Span of Care

By Steve Cordle, www.crossroadsumc.orgMost churches in the United States are small; the median size is 65. That means half of the churches have less than 65 people, half have more.Perhaps one of the reasons for this is that there is a limit to the number of people of...

Caring Like Jesus

By Daphne Kirk, www.G2gMandate.org; Twitter: daphnekirk It is comparatively easy to set up systems to care for people, create check lists and allocate responsibilities. In no way am I denigrating systems. When they work well, they are the safety net for ensuring thing...

Quivering Up

By Michelle Geoffrey, cell pastor at www.celebrationchurch.orgI remember a particular cell group in which a timid lady shared her prayer request.  As she spoke, her bottom lip quivered, and I could tell there was much more to the request than what she was saying.  The...

Body Life

By Jay Firebaugh, Director of Small Groups at New Life Church in Gahanna/ Columbus, Ohio. I still hear the words ringing in my ears from Bill Beckham when I was just a “pup” learning cell ministry: “The goal of the cell is body life.” (Imagine it being said with a...

Small Enough to Care

By Steve Cordle, www.crossroadsumc.org The Apostle Paul wrote to the Thessalonians “We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.”...