught us that worship should be our highest priority, that we are to love God with all our heart, soul, strength and mind (Luke 10:27). The worship songs of the early Vineyard personally transformed both of us by bringing us into greater intimacy with God, and over the years God has given us many fresh new worship songs that we've sung in our fellowships and which we're now freely sharing on the Songs page of this website.

For more information you can contact us at info@buildplant.org