Why Plant Churches?

By Pastor Rob Campbell, www.cypresscreekchurch.com Jesus says to go and make disciples of all the nations. One way to fulfill Jesus’ command is through establishing local churches, as shown in the New Testament. Peter Wagner, missiologist, former church planter, and...

Planting Hurdles

By Steve Cordle, www.crossroadsumc.org By Steve Cordle Just as multiplication is to be the goal of every healthy cell, multiplying a new church is to be the goal for every healthy church. No single church, no matter how effective and large, can reach a whole city....

Planting Cell Churches

by Joel Comiskey is at the heart of the great commission and also drives cell ministry (Matthew 28:18-20). When Jesus told his disciples to make new groups of disciples, he was implying that new local churches would be established and not that one local church would...

You Can Transition. It Can Be Done

By Robert Lay, www.celulas.com.br There are many  ways  to transition a program based church to a cell church. But it is very important to observe three steps to take in this process. They are: “ADD, ADAPT, and CUT”. To start the transition, after all preparation,...

The Benefits of the Transition

by Mario Vega, www.elim.org.sv One of the main motivations for pastors to make the transition to the cell model is to achieve church growth. From this point of view, the transition would be a way to further growth in numbers and would be judged by whether the church...

Take The Counsel Seriously

Pastor Bill Mellinger, Crestline First Baptist;  www.crestlinefbc.com When we started the transition of our sixty-five-year-old church, Joel Comiskey asked me how fast I wanted to proceed. I told him, “I am a fast tracker. I am a church planter; an innovator and I...