A cease and desist letter was sent to a house church in Rogers, Minn., after a complaint was allegedly filed by a neighbor about the Sunday morning gatherings.

“Please cease operations as a place of assembly immediately. Should operations continue, you may be subject to citations or fines,” says a letter sent to the homeowners by Rogers Community Development Director Brett Angell.

The letter explains that zoning ordinances require religious assembly to be a “principal use” of a property, not an “accessory use.”

In Rogers city code, religious assembly is defined as: “A building, together with its accessory buildings and uses, where persons regularly assemble for religious worship and which building, together with its accessory buildings and uses, is maintained and controlled by a religious body organized to sustain public worship.”