THE. S.O.S. FIELDWORK ACTION STEPS
 CONGREGATE: The Cell Group or House Church

Using the Cell Group System or House Church Approach for Church Planting

  1. An important specific of the S.O.S. goal is the formation of contacts and converts into small groups. Efforts towards this must be done as early as possible.

  2. This year, 2000, this effort has been defined as the formation of cell groups, in contrast to Bible Study Groups done in the previous years.

  3. Lecture type Bible studies will be replaced by interactive, discovery type, sharing in small group setting. Consequently, lessons that are designed for this are available.

  4. The S.O.S. volunteers, especially the LIFERS will serve as mentor cell leaders of the small groups. A local cell leader will have on the job training under each S.O.S. mentor leader. The local cell leader can either be a pre-enlisted Christian member or a new convert with the potential to lead.

  5. Each contact and convert must be attached to the care and leadership of a cell leader, and secondly to the cluster leader, who is the designated person to oversee the small groups in the district.

  6. During the training, the cluster leader will perform the functions spelled out for the Pioneer Worker. A primary function of the cluster leader is to spot, enlist, mobilize, inspire and mobilize small group leaders. He does this in coordination with the FD.

  7. At the end of the field work, small groups with members relating already to one another must have been formed. These will be cell groups or house churches planted all over the city and are hoped to increase and multiply.

  8. A finale activity is the gathering of all the members of these house churches planted in a Grand Celebration Service and the introduction of the cell leaders to the whole body.

The opposite diagram shows in which part of the S.O.S strategy the formation of cell groups fits