The CCI team

Bill & Beryl, Founding Directors

Bill & Beryl Joukhadar have been married since 1970 and live on the Gold Coast of Australia, 60 kms South of Brisbane. They have two adult children and two grandchildren. Between May 2000 to January 2008 they served on staff at Maadi Community Church (MCC) in Cairo.

As a result of the many amazing experiences related to small groups development that they had during this period - and believing that small groups is the best way to grow God’s people, His church, and His Kingdom - they founded Cells-church Consultants International (CCI) when they returned to Australia in February, 2008.  Bill and Beryl have dedicated the rest of their working lives to forming an internationally-based team of specialist consultant-practitioners, and the development of world-class resources, that will serve churches of all denominations, world-wide, in the work of building His church through healthy small groups.

Read more about Bill & Beryl here.

Gary, UK Associate

Gary and his wife Aline partnered with Bill Joukhadar at Maadi Community Church, Cairo where Gary served as the Director of Western and Egyptian Small Groups and Aline as a trainer/coach and administration manager for the Small Groups Ministry. They left Cairo in August 2007 and now live in Llanelli, South Wales, UK, where Gary is involved in writing training materials and coordinating the training of leaders for “The Alif Project“, an interactive video course designed for small group studies and inspired by the internationally successful Alpha course. Gary’s role as an Associate Director of CCI is serving the UK and Europe, following up expressions of interest from churches concerning the development of small groups. Read more about Gary & Aline here.

Stu, Training & SG Development Strategies

We are thrilled to announce that Stu and Julie have accepted our invitation to serve the Lord on CCI’s board of directors. Stu’s role will be to help oversee the development of SGD training strategy and training resources. Stu and Julie are currently serving the Lord at Helensvale Baptist Church on the Northern end of the Gold Coast as “Life-group” Champions. They’re doing a great job! Bezzie and I are so proud of our expanding team!

You can read more about Stu & Julie here!

George, Kingdom Investments

George and Despina numbered among the many who came to the Lord through the miraculous small groups movement at Maadi Community Church in early 2000. Immediately they joined MCCs Kingdom expansion effort by undergoing small groups development training and then stepped forward in faith to facilitate a new small group. Having tasted “Christian community” at its best, George and Despina expressed delight in accepting an invitation to join CCI as associate directors, serving in the area of identifying Kingdom investors, in support of our small groups expansion work among church partners in developing countries.

Residing and working in Cairo, George and Despina are blessed with three handsome boys. They don’t come any better than George and Despina – they are “top shelf” passionate follower-servants of the Lord!

Rosemary, USA Associate, Prayer Coordinator

Rosemary is 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.

Come back soon to find out more about Rosemary!

Elijah, Africa Associate

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.  After enjoying some degree of success through applying cells principles in churches in Lagos and Ibadan, Elijah was invited by Maadi Community Church in Cairo to coordinate the development cell groups among the church’s African community in their church in 2007.

Elijah is a man of exceptional godly-character … humble, hardworking and teachable. He leads by example, and people love to follow him. He is married to Blessing, a delightful godly woman. Together they are on the pastoral team of a growing church in Lagos, Nigeria.

With the blessings of his senior pastor, Kolawole Oladimeji, and his ministry organisation, Dominion Impact Church, we are delighted that Elijah has accepted our invitation to join the CCI team as our Associate Director in Africa.

Nick, IT, Graphics, Website

Bill and Nick connected at Maadi Community Church in Cairo; first when Nick came to know Christ in 2004 but moreso when Nick began working at the Church a year later.

Read more about Nick and his family here.