Don Tillman is the president of Crosspoint International, a cell church planting missionary organization engaged in planting cell-based congregations across the U.S. and around the world. Don previousluy served as Director of Training and Consulting for TOUCH Outreach Ministries and has served for many years as a Senior Pastor. He has facilitated the planting of numerous cell-based churches and helped dozens of churches large and small transition to a cell-based ministry. Don received his Docotor of Ministry degree from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary and resides with his wife, Cathy, and their two sons in Houston, Texas. This article by Don was reprinted with permission from CellGroupJournal.
I don’t know why I was so surprised. After all, it had been my own experience most of my ministry life. The fact that a pastor living in my community was the least known person in the neighborhood should simply have made sense, but it did not.