This past Sunday my wife and I visited Vintage Church while we were home in Lawrence, Kansas. Put simply, it's amazing. Vintage is a church start in Lawrence, and they rent out the Lawrence Arts Center on Tuesday nights. The theater there seats about 300 people, and it was almost completely full. God is on the move at Vintage Church, and it was evidenced in a few different ways.
The first thing that stuck out to me was a third of the people there were high school students. Growing up in Lawrence (a pretty cool, yet crazy college town), I've never seen 100 high school students gather to worship Jesus like I saw on Sunday. I couldn't help but just keep looking at the students, who had a real hunger for God and you could totally see it in the way they worshipped during the music, and the way they listened during the message.
Second, Vintage's leadership is legit. John Flynn leads worship and is in charge of community groups. He is amazing at the guitar, and used to play with Waterdeep. His wife sings with him, and the rest of the band does a great job of reflecting the art and culture of Lawrence. Since it was Labor Day weekend, I thought the Lead Pastor may be out of town, and he was. So Brian Timmer spoke, he's a seminary student in Kansas City who helps out at Vintage and he knocked it out of the park. Imagine a younger Rob Bell that likes to carry his notes around. He was very cool to listen to, and did a great job of communicating God's truth.
Lastly, as young as the church is, they already seem to be experiencing incredible, new testament church kind of community. I hung around for a while afterwards just kind of watching, and people just kept lingering, talking, and then went to get coffee after hanging around for 30-40 minutes. Pretty cool.
Pray for Vintage Church. Lawrence has needed a church like this for a long time.
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