our people

Marco & Talitha Ulloa
Marco and Talitha along with daughters Deandra and Maya have started an agriculture project named Vida Raiz {life-root} to bring Shalom to Costa Rica and beyond. Vida Raiz Farmworks will be starting a new phase of their agricultural project in Costa Rica,...

Stefan & Rochelle van der Veer
Stefan and Rochelle and their children are an international family. Originally from Canada, Rochelle met Stefan, a Dutchman, at a Leadership conference hosted by the Willow Creek Community Church in November, 1995. After learning about church leadership, they each...

Wes & Cindy White
Wes & Cindy were the founders of Communitas' original Glasgow church plant, Mosaic. They are now leading a house church, Upper Room Church, that is made up mainly of Iranian refugees and they serve in preaching, worship and pastoral roles. Wes also...

William & Sheila Whittenberg
William and Sheila have been serving in Berlin since 2001. While they initally came over to plant churches themselves, their work has now evolved to serving the German church by coaching German church planters and training children’s ministry workers.

Richard & Beverly Wilson
Richard and Beverly live in Charlotte, NC and have been married 33 years. They have 3 children and three grandchildren. Richard has been a worship pastor, an executive pastor, and a church planter for his entire ministry career. He holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from the...

Matt & Toni Daniels
Matt and Toni Daniels have always loved being with people and creating spaces of belonging and meaning. At the early age of 16, after independent short-term mission trips, Matt and Toni dedicated their lives to going overseas and sharing the hope of Jesus with those...

Stuart & Lynsey Gilmour
Our mission is to use our experience, gifts and talents through activities we personally would engage with, to share truth, reason, encouragement, and empathy to those who feel lost, alone, uncertain, and angry. At time of writing (June 2024) we are focussing on...

David Reina & Ellen Quarles
David is originally from Granada, Spain, and Ellen from the USA. We both have a heart to see people know Christ, grow in their faith, and live as Christians in community and effecting our community. This is what brought us together in 2007 at Summer Camp and led us to...

Marty & Carey Uhler
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...

Bryan & Terry Harms
Bryan and Terry Harms, married for 40 years, have a bicultural background and two adult children, Sara and Samuel, both living in Canada. They initially met during a church-plant project in Caxias do Sul, and, after about 13 years in Canada (and in other parts of...