Antioch Community Church Fort Collins is part of the Antioch International Movement of Churches based in Waco, Texas. We are a movement of churches connected by relationship and a desire to love God, love one another and love those who do not know Jesus, through the power and work of the Holy Spirit. The Antioch Movement, which began more than 20 years ago, is dedicated to seeing the local church
reproduce the Kingdom of God through evangelism and discipleship throughout the United States and around the world. In 1987, a year-long intensive discipleship training school called Master’s Commission was established at Highland Baptist Church by Jimmy Seibert. The curriculum included nine months of Biblical ministry training in Waco, TX and a three month mission outreach overseas. In 1991-1992, four Master’s Commission graduates received additional training in cross-cultural missions and were sent out to start a church in Ulan Ude, Russia. The team began by starting cell groups and a weekly celebration service. In 1996, the church was successfully planted and turned over to national leadership. Svet Mira, or Light of the World, continues to flourish today and is involved in training and sending its own church planters. In 1993, another wave of church planting teams located in nearby cities… including Irkutsk, Siberia and Ulan-Bator, Mongolia. In April of 1995, the organization, which had incorporated in 1993, was renamed to Antioch Ministries International (AMI), and the Master’s Commission school changed its name to Antioch Training School (ATS). While AMI’s President, Jimmy Seibert, and the other ministry leaders were gaining valuable ministry experience on staff at Highland Baptist Church, the training and sending process continued to flourish under AMI. In 1999, the Elders at Highland blessed Jimmy and any current church members to join him in planting a church in Waco with a specific ministry vision for reproducing cell-based churches around the world. Antioch Community Church’s (ACC) first public service was held June 6th, 1999 in a local fairgrounds exhibit hall with approximately 400 people. At the same time, ACC began renovating an abandoned grocery store to use for its celebration services and offices. During that time of renovation, services were held in different locations throughout the city, culminating with three months of “church on the parking lot” complete with “bring your own lawn chair” to sit on. church planting team to Boston, Massachusetts. Since then, other teams have landed in downtown Dallas, Knoxville, Portland, Seattle, Belton (TX), and Antioch Community Church: Wheaton (IL) with a burning desire to see reproducing churches established in these unreached areas. So, ACC in Waco has continued to grow both as a local church (up to 2000 attendees in 2006) since 1999 and as a worldwide church planting organization since 1992. Currently we have 194 adults serving full-time in church planting efforts around the world, almost all having been trained at and sent out by Antioch. In August 2004 a team of 7 church planters led by Jonathan and Amy Gulley where sent out to plant a church in Wheaton, IL. Their vision was to see the same life changing community that they experienced in Waco, TX started in Wheaton. While the Antioch church in Wheaton was planted and growing, Chris & Blair Mirabito felt God calling them to Africa, where they spent 3 years church planting. During the end of those 3 years they felt God leading them back to the U.S. After seeking the Lord for further direction, God awakened a dream in their hearts to church plant in Colorado. Looking for a place to plant roots and raise up a team, Chris & Blair joined ACC Wheaton, and in 2010 with a team of 10 adults and 7 kids moved to Fort Collins, CO. They had a simple vision to build a church of real people, transformed by the love of Jesus, bringing His kingdom to the ends of the Earth.
