How do you define church?

I was pondering this morning what exactly defines a church. I have been feeling a bit disconnected at our home church, although we have attended several years. I have been encouraging myself to get more involved and attend more activities but sometimes all that "more" just make me feel stretched so thin. I was trying to define what it is I feel like I am missing and really it boils down to relationships and shared lives with people who hold the same core values and beliefs that I do. Which led me to the question of how to define church. I spend 40+ hours a week with a small congregation of people who share one another's burdens, pray for one another, cry on each other's shoulders, encourage my faith, minister to the poor, pray for deliverance, and prophesy. We've even been known to break bread together and share what we have to meet one another's needs. We do all this as we fulfill with excellence our roles as teachers, administrators, and servers of all kinds. Now granted, we rarely pray together or study the word together and those are both things I require to keep my soul from shriveling up. So while I don't intend on giving up church membership because of a great workplace, maybe many of us should remember to appreciate and recognize the community of faith we are privleged to be a part of each and every day. What a blessed woman I am!