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.

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

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A first-hand account of the way God worked in and through the Ten Days for Jesus Zambezi outreach team in July.

On 28 June I headed to Zambia for Ten Days for Jesus Zambezi 2011. This was the first Ten Days for Jesus launched an outreach in a location other than Cape Town and the outreach was focused on the two countries on the banks of the great Zambezi River, Zimbabwe and Zambia. All Nations has a base in both countries, in Livingstone, Zambia, and Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. The team of about 40 people was divided into two teams, one in Zambia and the other in Zimbabwe. The Zambia team reached out to a local Zambian village where they camped right by the river and had great fellowship with the crocodiles and hippos. They had a proper ‘African experience’ as they didn’t have electricity, running water or other such comforts.

However, I was fortunate enough to be on the Zimbabwe team and we were based in a township in Victoria Falls. All Nations Zimbabwe leader Munyaradzi Hove hosted us together with a team of locals who were part of some of the house churches he had planted there. We only had ten days to reach the community which didn’t seem like much at first, but God moved in such a tremendous way. We were divided into three teams and we were assigned to different areas of the township. Each morning we would start off the day with devotions and some teaching based on our theme, Finding True Love, then we would set off to the community.

Finding Beauty in the Poverty
Victoria Falls is a small tourist town and tourism is the main source of income for most households. But the economic situation in Zimbabwe has deteriorated so much that there are few tourists coming in and a lot of businesses have closed down. So there is a high rate of unemployment and there is so much hopelessness. There is also a high rate of alcohol abuse, prostitution and poverty. However, there is also a high rate of spiritual hunger. One of the first houses my team went to was occupied by a group of ladies who turned out to be prostitutes. We visited them regularly, got to hear their stories and just spent some time with them. We even went one day and one of my teammates, who is a professional make-up artist, did their make-up for them. They really appreciated this and they started opening up to us.

Rastafarians Meet Jesus 
We also met a guy named Ephraim who is a Rastafarian and on our second visit with him, we told him that his name comes from the Bible and he was interested in finding out more about the origin of his name. So we told him the story of Joseph starting back from Jacob’s story until the blessing of Joseph’s sons by Jacob. While we were narrating this story Ephraim’s friend, Sydney, joined us and we started just chatting about what we can learn from Joseph’s story. Then Sydney posed a question about what do we believe would happen after we die and that led to us sharing about Jesus. Sydney shared about how he was tired of how his life was; that he was trying to turn his life around and he had even stopped drinking. We led him and Ephraim to the Lord that very moment.

The Mighty Men
One team started a Discovery Bible Study in a tavern with a group of men, who were later termed “The Mighty Men,” and at the end of the study these men made statements such as ‘I will try to drink less beer’ without being prompted by anyone. The next day when they had another Discovery Bible Study some of these men gave their hearts to the Lord. That night one of the men shared what he had learned from the Bible study with his brothers and friends and he led them to the Lord. The following night he had another Discovery Bible Study with other friends and led some of those men to the Lord. On our last day we had a celebration service where we invited the people we had ministered to and The Mighty Men shared their testimony. Their testimony was so genuine; they shared how their lives had changed in just ten days and how some of them had gotten work during the course of the week.

Loving One Another
And there are more stories like these- stories of people being healed, the elderly being taken care of, serving the community through labour, and seeds being planted in people’s lives. But the greatest testimony is what God was doing among us as a team and within us as individuals. We learned that it is not enough to just profess our love for God but not love our brothers (1 John 4:20) and this starts by loving each other as a church and loving the lost. We learned how to serve each other and take time to listen to each other’s stories. We found true love in each other as a team and the Word does say that “if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.” (1 John 4:12).

Locals Commissioned
When we left, the local teams were commissioned and they followed up with all the people we had met. Ten Days for Jesus was such a great experience and the beginning of great things in both the communities we worked in and in the lives of the individuals who were part of the outreach. We also got to experience what David spoke about in Psalms 90:4, “For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by…” We experienced the God who is not subject to time but everything is subject to Him.
This is a report on Jombile’s outreach to Zimbabwe as part of Ten Days for Jesus. Ten Days for Jesus organizes ten-day outreaches in Cape Town, South Africa, and recently in Zimbabwe and Zambia and is one of the ministries that are part of All Nations.

One All Nations church planter shares his own experience with simple church:

What might church look like, stripped of all political and cultural baggage? Maybe like two or three gathering in Jesus’ name, seeing Jesus show up (Matthew 18)? Maybe gathering in homes for teaching, eating, fellowship, and prayer (Acts 2)?

We moved to South Africa as a family because we want to see Jesus’ kingdom come and his will be done on earth. We came with a vision to rethink “church” and to explore and experiment with church in its most simple biblical form. We hope to see groups of local Africans loving God and others, and discovering Jesus together through the Bible. We’re already starting to see fruit!

A man of peace
When we first arrived in South Africa, we took two weeks to visit three local poor communities, seeking the Lord about which one he wanted us to serve. We felt God leading us to Masiphumelele (Masi). My wife and I are Caucasian, and Masi is a place where white-skinned people are not really welcome. But we prayed, and we entered the community. As we walked and looked for reasonably friendly people, we were also looking for those who are spiritually hungry and people of peace.

One of first people we met was Basta, along with five of his friends. Basta stood out as a leader in this warm-hearted group of guys. They sat on their favorite corner for many hours every weekend, enjoying the shade, beer, and each other’s laughter.

Their curiosity as to why we were in their neighborhood led to our first significant conversation. After half an hour of chatting and telling them our purpose, they seemed really interested and spiritually hungry. So we planned to meet them at the same corner at the same time the next weekend.

The next weekend, Basta and his friends were there waiting for us. We sat on the street corner and had church for an hour and a half. Laughter, fellowship, chips, soda, prayer, and Scripture. We modeled the Discovery Bible Studies for them and had an awesome time together.

Bible stories come to life
We wanted to work through local people as “gatherers” – gathering their natural community of friends and family together. Our plan is to train a point person to lead inductive Bible studies, so that local people (rather than us) will lead. Basta and I met in the middle of the week and I coached him to lead for the coming weekend. And he led! It was even better than the week before, and even more people came.

Then, the third week, the multiple mother-languages present at Basta’s gathering were making communication a bit challenging. So we came up with another strategy: we introduced storying. We took a passage of Scripture five verses long, crafted it into a simple phrase with main ideas, and read it twice. Then, we took it phrase by phrase as we went around the circle, each acting it out with hand and body motions. By the time we were done with the passage, we had all heard the story about ten times.

The guys were alive with passion, interpreting and debating the passage. One cried out, “I just want Jesus to change my life!” It was amazing! Another man said, “I am a Muslim, but I felt something here today that I have never felt before. I will be back next week with more people.” Still another asked if we could do the passage in the form of a song; he wanted to sing the passage because he loves music. Remember, this is all with pre-Christians. When it was all said and done, they were so excited to act out another story that they weren’t sure they wanted to wait a week to meet again.

Ripe for multiplication
The guys continue to meet, and every week we see even more honesty and passion. This group will eventually be baptizing one another. We’re discipling one guy to lead the group, and another to reproduce this and start another church within the next three months.

In a very recent conversation with Basta, we realized that he is now a follower of Jesus. He confessed with his mouth, believes in his heart, and the fruit is following. This was the first time I ever watched someone stumble upon the realization that he was saved! We are excited about what we are seeing, and we believe this can happen all over the world – including in the United States. When we look at the biblical examples of church planting, we see that it is far simpler than most of us make it.

[This article first appeared in the July 2011 issue of Missionary Messenger, a publication of Eastern Mennonite Missions.]

Taken from here.

CPx in Cape Town, South Africa is a five-month leadership equipping program for those who are passionate to see Jesus worshiped by all the peoples of the earth. CPx is part of a global network of communities, ministries and individuals who share the same vision. This network is called All Nations. CPx plays it’s role by developing emerging spiritual leaders to utilize their passions and gifting for serving the poor and sharing Jesus with people who don’t know Him. CPx is also available in the United Sates beginning each September (see all-nations.us for more information about that CPx).

The Passion of CPx

• The Lamb of God worshiped in all nations of the earth.
• To help build movements of small, simple and easily reproducible communities of Jesus followers in all nations of the global family.

The Purpose of CPx

•   To prepare servant leaders to reach the unreached in the frontiers of today’s changing world: in every sphere of life and every people of the planet.
• To live a lifestyle of worship, prayer, fasting and personal discipleship that is focused on God’s father-heart for the nations.

The CPx Plan

• To re-imagine church as a simple, missional community of friends and not an institution of programs and meetings.
• To study and practice the three core-values of the Kingdom of God.
• To become familiar with the invitations and commands of Jesus as a foundation for discipleship.
• To experience serving and learning in a multi-cultural context.
• To understand and be able to tell the story of God: creation, the fall, redemption and fulfillment.

The People Who Lead CPx

• The people who lead CPx in South Africa are mature and experienced mothers and fathers in the Lord who have served in multiple cultures over many years.
• Their desire is to create a safe learning environment so our participants can learn and grow in God’s grace.
• The leaders seek to impart the skills, disciplines and passions we believe in through teaching, practical ministry, and mentoring relationships.
• The leaders of CPx enjoy life! We believe in celebrating our life together by taking time to enjoy each other, God’s creation and the people, art and culture of the city we live in.

CPx Application 2012 is now available online!

The application is divided into three parts.  Upon submission of one, you are automatically taken to the next.  We’ll provide links to all three though in case you fill it out over a period of a few days.

• Part 1: Click here
• Part 2: Click here
• Part 3: Click here
• Pastor Reference: Click here
• Employer/Teacher Reference: Click here

Please note that you must fill out all three parts before your application will be considered.  Also, you will need to have both the pastor reference and the employer/teacher reference completed as well. Those who you ask to be your reference must follow the links above and submit their reference forms online.
For more information about CPx, e-mail cpx@all-nations.co.za. The following brochure will help you understand more about CPx: Click here

For more information, see their main site: All Nations Cape Town