Evangelism and Cell Work

by Mario Vega When the early church met in houses it won the favor of the people and every day new believers were added (Acts 2:47). The presence of believers meeting house to house had a powerful impact in the expansion of the gospel. The early church didn’t...

Beggars and Bread

Jeff Tunnell Evangelism has been described as “one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread”.  It isn’t hard, but the first beggar has to possess two qualities: unselfishness & an overflowing joy in the reality of being fed.  In the cell...

Cell Evangelism

by Joel Comiskey I was recently in a mega church in southern Califorina which had positioned their cells for community. As I spoke to the senior staff, I told them they were aiming too low. While I applauded their emphasis on community, I reminded them that true...

Adapting Good Resources to Your Setting

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...

How Elim Developed Training Material

by Mario Vega For a long time, our leader’s training course was too simple. There were only four lessons that we taught in four weeks. When we realized that cell ministry is a leadership strategy, we started looking for a better way to train our leaders. We...

Adopt, Adapt, Abandon

Jeff Tunnell Developing our training track has been a training process in itself.  At the onset of transitioning to cell-based ministry we adopted the baseball diamond materials from Bethany Cell Church Network.   We did not yet understand the changing nature of a...