The Importance of Persistence

by Mario Vega, https://www.elim.org.sv/ At the Elim church, we tried at least three times to implement the cell model. The initial efforts failed, and we didn’t know why. I reread Pastor Cho’s books in my quest to find the missing keys. As I carefully...

Our First Failures

by Mario Vega, https://www.elim.org.sv/ In 1982 Pastor Cho’s book The Fourth Dimension, started arriving in El Salvador. Shortly after, the book Home Cell Groups and Church Growth came. Through those books we learned that there was an extraordinary large church...

Finding Your Own Model

by Mario Vega, https://www.elim.org.sv/ Quite frequently, other churches invite me to teach on cell ministry. I always enjoy it when the participants ask questions. But sometimes, I notice that the questions focus on the details of how things are done in Elim. When I...

Delegation in the Cell Church

by Mario Vega, https://www.elim.org.sv/ One of the characteristics of cell churches is that they have a pastor who knows how to delegate. If the purpose of the pastor is “to equip his people for works of service” (Eph. 4:12), there is no better environment to fulfill...

The Cell Movement is Based on the New Testament

by Mario Vega, https://www.elim.org.sv/ As in the past, today the church lives during a time period when several movements envelop it. Some of them are biblical and true whole others do not have true biblical roots and raise suspicions in people who are not swayed by...