Advisory Team
Meet the A-Team
Don and Sue Freeman
Pastor and Secretary
Don graduated from Regent University in 1988 and moved to France for seven years, coming back to the US briefly to marry Sue in 1990. The work in France included working in a Christian School and helping plant a church before returning in 1995. He’s been pastor of Peninsula Vineyard since 1999. He enjoys counseling, especially married couples, traveling back to France (with Sue), reading, doing Sudoku puzzles and sleuthing out good, dark chocolate.
Sue also graduated from Regent University in 1988 and continued her involvement in Christian school education in Florida before marrying Don and moving to France. In addition to giving direction to a teacher training program in Alsace for four years, she also assisted the Christian school and church planting efforts alongside Don and French colleagues. She has recently retired from school administration and now spends time learning about spiritual formation, teaching children at PVCF, listening to worship and classical music, walking for fitness, having coffee with friends, and spending quality time with Don.
Keith and Tammy Caughlin
Worship and Treasurer
Keith and Tammy Caughlin met in Las Vegas in 1988 and were married during the spring of the following year. Moving to Redding, CA, they each began to pursue a degree in Music Education at Simpson University. Together they have led worship in several churches and parachurch organizations for over 26 years. After moving to Virginia in June of 2001, Keith and Tammy became a part of Peninsula Vineyard Church. They were instrumental in mentoring youth in worship leading. Some of those kids are now grown ups leading worship at other churches.
Keith enjoys making cigar box guitars, as well as other artisan hobbies. Tammy works in accounting for the Peninsula Agency on Aging.
Horace and Amelia Avila
Administrator and Websesrvant
Horace and Amelia met at a home church in 1978 in Jacksonville, NC. They married in 1979 and are parents to eight children, and grandparents to fourteen. They have been part of the Vineyard Church Peninsula since 1998.
Horace is a proud Texan and a thirty year veteran of the US Navy, serving as a submarine corpsman. He entered the military straight out of highschool, in 1974. He and his wife and children enjoyed living at several duty stations before settling in Hampton Roads in 1998.
Amelia served as a birth doula, lactation counselor, and childbirth educator, in the Hampton Roads area for nearly twenty years before retiring. She is also a military brat, but calls Camp Lejeune, NC, her home (even though she was born in California and still lives on California time to this day).
Recent Blog Posts
Pastor Don and Others
No mere flickering wicks
Have you ever wondered how many people have prayed for you in your lifetime? Aside from a few obvious individuals, like parents or grandparents, the number gets blurry with all the possibilities. And the majority likely are unknown, people you’ve just casually met,...
Covered
There’s an interesting little story in Genesis 9 about Noah and his sons. They had recently left the ark and were establishing their homestead. One evening, Noah was enjoying wine he had made from the vineyard he planted. After drinking excessively, he passed out in...
Gaining cross-cultural awareness
Not only are there many cultures around the world, that word, culture, scales right down to each nuclear family. The culture of our own family is what exists, something we take for granted, what’s normal and takes no effort. I encountered that as a child, with the...