home group

Small faith gathering

A home group is a small, regular gathering of people from a larger organization who meet in someone's home.

The term appears most often in religious contexts—churches divide into home groups for Bible study, prayer, and fellowship: Our home group meets on Tuesday nights.

Similar gatherings exist in recovery programs like Alcoholics Anonymous, where a home group is the meeting a member attends most regularly and considers their primary community.

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worship gathering size and formality

home groupSunday service

Weekly Christian worship gathering

worship service · church service · corporate worship · public worship · mass

network complexity and scope

home grouppublic network

guest network · workgroup

intimacy/scale of community

home groupmass gathering

Large crowd assembled together

general assembly · public meeting

Family

home, group, homes, homed, homing, homely, homeland, homeward, homeless

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Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G