Overview
Mission Statement
Our mission is to make disciples of Jesus Christ through simple churches established by local church planters who are served by missionaries.
Overview
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We believe that evaluated experience is the best teacher. Our goal is to provide a learning environment in which CPx participants will learn from godly teachers, classroom discussion, cell participation, book reviews, overseas short-term experience and practical church planting ministry. Church planting in Kansas City plays an important part in the training, as it provides an opportunity to live “here” what we plan to do “there.” The actual experience of church planting, along with instructional times of coaching and feedback, will provide a learning environment where future church planters can be given the tools needed for long-term service on the field.
One day we will gather around the throne and worship Jesus with people from every language and culture. It will be an amazing experience of joy and glory. God the father made this possible by sending his son, Jesus to redeem people from every tribe, language, and nation. But they will not hear this wonderful news if someone does not tell them.
-- Floyd McClung , Jr., International Director, All Nations
CPx students meet every morning Monday -Friday for instruction. This includes time for corporate prayer and worship, which are often led by participants. Participants are encouraged to be creative and to introduce some new concepts or methods of prayer and worship to the class. Afterwards, there is instruction through lecture, discussions, videos, guest instructors, reports from church planters, etc.
Then, in the afternoons or on evenings and weekends participants are given a chance to put into practice what they have learned in group times by going out into the community and investing themselves in people's lives. After each experience, participants debrief about what went well, what didn't and what they learned. This is the core of the learning process in CPx - learning by evaluated experience. This is not a program of writing papers or taking tests - it is a program built around practicing, discussion, and small group experience. This is a safe place to try new things and become a new person. Participants practice leading house churches together while they are in Kansas City.
Finally, you will have a chance to practice your new skills at a location overseas for three months. You and your fellow participants will go to a location for three months and plant small, simple churches that follow Jesus. This will give you a chance to work on a team, learn to work without instructors, and to continue to refine your understanding of how to minister cross-culturally. At the end of that time, there will be another debrief with staff and then you will go out, ready to serve the nations.
CPx focuses onthe following four competencies for church planters:1. Ability to Abide in Christ
2. Ability to adapt to, honor, and appreciate other cultures
3. Ability to build deep relationships with others, no matter their culture or socio-economic status
4. Ability to plant churches
A Typical Day
The time here in Kansas City is structured roughly as follows:9:00 - 10:00 - Reading through most of the New Testament to look for church planting principles and discussing in groups. You will do the reading as homework and then discuss during this time.
10:15- 12:15 - Class time - Topics vary, but will be related to simple church planting and/or general missions
2:00 - 4:00 (3 days/week) - Adopt a block project. You will be asked to adopt a block in our neighborhood or elsewhere in KC (we are flexible on where). You are responsible to give them at least six hours/week. You might only be able to pray and walk until you get a breakthrough with some key relationships. Eventually, we hope you will get to show acts of love and talk to people about Jesus.
2:00 - 4:00 (2 days/week for five weeks) Meet with a language helper and work on learning a language. This might be the language you use during outreach, but it might not be. The practice is still good. The idea is to learn the process of learning language.
Once/week - meet as an outreach team with the people you will do your CPx practicum with. You usually don't have too much choice for this outreach (usually just one location or the other location). For long-term service in All Nations, you are free to go wherever you want, but you are NOT free to go anywhere you want during the practicum.
Once/week - meet with your mentor. You will be assigned a one on one time with a member or friend of CPx staff. This is a time to process one on one and also to ask questions. It's also a chance to build a deeper relationship with at least one staff member.
This sort of "normal" schedule is likely to get interrupted a lot due to guest speakers that come in. There is one weekend in which we schedule class, but most weekends are free. Also, sometimes we end up canceling the class topic of the day if something else seems more pressing - like a topic people keep asking us about or spending more time in practicum outreach teams.
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