FOLLOWING JESUS TOGETHER
Meet the Team.
Our leaders help our church family follow Jesus, care for one another and join God in the renewal of all things.
Senior Pastors
Equipping, protecting and caring for the local church
Jesus is the head of the Church, and we seek to follow his lead in everything we do. We believe leadership is a shared calling, given to serve the church and help every person take part in God’s work of renewal.
Dan and Vicki serve as our Senior Pastors, with responsibility for the overall direction and spiritual health of Central Vineyard. They are licensed by Vineyard Churches UK & Ireland to lead, equip, protect and care for the local church as part of the wider Vineyard movement.
They lead alongside the Church Council, Ministry and Operations Team, Extended Team and Trustee Board. Each team has a distinct role, from pastoral care and ministry to spiritual oversight and charity governance.
Together, these leaders seek to equip the church, guard its health and create space for people to grow as followers of Jesus.
Ministry & Operations Team
Helping the whole church take part
Kate Adams
Youth & Safeguarding Pastor
Deborah Hicks
East Location Pastor
Martyn Hicks
Operational Development Pastor
Michelle Newstead
Equip Pastor
Dan Walter
Preaching Pastor
Vicki Walter
Worship Pastor
Anya Willis
Compassion Pastor
Pete Willis
Creative Pastor
Esther Veal
Finance Partner, CV Family
Church Council
Stewarding direction, doctrine and discipline
Dan Walter
Vicki Walter
Allan Pickup
Deborah Hicks
Extended Team
Our Extended Team includes Ministry Leads, Circle Leaders, the Preaching Team and Worship Leaders. Together, they help people follow Jesus, grow in faith and find their place in the life of the church. They serve across our ministries and gatherings, helping to cultivate goodness, community and healthy rhythms as we join God in the renewal of all things.
Ministry
Leads
Circle
Leaders
Preaching
Team
Worship
Leaders
Trustee
Board
Helping the church function responsibly as a charity
Simon Hill
Trustee
Cathy Leathersich
Trustee (Safeguarding)
Mike Smither
Trustee
Dan Walter
Trustee & Senior Pastor
Steve Gee
Chair of Trustees
Central Vineyard is affiliated to Vineyard Churches UK & Ireland, a member of the Evangelical Alliance and works cooperatively with other mainstream Churches.
The Vineyard is a worldwide movement of churches with roots in both traditional Evangelicalism and Pentecostal renewal. In stead of the customary ‘Charismatic’ label, however, Vineyard prefers ‘Empow-ered Evangelicals’. The name ‘Vineyard’ is based on the Bible passage, Isaiah 27:2-3.
The first Vineyard churches were planted in California in the 1970s. By 1982, there were half a dozen Vineyards in a loose-knit fellowship of churches.
At this point, a man called John Wimber assumed the leadership of the emerging movement. Wimber’s influence profoundly shaped the theology and practice of Vineyard churches from their earliest days until his death in November 1997.
As John and his congregation, made up mostly of former Quakers, sought God in intimate worship, they experienced empowerment by the gifts of the Holy Spirit and saw significant church growth through conversions.
Scholar George Eldon Ladd’s theology of the ‘already and not yet’ presence of the Kingdom of God provided the intellectual basis for Wimber’s understanding that the biblical gifts of the Holy Spirit should be active in the church today.
There are now more than 2,500 Vineyard Churches around the world, including over 120 in the UK and Ireland. For more on Vineyard Churches, visit the website:
www.vineyardchurches.org.uk
To discover more about the distinctive theology of Vineyard, we recommend the book Empowered Evangelicals, by Rich Nathan and Ken Wilson, which explains Vineyard spirituality and how it differs from classic Pentecostalism.