Community Tours

Get to Know Communities in the Network

Conversation with Ruth Boardman-Alexander of

Hope Fellowship, Waco, TX

 

Previous Tours:

Church of the Sojourners

Conversation with Ashley Haack

 

North American Communities

Participating in NCN

Click Here for Info About Participation

 

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.

 

Mexico

United States

East Coast

  • Bethlehem Farm in Summers County, WV: a  Catholic community that hosts students for "service retreats", teaching low-income home repair and sustainable agriculture. Short and long-term positions available, contact hiring@bethlehemfarm.net or call 304-445-7143

  • 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.

  • Community of Peace, Louisa, Virginia. A monastic Christian community sharing daily prayer times and life.

Midwest

  • 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.

  • Household in Ford Heights, IL An inter-racial household in a segregated black town, ordered around table fellowship, discipleship, and raising up local black leaders. Contact: Call 312 543 5764

South

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

    • An extensive list of communities is included in Evan’s useful links.

  • 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. Email NCN to connect with them.

Canada

  • The Village Homestead in Thunder Bay, Ontario. A forming community, focus on practicing unity and hospitality with an outreach to First Nations people in the region.  Currently building homes and infrastructure.  Open to adventurous Christian families that want to serve each other and the community.   Contact Andrew & Kristin for more information: alang5@icloud.com Phone 8076316507 Address

 

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