Join us on Sunday, October 25th at our 10am service for special guest speaker, John Reichart!
John Reichart genuinely gave his life to Jesus way back in 1977 at age 16, through a Young Life Club in Darien, Connecticut. He immediately streamed into one of of the rare, spiritually vibrant, charismatic Episcopal churches in the country, Saint Paul’s — also in Darien. It was a formative, foundational gift where he experienced the phenomena of the Holy Spirit working in/through an available, flawed teenager (himself!) to be a blessing to others.
A second formational and supernatural gift was meeting his soon-to-be-wife, Kate, in Boston in late 1985. The deeply personal, specific ways the Holy Spirit engineered this was remarkable and beautiful to John — and equally so to Kate.
The rest of John’s background flows out of those two foundational gifts: Fifteen years in the advertising business — but on the side, serving as a supportive church plant team member for two Vineyard churches in Massachusetts. After resigning for his last advertising job at age 38, John co-pastored and planted a Vineyard in Hopkinton, Mass., along with his wife, Kate (his true companion) and their three children. Then in 2002, he was called (what seemed like a sovereign and prophetic transfer!) to re-establish a nearly closed Vineyard Church in Guilford, Conn. After 15 years in Guilford, John became the Growth/Discipleship Pastor at a Vineyard in Long Island for the next eight years. During that stretch, Kate became a certified Spiritual Director and John a certified pastoral coach. As of 2026, he’s is back in Connecticut (Madison this time), serving as a pastoral coach to five Vineyard Churches...and otherwise helping with Kate to care for our two wiggly grandchildren.