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, including a special focus on working within our homelessness culture and…
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 myself as I began…
Our mission is to open old and new rooms in Santa Barbara for union, incarnation, and friendship-building. Our trust in Christ is best shown by our outward actions of love and compassion in our community and ultimately throughout the world. It is our belief that orthopraxy is as important as orthodoxy. The mission is continually…
Marty and Carey are graduates of Westmont College in Santa Barbara ’81 and ’85. In 1988 they moved to Amsterdam, The Netherlands with their one-year-old daughter Carly, to serve with Communitas in church planting. During their four and a half years in Holland they helped to establish Crossroads International Church and Marty completed an M.A.…
