The Twelve Tribes, formerly known as the Vine Christian Community Church, the Northeast Kingdom Community Church, the Messianic Communities, and the Community Apostolic Order, is a cult and new religious movement. It was founded by Gene Spriggs and it sprang out of the Jesus movement in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1972. The group calls itself an attempt to recreate the 1st-century church as it is described in the Book of Acts.