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All Nations
C hurch P lanting e X perience
July 5-23
or Oct 1-20
Learn hands-on skills to plant a church. Sounds out of your league? It's not.
Bike & Pray
in Germany
June 15 - 24
Bike through Germany with us. Pray with locals. Watch God move!!
Want to SHARE YOUR FAITH and feel NORMAL?
July 6-7: $50
Community Health Evangelism Training
Oct. 29-Nov. 2, 2012
Paid Internship in Asia
Academic Year
2012-2013
Teach English
& Church Plant!
George Patterson
Church Planting Training
July 9 - 13
Floyd McClung: Oct 1-5
Go and Pray
in India
Mar. 22 - Apr. 12
(flexible)
All Nations Family
All Nations trains and sends missionaries to share the story of Jesus with people groups all over the world who have never heard his name before. Many of these groups are located in remote places or creative access countries, but not all.
We have discovered God already working there, writing stories and signposts pointing to Jesus into their culture, traditions, and legends. Our missionaries seek to highlight these signs. Then, we train local leaders to plant their own churches, that they may take over the work entirely and make it their own in every way.
These simple churches have a tendency to rapidly self-multiply, creating a full-fledged church planting movement among some of the poorest and most neglected peoples of the earth.
Passionately, we are about igniting church planting movements. That's right: movements. We go to people groups that have never heard of Jesus, share stories about Him, help local leaders plant their own churches, and then watch it become a whole movement of its own. Locally lead. Locally funded. And globally multiplying.
Two out of every three missionaries on earth today are from non-Western countries. The Majority World has thousands of people groups who have never heard anything about Jesus at all. All Nations is reaching out to them, sharing Jesus and training local leaders to form self-multiplying churches that send out their own missionaries to surrounding cultures. It's church in its simplest, most contagious form.
Founded in 2000 in Kansas City by a group of experienced cross-cultural church planters with a thirst for more, All Nations now has missionary training hubs in Kansas City and South Africa, and projects on six continents. We are working in Guatemala, the US, France, Romania, Germany, Mozambique, South Africa, Ivory Coast, India, Thailand, Taiwan, Zambia, the UK, and a whole slew of creative access countries not listed here.
We focus on the neediest, most neglected and forgotten peoples of the earth. We see the church as the foundation of other transformational developments like small businesses, education, orphan care, etc. Therefore, many of our missionaries and their local partners integrate various kinds of training and aid work into church planting activities.
Our goal is to make more than 15,000 new followers of Jesus in the next 5 years through the exponential growth of simple churches in the neediest places of the world.
Want to join us?
Core Values
Love God - Worship
Experience and enjoy the Father's love
Spend time daily in prayer and the Word
Live lives pleasing to the Father
Love the World - Mission
Share the gospel those who don't know Jesus
Go and make disciples
Serve and empower the poor
Love Each Other - Community
Discipling relationships
Accountability and transparency
Love and care for each other
Our Vision is to see Jesus worshiped by all the peoples of the earth.
Our Mission is to make disciples and train leaders to ignite church planting movements among the neglected peoples of the earth.
Lausanne Covenant
The Lausanne Covenant and its story consitute a major uniting and confessional achievement in the history of the Church. Most major evangelical missions agencies have adopted the covenant, and since its creation in 1974, many other gatherings and conferences have sprung up in its wake. Lausanne has thus become a movement of its own, a uniting torch among those with a passion for the lost in this world. We encourage you to read about the Lausanne Covenant on their website .
The Lausanne Covenant.pdf
Statement of Faith
All Nations had adopted a standard statement of faith to guide our beliefs, our worship, and our practices.
All Nations is interdenominational and works collaboratively with many churches and other missions agencies. Our statement of faith reflects our enthusiasm and care for a denominationally and culturally diverse Body of Christ, serving and worshiping Him throughout the earth.
AN Statement of Faith on Letterhead.pdf
God's Plan A for the re-creation of the world, for the healing of our lives, for the transformation of our cultures, is the Church. He honors it with the name, "The Body of Christ," and with good reason. The Church--in its many different forms--functions as the basic network through which God does much of His kingdom work in the world.
At the core of the Church, you find "two or more gathered in the name of Jesus." We serve a Triune God who is eternally bound up in a three-in-one relationship. Being made in His image, we too crave relationship as the most basic expression of what it means to be human. Relationship formed around worshiping the name of Jesus--that's the Church!
We believe that church planting is the most effective means of putting legs to the prayer, "Thy Kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven." By sharing Jesus and planting a church, we ignite a network for sharing Jesus with many more people than our missionaires could ever reach alone.
And, we create a social foundation, a leadership, a group, that can tackle every other kind of problem with the strength of unity and community. The Church has a biblical calling to care for the orphan, the widow, and the poor, and to seek the transformation of the surrounding culture and society. Together, a group of Christians can accomplish much for the glory of God!
Finally, church planting is the most direct way to fulfill the Great Commission. We are about making disciples who mentor each other into making more disciples! Church planting movements sweep through whole people groups under local leadership, and are the fastest and most effective way of making active, outreaching disciples.
Buzzwords
Simple Church
Small, easily reproducible churches that are not dependent on formal education, buildings, and salaried leaders.
Church Planting Movements
Starting movements of reproducing churches not single churches.
Church Planting Coaches
Cross-cultural church planters serve as coaches and facilitators to indigenous leaders and churches.
Church Planting eXperience (CPx)
Church planters participate in a hands-on training and discipleship course led by experienced workers before they are sent out.
Holistic Mission
Integrating church planting with meeting the felt needs of those being reached.
Local Church Orientation and Partnership
The sending church and All Nations work as partners in equipping, sending, and caring for those sent out.
Neglected Peoples
The least evangelized and poorest people groups of the world.
Oral Strategies
Key elements for rapid church growth are the right oral strategies. Oral learners will hear and communicate the gospel without being highly literate.
Multi-cultural Teams
Church planters are sent from a variety of nations to work together in church planting endeavors.
Leader Development
On-going development of emerging leaders through personal discipleship and mentoring, and non-formal equipping opportunities.
Unreached People Groups
All Nations are committed to identifying and engaging 30 - 50 unengaged, unreached people groups and to uniting with the church worldwide to finish the task of the Great Commission. The center of our vision in making this commitment is not the human need (overwhelming as it is) but the glory of God: we labor to see Jesus worshiped by all the peoples of the earth.
Current estimates are that there are about 3,700 unengaged, unreached people groups remaining in the world, and of that number, there are 632 people groups of more than 50,000 each. We believe that if we all, as a worldwide community of the followers of Jesus, work together to raise up about 7,400 workers dedicated to this task, that it is very possible to accomplish this task by 2030.
Flowing from this commitment, we are in the process of identifying the next set of people groups that God has most well-situated us to reach. Join us in this task by praying for the unreached peoples of the world, that God would send workers into His harvest field!
Prayer Diary of the Unreached
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Have a heart for missions? Come and serve with All Nations! We work with individuals coming from extremely diverse backgrounds and experiences. We do not require any particular denomination or education; all that is needed is a heart to share Jesus cross-culturally.
We offer long-term training and placement anywhere in the world. Church Planting eXperience (CPx) , our intensive training, is considered the portal for launching with All Nations long-term. CPx graduates are also eligible to spend a year interning as a church planter while teaching English in Asia (with salary, benefits, airfare, etc.).
Through Global Storm , our partnership with the Hard Places Community, we offer short-term opportunities for individuals and groups, customized to fit your heart and the needs of the people.
On a local level, we also offer a variety of workshops and trainings. For example, we speak regularly on the Perspectives circuit, which is offered all over the country by the US Center for World Mission. We also offer Community Health Evangelism (CHE) , workshops with George Patterson and Floyd McClung , training in communicating effectively with tribal groups, etc.
Come and dialogue with us about your passion, gifts, and vision! Many of our field workers chose to serve with us because their calling did not fit the typical mold. If we cannot place you in an ideal fit, we will help get you connected with an organization that can.
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2012 Training Calendar
All Nations offers a variety of workshops in Kansas City, or on the road at your request! Some of our most popular workshops are described below. Click on their names for more information and details.
Evangelism Training will be offered this winter to train you on how to share your faith in a way that really encourages the gospel to spread quickly and effectively. Many people want to tell others about their faith, but don't know how to do so in a natural, comfortable, and empowering way. This training will teach you how to do just that!
Community Health Evangelism focuses on training and equipping locals to address humanitarian aid problems afflicting their communities. CHE will equip you to work in economically difficult places for the self-determination and empowerment for all peoples.
Perspectives is a course offered nationally, in large cities and small towns, by the U.S. Center for World Mission. All Nations staff regularly lead classes through Perspectives, the renowned introductory course on missions today. Open to the public, it can also be taken for college or graduate credit.
Also, Floyd McClung and George Patterson each teach a workshop on the principles of church planting. Sound heavy? It's really about seeing Jesus use ordinary people to multiply disciples!
Evangelism Training
Evangelism Training will be offered during winter CPx to CPx students. Non-CPx students are welcome to come just for the Evangelism Training.
Many people want to share their faith, but feel totally nervous and freaked out by the idea of actually doing so. The reason is, they haven't been trained! Come and join us for a couple of days, and learn how to reach out to others naturally, and with a goal to not just see a few friends won to Christ, but a whole movement started.
Dates: July 6 -7.
Cost: $50.
Register by contacting us .
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Perspectives Course
Offered by the U.S. Center for World Mission, Perspectives is the most widely available, authoritative course on missions offered in the States. It can be taken just for fun and learning, or for college or even graduate level credit. Nationally, around 80,000 people have completed Perspectives.
For each course, the U.S. Center gathers together missionaries and mission experts from a wide variety of organizations and cultural specialties. Several All Nations staff members regularly teach at Perspectives alongside colleagues from many other organizations, in addition to contributing material to the course's centerpiece textbook.
We are proud to recommend Perspectives to anyone with a heart and passion for the Great Commission! Check out their website for more information about attending Perspectives in your area.
Interactive Church Planting Training!
Learn how to plant churches that plant churches and are led by the locals from day one. George Patterson's church planting principles can work in cultures all over the world whether they are near or far from your own.
Details:
Our 2012 George Patterson training is $150 (no housing provided) will take place July 9 - 13 at 13008 Grandview Road, Grandview, MO. The workshop runs from 8:30am - 12:30pm each day. (Students taking CPx at that time will have George's workshop included in their curriculum.)
More info: Contact us .
About Dr. Patterson:
George Patterson teaches in the Division of Intercultural Studies at Western Seminary. Dr. Ralph Winter describes George as "one of the two or three world experts in the growth of the church" and calls his missionary career "legendary."
The Pattersons worked for 20 years in Honduras combining pastoral training with church planting. There were 100 churches in Honduras when the Pattersons left the field. This is as a result of the Biblical discipleship and church reproduction principles Dr. Patterson implemented.
What's more, because of this explosive growth, missionaries all over Latin America and around the world began using this method. Dr. Patterson co-authored the Church Multiplication Guide and has served as a trainer and consultant to workers in over 50 countries. He has mentored many other church planters, such as Neil Cole.
Floyd McClung
Transforming Communities with Disciple-Making!
Big words, simple concept! Learn to be effective in joining Jesus' work in the day-to-day world around you. Floyd will teach simple, easily reproducible methods for transforming communities and planting churches. He will challenge our traditional definitions of discipleship and insist that real disciples make disciples. He will pass on methods of simple, easily reproducible church planting that has already proven itself on multiple continents and in multiple locations. Whether you are in your own culture or go to another, you will be able to quickly apply the principles Floyd teaches here to transform communities.
Our 2012 training with Floyd McClung will take place Oct. 1 - 5 from 8:30am - 12:30pm. Tuition is $150 (no housing provided). The location is our training house at 13008 Grandview Road, Grandview, MO. Students taking CPx during that time will have Floyd's workshop included in their curriculum.
About Floyd McClung
Floyd McClung has been a missional leader and church planter in Afghanistan, Amsterdam, America, and Africa. He is the author of numerous books, including the Father Heart of God. His books have sold over 1 million copies and been translated into 30 languages. Floyd and his wife Sally live in Capetown, South Africa. Floyd is the founder of All Nations Family and leads the All Nations Family hub in Capetown.
Community Health Evangelism
CHE seamlessly integrates evangelism and discipleship with disease prevention and community-based development. The work is holistic, seeking to meet the whole need of individuals and communities through complete obedience to everything that Jesus commanded.
CHE is a true best practices model for integrating evangelism and discipleship with community based development. The first programs were done in Africa in the 1980s. CHE was then taken to other parts of the world where it proved adaptable to a wide-range of situations.
Today CHE is being used around the world by churches, denominations, mission agencies, non-government organizations, and national and local governments to lift whole communities out of cycles of poverty and disease. You can read more about it here .
Details
Oct. 29 - Nov. 2, 2012 for a tuition price of $175
13008 Grandview Road, Grandview, MO.
2012 Training Dates
Indian Prayer Trek: March 22 - April 12
Bike Across Germany: June 15 - 24
CPx (Summer): July 5 - 23 (includes Evangelism and George Patterson)
Evangelism: July 5 - 6
George Patterson: 9 - 13
CPx (Fall): Oct. 1 - 20 (includes Floyd McClung)
Floyd McClung: Oct. 1 - 5
Community Health Evangelism (CHE): Oct. 29 -Nov. 2
Please contact us for more information or to sign up for any of our 2012 trainings.
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CPx Overview
What It's About - What You'll Learn & Do - Why CPx?
Church Planting eXperience is designed to teach you the heart of simple church planting. There are thousands of denominations, methods, and programs out there seeking to make Jesus' name known throughout the earth. They each have their differences, but almost all share the same common core. CPx teaches that core.
CPx does not require any particular background or credential. Jesus chose common fishermen as his first followers. Then, he taught them to be leaders, and even before his death he started sending them out on missions to tell others about him.
In CPx, you will learn practical ways to make disciples, the kind of disciples who become leaders themselves and make other disciples. Whole movements of church planting--churches sharing Jesus and rapidly multiplying--are igniting throughout the world. Entire people groups are coming to know the name of Jesus and following him for the first time. They are movements started by cultural outsiders that are quickly taken over by local leadership, local energy, local worship, and local flavor.
If you have a heart for missions, CPx is a great place to start.
CPx has traditionally been a three-month classroom plus three-month field experience course. This year, we're doing it a bit differently. We've condensed the classroom time down to a three week intensive: CPx Concentrate. We're offering it four times a year, and the next training is July 5 - 23.
Though not required, graduates of CPx Concentrate are encouraged to couple it with a one-year coached internship in a field setting customized to their heart, their needs, and their calling. Our coaches are all experienced cross-cultural church planters who have gone to the field, done it themselves, and can relate to the struggles and joys of first-time field workers.
Should you decide to take a leap and come to our Kansas City training, the cost is $1500 per person. Scholarships are available, and housing is provided for free. Students meet Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm for teaching, worship, discussion, and growth. Saturdays usually include an outreach or immersion activity, and you'll have Sundays off.
The training is holistic, practical, and personal. We aim to train the head, heart, and hands in four competencies:
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
There are a lot of organizations that provide training, and there are also a lot of missions boards that are willing to send out workers who meet their various requirements.
All Nations does both--in fact the whole process. We stick with a person from the first moment they think about missions, through their training and their first field experiences, all the way through their long-term placement and eventual project completion.
We don't just commit to train you; we commit to caring for you through every season of your life as a missionary. CPx is the first step in beginning a great relationship!
Student Reviews - Ministry Endorsements
We are humbled and grateful for the overwhelmingly positive response from our students. Many of them have done short-term missions in the past and yet find their expectations far exceeded during their time with us. One student headed to Asia wrote:
"We came in to training saying we were just going to live in Asia as Christians. We are leaving calling ourselves missionaries! My expectations and hopes have increased a lot. I am expecting to see God do great things and change many lives. We expected one or maybe two years in Asia. Now we have no idea how long we will be overseas!"
In response to the question, "What were expectations of training?" another student wrote:
"I knew that CPx was a little language training, a little culture training, and a little ministry training. I was also told it would change my life and it would be amazing. And it has been an amazing life changer!"
When asked what was most or least helpful about training, another person replied:
"The simplicity of sharing Jesus stories was such a new and dynamic paradigm for me personally. I am so encouraged by the truth that Jesus can use anyone to advance His kingdom. I loved the concept of D-Group and the simple process we were given to lead this type of group. The thought of being a missionary seems less intimidating. Also, the language and culture classes were incredibly helpful!"
Another person said, "I think I loved it because a lot of what you taught was stuff I had wanted to be true for a long time, and here I found out that other people think that stuff too and it actually works!"
"The word 'experience' is more than a word in a title. You will experience vital dynamics of church life, discipling and multiplication by interacting with instructors, staff and fellow trainees. You will receive ogoing mentoring as long as you need it to see churches multiply in the new testament way."
-- George Patterson
Author of The Church Multiplication Guide
" The CP Experience (School of Church Planting) is all about preparing people to do exactly that: learning how to tell people about Jesus from different cultures and nations. If you are interested in missions, church planting, and giving your life for something worth living and dying for, we urge you to find out more!"
-- Floyd McClung , Jr.
Formerly of YWAM, now Director of All Nations South Africa
Application
The application process is simple!
1. Contact us! Hey, what can we say? We're relational and would like to get a chance to talk to you before you apply. This way we can make friends and start to get to know each other. We won't reject your application if you skip this step, but we would like to get to know you better first.
2. Read the Student Handbook and the CPx FAQ (if you haven't already) so you know what you're getting yourself into!
3. Download and complete the CPx Application. We prefer if you use the fillable Word document version, as it's easier to read typed than handwritten. Otherwise, use the PDF version. Either way, you must print it and sign it, and mail it to the address below.
4. Download the Pastor's Reference and the Employer's/Teacher's Reference and distribute them accordingly. These can also be filled out in Word or can be printed from the PDF version and filled out by hand. Regardless, it must be printed, signed, and mailed to us.
Send all completed forms to:
All Nations - CPx
P.O. Box 55
Grandview, MO 64030
Having trouble or got a question? Contact us at: 816-216-1353 or e-mail parlund_allnations.us.
CPxParticipantHandbook2011.doc
CPxParticipantHandbook2011.pdf
CPxConcentrateApplication.docx
CPxConcentrateApplication.pdf
CPxPastor_Reference.doc
CPxPastor_Reference.pdf
CPxEmployer-Teacher_Reference.doc
CPxEmployer-Teacher_Reference.pdf
Who?
You are someone who wants a practical, hands-on program about how to start Christ-centered communities around the world. You have basic Biblical knowledge and are mature in your walk with Christ.
We are experienced church planters from four continents who want to share our knowledge with you through interactive discussions, classroom times, special experiences in which you learn what it feels like to be an outsider or a refugee, mentoring and facilitating outreach.
What?
Church Planting Experience is a practical training in which you will learn how to be a long-term cross-cultural, holistic church planter. You will learn how to share Jesus with people from many different cultures and languages. You will learn to respect local cultures and customs while elevating local leaders to positions of leadership in house churches. You will learn how to be a life-long learner who listens to the guiding and leading of the Holy Spirit in your life.
When?
CPx is offered four times a year. The next CPx is July 5 - 23, 2012, and will include George Patterson and Evangelism training as a free bonus.
The fall CPx will be Oct. 1 - 20, 2012.
Graduates interested in longer term service with All Nations are encouraged to begin a customized one-year internship after CPx is completed.
Where?
Kansas City, Missouri. Graduates have then gone on to locations in India, Thailand, Mozambique, Taiwan, Cambodia, Zambia, and France among others.
How much does it cost?
$1500 per person, or $500/week. Couples receive a discount and pay only $2500 for both people. Participants are encouraged to do fund-raising to meet the cost of the tuition, and scholarships are available. To help lower overall costs, we provide housing for all students during the training. This helps keeps costs down and helps students to be in mentoring relationships with other members of the All Nations family.
What about my children?
Kids who are not in school are allowed to come to the program with Mom and Dad. After all, house churches take place in families with kids around! There are places for the babies to rest and sleep when they get tired and a yard for them to play in. Mom and Dad should work out their own child-care between them. As much as possible, husbands and wives are encouraged to attend the program together.
Am I too young or too old?
