About Marty & Sandy Boller
Senior Pastors Marty & Sandy Boller both grew up in mainline denominational churches and experienced the power of God in the charismatic renewal of the mid-70’s. While serving during the mid-1980’s as children’s ministry pastors at Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Evanston, Illinois (known then as Christ Church of the North Shore), Marty and Sandy were greatly impacted and influenced by John Wimber and his ministry. Moving to Iowa in 1987, Marty & Sandy founded the first Iowa City Vineyard in May 1988. After nearly two years of church planting efforts, which included hosting the first-ever Vineyard conference in Iowa, God clearly guided Marty & Sandy to lay down the church and re-locate to Cedar Rapids in the spring of 1990. By the fall of 1991, Marty & Sandy had joined the pastoral staff of River of Life Ministries under the direction of Pastor Francis Frangipane. At the time, River of Life was closely related to John Wimber and the Vineyard church family. As an associate pastor at ROL, Marty led such city-wide ministries as March for Jesus and Promise Keepers. In 1995, Marty was brought on staff by Promise Keepers to serve full time as an area manager for Iowa and several other Midwestern states. In 2003, Marty & Sandy celebrated their 25th year in ministry, serving the Lord through a wonderful variety of ministry opportunities over 25 years!
In 1997, God began pouring out for Sandy & Marty and their family a vision for a new church community here in Cedar Rapids. With a rich blessing from River of Life, Father’s House Vineyard Church started as a small group of 5 couples meeting in the Boller’s home in January, 1998. On October 4, 1998, we held our first public worship service in a storefront location next to the Paramount Theatre in downtown Cedar Rapids. By the following summer, the church had already outgrown its’ first meeting place. On September 5, 1999, we moved our worship services into the newly remodeled World Theatre in downtown Cedar Rapids. Four years later, in 2003, we’ve found a new permanent home in SW Cedar Rapids, remodeling a former bar into a contemporary setting for worshipping and serving Jesus.
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