What is a Microchurch?
Small Gatherings. Big Impact.
At Utah Valley Church, we believe church isn’t just a building or an event—it’s people following Jesus together in everyday life. That’s why we gather in what we call microchurches.
A microchurch is a small spiritual community—usually 10 to 20 people—who meet regularly in homes, coffee shops, or around kitchen tables. Each one centers around three simple rhythms: connecting with God, building real relationships, and living on mission together.
Microchurches meet throughout the week across Utah County—some on weeknights, others on weekends, depending on what works best for each group. They’re places to share meals, open Scripture, pray for one another, and find ways to serve your neighborhood and city.
It’s church on a smaller, more personal scale—designed to fit into the rhythm of real life.
If you’ve ever longed for genuine community, meaningful faith conversations, and a way to live out your faith beyond Sunday, a microchurch is a great place to start.
Find your people. Live your faith. Be the church, right where you are.
Find us
Kort's House
1113 West 200th South, Springville, UT 84663MicroChurch
- Brian Crase
This is a midweek community gathering that functions much like a family. We share our joys and hurts, encourage one another, and serve one another. We also take time to worship through songs and encounter the Word of God together. Everyone is welcome! Your children are welcome, but childcare is not provided. ...
The Anderson Home
1708 South 2940 East, Spanish Fork, UTMicroChurch
- Matthew Anderson
This is a midweek community gathering that functions much like a family. We share our joys and hurts, encourage one another, and serve one another. We also take time to worship through songs and encounter the Word of God together. Everyone is welcome! Your children are welcome, but childcare is not provided. ...
Gudmunson Home (Salem)
195 North 400th East Street, Salem, UTMicroChurch
- Kyle Gudmunson
This is a weekly community gathering that functions much like a family. We share our joys and hurts, encourage one another, and serve one another. We also take time to encounter the Word of God together. Everyone is welcome! Your children are welcome, but childcare is not provided. ...
Kort's House
1113 West 200th South, Springville, UT 84663MicroChurch
- Brian Crase
This is a midweek community gathering that functions much like a family. We share our joys and hurts, encourage one another, and serve one another. We also take time to worship through songs and encounter the Word of God together. Everyone is welcome! Your children are welcome, but childcare is not provided. ...
The Anderson Home
1708 South 2940 East, Spanish Fork, UTMicroChurch
- Matthew Anderson
This is a midweek community gathering that functions much like a family. We share our joys and hurts, encourage one another, and serve one another. We also take time to worship through songs and encounter the Word of God together. Everyone is welcome! Your children are welcome, but childcare is not provided. ...
Gudmunson Home (Salem)
195 North 400th East Street, Salem, UTMicroChurch
- Kyle Gudmunson
This is a weekly community gathering that functions much like a family. We share our joys and hurts, encourage one another, and serve one another. We also take time to encounter the Word of God together. Everyone is welcome! Your children are welcome, but childcare is not provided. ...
This Week:
Series: Long Story Short-The Bible in Six Simple Movements
Week 3- Israel
Service Date: April 26, 2026
Welcome Prompt
Thing about a time you were chosen for something- a team, a role, a responsibility. What did it feel like? Did it change how you saw yourself or how you acted?
Opening Prayer Prompt
Invite someone to pray. Thank God for inviting us into His story. Ask Him to help us see His faithfulness clearly, and to help us recognize our place in what He’s doing. Pray for open hearts to learn and reflect.
Main Idea
God chose Israel not because they were special, but to work through them to bless the world. Their story shows both God’s faithfulness and humanity’s inability to live up to that calling, pointing us forward to the need for a better solution.
Engage the Story
Having read about Israel in God’s Story, it’s time now to engage with it yourself. Read the following passages this week, reflect upon their meaning, and be prepared to discuss them with others:
- Genesis 12:1-9
- Exodus 3
- Exodus 19-20
- 2 Samuel 7
- Isaiah 6
- Psalm 85
Discuss the Story
- The third chapter in the biblical storyline is about a rescue operation begun by God to restore shalom to his fallen creation. Yet God doesn’t go about fixing our world in the way we might expect. He doesn’t send a superhero, or a politician, or a celebrity. Instead he uses a beautiful and dysfunctional family- kind of like yours.
- Why do you think God chooses unlikely people to do his work? What benefit might this have?
- Read Genesis 12:1-2 aloud together and use it to discuss the following questions:
- What does God say that Abram’s descendants will do for the nations?
- How might this passage have implications for how we are called to serve those outside the church?
- Israel is the most commonly used name for God’s family. The name itself refers to those who wrestle with God.
- How is the name Israel a fitting title for God’s family? How does it describe their calling as a people? How does it apply to our calling?
- The chapter argues that “Jacob” was more than just a name; it was also a label. Have you ever had to deal with a negative label that was attached to you- either by others or by yourself? How so?
- Throughout the Scriptures God has a way of changing the hurtful labels associated with his children. Have you experienced this in your own life? How has God changed a hurtful label attached to you?
- Years after Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, God’s family ends up stuck as slaves in Egypt. It is here that they become a nation.
- What should the years spent in slavery have taught God’s family about how they were to treat others? Why does God constantly call them to “remember” this time (see Deuteronomy 5:15; 15:15; 16:12; 24:18)
- The chapter argues that one move toward slavery is any behavior that treats people like products. Have you experienced this in your own life? Have you ever been made to feel like a product? Have you ever treated others this way? How so?
- Take a moment to discuss the statement below:
- “Egypt’s lesson is blunt and painful. From the very beginning, God makes clear that the rescue operation can begin only when his children recognize a reality forgotten by nearly every civilization on the face of the planet: people are more than products. It is a reality forgotten by both the corporate machine and the consumer culture alike: individuals are more than goods and services! We are (all of us) more than products. And ironically, perhaps it is a reality that only former slaves can fully grasp.
- Perhaps the most important event in the Old Testament occurs when God leads his family out of Egypt, through the wilderness, and toward the promised land. It is at the beginning of this journey that God’s people receive some commands (the Ten Commandments) to guide their behavior. Unfortunately, Moses hardly has time to deliver these commands before the people knowingly break God’s covenant. Read Exodus 32:1-4 to refresh your memory of this story.
- In what ways did Israel give in to the pressure to be like the neighbors?
- In what ways do you give in to this same pressure?
- Israel’s archetypal sin was idolatry; what person or thing in your life can most easily become an idol?
- Shortly after the Israelites reject God in the wilderness, we begin to be confronted with page after page of very specific laws. Read the statement below and reflect on the questions to follow:
- “There are meticulous rules on almost everything! Some seem very strange, and it is for this reason that many Christians simply ignore these sections of the Bible. The commands seem foreign and legalistic. ‘Don’t touch this! Don’t eat this! Don’t put these two kinds of fabric together!’ The list goes on and on.”
- What is one of God’s purposes in handing down some of the most meticulous and obscure rules in the Old Testament?
- Have you ever thought of the God of the Old Testament as a kind of legalistic schoolmaster? What is wrong with this perspective?
- What does it mean to say that God used many of these commands to preserve (set apart) a culture, not to propound legalism?
- “There are meticulous rules on almost everything! Some seem very strange, and it is for this reason that many Christians simply ignore these sections of the Bible. The commands seem foreign and legalistic. ‘Don’t touch this! Don’t eat this! Don’t put these two kinds of fabric together!’ The list goes on and on.”
- Even after settling in the promised land, it becomes clear that God’s family is far from perfect. Through a succession of wicked leaders and wayward followers, the wrestlers still need rescuing. The family that was to be the bringer of God’s solution has instead become a part of the problem.
- How does this same thing happen in our own lives? How do we become a part of the problem rather than a part of the solution to sin and suffering in our world?
- The prophets were God’s megaphones to his wayward family. Read Micah 6:6-8 together and spend some time in closing this week asking God how you can become a part of the solution to the brokenness of the world around you.
Closing Prayer Prompt
Ask for prayer requests. Thank God for His faithfulness even when people fail. Ask for help to trust His grace, live as people who reflect Him to others, and rest in the hope that He is still at work.