Jeff Shaffer

Jeff Shaffer

To know me is to know someone who has always been a bit unconventional and on the outside – being the class clown of my high school and forming a fringe club on our campus based on the rabbit in Monty Python in the Holy Grail!  I have re-discovered this in...
Brenda Renderos

Brenda Renderos

Brenda has always had a knack for questioning the status quo. The questions have often been inner and personal but in recent years she has become more vocal. Her questions are not just for the sake of questioning but to deepen her understanding and guard against...
Internship – Eucharist Church

Internship – Eucharist Church

Eucharist Church is a congregation in San Francisco connecting ancient forms of worship and classic Christian faith to the lives of 21st-century people. Our mission is to form disciples of Jesus who live all of life in reference to God.
Church of the Margins and the Dones

Church of the Margins and the Dones

In 2005 I started my journey with Communitas as an “incarnational missional investigator” in the city of Santa Barbara, CA. There was radical need within the margins of an otherwise wealthy community, and for over a decade we worked with and for the marginalized,...
Making Space for Different Forms of Church

Making Space for Different Forms of Church

Throughout history, the concept of church has evolved significantly from early house churches born out of persecution to cathedrals throughout Europe and then modern church buildings that paved the way for our understanding of church. But, in today’s world,...