Strategic Kingdom Networking

By Andrew Mason, Executive Pastor at Real Life Church, www.enjoyreallife.com and Founder at www.SmallGroupChurches.com Having a specific strategy when it comes to networking can immediately add value to our kingdom assignment. Without a strategy, though, you could...

Three Realities for Lead Pastors and Cell Groups

By Andrew Mason, associate pastor at Real Life Church, www.enjoyreallife.com It is a pleasant fiction to think that a cell group ministry can soar in a church by delegating all of the responsibility to an Associate Pastor. A similar line of reasoning would contend...

Youth Cells: A Safe Place to Believe and Belong

Andrew Miller, youth pastor at Crossroads Church, www.crossroadsumc.org My friend Tim has been a volunteer leader for a teenage boys small group for more than 6 years.  When his boys were in middle school, I remember his frustration that they were not reading their...

A Structure of CARE (part 2)

By Andrew Mason Cell Coaching is not a leadership pyramid scheme; rather, it is a structure of CARE. Last week I covered the C of CARE (cover in prayer). This week I want to look at A,R, & E: A – Ask, “How are you really doing?” Proverbs 27:23 says, “Be...