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Drew & Christine Van Tiem

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Drew and Christine met in Salford, UK, for a gap year, working with local churches and schools. A few years later, after marrying and living in Chicago in the US, they returned to the UK, this time to Edinburgh to begin their work there. Full of joy and heartache, failures and successes, their time in…

Faith Vines

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Faith Vines, currently residing in Tennessee, has a heart for the refugee community and has felt God’s calling on her life to fulfill this ministry focus with Communitas. She will be engaging in a three-month internship in Sicily, where she will be working with the local Sicilian community, as well as the refugee community that…

Location Sicily
Time on Staff 1 Year

Richard & Riekje Wallace

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Richard, from the UK, and Riekje, from Holland, are the parents of four outgoing young-adult children. They love to use their gift of hospitality and a down-to earth spirituality, to draw people into authentic, Christ-centred community. They currently reside in Madrid, Spain. In 1996 they joined Christian Associates International (now Communitas) and worked for 23…

Location Madrid
Time on Staff 26 Years

Wes & Cindy White

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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 serves as the Communitas UK Advancement Team leader and teaches at the Scottish School of…

Lee & Dori Williams

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My wife Dori and I began our story together back in 2006 when we met a pastors’ conference in Arequipa, Peru. It was love at first sight, and a year later we were married and living out God’s vision for our lives in South America. I had been ministering in Peru since 2001 with a…

Bob & Elizabeth Wilson

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Bob and Elizabeth, met while university students in Fredonia, NY where Liz was majoring in Music (violin), and Bob was studying Human Resources Management. They were both leaders in their campus fellowship, Chi Alpha, and after graduating, moved first to Albany and then Ithaca NY to plant campus ministries at the University of Albany and…

Richard & Beverly Wilson

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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 Eastman School of Music and has been an adjunct…

Alexis Wolf

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Lexie is from Oxnard California and is involved in her small church community that meets in a Barn on Sunday nights. She served as a youth leader in a local church called Calvary Chapel Oxnard. In the spring of 2019, Lexie felt like the Lord was calling her somewhere globally. After praying about it for…

Jack & Stephanie Wolfe

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Jack Wolfe is on a mission to provoke, motivate, and inspire people to turn their dreams into reality.Aside from his own consulting and coaching practice, Jack regularly applies these skills in his role as the Southeast Regional Director on the North America Advancement Team for Communitas International, a forward-thinking church- planting organization. He is also…