This isn’t just a story about us.
It’s a story about Jesus.
We didn’t start with a plan.
We started with a yes.
Poetice was born from a burden — for justice, for dignity, and for the people of Southern Africa caught in the wake of the HIV/AIDS crisis. What started as a simple response grew into something far deeper. Over time, we realized we weren’t just meant to meet needs. We were called to reveal Jesus.
In 2009, we launched Poetice to bring awareness to that epidemic. Our early years were marked by large-scale events, educational campaigns, and anti-trafficking initiatives.
But as we wrestled with the complexity of poverty and injustice, our work expanded — into arts, education, agriculture, and enterprise. We built training centers. We ran clinics. We taught tailoring, farming, and music. We did everything we could to change the systems around us.
It helped — but it wasn’t the whole answer.
We CAME TO realize that true transformation
doesn’t come SIMPLY from projects.
It comes from presence.
In 2014, we began training and mentoring local church leaders.
By 2018, we had launched our own church in Choma, Zambia.
And today, we’re still here — more alive and more focused than ever.
WE ARE not just anOTHER organization.
We’re a vibrant family of Jesus followers actively transforming cities
through the revelation of Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit.
Our mission is simple:
to see God revealed and His followers activated.
We pursue this mission through three main pursuits:
COMMUNITY
loving and serving our city in tangible ways
TRAININGS
forming disciples and leaders through immersive rhythms
EXPRESSIONS
releasing the beauty of God’s Kingdom into culture
But this mission is more than strategy. It’s a way of life.
It informs our rhythms, forms our culture, and fuels our vision for transformation.
We are a people marked by Presence, shaped by Purpose, and sent in Power.
We believe in a Gospel that touches every part of life:
hearts, homes, neighborhoods, and nations.
A Gospel that shows up not just in words, but through acts of love,
artifacts of beauty, lives of holiness, justice, creativity, and joy.
Even our name carries this heart.
Poetice is a word we created —
where poetry (beauty) and justice (righteousness) meet.
It’s directly derived from Ephesians 2:10, which states:
“For we are God’s workmanship (translated from the Greek word poiēma),
created in Christ Jesus for good works (to pursue Justice),
which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
Our 34-acre base in Choma is more than a location. It’s a home.
What began as empty land has become a vibrant hub of Kingdom life.
It’s where worship rises daily. Where leaders are trained and sent. Where children play, families gather, and the city comes together around sports, school, coffee, and community.
This ground has hosted countless prayers, songs, and stories of transformation. It’s a place of compassion and justice, where wells of water and wells of life flow side by side.
Every corner of this base carries the same heartbeat:
presence with God, discipleship in community, and mission to the nations.
From here, the Gospel goes out — to our neighborhoods, our city, and now across Africa.
But our story doesn’t end here.
We believe God is writing a global story of renewal—through us, through you, through a movement of wholehearted people fully alive in Christ.
We’re not going to stop until every tribe, every tongue, every nation — every person on earth — encounters the same fullness of life we’ve experienced in Jesus.
OUR story is still being written.
And we’d love for you to live it with us.