Our young people's cell-groups have really taken off and, like anything new, they are growing and changing along with the young people in the groups. When the young people asked if they could meet in this way it was because they felt they needed to pray and study God's word in smaller groups to learn, support and encourage each other in their spiritual and daily lives.

Here are some comments from an all-girls' cell-group:-

• Cell groups are a chance to meet with people from TNT that we don't know, or talk to as much as we should, while having interesting debates on topics we feel are relevant to us, discovering what the Christian approach to these situations would be.
• Cell groups help us to support each other through prayer while aiding in our spiritual growth.
• Cell groups meet up once a week to learn more about God and the other members of our group.
• Cell groups hope to get closer together, so that we feel we can ask God for help and discuss our problems, or other issues, with the other members of the group.
• Our cell in particular wanted to achieve certain things within the group. We hope that at the end, we will have been able to help each other and that it would result in us getting closer to God. Already our group feels that we have accomplished some of these things, we have become closer and can trust each other enough to ask for help.
• Trust is very important to our group in particular because we are the only all-girl cell group. Often problems can arise when girls do not get on or fully trust each other, and we feel we have had God's help.
• Each week we are given a different topic of discussion and we work our way through the Bible. We have had big discussions on some topics e.g. Adam & Eve and forgiveness. Having discussions like these brings us closer because we get to hear different people's points of view, and hear their ideas. This helps us to understand each other better. We feel we have all been inspired by God. He helps us, through our cell groups, and gives us strength when we need it.
• When we first came up with the idea of cell groups not all of us were keen on the idea, but within a week all of us were enthusiastic about meeting up and starting the groups.
• "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God." 2 Corinthians.
  Claire, Nat, Sian & Cat