our people
Ismael Cortez & Amy Morrison
Since 2008, Ismael and Amy have been working to pair young people in Ecuador who have the dream of pursuing a higher education with sponsors who have the kindness and generosity to send them to college. The students they work with are all so different. Some will...
Hillary Cummings
I have had the desire to live in Italy ever since I was here on a missions trip in 2004. There is so much I love about Italian culture: the people, art, food, landscape, architecture, coffee!, pace... to a name a few! After spending 6 months here in Sicily in 2013...
Scott, Jacqui, & Sara Curley
Scott is originally from New Jersey and Jacqui is from Philadelphia. But they had to go all the way down to Columbia International University in South Carolina, where they were both training for missions, in order to meet. They were married in 1993. Scott needed to do...
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...
Teal L. Rapp
After five years serving as the Executive Pastor at [iccp] in Aix-en-Provence, France, Teal and the Rapp Family relocated to Denver, Co, then Austin, TX where Teal helped shepherd God's people toward their calling through leading the recruiting efforts of Communitas...
Jon, Kristyn, Addy & Jackson Ritner
Jon pastored in a “mega-church" in Williamsburg, Virginia, for 10 years before moving to Brussels, Belgium, to help plant "micro churches" as part of Communitas' project, The Well. In 2015, Jon returned to the States to apply the lessons he learned about adapting the...
Leon and Tina Longard
Leon currently serves as the North American Director for Communitas. In this role, he has the privilege of working with a great team that shares in the vision of reimaging how faith communities engage in their context to bring the tangible goodness of God to the lives...
Jim & Candy Temby
We met on a blind date set up by a mutual friend in 1989. We were married a couple of years later and have two amazing adult sons, Christian and Carson. Our mid-life redirection to the Czech Republic in 2019 was the culmination of God’s decade-long preparation...
Paul & Karen Haenze
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...
Bob & Elizabeth Wilson
Bob and Elizabeth met while university students in Fredonia, NY, where Liz graduated with a BA in music (violin). Bob, for some unknown reason, graduated with a degree in business administration, and later earned an MA in Transformational Leadership The Wilsons were...