Bubba Justice
Missions Coordinator and CFOfor Vineyard USA
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.
Dave Pedersen
National Director forVineyard South Africa
Dave Pedersen
David John Pedersen was born again in 1968 at 12 years of age. His involvement with the Jesus People movement in his teen years was deeply formative. He first entered the Methodist Ministry in 1975. He was married to his wife, Colleen, in 1978. They moved to Port Elizabeth (now called Gqeberha) in January 1985 to plant a church which became Fountain Vineyard Christian Fellowship where they are now in their 40th year of leadership. Dave's academic training include: BTh (Rhodes University) in Pastoral Theology, BTh Hons (UNISA) in Counseling, MTh (UNISA) in Ecclesiology, and a DTh (UNISA) in Pastoral Ecclesiology. He played a part in the anti-apartheid struggle in the '80's which included the establishing of a non-racial Christian school and confrontations through civil disobedience. He has served as National Director for Vineyard South Africa since 2018. He also serves as Coordinator for the Vineyard Global Missions Team and travels extensively. He and Colleen have 4 children and 10 grandchildren. His hobbies are reading, outdoor safaris and chain sawing!!
Noel Isaacs
National Director forVineyard Himalayas
Noel Isaacs
Noel Isaacs (Sherab Bhotia) is the National Director for Vineyard Himalayas. He was born in India and is Bhutanese. Four generations of his family have hosted and working with thousands of missionaries over the years. He met John Wimber in 1995 and Noel and his wife, Dona, planted the first Vineyard in the Himalayas in 1998 in Kathmandu, Nepal. From that church they have planted over 30 Vineyard churches in the Himalayan region of Nepal and India. Noel and Dona have two sons, Asher and Josh, who are studying in Canada and New Zealand. Noel’s heart is to cooperatively share cross cultural tools relating to when missions and missionaries ‘come’ to his country, as opposed to ‘going’ to other countries. He has often found that missions information is directed towards the aspect of ‘going’ to another country rather than how they were received by those indigenous to the country and culture visited. Noel loves to share God’s stories in the hopes of inspiring vision and passion for missions.
David Ruis
National Director forVineyard Canada
David Ruis
David Ruis, along with his wife Anita, have been the National Directors of Vineyard Canada since 2014. As a team David and Anita are also known to be effective church planters and seasoned pastors having established churches in Canada and the US, within the Vineyard family of churches. David has also been instrumental in seeing Vineyard communities established in Nepal and India. Much of the Ruises' focus has been in indigenous settings, working with people experiencing poverty and subsequent marginalization. Both David and Anita have significant experience facilitating leadership development and on the creative side David is known for fostering originality in song-writing and the arts in various cultural settings. The Ruises currently reside in Kelowna, BC. In their down time they love to be creative and hang with their grandkids.
Jamie Van der Westhuizenand Sylvia Vargas Missions Coordinators for
Vineyard Chile
Jamie Van der Westhuizen and Sylvia Vargas
Jamie grew up in Pretoria, South Africa, where he studied architecture at university. After a life-changing encounter with Jesus, he felt called to ministry and attended a full-time mission school. Following 18 months of training, he was led to do missions in Chile. Jamie preached in many churches and participated in missions across southern Chile. After marrying Sylvia, they ministered together in many churches in Chile until they joined Phil and Janet Strout's church in 1990, which was adopted into the Vineyard movement in 1991. After pastoring the Maipu Vineyard for a year, they were asked to lead the Vineyard mother church, where they served for five years. They had four sons and tragically lost their third son to cancer at the age of five and a half, while planting the new Agape Vineyard Church. Despite this challenge, the Agape Vineyard Church has flourished and has planted four churches in Chile and one abroad in Montevideo, Uruguay. Their three sons are all pastors and are actively involved in ministry. Jamie and Sylvia have served on the national team since 1998 and have led church planting in Chile for eight years. They currently lead Chile Vineyard Missions.
Andrew Christie
Missions Coordinator forVineyard South Africa
Andrew Christie
Andrew’s main claim to fame is that he is married to Mandy. Andrew and Mandy met way back in 1988 when she was 14 and Andrew was 17 and have been together ever since. They have 3 wonderful children, Joshua, Daniel and Annah-Faith. Andrew has a Masters Degree in Missional Leadership (MAML) and is currently the team leader and senior pastor @ Centurion Vineyard. Andrew leads the Vineyard North Region of Vineyard Churches and serves on the SA Vineyard National Leadership team. Andrew is also the Vineyard Missions Africa Coordinator and serves on the Vineyard Global Missions Team. Andrew is passionate about seeing not-yet believers come to saving faith in Christ and is involved in leadership development, training and trans-local missions around South Africa and further afield. He is committed to mentoring, discipling and equipping people to fulfill Jesus' commission to “Go into all the world” His motto is “To know Him more as I take His life to be my own & to make Him known.”
Vicki Egli
US Leader''
Vicki Egli
Vicki spent three years in Africa in her mid-twenties and left part of her heart there. It was a dream-come-true when God called her husband Jim and her back to full-time mission work as she turned 60 in 2018. Since then, they have taken more than 20 trips to West Africa to encourage indigenous workers there. Through the years Vicki has been on a journey exploring ways to help new Christians grow in their faith. She has a doctorate in missiology from Fuller Seminary. She enjoys spending as much time as possible with her adult children and seven grandchildren.
Bourama Sidibe
National Leader''
Bourama Sidibe
Bourama Sidibe has trained and worked as a general practitioner medical doctor since 2008, eventually combining this with his missions training to work in medical missions since 2014. He became the director of “Mission Saint Luc”, a medical ministry based at Sgu in Mali. Baurama has been using the principles of DMM (Disciple Making Movement) since 2014, first with New Generation and now with the Vineyard. Along with DMM, Baurama has been leading and coordinating the church planting efforts of Vineyard Mali since 2022 and helped launch the Vineyard missions in Guinea (2023). He and his wife, Ama Afefa Degbovia, have been married since 2005 and have two children, Tiekene Isaac (15)and Miriam Blessing (10).
Matthias Buhlmann
Missions Coordinator forVineyard DACH
Matthias Buhlmann
Coming soon...
Sarah Anderson
US Leader''
Sarah Anderson
Sarah is the pastor of Vineyard Finneytown in Cincinnati, Ohio. Vineyard Finneytown is part of the Mali Partnership. She and her husband, Grant, have three boys, a rabbit, and a puppy in their lively household. Sarah is passionate about helping people to encounter the presence of God, equipping people to minister in the power of the Spirit, and seeing children fall in love with Jesus at summer camp. Sarah currently serves on the National Team for the Vineyard Women’s Association. She loves a good hike in the woods, chips & queso, office supplies, putting things in rainbow order, and time with family.
Aisha Oyarekhua
Compassion and JusticeSpecialist/BPLA Liaison
Aisha Oyarekhua
Aisha joined the Vineyard Movement in 2010. She serves as the Compassion and Justice Coordinator at the Valley Vineyard Church in Reseda, California. She is passionate about seeing people understand the heart of the Gospel and experience lasting spiritual growth. Aisha’s life can be summed up in one sentence–she loves God, she loves people, and she loves justice. Her fascination with the notion of justice and fairness began at a very young age and led her to become an attorney. She is passionate about access to justice for the less privileged and spends a lot of time volunteering to protect the rights of the poor because she believes that providing access to basic legal services to the less privileged is an essential aspect of loving her neighbor. Aisha is a Justice Ambassador for Prison Fellowship International, a volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocate for children in foster care, and also the Vice President of Christian Legal Society in Los Angeles.
Robert Stovall
US Partnership Leader''
Robert Stovall
Robert Stovall, happily married for 39 years, is a father of four and a grandfather of five. During his 34 years in pastoral ministry he has been actively involved in Vineyard Missions, leading three mission partnerships over the years, including the current one in Mali. His passion is to see church-planting movements flourish in each country, particularly among unreached people groups, where he is focused on implementing disciple-making movement strategies.
Marie Lancaster
Missions Mobilizer/Women's Association Liaison
Marie Lancaster
Marie Lancaster has been in the Vineyard since 1992. Marie grew up in a Hungarian household, the daughter of an Assembly of God pastor and church planter. Marie says that she knew she never wanted to be married to a pastor and when she met Duke while they were attending Oral Roberts University she was certain he was the last person God would ever call into ministry, so she married him. God used a mission trip to Colombia to radically impact Duke and he felt God call him to pastor. Together they embraced a call to ministry and missions and never looked back. They have traveled the world doing ministry and Duke has led the Colombia partnership for the past 5 years. They have planted 3 churches and were the Senior Pastors of Vineyard Church of Jackson, Mississippi for ten years, stepping down at the end of 2021 to pursue a desire to travel itinerantly to equip the saints in Holy Spirit ministry and to encourage and strengthen leaders. They have been married over 39 years and delight in their 4 children and 5 grandchildren.
Josh Armstrong
Regional Coordinator forWest Aftrica/Missions Mobilizer
Josh Armstrong
Josh is married to his high school sweetheart Amanda, and they have two children that keep them on their toes. They have been a part of the Vineyard Church in East Tennessee for over a decade. Josh has had several ministry positions over the years, which include being a regional coordinator for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, a campus chaplain at a Christian high school, and a youth pastor position. Josh and his family also spent 3 years as missionaries in Haiti, where they helped launch several projects, including a disciple making movement that is still going strong. Josh currently serves as the missions pastor at the Vineyard Church in East Tennessee, where he helps to catalyze and develop disciple making movements in several areas both nationally and internationally.
Ranjo Clements
Theology and EducationSpecialist/AAPI Liaison
Ranjo Clements
Ranjo joined the Vineyard in 2013. Although originally from India, he is a card-carrying “third culture kid,” having spent multiple stints in India and the US. He is passionate about equipping worship leaders, building multiethnic communities, and creating “safe spaces” where people encounter God and operate in their gifting. Ranjo served as a worship pastor in India before returning to the US in 2008 to pursue an M.Div. in worship studies at Asbury Theological Seminary (ATS). He has since served as Associate Pastor at GCF Vineyard in Wilmore, KY, and is on the core team for Vineyard USA’s AAPI association. He is also pursuing a Ph.D. in Asian American studies at ATS. His research interests include Asian American Identity and theology, worship, ethnodoxology, and missiology. Ranjo and his wife, Aletha, have five beautiful daughters. They love hosting people, singing, sharing stories, laughing, and eating all kinds of ethnic food, especially spicy food.
Jim Egli
Training and Disciple-MakingMovements (DMM) Specialist
Jim Egli
Jim has been a part of the Vineyard movement since 1992. He helps launch and equip Vineyard church planting movements in West Africa and is the Curriculum Coordinator for New Generations. Together with his wife Vicki, he develops training and resources for the worldwide Disciple Making Movement. It’s Jim's passion to multiply disciples, leaders, and churches around the world, especially among unreached people groups. He has a Ph.D. in Organizational Communication with a cognate in World Evangelization from Regent University.