The Four Stages of Team Development

By Rob Campbell, www.cypresscreekchurch.com Author Rick Love formulated these ideas on team development.  I thought they might be helpful to this blog community.  I believe the four stages can apply to a team and a cell. Here’s a synopsis of Rick’s ideas.  There are...

What Do You Need to Improve?

By Joel Comiskey and Jim Egli, new book, Groups that Thrive One of our principal goals in our new book “Groups that Thrive” is to help churches find their weakest link and then work on that weak spot. Why? Because we know that thriving small groups are balanced and...

The Bucket Brigade

By Jeff Tunnell The stream was increasing its flow as a result of the recent rains.  The little boy had gathered up all of his play buckets and gone down to the banks to bail the water that was threatening his neighborhood play area.  All alone, he was no match for...

Catching a Vision for Coaching

By Joel Comiskey, check out  coaching  Life is in the fast-lane for pastors and leadership teams. So many things demand the pastor’s attention:  spouse, children, weekly sermons, counseling, funerals, marriages, buildings, programs, and so forth. The next Sunday...