Our apartment building in Maadi
Being in Egypt wasn’t my idea – I was busy planning my retirement on the Gold Coast in Australia when the Lord disturbed “my” good plans and called my wife and me to this far away desert land. What did the Lord have in mind for an old, worn out, geriatric foot-soldier like me?
Elijah Samuel latched onto cells as the best way to grow a church when he sat in on presentations of Small Groups Development, facilitated by Bill during training visits to Nigeria, in 2005 and 2007. read on
This week I was very kindly invited to write an article for my good friend Joel Comiskey’s great blog (joelcomiskeygroup.com) while one of his team members is away.
While traditional-thinking works nicely in a ministry-based church context, in a cells-based church setting it simply doesn’t work, believe me! Trying to convince traditional-thinkers that cells is the best way to grow a church (and the Kingdom of God) is like trying to convert Goliath to Judaism.
You can read the full post here
Thanks Joel for this great opportunity!
All of us at CCI are really delighted to share with you that Rosemary Kauffman has accepted our invitation to join the CCI team.
Rosemary is a rare find … she is an exceptionally passionate, committed and tenacious godly woman who does not back away from a challenge without mounting a good fight. Working through her specialist gifting, Rosemary is a harmonious and collaborative team player. She resides in Washington D.C., is married, and has four adult aged children. With extensive small groups experience in Egypt and USA, Rosemary was welcomed onto the CCI team as Associate Director USA, on June 22, 2010.
“Lord, You are our team leader. You are the One who has brought us together for a special purpose. We are so glad you have blessed us by adding to our team our dear friend and sister, Rosemary. We ask that you will fill her with Your Spirit, grant her wisdom and insight to listen and follow Your lead in this new role that she will experience more of Your goodness in her life. We expect You to do great things through Rosemary in her specialist role on our team. Create new and exciting opportunities for her within her home country. Help us to know how we can encourage and support Rosemary. Bless her and her family beyond measure. We thank You, now, for what You will do in and through Rosemary. In the Lord’s name, and for His glory, we pray. Amen.”
You will see that the CCI strategy for Small Groups Development includes 13 core principles. Over the years we have developed 40 ‘principle based’ suggestions that can be used for training or facilitating small group ministries – we’ve listed them all here for you and there’s a link for you to download them to use in your small group ministry!
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