OUR TEAM
2025 Missions Leaders Meeting (MLM)
CO-LABORINGMultiplying Disciples, Leaders and Churches
Our Team provides capacity building in cross-cultural skills, assist with cross-cultural leadership development, and scaffold churches' care of their long-term, cross-cultural workers, including providing expertise in crises. Through our efforts we also acknowledge that every church belonging to the Vineyard USA community is an individual local congregation with responsibility for its own missional efforts and decisions while interdependently working in connection with other churches around the world.
Elgie 'Bubba' Justice
Missions Coordinatorand Chief Financial Officer
Elgie 'Bubba' Justice
Elgie “Bubba” Justice begin serving as the Missions Coordinator on July 1, 2021. In his capacity as the Missions Coordinator, he gives leadership to VUSA Missions. He oversees mobilization, training, partnership development and coordinating US activity with other Vineyard movements. He also serves as the Chief Financial Officer of Vineyard USA (VUSA). In his capacity as CFO, Bubba supports the National Director, Jay Pathak, by overseeing all phases of VUSA finances which includes Vineyard Resources, Vineyard Worship and Lilly Grants. From 2017 until 2021 Bubba served as the National Coordinator for VUSA. Prior to working with VUSA, Bubba was the senior pastor of the Inverness Vineyard Church (IVC) for 23 years and before that worked in the financial world as a C.P.A., a financial manager, and chief financial officer. Bubba and his wife Melany live in Houston, TX, and have two married daughters.
Christine Cottrell
Administrator for Vineyard USA Missions
Christine Cottrell
Bio coming soon...
Ross Naylor-Tatterson
Partnership Catalyst
Ross Naylor-Tatterson
After working with YWAM for a decade, Ross served as the director of youth and family for Churchlands Vineyard Christian Fellowship in Perth, and then became Executive Pastor of the Lakeshore Vineyard in Holland Michigan for five years. Eighteen years ago Ross became a church planter. Ross recently transitioned out his senior Pastor role at Without Walls Vineyard Church in Zeeland Michigan. He continues to be Pastor Emeritus at the church and he serves as the Regional Coordinator for Asia and MENACA for Vineyard Missions USA. Ross runs a leadership development consultancy business, (EnliveLeaders.com) which focuses cultivating healthy life giving leadership. Presently he is developing coaches and leaders in a global manufacturing assembly business; and is developing young Entrepreneurs involved in the real estate Business. Ross and his wife have five children and they are thoroughly enjoying being grandparents of six.
