The vision of VCOM is to be a pathway that transforms believers into life-long participants in expanding the Kingdom of God through the Church. Our mission is to provide relevant discipleship, a thorough biblical foundation, and hands-on focused training in the context of local community and the world. Our heart is to take the solid truth of Christ and present it to our lost and broken world in relevant and practical ways.
Vineyard Boise Statement of Faith
VCOM Roots
It all started on a ranch in Southern California back in the early 80’s. As God was forming the beginnings of the Vineyard movement Tri and Nancy Robinson were working with the Vineyard in Lancaster California. God gave them a vision of running a ministry training school on a large ranch near their own home about one hour outside of Los Angeles. Shortly after God spoke, he moved! A large ranch owner gave the Robinson’s a 20-year lease to his ranch in exchange for upkeep of the grounds.
This ranch was the beginning of what is now Vineyard College of Mission. Over the next seven years, Tri and Nancy trained hundreds of leaders in the Vineyard out on the ranch. It was a place for people to come get away, to be in the presence of God, learning and applying truth to ministry.
as the Robinson’s story continued to unfold the lord called them to plant a church in boise idaho in 1989. as they drove away down the dirt road with the ranch in their rear-view mirror they could only hoped the lord would bring the vision along for the adventure to the boise vineyard. and in 2004 that’s exactly what he did.
Over the years the Boise Vineyard continued to see a need to offer training for their young people who had a heart and passion for the kingdom and ministry, as did many other Vineyards throughout the country. This motivated leaders and pastors to try and meet the needs of the Church. In 2004 VCOM was reborn. It started off with one discipleship school, but within a year, VCOM offered four schools. The vision of VCOM is to provide training to equip the church to deal with seven areas of world crisis, both locally and globally:
- Corrupt leadership
- Poor health and disease
- Illiteracy and lack of education
- Human injustice
- World hunger and poverty
- Environmental degradation
- Spiritual bondage and internal chaos
VCOM continues to develop schools to train the church to be effective in these areas of need. In the future VCOM will offer schools and training in each of these seven spheres. VCOM is intentional about intertwining all of the education within the life of the local church. We want people to leave here with a greater love, passion and understanding for church and the call that God has placed on it.