Ken Cluck left traditional pastoral ministry to plant house churches. He runs a house church in Orofino, Idaho.

Frank Smith is the founder of Crushed Grapes Ministry, a church planting ministry that helps people start home churches. He lives in Vista, Calif.

Rick Horton is the lead pastor and elder of Matthew’s House, a network of Southern California house churches based in Oceanside, Calif.

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, […]

Read a June 25, 2013 Huffington Post article about the growing popularity of ‘house churches’ in the U.S.

Church Multiplication Associates is a nondenominational organization that promotes the “voluntary association of a multiplicity of expanding networks” They held their first Organic Church Movement Conference in Long Beach, Calif., in January 2007.

The National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, based in Sacramento, Calif., represents Hispanic evangelicals in the U.S. Samuel Rodriguez is founder and president.

Sister Ana María Pineda teaches Hispanic theology, spirituality and ministry at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, Calif. Her interests include women’s issues and pastoral issues. She co-edited Dialogue Rejoined: Theology and Ministry in the U.S. Hispanic Reality (The Liturgical Press, 1995).