The Intercultural Institute for Contextual Ministry conducts research, creates resources and develops training for believers to reach various types of people groups. Many of those living in multihousing live in what we call "Aspiring Communities."

This resoundingly diverse ethnic group represents the up-and-coming of American society. Living within easy reach of or within major metropolitan areas, this group enjoys careers in information, sales, administration, education, health and other service professions. As many as 60% of Aspiring Contemporaries are renting singles, many are career builders enjoying a middle income way in mid-tier management positions. Many others live the unique lifestyles offered by military and university dorm life. However, this group is also four times more likely to be unemployed. Ethnicity is extremely diverse, and a majority fall within the ages of 18 to 34 years.

Typically residents in multihousing remain unreached with the gospel. While they are geographically close to many existing churches, they are culturally distant from most of the believers within the churches. The purpose of the Missional Multihousing Task Force is to discuss ways to foster Multihousing Missionaries (lay missionaries who engage these types of communities), develop cultural understanding of these type of communities, create materials and resources for them, design training processes, foster ongoing interaction between them in peer-to-peer learning networks, and improve their implementation as they engage multhousing communities.