our people
Solea Johnson
My husband, Rodney, and I met in 1990 at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Before meeting, we both felt called to serve God in the Spanish speaking world. We spent spent 15 years in Uruguay where our focus was building a culturally relevant community of faith among...
Aparisi Iglesias family
Federico and Olga are Spaniards, and have two children (Joel and Sara). Olga has developed her work as a music teacher and Pilates instructor, while Fede has worked as an IT specialist for nearly 25 years.Both have grown up in Christian families that have given them a...
Andrea Asher
Andrea is passionate about helping others recognize and be released into their role in God’s redemptive story. With a background in developing leaders, planting missional communities and pastoring those close and far from God, Andrea serves as Chief People Officer....
Greg Ellis
In the fall of 2013, Greg and his wife, Kari, were recommended to plant a church in the Northwest Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church. Only recently was Greg introduced to Communitas International - but he is excited to work in this movement that desires to...
Mike & Carol Kurtyka
Carol and Mike Kurtyka have been in Europe since 2002 and were part of the team that launched Communitas' original church plant in Glasgow. They have three adult children Harrison, Lily and Sophie. Mike is a trustee with CAI UK and supports Upper Room church, a...
Remko Dekker
Growing up in The Netherlands, Remko was raised in a Christian home attending the local Dutch Reformed (Gereformeerd) Church. He came to a living faith while studying for his MBA in the USA. Upon returning He joined an Evangelical/Pentecostal church where he was...
Gloria Del Cid
Gloria was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and was raised in a non-Christian home by a single mother. When she was 11 years old, she moved to California, where she learned to speak English and memorized Bible verses in Awana. When she was 13 years old she heard a...
Melinda Means
The road to my current work in Berlin began as far back as my late teens, when I first moved to Europe to live as an exchange student in Germany right after high school. Although I made a few trips to Berlin as a tourist prior to the Berlin Wall’s fall in 1989, I did...
Andrew & Kali Strutzenberg
Andrew and Kali met during photography class in high school. They share a passion for drawing people into community and exploring together what it means to walk in the ways of Jesus. Andrew and Kali are both graduates of Denver Seminary, Andrew with an M.Div. and Kali...
Monique Hoven
Monique’s story begins in California, where she was raised in a Christian family, by Dutch immigrant parents. As she grew up, so did her faith in a God who is not distant, but near and wants to be in relationship with us. She grew up visiting family in the Netherlands...