In 1975, Father Thomas Maney, Maryknoll Missioner, who was working in Chile, forming CEBs, met Sister Joan Gerads, OSF missioner of the Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls, at a Catholic Charismatic Renewal meeting held in Puerto Rico.

Sr. Joan worked in Maracay, Venezuela forming communities with a methodology that started from a personal encounter of people with Christ the Lord and a meeting with neighbors in an atmosphere of faith.

After the meeting, Fr. Thomas went to Venezuela to experience the method, and he liked it so much that he told Sr. Joan that they should form an international mission team to form Communities in all parishes of the world. It was February 6, 1975. After various difficulties, especially after the fall of the government of Salvador Allende in Chile, Fr. Thomas had to leave the country and his community sent him to work in Venezuela.

Being there, the team with Sister Joan began and they formed communities across Venezuela. Then, they were sent to USA to the Diocese of Duluth in Minnesota. Bishop Paul Anderson encouraged them to form a community that admits laity, not just priests and religious, and by that time several priests and religious from different congregations had obtained permission from their communities to enter in the Evangelization Community.

This is when the first lay couples also become part of the community, the Skeltons and the Chernugles. They returned to Latin America in 1978, serving in Colombia and then Ecuador.

Since then, many people (laity and religious) have come and gone. Currently, the Baque Prieto family and Sister Joan Gerads form the nucleus of the community. They continue forming Communities across Latin America.