You are invited to the Vineyard National Conference 2026 - A Commissioned People. We are excited and expectant for God to equip, empower and release us into a new season as a movement. The conference will be a significant moment of transition from Dave and Colleen Pedersen to Andrew Christie, as our new National Director. This is a moment to honour our past and look forward to a new chapter in Vineyard South Africa.
SPEAKERS
John and Eleanor Mumford are the previous leaders of the Vineyard Global family, having also previously served as the National Directors of the Vineyard movement in the United Kingdom & Ireland. They married in 1978 and have two sons. They worked for nearly two years with John Wimber on the staff of the Anaheim Vineyard in California before planting the SW London Vineyard in 1987. They spend their time investing in the development of the Vineyard movement around the world.
Robson and Fiona Kamanga. serve as pastors of Mercy Vineyard church Malawi and we also serve as national leaders for Malawi Vineyard churches (AVCM).
Their passion in the ministry is to see God in our lives and be part of what He is doing within and around us and in lives of many people they encounter and serve. They want to see the church thrive to it's best in the knowledge of God as we wait for the Lord's day. They are involved in children ministry, serving the elderly and mentoring the youth to live their lives best for Christ.
Elgie “Bubba” Justice begin serving as the Missions Director on July 1, 2021. In his capacity as the Missions Director, 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. 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.
Damas Kamfwa is the senior pastor of Vineyard Church of Ndola Zambia. He has been married to Glenda Kamfwa for the last 29 years. They have boys, namely Mapesho and Lusekelo Kamfwa. Currently, Damas and Glenda are the National Directors of the Association of the Vineyard Churches in Zambia since 2015. Damas Kamfwa hold a BTh from Evangelical University Zambia and MTh from SATS. His passion is to train, mentor and coach the next generation of leaders today
Josh serves with Vineyard USA as regional coordinator for West Africa and as a missions mobilizer. He is on staff at Maryville Vineyard Church in Tennessee, and is married with two teenage kids.
Anold Fedrick Luhwago married Stella Patrick 21 years ago. God blessed them with 4 kids, 3 daughters and one son; Mary, Kissa/Victory, Abigail and Joseph. God called Anold and Stella to lead a Local church in Iringa by the name Mkwawa Vineyard, 8 years ago. God called Anold out of 48 children belonging to Fedrick, who was polygamists.
Anold also serves as one of the Vineyard Tanzania National Leaders. Since 1987, 17 years ago, Anold connected with the Vineyard movement, where Peter Twycross from Kenya, Costa Mitchell and others from South Africa visited Tanzania to share about Vineyard. Anold felt that Vineyard was his home.
Anold found himself connected to the very big family of Vineyard (Global Vineyard), among others Dave Pedersen mentored Anold. Since meeting Dave & Colleen in in Malawi, Port Elizabeth has become his second home.
Anold’s vision and passion is to empower and release the community to serve our Lord Jesus, the King.
Brian has spent over twenty-five years equipping and training teams and churches in the mission, message, and ministry of Jesus in healing and power evangelism, both nationally and internationally. Brian was a part of planting Crestwood Vineyard Church where he has served as senior pastor and currently leads Serve the Nations, the missions outreach of Crestwood Vineyard. He lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with his wife Jeanine and their six children.
Brian’s heart is to equip and empower believers and churches to live a lifestyle of putting Jesus on display with love and power.
Brian is the author of two books, From the Sanctuary to the Streets and Putting Jesus on Display with Love and Power, and is featured in other resources and documentaries.
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 at 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 fulfil 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”
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. With his call to ministry, finding 10 confirmations in 1975, he entered the Methodist Ministry where he served for 9 years.
He and Colleen married 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 included; BTh (Rhodes University) in Pastoral Theology; BTh Hons (UNISA) in Counselling; MTh (UNISA) in Ecclesiology; DTh (UNISA) in Pastoral Ecclesiology with the thesis on 'The Pastoral Use of House Churches in Premarital Preparation, A Systems Approach to Pastoral Care'.
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.
Dave has served as National Director for Vineyard South Africa since 2018.
He also spent 5 years as Co-ordinator 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!!