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 5- The Church
Service Date: May 10, 2026
Welcome Prompt
What’s a time when being part of a group, team, family, or community helped you become stronger, healthier, or more like who you wanted to be?
Opening Prayer Prompt
Pray that God would open hearts to hear His voice, remind the group of the purpose and beauty of the Church, and help everyone grow in unity, humility, and participation in the work of Jesus.
Main Idea
The Church is the living body of Christ, empowered by the Holy Spirit to continue the work of Jesus in the world. God breathes life into His people so they can bring hope, restoration, and the presence of Jesus into spiritually dry places.
Engage the Story
Having read about the church 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:
- Acts 2 (Pentecost)
- Acts 10 (A Gentile Pentecost)
- Romans 5-6; Hebrews 11 (Salvation by grace, through faith)
- Galatians 5:16-6:11; I John 2:28-3:24 (Living by the Spirit)
Discuss the Story
- One of the most astonishing twists in God’s drama involves the way in which the early Christians came to believe that Jesus really was with them in all that they were doing.
- What event led to this belief that Jesus was working in and through the first Christians after the ascension?
- Discuss the following statement:
- “According to the early Jesus-followers, the church’s chapter began at the moment when God exhaled his Spirit from the resurrected body of Jesus into the sin-scarred bodies of people like you and me. It was a kind of divine CPR, and the effects were tangible. People were changed; they said it was this Breath (God’s oxygen inside them) that enabled broken individuals- racists, cowards, and thieves- to begin to speak and live in ways that actually made the world a more beautiful place.”
- In what ways have you experienced the Holy Spirit transforming your heart and mind throughout your life? Be specific.
- “According to the early Jesus-followers, the church’s chapter began at the moment when God exhaled his Spirit from the resurrected body of Jesus into the sin-scarred bodies of people like you and me. It was a kind of divine CPR, and the effects were tangible. People were changed; they said it was this Breath (God’s oxygen inside them) that enabled broken individuals- racists, cowards, and thieves- to begin to speak and live in ways that actually made the world a more beautiful place.”
- Read Acts 2:1-11 and then discuss the following questions:
- When God’s Spirit came, the disciples suddenly found themselves communicating the Jesus-message meaningfully with people who were very different from them. Discuss a time when you were able to communicate the Jesus-message to someone who normally would not be receptive to it. When did someone do this for you?
- The writer makes the point that, in many cases, as we spend more time within the Christian subculture, we lose our ability to speak meaningfully (in a language that can be understood) to individuals outside the church. Why do you think this is? Have you seen it in your own life? How might it be avoided?
- It could be argued that one of the few universal languages is the language of compassion. The early Christians spoke the language regularly through acts of love and service to the marginalized. How might you and your group begin to speak the universal language of compassion to those who need it most?
- For the early church, the primary growing pain involved a difficult question: Would Christianity be open to all comers or would it remain the private property of a select few? Would the Jesus revolution remain a race-and-tribe-based club or would it grow into the fulfillment of God’s promise to Abraham that all nations would be blessed?
- Why do you think this decision was the most important issue facing the early Jesus-followers?
- What did the early Christians decide would be the only step (acted out by baptism) that made one part of God’s new family?
- Why was it so important that the Christian community be open to all?
- Discuss the following statement:
- “In the chapter on God’s Old Testament family Israel, we made the case that Yahweh handed down some religious laws for a rather subversive reason. He gave them in order to preserve his people culturally even as they refused to stand out morally. It was by this creative tactic that God would sustain his family until Someone came along to live out the heart of the commandments. Quite simply, Jesus filled that role.
- Why do some Old Testament commands no longer apply to us?
- Describe these older laws with regard to the analogy of sailing ships used to help travelers across the ocean.
- What are some legalistic requirements that Christians today attempt to make central, even when they have little or nothing to do with Scripture?
- “In the chapter on God’s Old Testament family Israel, we made the case that Yahweh handed down some religious laws for a rather subversive reason. He gave them in order to preserve his people culturally even as they refused to stand out morally. It was by this creative tactic that God would sustain his family until Someone came along to live out the heart of the commandments. Quite simply, Jesus filled that role.
- Recall the analogy of the unfinished (Shakespearian) play and discuss the following questions:
- How does the analogy highlight the mission of the church as we tell God’s ongoing Story through our lives and actions?
- An actor uses his or her body (Latin: corpus) to draw others into a story. How doe this relate to the church’s mission to be a body (corpus) that draws the world into God’s Story?
- In the next weeks and months, what can you and your friends begin to do that will reveal God’s good news of grace to those who need to hear it most? How can you be the church? Be specific.
Closing Prayer Prompt
Take prayer requests. Pray that the group would not live isolated lives, but would become people who embody Jesus together through service, community, and love. Ask God to use His Church as a channel of living water that brings life and restoration wherever it goes.