American Missionary Fellowship

“Christian community,” “being in community”, and “having community” are all buzz words right now for many people in the Christian world. What we mean when we talk about community is there’s a sense of our lives intersecting, of connecting in a way that makes sense and that brings Christ to the center. Well, I experienced community in three ways this week.

Sunday morning I went to church with Ray Kraftson, one of our board members. We went to his family church, St. David’s in Wayne, and we went to the early service, which meets in the church – the smallest of the buildings on their campus – built in 1715. The church has no lights. There are candles in candelabras for when it is necessary to have light in the building.

We are a group of Christ-followers who intentionally live out what it means to be the family of God, submitting to each other, willingly accountable, and genuinely caring for those who are called to our common work.

You may remember that Stephen Curtis Chapman’s five-year-old daughter was killed about eighteen months ago; he and a local pastor put together an amazing service for those whose hearts were broken. It was a service of hope. . . .

What was amazing about the service was that I estimate about 8,000 people were there. We were in the overflow to the overflow to the overflow area. There were people everywhere, and you could just feel the hurt in this crowd.

We are about connecting people with relevant ministry in the United States. We believe that people transformed by Jesus will be a redemptive community causing winds of revival in the United States.