Circle of Hope

This week, we welcomed Howard Pinder as the newest cell leader coordinator. Howard will lead a group of four other Broad and Washington cell leaders.

Howard said he is excited to start his new role and serve the community in this way.

“I feel like God has given me the gifts to give and the passion to share,” he said.

His journey to become a cell leader coordinator has been ongoing for over five years.

In 2005, as a junior at Temple University, Howard said he was on the outskirts of checking out Christianity, despite growing up in a Church as the son of a Pastor.

Howard heard about Circle of Hope and got connected with Rod’s cell. He said that first cell experience is really when he met God.

“I was amazed. They seemed to really love me genuinely. They really seemed to have something,” he said. “The night when our cell multiplied, I knew I wanted to follow Jesus.”

Howard soon became a cell apprentice and not long after, he became a cell leader himself. Since then, Howard has been a part of numerous cell multiplications. In his most recent cell multiplication, Megan Hanner became a new cell leader and Adam Elabd and Ashley Roth became new cell apprentices.

Howard said he is feeling led to do the work of a cell leader coordinator.

“The biggest work of a coordinator is to really encourage and challenge our leaders, but not just to “make their cells work,” but to deepen their own relationship with God,” he said. “One of the best things a cell leader can share with their cell is a relationship with God. We do that in the cell and all throughout the body.”

Howard is thankful for having the experience of being in a cell and finding Jesus, taking the next step to apprentice a cell leader, becoming a cell leader and now transitioning to being a cell leader coordinator, too, he said.

“I look back at the way that being a part of Circle of Hope has really given me so much. I have a genuine desire for people to want to know Jesus,” he said. “I just think Jesus wants to turn our world upside down and I am committed to doing that in Philadelphia and the world.”

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