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A Glimpse Into Serve The City

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Serve The City Volunteer Weeks are happening all over the world!  Here is a glimpse into the Big Volunteer Week that took place in Brussels this month!  Join the team in Brussels next year for their 10 editions of Serve The City:  June 28th to July5th, 2014. Continue to get updates about Serve The City…

An Introduction to TCKs

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Communitas International starts and shapes communities of faith that love like Jesus in their neighborhoods. As we send people to the field, we are intentional about making sure they are equipped with as many resources as they need. We want each missionary family to make the transition and the journey as smoothly as possible– especially…

Back From Haiti

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CA’s Latin America Director, Steve Adams, led a team to Haiti in May with the goal of improving the lives of Haitians who still desperately need help.  This team also focused their efforts on 5 major projects including a new church plant that will begin in July!  Watch this video as we celebrate what God…

Continued Prayers for Ukraine

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Photo by Dominic Chavez licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 As the war in Ukraine has devastated that nation and its peoples, Wes White, one of our missional staff in the UK, pleads for your prayers for his friends and colleagues from the Ukraine Evangelical Theological Seminary in Kyiv, where Wes has taught.  Nykolai (name changed)…

Even in War, we see the Body of Christ

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Christianity Today tells a story of two unlikely people praying for each other: a Ukrainian and a Russian. Two friends torn apart by war. One full of fear and the other full of shame for his nation—but each praying for the other in the midst of the current devastating situation in Ukraine. As Russia invaded…

God Never Stopped Working

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I have sometimes thought that we are more of a hindrance than a help to God’s work. In moments of personal prayer I have surprised myself by asking God not to allow me to spoil what He alone does so well.  This is funny to me, now that we are getting out of lockdown and…

Lifting Up Ukraine

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Communitas International is seeing peoples’ lives changed forever by helping churches engage in current events, and by sharing the gospel with people who don’t yet know Jesus.  As we start and shape churches, our missionaries are on the front lines, both spiritually and physically. They are a part of how God is uniting churches globally to…

Making a Difference in Berlin

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Communitas often focuses on serving “the least of these,” but sometimes we interact with very influential people in advancing God’s kingdom.  One memorable example occurred in June in Berlin, Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel met Christine, the founder and director of Serve the City Berlin, one of 25 nonprofits chosen out of hundreds to be recognized…

Making Disciples–In Real Life

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What does starting new churches “actually” look like? So often we mistake starting new churches with starting new church services. Within Communitas, our driving questions whenever we start a new church are this: How and where is God already moving in our neighborhood? How can we join Him in making new disciples? Making disciples takes…