The Urban Portland Pastor's prayer gathering has been meeting at Central Church of Christ, 5231 SE Stark from 7 AM to 9 AM with many of the pastors going to a coffee shop afterwards for fellowship.  The group has been meeting since the first prayer summit in 1990, although several have been praying together since 1985.  The group usually changes their meeting location once a year after the prayer summit, but this year they opted to remain at Central.  There are regularly about 10 - 15 in attendance.  The group is a mix of traditional church pastors as well as ministers in para-church and house church ministry.

A group of pastors and leaders from the Northeast part of town have been meeting for nearly three years.  They rotate among various churches every month, including St. Matthews Episcopal, Faith Lutheran, and Central Evangelical.  The group is presently meeting at Central Evangelical located at 4927 NE 55th Ave.  The group has been exploring ways to enter in join ministry and are making plans to co-sponsor vacation bible schools this summer and participate in a multi-congregation celebration gatherings.

HOME CHURCHES  There is an expanding network of home-based churches in the Portland area.  These groups are relational in nature and do not come under any particular denominational umbrella.  Presently, there are churches of this type in Northeast Portland, Southeast Portland, Gresham, Vancouver, inner Southeast Portland, Forest Grove, and elsewhere.  These are not church-based cell groups or bible studies, but functionally autonomous, voluntarily interdependent small group congregations many of which are relating through SURGE (Small, Unique, Reproducible, Group Enterprises) a loosely structured forum which is based at Western Seminary.  There are developing networks of such churches across the country, with hubs of home church activity in Denver, Colorado Springs (CO) Brandon, (FL), Salem (MA), Long Beach, Riverside (CA), Austin, Kileen (TX), Tuscon, Phoenix (AZ), Portal (GA), and the Puget Sound area to name a few.  These networks are beginning to develop communication webs among them and indicate a rapidly developing movement.  DAWN Ministries of Colorado Springs is lending coordinating and logistical support to the nationwide network.