In July 2011 our church moved into our new church centre in Wan Chai and we believe we are entering a new season as a church. God is challenging us to do some things differently to how we've done them in the past. In line with this, we also feel that we are entering a new season as a worship ministry.

We believe God is challenging us in 3 main areas for this new season:

• We need to become a worshipping and praying community
• We need to build stronger relationships with God and with each other
• We need to train, grow, and develop as a team

Moving Forward
You will notice that we have changed the name "The Vine Band" from the header of our website and Twitter (Facebook wouldn't let us change the name of our page), and it has been replaced by "The Vine Music". From now onwards, we will no longer be referring to The Vine worship ministry as a "band". The reality is that we are not a band, but rather we are a collective and community of musicians, artists, and worshippers. Instead of focusing on events, conferences, and on-stage ministry, we will be focusing on coming together to worship, pray and create as a collective. We feel that we need to get back to basics, and discover why we do what we do. We need to seek God's heart more for our lives, our team, our church, our city and our world. We need to focus more on what happens in the unseen, rather that what happens in the seen

We still believe that God has called our church to have an impact in the area of worship, so we are not saying that The Vine will never be involved in conferences, events, and albums again, but what we are saying that it is not our focus. Our focus is to be a worshipping community here at The Vine. Whatever comes out of that is up to God, but it's not the main priority

Lastly, we would like to thank everyone who has ever supported, encouraged and believed in us over the years. We consider it to have been the highest privilege to lead people into worship, and we are so excited for the next stage of our journey together. We really don't know what it's going to look like, except that it's not going to look the same as what we've done before.

Watch this space…

So join us on Aug 18th at Grappa’s Cellar for an intimate musical evening with Brooke Fraser!

Date: Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Venue: Grappa’s Cellar
Jardine House
1 Connaught Road
Central, Hong Kong
Tickets: $250 advance (available from Grappa’s Cellar from fri 15th July), $280 door.

To Book Tickets, Visit: www.untitled.asia

This is a Friday evening and all day Saturday training conference for everyone involved and passionate about the worship life of the local church. With space for extended times of worship, teaching and ministry this is a weekend not to miss!

Simon Parry is a children’s worship leader, song-writer and children’s pastor based in London UK. Simon has been involved with all the ‘Great Big God’ albums with Vineyard Music, and has led children’s work and events all over the UK and in the USA. His latest album “More than Anything” with Integrity Music UK is now out!

This event will provide children (5-11s) and their parents a fun-filled and exciting worship environment. It will also be an opportunity for parents to learn more about how to have fun with their kids whilst worshipping, and understanding God’s heart for children. 

The event is being held in partnership with the amazing children’s charity, Viva, of which Simon is an ambassador, and there will be an opportunity for the whole family to learn how to pray for and help children at risk around the world.

- For more information, please visit our Facebook Event page HERE. and write on our Wall!

- For more information on Simon, check out his website: www.simonparrymusic.com

For more details visit: www.asianoutreach.org/converge

The album will be 10 songs in total including 5 studio songs from The Ageless Melody, and 5 live songs off of From Ashes To Beauty.

We need to come up with a title for the album – and this is where we need your help. Can you help us come up with a name? The only guideline is that the name needs to be in Chinese.

Please submit your suggestions in Chinese along with an English translation of the name. You can submit the answers via our Facebook page, or by Twitter. We will announce the winning suggestion by August 11th.