Adapting Good Resources to Your Setting

by | Sep 29, 2010 | Uncategorized

By Michael Sove As I said in a previous post, people need to be trained to facilitate the cell gathering as well as learn the habits that will make the difference, if practiced, between cell gatherings.  The two resources I use to accomplish this are Lead by Joel...

Training Outside the Classroom

by | Sep 23, 2010 | Uncategorized

By Michael Sove Over the last 15 years I have used many different approaches to cell leader training.  Let me share with you some of those approaches and what I have learned through the process. The first time I took people through training I held 8 weeks of...

Trained for What?

by | Sep 15, 2010 | Uncategorized

By Michael Sove Leading a cell is far more than opening your home or showing up at someone else’s and facilitating a lesson.  Leading a cell is first of all a calling and requires great intimacy with God.  This is not something learned in a classroom but in those...

You’ll Never Have Enough

by | Sep 8, 2010 | Uncategorized

By Michael Sove The one thing you’ll never be able to say, “I have enough leaders.”  No sooner do you think you have enough and a leader will receive a job transfer and move, another leader will quit without warning, and some will go through a season of personal...

Everyone Needs a Coach

by | Sep 1, 2010 | Uncategorized

by Michael Sove I have experienced the truth of what Jim Egli’s research says about the importance of a coach to the overall health of a cell/small group ministry. He says, “My research involved 3000 small groups in 200 churches.  The findings clearly...