Coaching Structures

by Joel Comiskey Just like the skeleton holds together the human body, a coaching structure gives substance to the supervision of the cell groups. Even though the coaching structure is not as important as the content of coaching, it does have it’s place. Most...

The Coach as Servant

by Joel Comiskey What is the essence of coaching? If you had to sum up coaching in one word, what would it be? Which word would you choose? I’d choose the word servanthood. It seems to me that the bedrock foundation for coaching is servanthood. The coach is the...

Why Coaching is so Critical in Cell Ministry

by Joel Comiskey We’ve all heard the old saying that you have to fail at least three times in cell ministry to get it right. One of my failures was in a church plant in downtown Long Beach from 1983-1989. We started in a home and launched various cell groups in...

Our Experience of Transitioning to Cell Church

by Richard Houle I have been a pastor/teacher for thirty-five years now. After serving two churches over a period of nineteen years, I came to the conclusion that something was missing in the way we were doing things: we had almost no discipleship training and most of...

NO is a Blessed Word in Cell Ministry

by Joel Comiskey I came in contact with one “cell church” several years ago that was adding programs in the name of “strenthening the cell ministry.” The pastor was simply unaware of the danger of mixing cells and programs. In one sense,...