Coaches Really Help

by Jeff Tunnell The conversation went like this, “I am a bit discouraged in this area as it relates to our cell leaders.  Little effective coaching is occurring and the results are obvious; maintenance is the order of the day for our cells that have no real enthusiasm...

Why Coaching is so Critical in Cell Ministry

by Joel Comiskey We’ve all heard the old saying that you have to fail at least three times in cell ministry to get it right. One of my failures was in a church plant in downtown Long Beach from 1983-1989. We started in a home and launched various cell groups in...

Our Experience of Transitioning to Cell Church

by Richard Houle I have been a pastor/teacher for thirty-five years now. After serving two churches over a period of nineteen years, I came to the conclusion that something was missing in the way we were doing things: we had almost no discipleship training and most of...

Focusing on the Task at Hand

By Michael Sove Nehemiah gives us an example of focused ministry, sticking to the task at hand. Neh 6:3-4  “So I sent messengers to them with this answer: “I am doing a great work, and I can’t come down. I don’t want the work to stop while I...