Supporting Your Leaders

By Michael Sove Over the years I have learned how important it is to support your leaders by providing care and giving them a place to come for advice as it relates to dealing with difficult people. The typical leader can deal with most situations that arise in their...

Trauma Recovery

Part Three, excerpted from “The Life Model”, printed by Shepherd’s House, Inc., Pasadena, California, USA. “Recovering from traumas is often difficult, but cannot be ignored. It often takes some focused work, guided by people who have been trained and are experienced....

The Role of the Supervisor in Counseling

One myth in the cell church is that cell groups fulfill all the needs. A slight variation to that myth is that the cell leader–as opposed to the cell group–is responsible to fulfill all the counseling needs, pastoral duties, relational interaction,...

Natural Counseling in the Cell Group

by Mario Vega At the end of one of our initial youth cell meetings, a group of teenagers lingered afterwards for deeper fellowship. One young man asked another to share about his dating relationship, since this particular young man was the only one in the group who...