The Need for Coaching

“All the students I brought last year to your cell church course have failed to put the teaching into practice,” the bishop’s assistant said during the last day of the church planter’s course in Nyack, New York. Robert works for the...

Answering Questions

by Mario Vega As a result of my blog on Cell Lessons for leaders, several people have asked some questions. Here are the answers: Jeff Bassett asks: when do we make available the study guide to the leaders? The lessons are published in small volumes covering an entire...

Remember the Goal

  by Steve Cordle   There are many ministries to attend to in a healthy cell-based ministry: the equipping track, coaching leaders, writing material, outreach, etc. It can be easy to get unbalanced or preoccupied with minor issues unless we keep our goal in mind: a...

Listening Ears, Hearts of Love

by Rob Campbell www.cypresscreekchurch.com Recently, a man approached me right before a Sunday A.M. Celebration service at my church.  He asked if I could spend some time with him and counsel him.  I told him I would love to get to know him, but I wasn’t real...

ADOPT, ADAPT, ABANDON

Jeff Tunnell here, filling in for Joel Comiskey who is ministering in New York. Early on in transitioning our congregation from Traditional to Cell-based structure, we confronted the issue of building a training track (equipping track for discipling new believers into...

Cell Lessons

by Mario Vega What can a leader teach? Should a leader be left on it’s own to freely teach? Or should he/she be oriented on the contents to teach? These were some of the questions I made myself when starting our cell model. This work with cells came in response of an...