Community Development & Community Offerings Department
Assistant Pastor
Associate Director of Community Youth Programs
Youth Ministries, Youth Initiatives
Email | evadne@bostonvineyard.org
Evadne grew up in Granada Hills, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. While Evadne loves her name, it has proven to be complicated and frequently mispronounced. Properly pronounced it should be said without the "d" and can be sounded out as follows: eh-va-knee. If you still have trouble, feel free to ask her in person.
By God's miraculous leading and financial provision, Evadne ended up moving across to country to attend Wellesley College where she graduated with a BA in Economics. Her time in college propelled new found loves for Jesus, her Chinese heritage, economic development, social justice, guitar, photography, travel, and exploration.
Upon graduation in 2007, she landed her first job at Forrester Research, a technology and market research company as a Research Associate. But after only 9 months of working there, God had other plans and lead her to Vineyard's Community Offerings as an AmeriCorps worker in the summer of 2008. After year of AmeriCorps, Evadne continued working with Community Offerings with its youth programs: REACH and Project MOVE. In August 2010, Evadne moved from working full time under the Community Offerings Department to working part-time and then coming on part-time as the Vineyard's new Youth Pastor, which has been a fun combination of her many passions.
Evadne loves the Los Angeles Lakers, smoothies, being a foodie, wandering aimlessly, buying clothes on sale, hiking and enjoying nature, laughing, learning, pondering life, listening to live music, drinking a good latte, executing her crazy ideas, playing the guitar, viewing life through the lens of a camera, and spending time with the people she loves.
Program Coordinator
Soccer Nights, Community Building Initiatives
Email | kaiti@bostonvineyard.org
Kaiti Jones graduated in May 2010 from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she earned a B.A. in English Writing. Originally from Portland, Maine, she is very glad to call New England home after four years in the south. After graduating, Kaiti moved home to relax, spend time with her friends and family, and recover from the stress of senior year of college. Little did she know that in a few short months she would be embarking on a year-long journey in North Cambridge, serving as an AmeriCorps worker at Vineyard Community Offerings. After a sequence of events that she describes as “either totally random or totally divine,” Kaiti moved to the neighborhood and joined the VCO team.
Kaiti enjoys writing, going to see live music, playing the instruments she can and learning to play those she can’t, singing, dancing (“flailing” would be more accurate), traveling, learning new languages, going on impromptu road trips and adventures, meeting new people, discussing philosophy, playing any and all games, and experiencing more of the many things going on everywhere around her. Most of all, she loves people and is excited to get to know the people of North Cambridge.
Assistant Pastor
Director of Community Building Initiatives -- Vineyard Community Offerings
Community Building Initiatives, Local Neighborhood Initiatives & Outreach, Soccer Nights
Email | stephanie@bostonvineyard.org
Stephanie grew up in the sunny, smoggy, suburban, Southern California city of Rancho Cucamonga (yes it is a real place and that's its real name). After 18 years of suburbia and not knowing where to attend college, she decided that a small college on the other side of the country sounded like a fun change of pace. She attended Gordon College and graduated with a BA in Social Work.
Growing up she found herself having more fun working with elderly Russian immigrants at a service center in downtown Hollywood and others from all over the world than she would with her own peers at her school. In college she had some influential experiences in numerous urban areas and became passionate about cities, systems, social justice and the church's role in it all. She helped start a tutoring program for low-income youth, trained students in community development and even dabbled in the public policy realm a bit.
After giving up on finding a vibrant church in New England, she randomly visited the Vineyard with one of her friends. Initially impressed by the quality of coffee, she kept coming back. Her agreement to help out one summer with the annual Community Fest led to a full-time internship which then somehow led to a full-time job. Despite growing up in a large church, with her dad as a pastor and swearing that her destiny would never involve the fate of employment in a church, she couldn't be happier!
Stephanie likes cooking, dancing, walking along the Charles River (her most beloved spot in Boston), drinking good coffee, talking with friends, doing crafty & creative things and meeting new people. She also has a great fondness of fruits, vegetables and all things of the whole-grain variety. One of four kids, she secretly prays that her entire family decides to relocate to the East Coast.
