SUNDAYS AT 10 AM

Join us in Downtown Escondido for practical preaching, inspiring worship, and engaging kids programs that all point to Jesus.

OUR STORY
OUR TEAM
OUR BELIEFS

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Matt & Sarah Lynn Grubb

We are Matt and Sarah Lynn Grubb and have been married since July of 2000! We began our journey at Abilene Christian University in Texas and moved to the Pacific Northwest in 2001 to help launch a church in Eugene Oregon. We have served together, ministered together and seen God do amazing things in our lives together. We have two amazing young adults Enoch and Indie Grubb.
Our mission as a family and as a church is to be Help People Find and Follow Jesus. This is what fuels us and inspires us to live a life of service in the contexts we are able to serve in.
In 2023 Matt accepted the role of Lead Pastor at New Vintage Church where we minister together. In a short time we have seen God do some amazing things as we are strategically located in the heart of Escondido. God is at work, and we are humbled to be part of His story here to be a light to our community. We are thankful for the opportunities to serve, grow, and walk alongside others in their faith journey.

OUR TEAM

Matt & Sarah Lynn Grubb | Lead Pastors

Matt is a native Texan who had an encounter with Jesus in high school and was called into ministry as he started college. He went to Abilene Christian University where he met and married his wife, Sarah Lynn, which was hands down the best decision he made in college. After finishing his degree in ministry and being up for adventure, they helped start a church in Eugene, Oregon and later moved to Southern California where they served at Discovery and Real Life Church. Matt has worn many hats being a church planter, student pastor, leading a children's production, adult ministry, and being a campus pastor.

They have two amazing children. Their oldest son, Enoch, is currently attending CODARTS in Rotterdam, Netherlands pursuing his degree in Modern Dance. Their daughter, Indie, is attending Abilene Christian University where she is double majoring in Bible and Music. His wife and kids are his greatest gifts and he is ridiculously proud of them.

Matt loves sports, but especially the Oregon Ducks. He loves being outdoors, fishing, hiking, and going on adventures. Family and friendships are gifts that he loves to nurture around a good meal or a strong cup of coffee.

Rylie Keener | Worship Pastor

Rylie is a creative leader, worship pastor, and designer who loves bringing together creativity, communication, and ministry. She has been serving at New Vintage Church since 2016, where she leads worship and helps shape the church's creative and digital presence through graphic design, social media, and marketing.

With a Master's Degree in Worship Studies: Pastoral Counseling from Liberty University and a Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design & Digital Media from Southern New Hampshire University, Rylie loves finding creative ways to help people connect with God, engage with the church, and feel like they belong.

Outside of work and ministry, Rylie loves spending time with her husband, Alejandro, and heir daughter, Aubree. She's always up for a good cup of coffee, a creative conversation, or getting to know someone new!

CORE PURPOSES

Worship

We will love God with everything, offering our lives as living sacrifices.

Mission

As missionaries, we will lead to Christ those within our sphere of influence and witness to Christ throughout the world.

Community

We will love one another with the love of Christ and use the gifts God’s Spirit provides to build up His Church.

OUR BELIEFS

God

We believe in one God, Creator of all things, holy, infinitely perfect, and eternally existing in a loving unity of three equally divine Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. God made the world good and humankind in His image. Having limitless knowledge and sovereign power, God has graciously purposed from eternity to redeem a people for Himself and to make all things new for His own glory. He alone is worthy of all our worship and praise. But we sin against God and are thus lost and deserving of God’s condemnation. Yet in His justice and mercy God has acted to redeem His creation, choosing a covenant people to bless all peoples of the earth. In His grace and faithfulness, God makes us heirs with Christ of the covenant.

Jesus Christ

We believe in God’s only Son, Jesus Christ, fully human, fully God, the Word through whom all things were made. Jesus came to the earth to teach the Truth and to proclaim the reign of God, preaching good news to the poor, release to the captives, healing for the sick, and forgiveness of sins. He called all people to repent and believe the Gospel, the Good News that salvation is found in Him alone. He was crucified for us, and on the third day God raised Him from the dead, defeating the powers of evil and death and securing for humankind forgiveness of sins by grace alone through faith alone in Him alone.
He instructed us to observe the Lord’s Supper in His memory so that by participating in His body and blood we regularly commune with Him and with one another. He ascended to the Father, where He is now our Priest and Advocate in whose name we pray. He is Head of the Church under which our congregation governs itself. He will return to judge the living and the dead and to deliver us from death to life eternal with God in heaven. He invites us to join Him as obedient disciples in the work of His ministry, the proclamation of the Gospel, and the forming of disciples.

The Holy Spirit

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the gift of God promised through Christ for His children and for the Church. The Spirit convicts the world of sin, and is the pledge of our adoption as God’s children. The Spirit intercedes for us in prayer; and claims us in the waters of baptism, in which believers are immersed for the forgiveness of sins to be united with Christ in His Body. The Spirit of holiness and freedom liberates us from sin, and claims us as servants of purity, conforming us to the image of Jesus Christ in our attitudes and conduct. The Spirit binds us together with believers of all times and places in the one Body of Christ, the Church; and calls and empowers men and women for various ministries for building up the Body and carrying out Jesus’ ministry in the world. The Spirit inspired the prophets and apostles to speak God’s Word, guiding the preservation, study, and proclamation of Scripture, both Old and New Testaments, the unique revelation of God under which we stand, our authoritative guide for faith and life.

The Bible

We believe that God has spoken infallibly in the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments. The Bible is living and active, sharper than a double-edged sword, cutting through our motives, rebuking us, challenging us, inspiring us, and leading us. The Bible is the ultimate authority by which every realm of human knowledge and endeavor should be judged. Therefore, it is to be believed in all that it teaches, obeyed in all that it requires, and trusted in all that it promises.

The Church

We believe that the true Church comprises all who have been justified by God’s grace through faith in Christ. They are united by the Holy Spirit in the body of Christ, of which He is the Head. The true Church is manifest in local churches, whose membership is composed only of believers. The Church is to make disciples of Christ, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey all Jesus commanded.

Christian Living

We believe that God’s justifying grace must not be separated from His sanctifying power and purpose. God commands us to love Him supremely and others sacrificially, and to live out our faith with generosity, care for one another, compassion toward the poor and justice for the oppressed. With God’s Word, the Spirit’s power, and fervent prayer in Christ’s name, we are to combat the spiritual forces of evil.

Baptism

Baptism is the immersion of a believer into Christ and the biblical way by which people give their lives to Christ. When by faith we believe in Christ, repent and are baptized, we are eternally identified with Him and His church. Jesus’ final words to his disciples were: “Go make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you.” So Peter concludes his first sermon after Jesus is gone with the words: “Repent and be baptized everyone of you in the name of Jesus for the forgiveness of your sins.”
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Christ's Return

We believe in the return of our Lord Jesus Christ. The coming of Christ, at a time known only to God, demands constant expectancy and, as our blessed hope, motivates the believer to godly living, sacrificial service and energetic mission.  We believe that heaven and hell are real. We believe that God commands everyone everywhere to believe the gospel by turning to Him in repentance and making Jesus Lord of their life. We believe that God will raise the dead bodily and judge the world, assigning the unbeliever to condemnation and eternal conscious punishment and the believer to eternal blessedness and joy.