Riley & Lauren Hall

Riley and Lauren have been in Glasgow since November 2020, where they work with The Upper Room Church, a dual-language community made up primarily of Iranian refugees and asylum seekers. Though they are both involved in a range of ministries within the church,...

Faith Vines

Faith Vines, currently residing in Tennessee, has a heart for the refugee community and has felt God’s calling on her life to fulfill this ministry focus with Communitas. She will be engaging in a three-month internship in Sicily, where she will be working with...

Tony Sheng

Tony is involved in technology for his day job and runs The Ember Cast, a student missions leadership org, bi-vocationally. The Shengs first got involved with Communitas in 2007 when they brought a team of students to help run the kids’ programs at Connect....

Brenda Renderos

Brenda has always had a knack for questioning the status quo. The questions have often been inner and personal but in recent years she has become more vocal. Her questions are not just for the sake of questioning but to deepen her understanding and guard against...

Hadi & Sepideh Jafarizadeh

Hadi has been in Glasgow since 2015, and part of Upper Room Church since 2016 when it was a House Church at Wesley White’s flat. Although he had not joined Communitas International at this point, his role was growing and developing so that now he is sharing the...