Supporting Your Leaders

By Michael Sove Over the years I have learned how important it is to support your leaders by providing care and giving them a place to come for advice as it relates to dealing with difficult people. The typical leader can deal with most situations that arise in their...

The Role of the Supervisor in Counseling

One myth in the cell church is that cell groups fulfill all the needs. A slight variation to that myth is that the cell leader–as opposed to the cell group–is responsible to fulfill all the counseling needs, pastoral duties, relational interaction,...

Group Counseling

When we think of “counseling” we often picture a person sitting or lying on a couch answering questions from a professional psychologist. Cell ministry, on the other hand, promotes group healing. Yes, individual counseling might be needed in some...

Counseling in the Cell Church

by Joel Comiskey Cell groups often bring needy people to the surface. Carl George in his 1991 book, Prepare Your Church for the Future, coined the term “EGR” (Extra Grace Required) to refer to people who have special emotional needs and cause problems in...

Mending the Nets as a Team

by Joel Comiskey As a teenager, I would go to Enseñada, Mexico once or twice a year with my family. We would camp right on Estero Beach and sleep in my parent’s tent trailer. My brother Jay and I would walk down the beach to a rock jetty and fish most of the...