Church Planting Experience (CPx)

What is CPx?

Church Planting eXperience (CPx) is designed to help believers become disciples who make disciples, or to support those who do (as a Sender). It is essential training for those who wish to effectively reach their own neighborhoods, launch out as a missionary, or to support or send others (as a mission’s committee member, for example). In this training, participants are equipped to plant churches that are able to multiply and be led by local leadership in a variety of field situations present globally. 

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 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.

What You’ll Learn and Do

CPx is a three-week intensive classroom experience with an optional one-year internship afterwards. Though not required, graduates of CPx are encouraged to couple their experience with a one-year coached internship in a field setting customized to their heart, their needs, and their calling. Our coaches are experienced, and can relate to the struggles and joys of first-time field workers.

CPx is holistic, practical, and personal. We aim to train the head, heart, and hands in 7 abilities:

• Abide with Jesus Christ

• Militant, passionate prayer

• Be a healthy person on a healthy team

• Engage neglected peoples

• Honor other cultures

• Share the Good News

• Ignite and shepherd church planting movements

Why CPx?

There are a lot of organizations that only provide training, and there are also a lot of missions boards that are only willing to send out workers who meet their various requirements. All Nations provides 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!