We're a neighborhood church

Central Vineyard began in 2004 with open-air gatherings at the Whetstone Park of Roses. Over the past two decades, many incredible leaders have shaped this church, contributing in innumerable ways to making God's love tangible in the lives of people here in Columbus and around the world. 

After meeting at a few different locations in the neighborhood for almost fourteen years, CV relocated to our current location in 2018. Over the years, CV has consistently engaged in a variety of projects serving the most vulnerable in the community, most notably projects that have sought to address housing insecurity, serving refugees, and supporting orphans in Cambodia through a longstanding partnership with Asia’s Hope. 

Central Vineyard's founding pastors, Jeff and Adrienne Cannell, faithfully led CV for 20 years, from its founding until the end of 2023 after discerning an invitation to transition the church to new leadership. At the beginning of 2026, the church welcomed Parker Frey and Jared Boyd as Co-Lead Pastors and a team consisting of longtime CV'ers and new faces make up the Leadership Team, Board, and Provisional Elders at CV. Central Vineyard is in the process of installing a team of Elders in early 2026. You can read more about our teams and leadership structure here. 

We're a church plant from Vineyard Columbus

Our mother church is Vineyard Columbus. Jeff and Adrienne Cannell served on Pastoral Staff there for four years before sensing a call to plant Central Vineyard.

We have been tremendously blessed by the leadership of Vineyard Columbus with their generosity in providing mentorship, ministry resources and support over the years and we remain relationally connected as we serve the city we all love. 

We're part of the Vineyard Movement

Central Vineyard is a part of Vineyard USA. Some 130,000 people call about 500 Vineyard churches home throughout the United States. Our global movement is a family of more than 2,500 churches in 95 countries, committed to helping people personally encounter Jesus’ love. Vineyard embraces our formation into people who live like Jesus and demonstrate the power of God’s Holy Spirit.  

Each Vineyard church seeks to be an outpost of God’s compassionate love in a hurting world. From the beginning, Vineyard pastors and leaders have sought to hold in tension the biblical doctrines of the Christian faith with an ardent pursuit of the present day work of the Spirit of God. We also enthusiastically partner with the larger Vineyard family in their efforts initiating a Church Planting Movement in Cambodia.