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The church was birthed in Pastor George's heart in 1978 when Herschell Rosser, then Sr. Pastor at Church in the City (now the Houston Vineyard), laid out a vision for planting churches all around Houston. He knew he wanted to be a part of that instantly. George served with this church as a leader and staff person for 15 years and in May of 1992 he was given the green light to start planning for a church plant. He asked Bill and Gail Everett to help and started meeting with Bert Waggoner, the Sr. Pastor at this time. This team went through the stages of church planting and developed a vision. In October of 1992, right after George's mom died, they started gathering people. In January of 1993 they held the first interest meeting and began meeting monthly on Sunday nights.
Spring Vineyard held its first Sunday morning meeting June 6, 1993 at the Memorial Northwest Club. Our vision: to plant a church in the Spring area that worships Jesus passionately, wins many people to the Lord and be a sending church that plants other churches. We had a core group of 27 to start and by September we had 95 attending regularly. Our church was blessed with a large financial gift and we were able to add Bill Everett as our Youth Pastor that October to our burgeoning staff that included Charlcie Phifer as our Director of Worship. In January of 1994 we incorporated with 117 people. The church continued to grow and we added Richard Wyatt as our children’s pastor at the end of May.
Starting in September of 1994 we moved to a storefront on FM 2920 and had our first baptisms. Dr. Randall Pannell came on staff as part-time Associate Pastor, becoming full time in January of that year. We continued to grow and in August of 1997 we released Bill and Gail Everett to begin a church plant in the Katy area in 1998. On June 14 a number of us went to Torreon Mexico to lead a healing conference and begin the process of planting a church there. In 2001 we released Raymond and Teresa McDonald to church plant in Conroe Texas. Then in May of 2005 we released Mark and Tamara Mulvahill to church plant in Sherman, Texas. Along the way there were many changes. Randall Pannell went to teach at Regent University in Virginia and Richard Wyatt went to pastor a church in El Paso Texas.
We have been a sending church, raising up many leaders, baptizing many people and it is our intention to continue to do this as God gives the increase.

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