What is a Micro Community? The Original Church Style!
Groups of 12(ish) people / families
Meeting together regularly to be formed as followers of Jesus.
We are rooted in the early church structure of community & John Wesley’s “Class System” which is based on journeying as disciples together by having intimate, vulnerable, & formative contact on a regular basis for interdependent transformation & movement towards health and discipleship.
how does it work?
People gathering around meals or story sharing or hanging out or watching documentaries or having discussion groups or even Bible Studies.
Micro-communities exist on an infinite spectrum of what they can be, but they usually consist of:
Regular gatherings (most meet once a month).
Formative content (story sharing, study, accountability, spiritual practices & rituals, communal acts, missional projects).
A Rule of Life (an agreement between the participants for how things work and what holds them together).
why do micro-communities exist?
We believe micros are the primary way to participate in church and is inspired by the ancient church and the Methodist movement.
Micro Communities are how we experience the ancient way of community called “koinonia”– a sacred way to belong together and sharing our lives. While they are similar to the common experience of small groups, they are different in that micros are meant to be a primary mode of participation as opposed to a supplementary mode of participation. John Wesley is famous for not allowing people to attend Sunday Morning if they were not active in a 'class meeting.' While we don't turn folks away, we aspire to uphold the priority of having a micro form of church before anything else.
Your micro-community becomes the group where faith is most challenged, practiced, and fostered.