Our mission is to help people cultivate communities around the presence of Jesus. This vision arises from a collaboration of house church communities in Little Rock, Arkansas, Northern Ireland, and others worldwide. We are not an organizational network but a relational network of friends. We share ideas and tools to cultivate communities and house churches reminiscent of the early church.

We are helping people invite his presence into small spaces outside traditional church walls, while aiming to bless and connect with the established church. Gathering in homes is not new but reflects the earliest, most widespread form of church—especially in regions where Christianity is growing most rapidly. We see a hunger for tranformational, Spirit-led small gatherings among people that feel like family. We see people growing in new ways through gatherings marked by meals, discussion, and practice. We think these types of expressions are a new wineskin for what the Spirit wants to release in our day.

God often moves in unexpected places with ordinary people. Jesus chose simple, everyday individuals to carry out His mission. We want to see ordinary people (like the ones Jesus called to be his disciples) leading to their highest potential. We are also mindful of creating space for those on the fringes of society and the Church, offering a "side door" for them to enter.

We believe that in the upside-down Kingdom, great things often emerge from small, humble beginnings. While today the small is often overlooked, Jesus continues to tell us that the potent, mustard-seed-like kingdom investment is often a place of great return.

Read more about the three shifts we are making as we gather communities around our center - the presence of Jesus.

There are many lonely people, outside the church but also within. We don’t think we can change the whole world at once, but we can follow Jesus’s method of investing deeply in a small group of people. We believe that tight-knit and authentic spiritual family is an important remedy to the individualism and loneliness of today. We invite isolated people into our living rooms and our lives. We engage with the lost and the poor in our communities, desiring to extend the spiritual family. We gather adults and children together, involving everyone in conversations and discipleship. We multiply into additional, small expressions as we grow, retaining relational connection. We promote unity with the broader church family.
In a world with access to all kinds of teaching and information, we recognize we can learn it all and still not know God. We are devoted to learning the Scriptures, but we intentionally invite the Spirit to bring life and power to the Word so that our lives might be transformed. We are not content with gaining second hand knowledge; instead, we want to experience God’s presence first hand, through the Word and Spirit, so that our lives actually look more like Jesus’s life. We commit to living out the primary issues of Scripture according to the way of Jesus rather than arguing over secondary issues of our faith.
In a church culture that tends to lean on a few professionals to lead, we want to activate the ordinary person. We help identify gifts in people, knowing we experience the presence of God more tangibly when the gifts are on display. We follow Jesus’s strategy of involving his disciples in conversation-based and practiced-based learning. We keep our forms and practices simple so that anyone can replicate them. We create spaces that encourage active participation - through dialogue and serving one another - because we value all in the body of Christ.

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“The meetings were held in private houses, or in any rooms that could be obtained, or in the open air, no special buildings were required. This drawing of all the members into the service, this mobility and unorganized unity, permitting variety which only emphasized the bond of a common life in Christ and the indwelling of the same Holy Spirit, fitted the churches to survive persecution and to carry out their commission of bringing to the whole world the message of salvation.

…Although each church was independent of any organization or association of churches, yet intimate connection with other churches was maintained, a connection continually refreshed by frequent visits of brethren ministering the Word.” (Acts 15:36)

A description of the early Church from The Pilgrim Church, EH Broadbent

We hold to the historic teachings of Christian orthodoxy as stated in the Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed. In a world and church that tend to be divided, our heart is to find common ground, as much as possible, with other Christian brothers and sisters. We aim to stay centered on the primary things stated in these creeds and live lives of Christlike holiness in our modern era.