Lumen chapters
Do you want your own church — and a family behind it?
Start a chapter. Gather your people — in a living room, a rented hall, or online — as an official congregation of Lumen Church, with our name, our covenant, our platform, and a founding pastor who picks up the phone. License your chapter today.
Application is free · License $200.00/year
Apply
Tell us about you, your city, and the congregation you want to gather. Ordained Lumen ministers only — ordination is free if you're not there yet.
Conversation
A video call with the founding pastor about the Lumen principles, the chapter covenant, and your plan. Most applications are answered within a week.
License
Once approved, activate your annual license. Your chapter page and giving page go live, you get a referral code with a ministry wallet (20% on every order you refer), and you're enrolled in the Chapter Leader Training.
What a chapter gets
- ✦Use of the name 'Lumen Church — [Your City]' and the Lumen mark
- ✦Chapter page, giving page and listing at thelumenchurch.com/chapters
- ✦Referral code and ministry wallet — 20% of every order your chapter refers, paid monthly
- ✦Chapter Leader Training (four lessons) — leader enrolled on activation
- ✦Chapter leader enrolled in the Licensed Minister track (course, interview, background check included)
- ✦Service, ceremony, and governance templates
- ✦Quarterly chapter leaders' gathering (online)
- ✦License number and digital Chapter Charter issued on activation
- ✦Renews annually
What we ask
- ✦An active Lumen ordination and the Licensed Minister track (we enroll you)
- ✦Live the Principles: interfaith, spirituality over indoctrination, everyone welcome
- ✦Sign the chapter covenant and code of conduct; keep clean records
- ✦Use the Lumen name only for the chapter — your own entity holds its own money and liability
- ✦Renew the license each year
Packages for chapters
Available to approved chapter leaders in the member store.
Everything to open your doors: the annual license plus the Chapter Starter Kit, with $20 off. The most common way new chapters start.
The physical presence of a real congregation from the first gathering — charter on the wall, banner at the door, cards in people's hands.
What banks, landlords, and venues ask for: a notarized letter from Lumen Church, Inc. confirming your chapter is licensed and in good standing, with your charter. Mailed, plus a PDF the same day.
Ordain your leadership team and put real credentials in their hands. Five Ordination Kits for ministers in your chapter — $46 less than buying them one by one.
A second banner for events plus two yard signs for the street — so people find the door.
Four private video sessions with Rev. Dr. Jonathan A. Rodriguez to launch and grow your chapter: first service, gathering people, finances and records, and the questions that only come up once you've started.