Church Planting eXperience (CPx)
Next 2014 CPx Dates: Jul. 6 - 25 (Kansas City), Jul. 26 - Aug. 15 (Southeast Asia), Oct. 5 - 24 (Kansas City)
Overview: What It's About
Church Planting eXperience is designed to teach you the heart of simple church planting. There are thousands of denominational methods used for church planting by different missions agencies. But, they almost all agree on what a church is. CPx goes to the heart of the matter and teaches that core: how to plant basic, essential churches that are easy to teach locals to plant. Because we teach the core of the Christian message, these churches rapidly multiply through people groups!
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 sent them out on missions to tell others about him.
In CPx, you will learn practical ways to make disciples who 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 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.
Overview: What You'll Learn and Do
CPx is a three-week intensive classroom experience with an optional one-year internship afterwards. The next CPx is Oct. 1-20, 2012. Though not required, graduates of CPx are encouraged to go ahead and 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 (or $2500 per couple). Scholarships are available, and housing can sometimes be provided if space allows. 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.
CPx 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 is also a separate program known as Student CPx which an All Nations' field worker facilitates on campuses throughout the US. Student CPx runs similarly to regular CPx, except that all participants are current college students working to reach one particular university where the training is held. All Nations Kansas City staff occasionally teach at Student CPx events. For more info on Student CPx, see their website.
Overview: Why CPx?
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 training and sending — 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!
