Coaching Keeps the Cell System Healthy

by Mario Vega A prominent evangelist said: “It costs 10% of effort to bring a person to Christ and 90% of effort to keep him in Christ.” This principle also applies to leadership. It’s a lot of work to develop a member into a leader, but it is even...

Three steps for transitioning and integration

by Mario Vega Pastor Roberto Lay, who runs an excellent instruction program on the cell model in Brazil, sums up the issue of transition and integration in a way that, up to now, I think is the most clear and practical. For Roberto Lay three steps should lead to...

Integration: Looking Back 25 Years Later

by Mario Vega When talking about integration, it is usually done from the perspective of a church that is making its transition to become a cell church. This is not the case at Elim. Next year we will celebrate 25 years since making the transition to cell church...

Benefits of the Cell-based Church

by Mario Vega The main reason to make cells the base of the church is because the model of large and small meetings is the one that appears in the New Testament as a basic characteristic of the church. We have developed this subject before, and for now it is not...