Cindy Nicholson is a Connecticut Yankee who has found herself for almost three decades living by the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago. Having married her husband Steve three years into his planting of what is now Vineyard Christian Church of Evanston, she has lived all her married life intimately involved with church planting and church life.  Cindy is a teaching pastor at Evanston Vineyard and oversees the arts and intercession ministries. She leads the Women in Ministry task force for the Vineyard USA, and co-coordinates the national church planting task force. Cindy and Steve have three grown children, one married, and their household has recently grown to include Cindy’s 91-year-old mother.