What Price for Success?

Jeff Tunnell, pinch hitting for Steve Cordle. The recent news from El Salvador, combined with Pastor Mario Vega’s blog last Friday, has challenged my mind – and I am attempting to wrestle those thoughts down into my heart. There is a price for “success” in cell...

Community

Sometimes nothing works in my own LIFE group. You know what I’m talking about. The flow isn’t there; I’m out of touch; children act, well, like children. How wonderful when the Holy Spirit shows up and creates a sense of community that transcends...

Solidarity in Motion

by Mario Vega It was quite common listening to shootings in the city during the war. This is why, despite of it we had become accustomed to continue with our meetings. That, precisely, happened the day when the offensive began. Nobody imagined that those shootings...

Finding Solutions that Help

Criticism comes easily. Solutions are far harder. D.L. Moody once responded to his critics by saying, “I like what I’m doing better than what you’re not doing.”  One of the key thrusts of JCG is to offer solutions. We want to be a non-profit...

Testing the Model

by Mario Vega By the year of 1989, Elim church had reached a cells´ attendance that already exceeded 25,000 people. During all of this time, around eight years El Salvador had been plunged into a civil war. The military situation had reached a stagnation point and the...