From Residency To Movement
When Felipe Echeverri joined the OCPN Finishing Residency in 2025, he came with a vision… a conviction that the gospel could spread through decentralized, community-rooted house churches. What the residency gave him was the formation, the relationships, and the shared ownership of mission to make that vision concrete.
OCPN has been a gift from God; an opportunity to walk toward a different ecclesiology while staying in unity with the body of Christ and being part of the family of faith in my city. Because of those who invest in the Kingdom, we have been able to advance and saturate our city with the gospel. — Felipe Echeverri, Viva Churches
Today, Felipe pastors Viva Churches, a house church network rooted in Orlando, where small, multiplying communities gather in homes to worship, disciple, and serve their neighborhoods. The fruit of that season in OCPN is visible not only in Orlando but at a network level, as Viva Churches grows and inspires similar expressions of the church across the world.
We are grateful for Felipe's long obedience and for the way God is using Viva Churches as a living demonstration of what gospel saturation looks like, church not as a destination, but as a movement from house to house, neighborhood to neighborhood.
