Gatherings: We strive to avoid growing into a centralized large gathering that demands big facilities, high production and stage management, and then requires professional-level communicators. (To be clear, we still do some big gatherings and aim for excellence and fun too). But our goal is small gatherings that take place any day, any time, at any type of location. Gatherings meet at homes, parks, gyms, offices, coffeehouses, or areas of outreach focus.

Discipleship: We strive to avoid giving people the answers and making them dependent on us as leaders. Instead, our goal is to help each person go from beginner to proficient in their faith—becoming self-sustaining, naturally missional, and critical thinking. We help people learn through discovery, not lecture. We work to help believers grow in learning to abide with Jesus, knowing him, and learning how to make him known. We believe full-circle/mature discipleship means you’ll live a life of intentional disciple-making, escaping the American temptation of the knowledge acquisition loop.

Financials: We strive to avoid a cumbersome budget, removing the burdens of facilities, full-time staff, and the normal costs to compete in modern-day growing churches. Instead, our first goal is to see the majority of each person’s kingdom funds go to local outreach and frontier missions. Our next goal is to have a lean and simple budget, running with a small team of volunteers, bi-vocational or part-time staff, with little to no office space or facilities, and using our funds for strategic investments into resourcing movement growth.

Leadership: We strive to avoid being centrally led by one person. (Albeit, this is hard in the beginnings). Instead, our long-term leadership goal is a movement led through two tiers of executive teams: Our Elder Team & Our Operations Team. The Elder Team focuses on local movements within the micro-churches, and the Operations Team focuses on expanding resources, planting, and support of our Associate and Executive Elders.

Our Risk Approach: We strive to avoid a culture of control. Instead, our bias is towards low-control and high accountability. Meaning, if a group has a wild idea of how they want to explore doing church and mission, our goal is to find a way within our parameters to lean towards yes, to see obedience as more important than success. We’re okay with messy developments while pursuing accountability around character.