Reaching “Good People”

By Mario Vega, www.elim.org.sv Emma was a lady whom I met in my first months of ministry. She was a person dedicated to serving others. She belonged to several humanitarian foundations and very often was involved in activities to help hurting people. She was well...

Saved from the Abyss of Alcoholism

By Mario Vega, www.elim.org.sv Jorge was an alcoholic.  His problem was so severe that he had been hospitalized several times. When he was at home, recovering from a recent crisis in his health, one of his neighbors visited him to greet him and invite him to a nearby...

Connected to the Cell Church Network

By Mario Vega, www.elim.org.sv What would I do differently if I could go back to the past and start cell ministry again? This has been the question that has guided the blogs I have written for the last month. In them, I have described the things we started doing wrong...

Discipleship: Heart of Cell Ministry

By Mario Vega, www.elim.org.sv When starting our work with cells in the Elim church, the fundamental motivation was numerical growth. That emphasis led to some problems: in order to constant numerical growth, we sacrificed key cell principles. One of them was to make...

The Gifts of the Spirit in the Cell Group

By Mario Vega, www.elim.org.sv When the Elim church began to work with cells, the decision was made that the gifts of the Holy Spirit would not be allowed in the houses, unless there was a pastor present. The reason for that decision had to do with the way the service...