Jesus is our center,leading us to love God with all of our heart, soul & mind. In October 2021 we transitioned from online back to in-person meetings, in the original venue where we first launched. Jesus said “I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.” He’s doing that…
Tim and Renata met in Warsaw back in 2003, initially just with the idea of hanging out for a few days. That has turned into 17 years of hanging out, 3 kids, 3 countries, and tens of thousands of road miles traveled together. How they got to where they are now started with a though…
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)…
Life is full of wonderful and unexpected surprises! When Karen arrived in Germany to homeschool the children of a missionary couple, she had no idea that a certain soldier named Paul would become not only her best friend but her life partner in ministry. Those early years in Germany were formative in developing a vision…
The International Christian Fellowship church of Warsaw is hard to describe. We are an English speaking church made up of people from over 30 nations, from over a dozen religious backgrounds and from many diverse cultures and background language groups. Roughly 60% of us have English as a first language and the rest have learned…
Michael, Vanessa and their son Joseph reside in Warsaw, Poland. Michael served with Saddleback and Calvary Community Churches before coming onto the Communitas staff in 2004. Vanessa served as an employment specialist for World Relief (Seattle) before joining Communitas in 2015. Michael leads the advancement team for Eastern and Central Europe coaching and training leaders…
When Paul and Karen Haenze arrived in Poland in 1998, they had no idea their vision to reach every man, woman and child in one city would grow to over five cities across the country. Missional strategies have changed with the times, but their hearts remain fixed on seeing all those whom they befriend choose…
To learn more about this church, visit the page of our project leaders, the Haenzes.
A Warsaw partnership that goes beyond faith boundaries What does it look like when a church forms a partnership with a secular organization? Communitas is answering that question in Warsaw, Poland. A nonreligious organization there, Smile Warsaw, is feeding the hungry, caring for the poor, and loving the homeless every Sunday. In its mission statement,…
