FaithPlace is a collaborative of Christian placemakers and allies working together to align faith, place, and practice—thereby building places where communities and creation flourish together.

We define placemaking as the multifaceted practice of planning, designing, building, stewarding, investing in and advocating for good places including buildings, streets, neighborhoods, towns, and cities. 

The primary members of the Christian placemaking community include:

• Practitioners: subject-matter experts in the natural and built environment and how to shape it in ways that serve people, communities, and creation (e.g., planners, architects, engineers, urban designers, developers, contractors, etc.).

• Stewards: individuals or organizations responsible for stewarding the natural and built environment that primarily includes real estate and capital (e.g. churches, land owners, investors, developers, government, non-profits, etc.)

• Supporters and allied partners: anyone willing to advance the cause of making better places

While this community is primarily focused on Christians, we partner with many different people outside the faith that are willing to make better places together.

Christian placemakers are people who seek to make better places, inspired by their faith in God, the example of Christ, and the leading of the Holy Spirit. Their work includes—but is not limited to—the design and redevelopment of church buildings and land, and extends to the care and shaping of neighborhoods and cities.

Our mission is to gather, equip, and mobilize Christians to make better places. 

• Gather: bring members together to build up an inspired Christian placemaking community

• Equip: provide members with the knowledge, skills, network and resources they need to make better places

• Mobilize: send members back out into the world to love God, love their neighbors through placemaking

Our vision is to create an empowered community of diverse Christians in North America planning, designing, building, stewarding, and revitalizing the built environment to be beautiful and life-giving.