About the Charis Fellowship
Passionate about Jesus in truth, relationship, and mission
charis: kar’-us | definition: grace
The Charis Fellowship
The Charis Fellowship is a family of more than 230 interdependent churches, campuses, and ministries in the United States and Canada who are passionate about Jesus in truth, relationship, and mission.
Charis Fellowship churches and ministries are strongly committed to our shared mission to start new churches, develop leaders, and do good for the sake of the Gospel.
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Our movement began in 1708. Our current name, which was adopted in 2016, carries on two core elements of our movement: Charis, the Greek word for grace, emphasizes our need for God’s saving grace; and Fellowship reflects our desire to interdependently support one another as we pursue our shared mission of starting new churches, developing leaders, and doing good for the sake of the Gospel.
Charis Fellowship churches plant churches, train leaders,
and do good for the sake of the Gospel
Planting Churches
We affirm that the church is God’s plan for this age and commit to mobilize our churches, members and resources to plant new churches.
Training Leaders
We affirm that a leader is a person who influences others towards the fulfillment of defined objectives and is indispensable to the health and multiplication of the Church.
Doing Good
We affirm that God has created human beings with physical, emotional and spiritual needs and that the Church expresses the compassion of Christ in proclaiming the Gospel while caring for various needs of mankind.