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Text Box:                                                   Good morning, Today is Saturday February 25, 2006. The current time is 12:49 AM  

... If you plant in the field of your natural desires, from it you will gather the harvest of death; if you plant in the field of the Spirit, from the Spirit you will gather the harvest of eternal life. So let us not become tired of doing good; for if we do not give up, the time will come when we will reap the harvest. (Gal. 6:8-9)
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Text Box:    What kind of church do you want? AftAfter a number of years of pastoring, Pastor Cesar felt traditional methods of growing a church were not working. He was at breaking point and under the leading of the Lord, resigned from his church to wait on the Lord. In 1983 God began to speak to him and asked, "What kind of church do you want to pastor?" He could only picture a church of 120 people, the bigest he had pastored so far. Cesar says, "I was striving to expand that number in my mind, but I couldn't. So I began to look at the sand of the seashore. As I looked at it, each grain of sand become a person, and I began to see hundreds of thousands of people. Then the Lord said, "That and much more I will give you if you are in my perfect will!" So he was encouraged and founded MCI. His goal was to reach 200 people in the first six months. It happened in three months! In 1986 He went toKorea and adopted the principals of cell church as taught by Dr. Yonggi Cho. By the end of 1991 there were 70 cells. Cesar Castellanos cried out to the Lord "Lord I need something that will accelerate the growth!" And God showed him the missing link - the concept call G12 How did Jesus do it? Cesar writes, "I began to see Jesus's ministry with clarity. The multitudes followed, but He didn't train the multitudes. He only trained 12, and everything he did with the multitudes was to teach the 12. Then the Lord asked me another question: "If Jesus trained 12, should you win more than 12 or less than 12?" •  Jesus chose 12 to reach the multitudes. •  He stayed with these 12 permanently, until they were trained and He released them, gave them authority and empowered them to disciple the nations. •  The call is to find the 12 and to reproduce Christ's character in them. The multiplication came Pastor Castellanos began with 12 and Cesar Ferjardo (his brother in law) did the same with the youth. Together, they saw unprecedented growth. From 1991 to 1994 the cells grew from 70 to 1,200. During 1994 to 1999 there was an explosion of growth. They grew to 20,000 cells with 45,000 meeting regularly in celebrations. 1996 was a particularly remarkable year. The cells grew from 4,000 to 10,500. Now MCI no longer tries to count people. They just keep track of the number of cells. Each cell has between 6 and 25 people and the official MCI figures state there are currently around 28,000 cells. The weekly youth celebration of the church meets in a stadium seating 20,000 every Saturday. There are two services with more than 30,000 in attendance taking in 13,000 youth cells. More than 1,000 young people give their lives to Jesus for the first time each week. The secret of success Pastor Cesar adopted the cell structure in order to combat the inactivity of church members who always depended on the 'full time leader'. He believed that through cells the new Christian would easily come to a place of parenthood and produce new believers after the same kind. This would promote a multiplication of both membership and cells. The G12 model facilitates the growth of the cells, the training of new leaders and maintains unity within the church. It promotes the opportunity for everyone to realize their leadership potential and take their place in the priesthood of all believers. The strategy is for every cell to grow to a full number of 12. Once part of a cell every member prays and fasts for others to join them until they have built another group of 12 disciples This way, none of the cells divide. They multiply. Everyone is still being ministered in their original cell from where they receive a high level of mentoring and, in turn, they are able to minister in the cell they have built. The Bogotá G12 model has five stages of implementation called the Ladder of Success: win, consolidate, disciple, send. The vision really came to our full attention in 1999, when our LCC Spanish church led by Pastor Edmundo Ravello adopted the G12. They soon grew from 40 to 2,000 members. And since then many of our churches are on the same path to success. This is not a model just for South America . It is vision from the Lord and it can work everywhere.      

 

 

 

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THE G12 HARVESTThe Bogota StoryThe Secret is in the TwelveWhat is a CellCell Church or Church with CellsThe G12 Vision ValuesThe Heart of the VisionCaught by the VisionThe Ladder of SuccessEncounters with JesusSchools of SignificanceThe Power of Homogeneous GroupsCasting the NetsGoals for GrowthBooks for the G12 Vision

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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