Components of a Planning Meeting

by Mario Vega The planning meeting is designed to last one hour. In Elim Church’s case, it takes place once a week and more than two days before the cell meeting. Since this meeting’s purpose is to strengthen the cell’s meeting principles, its contents are focused on...

Cell Church Missions Network

I just got back Saturday evening from a CCMN (Cell Church Mission Network) conference in Mexico Cty. 3500 people were registered. I, Mario Vega, Ben Wong, and Edmundo Guillén spoke 4Xs each (Edmundo is senior pastor of Lluvias de Gracia, a huge cell church in...

Two Meetings per Week

by Mario Vega In response to the questions posted on this blog I must say that Elim church’s cell system has only two meetings per week. One is the planning meeting and the other one is the cell meeting itself. Last week I wrote regarding the planning meeting. The...

Antioch Community Church

On October 01, my new book Planting Churches that Reproduce: Starting a Network of Simple Churches will be available. As I’ve been preparing the last draft I’ve reflected once again at the simple nature of church planting experienced in the New Testament....

The Planning Meeting

by Mario Vega Shortly after starting our cell work we felt there was a need to add one more meeting each week. ‘Planning meeting’ was the name given to this meeting. Its original purpose was to bring together Christians from the small group to plan the...