Gayle Erwin publishes Servant Quarters, a newsletter and Web site that supports home churches. He is based in Cathedral City, Calif.

Roger Thoman is a former nondenominational church pastor who has been involved in house churches since 2002 and now helps plant new ones. He says it used to be that people who attended house churches were “bitter” about their experience in traditional churches, but that now people are joining house churches for more positive reasons, […]

Don Mueller is part of a house church in Cedaredge, Colo.

Nancy Austel is a house church planter in Indiana.

David Brecheisen is part of Church in Home, a Michigan-based church planting organization, and is a church planter involved in house churches in Chicago.

Kevin Rains operates Vineyard Central, a community of house churches in the Cincinnati area. He left a Vineyard Church for a series of house churches in the 1990s. He likens the growth of house churches, and their organization into local networks without any kind of larger oversight, to the growth of the World Wide Web. He […]

Matt and Tammy Mawdsley run a house church in Springfield, Mo.

Jon Dale is an entrepreneur and father of three who left a 10,000-plus-member megachurch for house churches in 2001. He blogs at Simply Church and is located outside Colorado Springs, Colo.

Mike Dowgiewicz is part of Restoration Ministries International, a nonprofit that assists groups in forming and supporting house churches. He and his wife have traveled to Israel to research the first house churches. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colo.