Green Valley Guide to Church at Home

Church is more than a building. We can do church together at home. As restrictions loosen, invite over a few guests and watch Green Valley at Home Together. What does the Bible say about Church at Home?

Below is a quick guide with everything that you need to host church in your home or you can download a printable version.

INVITE YOUR FRIENDS!

  • Gather with friends, family, neighbors, or your small group

  • Please follow your local CDC guidelines for hosting gatherings or cook-outs

PREPARE YOUR HOME

  • Make sure there's a seat for everyone

PREPARE YOUR TECH

  • Use any smart device that can access YouTube (we recommend your smart TV, Apple TV, Roku, or Amazon Fire Stick}

  • Search for Green Valley Community Church on YouTube

  • Prefer to watch from your computer? Watch on live.greenvalley.church

  • Services play live Sundays at 9 & 11 AM

  • For kids, something as simple as an iPad is great. Check out our Green Valley Community Church Kids Place YouTube for Preschool and Elementary Kids videos

WELCOME YOUR FRIENDS

  • Greet everyone warmly

  • Serve some snacks

  • Help people feel comfortable

ENJOY GREEN VALLEY AT HOME TOGETHER!

  • Begin whenever you're ready. You're on your own time schedule. If you are on your computer and would like to chat live, join us Sunday at 9 & 11 AM.

  • Encourage everyone to participate (sing along with worship and pray as a group)

  • Use the on-screen discussion question(s} with your friends after the online service concludes

  • We’d love to see what you are doing! Post a picture or video of your church at home group and tag us (FB - @greenvalley IG - @greenvalleycc – if you post a story on IG, we may share it on our IG story!

If you have any questions about Church at Home, please send us an email

Church at home

What does the Bible Say about Church at Home

 

Matthew 18:20 

For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.

 Acts 2:2 

And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.

 Acts 2:42 

And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

 Acts 2:46 

And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts…

 Acts 5:42 

And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.

 Acts 10:2

a devout man who feared God with all his household gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God.

 Acts 12:12

When he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose other name was Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.

 Acts 16:32

And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house.

 Acts 20:20 

How I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house…

1 Corinthians 16:19 

The churches of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord.

Romans 16:5 

Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia.

Colossians 4:15 

Give my greetings to the brothers at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house.

Romans 16:1-27 

I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae, that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well. Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well. Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia.

1 Corinthians 14:26 

What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.

1 Corinthians 16:19

The churches of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord.

Colossians 4:15

Give my greetings to the brothers at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house.

Philemon 1:2 

And Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house…