CRM Empowering Leaders

Communitas is an apostolic order of missionaries living as counter-cultural communities in cross-cultural neighborhoods around the world. We proclaim the Gospel of Jesus in a rapidly growing post-Christian western culture.

Communitas incarnates Christ sacrificially and intentionally in life-on-life relationships. They taste, smell, see and experience Christ, and begin the conversations exploring God. In addition to engaging scores of people who would not engage Christians in conventional contexts, we mentor leaders, churches and missionaries towards missional effectiveness.

By 2020, Communitas aims to create multiple, revolutionary communities of transformation in culturally influential cities in America and internationally. As communities on mission, we pursue our calling through a commitment to:

• Partner with our neighbors and community in collective transformation
• Share with our neighbors a common pilgrimage towards Christ
• Create fresh expressions of Biblical faith communities [church] which are culturally relevant to our contexts
• And empower like-minded emerging leaders in fresh expressions and communities in our cities

Our Rhythm of Life

The rhythm that we center our lives around in New Orleans involves:

• Weekly prayer, Eucharist, and journey with God through his Word
• Weekly team coordination
• Weekly mentoring within our community
• Weekly learning community
• Matthew's Table – Inviting others to join us for a fun night of food and conversation each week
• Day Out – Participating in the celebrations of our city’s unique culture
• Serving – Multiple shared meals and the 3rd place; weekly faith community together, including any who desire to join us

Teams

In New Orleans, Communitas currently serves as three distinct communities — in Faubourg Marigny, in Faubourg Bayou St. John, and as the Gentilly Community (in Faubourg Audobon and Faubourg Freret).

In Valparaiso, Indiana, our community serves inmates in a local prison, and helps transition these men and women into community afterwards. Creating community within the prisons has seen literally scores many times over come to Christ. The after support helps these people assimilate into the body of Christ and succeed, now as followers of Jesus.

Use the links to the right to learn more about Communitas, their values, and various opportunities for getting involved.

Stories from Communitas

Lacrosse and the Love of Jesus

Chad and I, with support from our mission community, coach lacrosse for a premiere prep school of 1500 boys in New Orleans. There are 105 on our team of three squads, along with over a dozen...

From Petrified to Pilgrim

We first met Lee (not his real name) in August of 2007. He had moved down to attend Tulane Law School, and he and his roommates were reticent to make friends. They had been here a couple of weeks...

When God Builds the House

After suffering from persistent health issues, my wife and I discovered that our home had a severe mold problem. Unfortunately, post-Katrina construction workers took advantage of our landlady...

Earthquake in Haiti: Empowering Leaders in Crisis

When a disaster strikes somewhere in the world, CRM is not usually on the list of first-responders. If someone says "humanitarian relief", CRM probably wouldn't be the first name that comes to...