Around The Coffee Table

For Six years now, I have facilitated a home group, a believers meeting in my home. After attending home meetings for a number of years, it became clear, we, my husband and I should plant one in our home. First we, followed the model we learned through an Anaheim Vineyard Home Group, subsequently a second AV home group purposed to train future home group leaders. After six years of hosting a midweek home group, we have moved into planting a house church, one that seeks to stay in the home, free from supporting a lease or mortgage on a building, used only a handful of hours a week. Instead, giving is sent to the poor, maybe a neighbor in need, or a missionary we know personally. The Well's house church is purposed to be missional. Grow. But grow differently. We feel called to train up and send out leaders to plant house churches. Hence, the plural nature of our house church name, The Well's. So here we are as a group, leaning on Holy Spirit, as God made clear we should, to hear, learn and practice, doing church around a coffee table. Our fellowship time begins with worship, which includes intercession for any number of topics as Holy Spirit guides. We transition into a time of waiting on the Lord. Then the group shares what scripture God has been speaking to them about, or maybe a testimony, a God story from the past week. Then we transition into praying for one another as needs are explained. We conclude with a pot-luck meal. Family time, church family time. Get to know you more time. This is where friendships and community develops in the group. So begins the journey. We will see a year from now what the morning looks like.