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Focus Teams

Focus Teams are gatherings that unite expert practitioners in a particular field to engage and solve their field’s
challenges together, for the betterment of St. Louis, in a way that they can’t do alone.

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Racial Unity Focus Team

Contact: Brandon Wilkes -

 Brandon@TogetherSTL.com

A gathering of racial unity practitioners that come together to cast vision and execute city wide initiatives that move the needle toward racial reconciliation in St. Louis. Contact Brandon Wilkes for more information or to participate on the team.

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Housing Focus Team

Contact: James Comninellis - JamesComninellis@archstl.org

​The Housing Focus Team, called “Hearts, Hands & Homes” unites expert practitioners in the field of housing to engage and solve their field’s challenges together in a way we can’t do alone.It started with a group of 6 housing agencies, supported by a $3M investment through the oikos initiative.  Contact James for more information.

Immigrant Focus Team

Contact: Marco van Raalten  -

 Marco@togetherstl.com

St. Louis is home to over 100,000 immigrants and enjoys a rich diversity of people. This team’s focus, made up from a rich diversity of organizations, is to help connect individuals, churches and organizations to better love the sojourners among us.

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Prayer Focus Team

Contact: Marco van Raalten  -

 Marco@togetherstl.com

The Prayer Focus Team unites prayer leaders who initiate and develop prayer together in a way we can’t do alone.  We meet once a year for our annual prayer retreat, in which we worship, pray and seek His face and connect with each other. We are blessed with daily, weekly, monthly and annual prayer events led by various people, churches and organizations in the St. Louis metro area.

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SERN Focus Team

(Spiritual Emergency Response Network)

Contact: Rev. Rodrick Burton rkburton@msn.com

What if the Church would be the first to respond to the Victims of Violence?

 

SERN is a collaboration of people from area churches who serve families that have lost a loved one due to violence. 

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Networkers Focus Team

Contact: Brandon R. Wilkes  -

 Brandon@togetherstl.com

Network the Networkers unites leaders of networks to impact the city together in a way we can’t do alone.  When Christian focused in the work of collaboration begin collaborating intentionally then the city will flourish.

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