Working List of Christian Intentional Communities in North America

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(Please note that blue communities are participating communities and red heart icon signifies partner communities that support NCN financially as well as relationally. )

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

Canada

Mexico

United States

East Coast

Midwest

  • Barnabas House, Milwaukee, WI: seeks to encourage Christians to live out the teachings of Christ through the intentional daily practices of prayer, personal relationships and hospitality embracing the stranger and wanderer per Christ’s example.

  • Bloomington Catholic Worker, Bloomington, Illinois: Families offering "houses of welcome" to the homeless

  • 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

South

  • Anthony’s Plot Winston Salem, North Carolina:

  • Coleman Creek Community, Little Rock, Arkansas:

  • Grace and Main Fellowship Danville, Virginia: A racially and socio-economically diverse, intentional, Christian community that shares resources and operates a network of hospitality houses, an urban farm, and regular times of prayer.

  • 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 Neighbors Portland, OR: Intentional community of neighbors currently centered in the neighborhood of Kenton and Arbor Lodge.

  • Church of the Sojourners San Francisco, California: Members live as church in big households in the Mission District.

  • Grandview Calvary Baptist Church Vancouver, British Columbia: Parish church that values shared life and has birthed many creative Kingdom initiatives.

  • Kingfisher Farm South Surrey, British Columbia: four families living together on a CSA farm, sharing mortgage and life.

  • 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 Ct. Community Newberg, OR: Households and friends building a network of care in their neighborhood and seeking peace in their city.