About us
Our values
God With Us - we want to live in the reality of God connected to our everyday (often mundane) life. God with us, in us and working through us means it is possible for our lives to be transformed, to find fresh meaning and to overflow into the world around us.
Whole Life Worship - more than singing songs, we value lives that are oriented towards God, gratefully finding his goodness in all aspects of our lives and giving him permission to be in charge.
Real Community - we value loving relationships and real connections (no pretending, no masks). We know deep friendships require time, forgiveness, sacrifice and compassion and so we want to create environments that encourage this to happen.
Joyous Creativity - we value trying new ways of expressing our faith and doing church. We like to have fun and not take ourselves too seriously.
The Bible - we value this ancient (and often confusing) book as a means by which God wants to speak to us. We value taking time to understand what the Bible is saying and what it means to us, here and now. We value inviting the Holy Spirit’s guidance to allow the Bible to encourage and challenge us.
Our Team
Exeter Vineyard exists through the committed involvement of a big team of committed volunteers - people giving their time, energy and passion to make this church family possible.
Our Leadership Team is made up of Hub Leaders and, as a charity, we have a board of trustees.
Our recent volunteers’ thank you party
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Dave & Sarah are our senior pastors.
They help shape the vision and direction of the church, support our volunteer leaders and seek to facilitate a growing church family.
They have two teenage children. Dave supports Spurs, loves kebabs and travel. Sarah has an Etsy shop selling knitting patterns!
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Assistant Pastor
Adam is our Assistant Pastor. He works for us one day a week and spends the rest of his week as a Marine Biology academic with a speciality in micro-plastics and their effect on the environment (spoiler: it’s bad).
He has a Phd, so technically he’s a doctor, but don’t show him any suspicious rashes or expect help if you’re choking.
He is married to Hannah and they have a two pre-school boys!
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Assistant Pastor
Alan is our Assistant Pastor overseeing our Sunday Services, which he does as a volunteer!
Alan also works for a local Education Trust. He’s married to Jane, a counsellor, and they have two grown up boys. Alan is a fan of F1 and drinks way too much tea.