Community Tours

Get to Know Communities in the Network

Conversation with Ashley Haack of

Church of the Sojourners, San Francisco, CA

North American Communities

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Canada

• Grandview Church, Vancouver, British Columbia

• Kingfisher Farm, White Rock/South Surrey

Mexico

• Casa de Esperanza, Oaxaca, Oaxaca

• Iglesia de Cristo Colonia El Salvador, Saltillo, Coahuila

United States

East Coast

• The Hiding Place Washington DC : community, urban farm, retreat space

• Nehemiah Community, Springfield, Massachusetts

• Bruderhof : Anabaptist common-purse communities sharing life, work, education, worship, mission, welcome.

  • Currently 9 large rural and 6 small urban communities in the USA, with others internationally.

  • Community of Peace, Louisa, Virginia. A monastic Christian community sharing daily prayer times and life.

Midwest

• Barnabas House, Milwaukee, WI: seeks to encourage Christians to live out the teachings of Christ through the intentional daily practices of prayer, personal relationships and hospitality embracing the stranger and wanderer per Christ’s example.

• Bloomington Catholic Worker, Bloomington, Indiana: Families offering "houses of welcome" to the homeless

• Church of All Nations, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Multi-cultural Presbyterian church that has a community at its core.

• Englewood Church, Indianapolis, Indiana: Church investing deeply in its neighborhood especially in affordable housing and daycare

• Genesis Community, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Shared households that are part of different churches

• Jesus People USA, Chicago, Illinois:

• Reba Place Fellowship, Evanston and Chicago (Rogers Park), Illinois: Fellowship members share a common purse and neighborhood and are closely related to two neighborhood congregations.

• Seed House, Minneapolis, Minnesota: A small house in a diverse neighborhood, practicing hospitality, good neighboring, common prayer, and friendship

• Cherith Brook Catholic Worker, Kansas City, Missouri: Sharing a life of table fellowship, economic resources, labor, study, prayers and worship.

South

• Anthony’s Plot Winston Salem, North Carolina:

• Coleman Creek Community, Little Rock, Arkansas:

• Grace and Main Fellowship Danville, Virginia: A racially and socio-economically diverse, intentional, Christian community that shares resources and operates a network of hospitality houses, an urban farm, and regular times of prayer.

• Jubilee Partners Comer, Georgia: A Christian Service Community

• Koinonia Farm Americus, Georgia: Farm-based community with rich history in anti-racism.

• Hiwassee Bruderhof Madisonville, Tennessee: An Anabaptist common-purse community

Southwest

• Eden Community, Abilene, Texas: Eco-village and training community with many young families.

• Hope Fellowship, Waco, Texas: Mennonite Bi-lingual fellowship with many families living in proximity.

• Spirituality Shoppe/Evan Howard (friend of communities): historian/scholar of intentional community

• New Revelations Collegiate Mission, Denton, Texas: Offers housing in an intentional Christian community to college students attending local secular universities in Denton TX

West Coast

• Church of Neighbors Portland, OR: Intentional community of neighbors currently centered in the neighborhood of Kenton and Arbor Lodge.

• Church of the Sojourners San Francisco, California: Members live as church in big households in the Mission District.

• Refuge of Christ Forest Grove, OR: Church community that grew out of a campus ministry

• Springwater Portland, Oregon: Anabaptist house church/ community committed to loving neighbors and earth care.

• Jodi Court Community in Newberg, OR: Households and friends building a network of care in their neighborhood and seeking peace in their city.