Community Tours

Get to Know Communities in the Network

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Hope Fellowship, Waco, TX

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Red heart icons signify communities that support NCN financially as well as relationally.

A number of these communities have visit reports in the Report Archive.

East Coast

The Hiding Place Washington DC : community, urban farm, retreat space
Nehemiah Community, Springfield, MA. While Nehemiah house has been closed, a community of four households still exists. Contact: Patrick Murray, cell (413)539-8499
Bruderhof : Anabaptist common-purse communities sharing life, work, education, worship, mission, welcome.
- Currently 9 large rural and 6 small urban communities in the USA, with others internationally.
Community of Peace, Louisa, Virginia. A monastic Christian community sharing daily prayer times and life.

Midwest

Barnabas House, Milwaukee, WI: seeks to encourage Christians to live out the teachings of Christ.
Church of All Nations, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Multi-cultural Presbyterian church that has a community at its core.
Englewood Church, Indianapolis, Indiana: Church investing deeply in its neighborhood especially in affordable housing and daycare
Genesis Community, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Shared households that are part of different churches
Jesus People USA, Chicago, Illinois:
Reba Place Fellowship, Evanston and Chicago (Rogers Park), Illinois: Fellowship members share a common purse and neighborhood and are closely related to two neighborhood congregations.
Seed House, Minneapolis, Minnesota: A small house in a diverse neighborhood, practicing hospitality, good neighboring, common prayer, and friendship
Cherith Brook Catholic Worker, Kansas City, Missouri: Sharing a life of table fellowship, economic resources, labor, study, prayers and worship.

South

Anthony’s Plot Winston Salem, North Carolina:
Jubilee Partners Comer, Georgia: A Christian Service Community
Koinonia Farm Americus, Georgia: Farm-based community with rich history in anti-racism.
Hiwassee Bruderhof Madisonville, Tennessee: An Anabaptist common-purse community

Southwest

Eden Community, Abilene, Texas: Eco-village and training community with many young families.
Hope Fellowship, Waco, Texas: Mennonite Bi-lingual fellowship with many families living in proximity.
Spirituality Shoppe/Evan Howard (friend of communities): historian/scholar of intentional community
New Revelations Collegiate Mission, Denton, Texas: Offers housing in an intentional Christian community to college students attending local secular universities in Denton TX

West Coast

Church of the Sojourners San Francisco, California: Members live as church in big households in the Mission District.
Refuge of Christ Forest Grove, OR: Church community that grew out of a campus ministry
Springwater Portland, Oregon: Anabaptist house church/ community committed to loving neighbors and earth care.
Jodi Court Community in Newberg, OR: Households and friends building a network of care in their neighborhood and seeking peace in their city.