Charles A. Montgomery, Jr. is the Campus Pastor for Vineyard Columbus East Campus, a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, and multi-generational church in the Columbus, Ohio, Metropolitan Area. He is also an Affiliated Professor of Leadership at Ohio Christian University. Before coming to Vineyard he was licensed and ordained in the National Baptist Convention, USA, and has faithfully served on church staffs in California, Georgia, and Ohio. Charles earned a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Morehouse College, a Master of Divinity from Emory University, and a Ph.D. from Union Institute and University with an emphasis in Ethical and Creative Leadership.
Alexander Venter has a teaching ministry since January 1975 when he became a church planter and pastor. He has planted & pastored churches in Zimbabwe, Cape Town, Johannesburg and Soweto. Ordained with the Assembly of God in 1975, he migrated to the Vineyard movement to work with John Wimber in southern California in 1982, and was part of the first Vineyard church plant in Johannesburg.
Alexander is married to Gill and they have two adult children, Zander and Misha-Joy. The Venter’s have lived in intentional Christian community for 23 years, and in 2013 relocated back to Johannesburg in response to a call for Alexander to pastor a Vineyard church called Following Jesus, in North Riding AH, Johannesburg.
Alexander ‘s passion is to make the treasures of the Kingdom available to all who want to follow Jesus, praying that God will use them for spiritual formation toward Christlikeness, in order to equip people for effective life and ministry in God’s Kingdom. He is the author of several books.