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.

Marshall Entrekin runs a house church in Kennesaw, Ga.

Mike and Christie Indest run Fellowship of Believers, a house church organization in Folsom, La., and a weekly radio show on the subject.

Mike Morrell, with Philip Scriber, is a member of a network of house churches in the Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area. Together, they maintain Sites Unseen, a website dedicated to emerging church.

Joseph Cartwright is the founder of Awakening Church, a ministry dedicated to planting and supporting house churches. He is author of Poor In Spirit: One Man’s Journey Into Kingdom Simplicity and Telling The Truth:  Gleanings From A Serial Church Planter (Joseph Cartwright, 2011).

Stephanie Bennett writes about the home church/simple church movement for the webzine Relational Christianity and for AOL Hometown. She lives in Brick, N.J.

Mark Schwartz is a Associate Professor at York University who specializes in Business ethics.