Home Church Mission is a fellowship of fellowships — created to support, equip, and encourage independent home churches and small local churches around the world.
We believe the body of Christ is alive and active wherever He is. In homes. In neighborhoods. In families. In small village chapels. In rented halls. In converted garages. Wherever believers gather in His name, in simplicity, truth, and the power of the Holy Spirit, the church is real and the church is His.
Who We Serve
We serve two kinds of fellowships, and we treat them as equals because Scripture treats them as equals.
Home Churches
Home churches — also called house churches, neighborhood churches, family churches, or life house churches — meet in homes for worship, prayer, teaching, and fellowship. This is the New Testament default. Whether your gathering is two families on a Tuesday evening, a small network of believers across a city, or a multiplying movement, you are walking in the original pattern.
Small Independent Local Churches
Not every Spirit-led fellowship meets in a home — and that is entirely fine. Many small, independent local churches share the same DNA as home churches: relational worship, plural leadership, sound biblical teaching, and a commitment to spiritual maturity outside heavy institutional structures.
Whether your gathering meets in a living room, a community hall, a rented storefront, a converted barn, or a small chapel in a village — we treat you the same. Your fellowship is a valid expression of the body of Christ. Our resources, encouragement, and prayer are equally available to you.
Our Mission
To strengthen and connect home churches and small independent fellowships by providing:
- Biblical teaching rooted in truth, the original languages where helpful, and the full counsel of Scripture
- Leadership support — biblical clarity on eldership, the five-fold ministry, and how Spirit-led oversight actually works in small fellowships
- Prayer and intercession — practical and supernatural — for believers, leaders, and gatherings around the world
- Resources for worship, the Lord's Supper, baptism, discipleship, and outreach
- Guidance for starting, growing, and sustaining home-based or small independent gatherings
- Encouragement through teaching, testimony, and the prophetic voice of the Spirit to His people
We honor the diversity of expression found in home churches and small fellowships. Each gathering is free to follow its own Spirit-led path. Our role is to walk beside you and with you — offering clarity, tools, and connection as you pursue the fullness of Christ.
What We Believe
We affirm the historic Christian faith — the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; the deity of Jesus Christ; His death, resurrection, and coming return; the inspiration and authority of the Scriptures; salvation by grace through faith. Within that, the convictions that shape this mission are these:
And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body.
— Ephesians 1:22 (NKJV)
Christ is the Head of the church. Not a person. Not a board. Not a denomination. Every other authority operates under Him.
The Holy Spirit leads the church. He appoints overseers, distributes gifts, sends workers, and convicts His people. A New Testament gathering learns to discern His voice corporately.
Every believer is a priest. The royal priesthood of First Peter 2:9 and Revelation 1:6 is not metaphor. Every believer in Christ has direct access to the Father, offers spiritual sacrifices, and represents God on the earth. There is no clergy/laity divide in the New Testament.
Every member ministers. First Corinthians 12:7 says the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all. The body is not 5% performing for 95%. Every joint supplies.
Local leadership is plural. The New Testament knows nothing of single-pastor congregations. Elders — also called overseers — lead together, share teaching and shepherding, and hold one another accountable.
The five-fold ministry continues. Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers (Ephesians 4:11) are graces given by Christ to the body, given for equipping the saints to do the work of ministry. They continue until the church reaches the unity of the faith and the fullness of Christ — and that has not happened yet.
The gifts of the Holy Spirit are active today. First Corinthians 12 lists them — wisdom, knowledge, faith, healing, miracles, prophecy, discernment, tongues, interpretation — and the New Testament expects them in the gathering. We do not consign them to history.
The gathering is participatory. First Corinthians 14:26 — "each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation" — is the New Testament normal, not the New Testament exception.
What We Are Not
We are not a denomination. We are not an oversight body. We are not a centralized network with authority over local fellowships. We do not appoint your elders, sign off on your decisions, certify your gatherings, or hold property. We hold no authority over you and we do not seek any.
We are a resource. We are companions. We are family.
How We Help
We help in three ways:
- Teaching — articles, studies, and longer-form biblical material that grounds your fellowship in the New Testament pattern
- Prayer — we pray for the home churches and small fellowships connected with this mission, and we encourage prayer between fellowships
- Support — practical guidance and connection for leaders, especially those navigating the challenges of leading without an institutional safety net
If you would benefit from any of this, you are welcome here.
Who We Serve, Practically
- New fellowships seeking biblical foundations and practical guidance
- Established home churches and small local churches looking for connection and clarity
- Leaders navigating growth, transition, or difficulty
- Believers exploring alternatives to heavy institutional church models
- Pastors of small congregations who want to align their fellowship with the New Testament pattern
- Mature believers who sense a call to plant or lead
The Goal
The reason any of this matters is the goal Scripture sets for the church:
Till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head — Christ — from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
— Ephesians 4:13–16 (NKJV)
A mature people, unified in faith, knit together, every part supplying, looking like Christ. That is what church organization exists for. The structures are not the point. The people becoming who Christ died to make them are the point.
Connect With Us
If you are starting a home church or small fellowship, leading one, or seeking deeper fellowship rooted in the New Testament, we invite you to walk with us.