Honoring Leaders in a Mega Church

by Mario Vega The way to honor leaders at Elim Church is a bit different because of our mega-church nature. We hold a once per year “church growth” conference which focuses on cell ministry. Unfortunately our 5,000 seat auditorium is not enough to...

Honoring Persevering Leaders

by Mario Vega In 2011 Elim Church celebrated 25 years of cell church ministry. To mark this anniversary I thought it would be a once-only occasion in which we could give recognition to those leaders who had been consistent and persistent throughout the 25 years of...

Cell Church and Denominations

by Mario Vega Elim church was born as a traditional church. It made its transition to become a cell church after its first nine years and at that time, it had a few branch churches. A year later all of the branch churches also made their transition to become cell...

Permanent and Rotating Cells

by Mario Vega At Elim we have two types of house meetings: permanent and rotating. The reality is that almost all our cells are the permanent type. That is, the cells meet at one host house in a particular neighborhood. Normally, the cells remain for years in that...

Messengers of Peace

by Mario Vega It doesn’t take long before a cell leader finds people in the cell who pretend to be clever. I’m referring to the type of people who ask questions such as: “Who was Cain’s wife?” “Did Noah get polar bears into the...