Koinonia Christian Fellowship is the name of a number of different Christian churches and other organisations. The name derives from the word koinonia, the anglicisation of a New Testament Greek word for fellowship. The organisations are generally unrelated to each other.
Bloomingdale, Ontario
Koinonia Christian Fellowship is a church in Bloomingdale, Ontario. According to their own statements they are " a body of believers whose goal is to passionately pursue Koinonia" with God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, to develop and demonstrate Koinonia with one another through covenant relationship, and to expand their "Koinonia" and extend God's heart to the world by reaching the lost through personal and corporate evangelism".
Koinonia was founded in 1984 in Waterloo, Ontario. The church first met in the Waterloo Inn before relocating in 1986 to its present location in Bloomingdale. Since that time, both property and facilities have been expanded.
In 1993, Koinonia Christian Academy was established accommodating children from Junior Kindergarten through high school. Both the church and the school continue to thrive and grow.
Koinonia (coy NO nyah) is a transliterated form of the Greek word, κοινωνία, which means communion, joint participation; the share which one has in anything, participation, a gift jointly contributed, a collection, a contribution, etc. It identifies the idealized state of fellowship and unity that should exist within the Christian church, the Body of Christ.
New Testament usage of koinonia
The essential meaning of the koinonia embraces concepts conveyed in the English terms community, communion, joint participation, sharing and intimacy. Koinonia can therefore refer in some contexts to a jointly contributed gift. The word appears 19 times in most editions of the Greek New Testament. In the New American Standard Bible, it is translated "fellowship" twelve times, "sharing" three times, and "participation" and "contribution" twice each.
In the New Testament, the basis of communion begins with a joining of Jesus with the community of the faithful. This union is also experienced in practical daily life. The same bonds that link the individual to Jesus also link him or her with other faithful. The New Testament letters describe those bonds as so vital and genuine that a deep level of intimacy can be experienced among the members of a local church.
I see nothing of this Jesus in so-identified Christians who promote fear and violence even while they invoke Jesus’ name... They started a farm in Americus, Georgia, called KoinoniaFarms (“fellowship,” as in the first Christian communities).
Pastor Kyle with Dwell CommunityChurch indicates, “The early Christians ‘continuously devoted themselves to fellowship.’ Acts 2.42. This word ‘fellowship’ is koinonia, which means ‘to have in common’ ...
Wouldn’t it be better to Koinonia, to Fellowship with some imperfect Christians, than to buddy with those who are on their way to hell? I think we forget those are the only two choices ... Christians.
According to The Acts of The Apostles, in what city were the followers of Jesus first called Christians? ... What Greek word means “the idealized state of fellowship and unity that should exist within the Christian church, the Body of Christ”?.
Koinonia (Coin-o-knee-a) is the Greek word originally used in this verse that we often translate into English as ‘fellowship.’ Koinonia was a key priority right from the start of the spread of Christianity... A prayer for fellowship.
Being outside of the box, Koinonia is also the name of a free financial literacy and planning class the UnityChristian Fellowship Church has used to reach people for glory of God.
