A second type is the ethnic-cultural church. Typically this is a much smaller congregation. Its draw is a common heritage which is affirmed within the group. Examples include Native American, Southeast Asian, Haitian, and African-American. This congregation identifies a group of persons who need a ministry and provides it.
Examples are the mentally handicapped, the hungry and homeless, senior adults, and the deaf.
The fourth emerging form of congregation networks through vocation. It focuses on the health-care workers, artists, transportation workers, or financial industry employees, for example, from across the city. The network not only provides for recruitment of members but the common base can give focus to Bible study and worship. I present these thoughts here for you to consider, critique, refine, and hopefully apply in your setting. This term reflects national policy in the 19th century which called for settling our land in six-mile communities.