Pastor Rick was raised in a Christian family. The youngest of 4 children. At the age of 8 he accepted Jesus as his savior. His faith being relatively easy as a child, until his oldest sister tragically died in a car accident when he was 12. Rick spent his early teen years angry with God, detached from friendships, and growing in depression and loneliness. Going through the motions at church, but inwardly embracing a futile despair.

“I remember never being able to reject belief in God,” he says, "but at the same time rejecting any belief that he was good or loved us." It was in this state as a teen, where Rick truly cried out to God, "If your love is real, and you are good; then I need you to show me." The clouds did not part, and no angels visibly came with direct revelation. But slowly God began to work at healing and ministry to Rick's brokenness.

Rick has always had a love for children and this led him to ministry for at-risk disadvantaged children at Youth Haven in Rives Junction, MI. While there, Rick met his wife Heather, and completed his BA at Spring Arbor University. Youth Really served as Rick's ministry leadership training ground. He served in many capacities from Children's Program Director, to Campus Manager, to Director of Operations.

Completing Melodyland Seminary in California brought him in contact with John Wimber and the early Vineyard movement, also deeply connected with the Jesus Movement of the 70s and early 80s. Worship music and faith were wound up together for Ed, and still are today. His passion is to make the gospel applicable for those who struggle to put faith and reason together in a meaningful way. On the other hand, his high value for authenticity and collegiality make him accessible to whomever he comes in contact with. Ed’s dream for Lansing Vineyard is seeing people mobilized, growing and brought into a wholeness only found in Christ.

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Pastor Rick & Family

Pastor Ed had an experience with God at age seven that profoundly influenced his young life. However, without the benefit of a Christian home, he began to find his identity in wrestling and football as a teen, and when he did begin attending church, he couldn’t really see how faith made a difference in the behavior of anyone around him. His father was a physician, and he too started out in pre-med, only to switch to psychology by his sophomore year at MSU.

“I wanted to understand myself,” he says, only half in jest. His questions led him not only to psychology, but also into drugs and the hippie movement of the early 70s. It was on a spring break saga in Fort Lauderdale, Florida that God got hold of him again, this time for good. A girl on the trip with him taunted, “Ed’s gonna be a preacher,” and God confirmed it.

Gone were his quest for meaning, his colorful vocabulary, the drugs. Suddenly the former hippie was…well, still a hippie…but the guy in the dorm where the Bible studies and prayer meetings and healings were happening.

Completing Melodyland Seminary in California brought him in contact with John Wimber and the early Vineyard movement, also deeply connected with the Jesus Movement of the 70s and early 80s. Worship music and faith were wound up together for Ed, and still are today. His passion is to make the gospel applicable for those who struggle to put faith and reason together in a meaningful way. On the other hand, his high value for authenticity and collegiality make him accessible to whomever he comes in contact with. Ed’s dream for Lansing Vineyard is seeing people mobilized, growing and brought into a wholeness only found in Christ.

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Pastor Ed
Reynolds & Family

Ed Reynolds, Jr., or “Eddie,” also encountered God as a young boy, with the example of parents who followed God. Eddie held onto his faith, although also tempted to find his identity in sports in his teens too. He pushed back, became a youth director, and headed into ministry. He is a 2004 graduate of Moody Pastoral Ministry, and interned at Chicago Vineyard. There he was involved in street ministry and using his passion to help reach the lost .

After two years in the Upper Peninsula, he moved back to Lansing to begin a transition into ministry at Lansing Vineyard, only to have plans interrupted in 2015 by a rare form of carcinoid cancer. Two major surgeries later, Eddie began to experience high levels of internal infection that racked his body for almost a year. For most of two years, he cried out to God in desperation, unable to do what he believed God had called him to.

In 2016, a woman at church prayed for him one Sunday, and the next week at his checkup, the infection was completely gone.

Eddie’s passion is for genuine conversation with genuine people, and helping people discover their gifts and walk them out. He is a huge supporter of the Lansing Ministry “His Healing Hands,” and keeps busy with family, and bi-vocational work as a contractor and pastor. He and his precious wife, Erin married in 2002, and they have three daughters.

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