Many church expressions overlap—for example, micro churches can also meet in homes. Please select the church expression that best describes your congregation’s identity and ministry approach. This choice should reflect your church’s style and focus rather than its location. 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Micro Church Network
• House Church Network
• Ethnic Specific Church
• Language Specific Church
• Prison Church
• Cowboy Church
• Virtual Reality Church

Micro Church Network

A micro church network is a collection of small, simple, lay-led congregations (often meeting in nontraditional spaces, such as, coffee shops, businesses, or homes) that remain interconnected for shared mission, accountability, and support while functioning with minimal institutional structure.

House Church Network

A house church network is a movement of interconnected congregations that gather primarily in homes, emphasizing relational discipleship, shared leadership, and simple structures while staying united through common mission and mutual support.
Dinner Church: A dinner church is a congregations or a network of congregations that center their worship and discipleship around shared meals, blending table fellowship, teaching, and mission in a way that reflects the practices of the early church.

Ethnic Specific Church

An ethnic specific church is a congregation formed around a shared cultural or linguistic identity, providing worship, community, and ministry that reflects and affirms the heritage of a particular ethnic group.

Language Specific Church

A language specific church is a congregation that conducts its worship, discipleship, and community life primarily in a particular language to serve people who share that linguistic context.

Prison Church

A prison church is a congregation that forms and functions within a correctional facility, providing worship, discipleship, and pastoral care for incarcerated individuals, often developing and utilizing the gifts of those who are incarcerated.

Cowboy Church

A cowboy church is a congregation that ministers within Western and rural cowboy culture, often meeting in barns, arenas, or outdoor settings and emphasizing a relaxed, relational, and evangelistic approach.

Virtual Reality Church

A virtual reality church is a digital congregation that gathers in immersive online environments, using VR technology to facilitate worship, teaching, fellowship, and mission beyond physical boundaries.