Kansas City, Missouri | 100 Microchurches Strong and Still Growing
In Kansas City, KC Underground has a whopping 100 microchurches in all different pockets of the city, from high schools, to jails, to suburban neighborhoods. They also have 11 hubs—teams that are equipping and coaching everyday disciplemakers to start and sustain these microchurches. There are Discovery Bible Studies taking place all over the city, including 20-30 in local high schools, all led by high school students who have been trained as disciplemakers.
Cory, a Novo staff member who helped to form KC Underground, runs one of these microchurches in his own home. When their oldest child began kindergarten, he and his wife recognized that they were now a natural part of a network of people who weren’t following Christ. They began to intentionally prayer-walk, initiate spiritual conversations, and host community-forming events like a parents’ softball league in this network. Eventually three families began to meet together on Sundays in their home to learn about Jesus, and that has now grown to eight. Few of these families had an active relationship with Christ beforehand. Cory and his wife Suz have been faithfully ministering and loving these families through real difficulties, and seen God miraculously answering prayers and bringing real transformation to tough situations in their friends’ lives.
