Gathering the Cells to Celebrate

by | Nov 16, 2008 | Cell Church Ministry

We at Wellspring have been meeting in weekly celebrations for the past couple weeks. Meeting in weekly cells and weekly celebrations have many benefits, such as more ways to reach people and regularity in seeing the rest of the church. There are also weaknesses, such...

No Glory, No Control, and No Empires

by | Nov 9, 2008 | Cell Church Ministry

I’ve spent the last week in Hong Kong at the CCMN conference. CCMN stands for Cell Church Mission Network. Ben Wong, the founder of Shepherd Community   Grace Church (a cell church of 1700 members in Hong Kong), sensed God was showing him to freely share...

Making new “guests”

by | Nov 7, 2008 | Cell Church Ministry

by Mario Vega Common sense tells us that a guest can not be “made.” People are simply there, and you either invite them or don’t invite them to a cell meeting. However, in Elim we emphasize to our leaders that guests are not just there; we have to make...

Cell Church Growth Factors

by | Nov 2, 2008 | Cell Church Ministry

Last week I was talking to Jeff Barbiera, founder and lead pastor of Grace Christian Church in Howell, New Jersey. Jeff was born and raised in the area, and he remembers as a kid when all the neighbors went to church on Sunday. “Now it’s a ghost...

Growth Depends on the Soil

by | Oct 26, 2008 | Cell Church Ministry

Someone who is planting a cell church in a very resistant area wrote me recently saying, “It is a bit discouraging to hear churches in North, Central & South America or Asian countries that are developing in great numbers, when in a postmodern context it is...