By Floyd McClung

All Nations - “Make Disciples, Train Leaders, Plant Churches”

Vision of All Nations

To fill the earth with the worship of Jesus through kingdom oriented church planting movements that love the poor, reach the lost, and make disciples who joyfully love and obey Jesus.

The Mission of All Nations

To make disciples, train leaders and plant church planting churches.

All Nations - A Brief History

All Nations was born out of a vision given by God to Floyd McClung when he was 21 years old. Floyd saw a vision of teams of young people fanning out to each continent of the world, preaching the gospel and making disciples on university campuses. He saw the power of totally dedicated young people giving themselves without reservation to reaching their generation for Christ.

Several years later, while reading the book of Ephesians, Floyd was overwhelmed with a vision of the church of today becoming a victorious expression of how the church lived 2000 years ago in the book of Acts. “I was captivated with a vision of the greatness of God being revealed through the church to the watching world. I saw the potential of God working through ordinary people to do extraordinary things. I am still captivated by that vision today, over 35 years later!”

Costly Discipleship

After leading a summer outreach in the West Indies, where thousands of people made decisions to accept Christ, it became apparent to Floyd and Sally during the follow up work that very few people had truly understood what it meant to be a disciple of Jesus. Floyd and Sally were made painfully aware that it would take much more time, and a clearer message of repentance and the cost of discipleship, to make disciples who truly loved and obeyed Jesus. “That outreach made me painfully aware that God didn’t want us counting numbers but making disciples.”

After five years of short term outreaches, Floyd and Sally were ready to give themselves to more in-depth, long-term ministry. God led them to Kabul, Afghanistan where they started a medical clinic, drug rehabilitation house and a discipleship program for new believers. Hundreds of young Westerners became followers of Jesus. Scores chose to work full time, helping start other halfway houses in Nepal, Morocco, India, New Zealand, France, Spain, England, Holland and the United States.

The Value of Community

It was in those early years of pioneering halfway houses for dropped out Westerners that Floyd and Sally learned the value of Christian community. “We discovered that our lifestyle became part of the witness we gave to Jesus. People experienced the love of Jesus as they lived with us and saw us caring for one another. We learned we could not separate the message we shared from a lifestyle of making disciples one person at a time. We discovered God’s father heart – that He loved people and wanted to heal their brokenness – in community.”

Loving God Passionately

Along the way Floyd and Sally developed a conviction about the true nature of spirituality that was different from what they grew up with. “We both grew up in very emotional, legalistic church traditions,” Sally relates about their common upbringing. “But we learned that God has much for us than a passing emotion. We discovered that if we would acknowledge our emotional struggles and pain to the Lord, he could heal us and restore our hearts. The enemy tries to rob us of the intimacy and freedom Jesus provides for us on the cross, but if we discern those stronghold lies, and resist them, we can live victoriously through the cross.” Sally’s teaching series entitled ‘Practical Weapons to Fight Spiritual Battles’ was an essential part of the training for living victoriously in Amsterdam’s notorious Red Light District. The McClungs taught new believers to discern and overturn the stronghold lies of the enemy in order to receive the blessings of their new identity in Christ. “God has provided us with all we need in Christ to live victoriously,” reflects Sally. The foundational truth Sally and Floyd learned was the importance of seeing and receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness given through Jesus. It’s become a cornerstone for All Nations as well.

Neglected Peoples

From Afghanistan God led Floyd and Sally to Amsterdam, Holland. They continued their ministry to broken street people, but they also took up the challenge to reach out to some of the many minority groups that made up the mosaic of Amsterdam’s colorful urban population. When people responded, it was only natural to gather those opening their lives to Jesus and disciple them. New churches were started among the prostitutes, street people, Spanish speaking guest workers, and ordinary Dutch citizens.

Through discipling broken people from the streets of Amsterdam, then gathering those people in Christian communities, Floyd and his co-workers learned firsthand about the role God has designed for the local church in evangelizing a city or nation. “I came to believe the local church is the most powerful force in the world for making disciples and training leaders. We experimented with doing church in alternative forms, but it was still church, and because of that, it was powerful.”

Making Disciples

Through trial and error, Floyd and Sally learned that if they discipled one person at a time, soon their disciples would make more disciples, and then those disciples would disciple still others, and it wasn’t long before a movement was born. “We learned about the power of being a movement. It was a small movement, and we made lots of mistakes, but it was alive and growing and multiplying all over the city, and from there to other cities as well.”

Floyd and Sally learned in their early days in Amsterdam to take responsibility to disciple their own spiritual children. “We made the mistake of adopting out our converts to churches and leaders who were not their spiritual fathers and mothers. It just didn’t work. They didn’t fit in the church culture, and the leaders didn’t have the same heart for the young people that we did. We realized that God gave us spiritual children to disciple, and it was not right to put them out for spiritual adoption. They felt abandoned when we urged them to be discipled by people who hadn’t led them to the Lord. Jesus said, ‘I have given the words you gave me to the men you have given me.’ We realized Jesus was giving us spiritual children to disciple, and He wanted us to do it. That meant church planting.”

It became a deep seated conviction for Floyd that disciples came first, then nations. “That’s the way to transform a city or nation: to faithfully make disciples one life at a time, in the context of Christian community. I studied the leadership methods of Jesus, and that’s how he did it, “ says Floyd.

Church Planting

Floyd reflects on his early days of church planting: “Church planting is the natural expression of making disciples. It’s not complicated really. It’s all about praying until you get God’s heart for people, leading them to Jesus, gathering them and training leaders to lead them.”

Floyd acknowledges he made many mistakes in those early days of church planting. “One of the greatest regrets I have in all my years of ministry was backing off from planting churches. I did it to please local church leaders and organizational co-workers. In the name of unity, I backed away from something that is fundamental to reaching people with the gospel. By God’s grace I will never do that again.”

Through trial and error, Floyd came to the conviction that church planting is how Jesus taught us to disciple nations. “Jesus instructed His disciples to disciple nations by teaching them his followers to obey his commandments, to baptize those they were discipling, then teaching them to go and make more disciples. It’s the principle of multiplication made personal and practical. I believe God wants church planting movements, not just one church plant at a time.”

Leadership Lessons

Floyd learned valuable lessons about leadership in his many years of missions experience. He had the opportunity to serve on the governing boards for many organizations and churches. “I believe leadership is serving, serving gains you influence, and influence gives you true spiritual authority. Authority is never taken,” shares Floyd, “just offered. That’s what leadership is all about. There are no short cuts to Jesus style leadership. I learned a long time ago that spiritual authority is the sum total of who you are. It’s not a position, or a title. It flows out of your heart. We never get too important to invest in people’s lives, one person at a time. That’s how Jesus did it, and that’s how we teach people to lead in All Nations.”

Floyd and Sally also believe in team leadership, both in their marriage, and in serving others they lead. “Team leadership has many purposes,” Floyd states. “It promotes trust when you live from the heart with one another, it enhances covenant relationships, gives credibility to your values and vision, helps create a corporate culture, teaches the importance of collaboration, empowers people for service, allows for accountability and creates a learning community. I believe there should be a senior amongst equals who leads a team, but that person should rarely use their veto power to override the decisions of the whole team. Team leadership is an outworking of what Paul did when he appointed elders to lead the churches he planted. I love team leadership, but it takes a lot of time and dying to self to make it work.”

A Commitment to Completion

In the late eighties Floyd got involved with a group of international leaders who felt they were to call the church world wide to focus on completing the great commission. “I spent time with Luis Bush and Thomas Wang, amongst others. As we studied the research gathered by David Barrett and Todd Johnson, we were staggered to realize how many unreached peoples there were in the world – and how reachable they were. When Luis, Thomas, myself, and a few others put our hearts and minds together, we became convinced we should call the church to focus our combined energies on completing the Great Commission. We felt God was not happy with us just doing the Great Commission. We felt he was saying he wanted us to obey it completely. We got a lot of criticism for what we did, but God used it to teach many people the value of focusing on the objective of reaching every single person on the earth with the gospel, and planting church planting movements in every unreached people group.”

Floyd still feels today that very few churches take the Great Commission seriously. He believes a strange dichotomy has descended on the church, one in which it is acceptable for a few people in the church to be excited about fulfilling the great commission, and the others to see it as optional. “That’s not how I read the New Testament,” says Floyd. “All the followers of Jesus in the early church were active in obeying the Great Commission. They were all part of house churches, spiritual families if you will, where every member exercised spiritual gifts, every member had a ministry, and every member was reaching out to others around them. The whole church was engaged in obeying the Great Commission – right where they lived and worked. It was not the role of a few to make Jesus known, everyone was involved. It was the whole gospel for the whole church for the whole world.”

Recent Steps in the Journey

In 1993 Floyd and Sally moved to Trinidad, Colorado where they planted a church and ran training programs for emerging leaders. They decided they should plant a church to be able to apply what they were learning in the classroom. A small church was born as Floyd and Sally and their small band of leaders and workers sought to live out their convictions. “We made a lot of mistakes, but God showed up. Above all things we learned that church is about relationships. A church rises or falls on the health of it’s relationships. I learned in Trinidad that a church is no more healthy than it’s leaders, and how they work out their conflicts and disagreements with one another. It was a hard season, but some of the deepest friendships I have ever made were established in those years.”

The vision God gave Floyd as a young 21 year old still burns in his heart. “I am more passionate today than I was then. I still dream about armies of young men and women going to every continent to share Jesus. Now that I’m older, I also dream about teams of business people making disciples in both the 10/40 window and the 9 to 5 window. All Nations is about the father heart of God gripping our hearts so His passion becomes our passion, and His glory shines through us. I am gripped with a burning desire to make Jesus known where He is not known, from here to the nations. It’s my prayer and longing that His name will be heard in languages never before heard in heaven.”

In 1999 Floyd and Sally accepted the call to pastor of Metro Christian Fellowship in Kansas City. As the leaders of Metro reached out to people who had gone out from the congregation but were not being covered or cared for, the missionaries responded with gratitude. Others were invited to join them, and many did. In three short years there were long term teams working in thirteen different countries. Almost overnight Metro became the mother church to a church planting movement.

Today, the members of All Nations dream the same dream Floyd and many others dream. They believe it’s everyone’s dream because it comes from the heart of God. It’s the dream in God’s heart for His son to be worshipped, for the earth to be filled with His glory. This is God’s idea, not ours. It’s His mission, not ours. We are just joining God in what He is doing to glorify Himself in the earth.”

All Nations currently has long term church planting teams in China, Thailand, Taiwan, Nepal, Germany, Canada, South Africa, Guatemala, India, Romania, Burma, South Africa, Mozambique, Cuba, Iraq and France. Efforts are under way to start a church planting movement among students on university campuses.

As a movement, the All Nations Family is deeply challenged by what the Psalmist David wrote in Psalm 93:

“Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples. For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the Lord made the heavens. 6 Honor and majesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. Give to the Lord, O families of the peoples, give to the Lord glory and strength. Give to the Lord the glory due His name; Bring an offering, and come into His courts. Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness! Tremble before Him, all the earth. Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns!” Psalm 96:3-10

All Nations – An International Church Planting Family

Belonging to a Family

All Nations is not just an organization but a family who share the same passions. It is a family made up of people who recognize the need to belong to something greater than themselves. Belonging to such a fellowship provides accountability, relational connectedness, and mutual upbuilding.

All Nations Members

All Nations members are desirous of living focused lives in fellowship with others who share the same passions and purpose. Membership is voluntary and based on shared values and vision. Each person is committed to personal accountability to team leaders and to churches that send them. All Nations members believe in allocating resources, time and energy to help others nurture church planting movements. They are particularly keen to see teams of church planters move from one people group to another. All Nations members believe God’s kingdom is built by God’s people sent from all nations to all nations.

Affiliated Churches

Local churches planted by All Nations members have the option to become affiliated with All Nations. This provides access to the leaders, the broader network, the resources and know how of All Nations as a movement.

Partner Churches

Sending churches may also affiliate with All Nations. All Nations is a church based church planting organization. As such, members are sent by their church to work with All Nations.

Doctrinal Statement

1. We believe that only the sixty-six books of the Bible are the inspired, infallible, Word of God. It is the final authority for all we believe and how we are to live. Matthew 5:18; John 10:35; 17:17; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21.
2. We believe that the one true God exists eternally in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and that these, being one God, are equal in deity, power, and glory. We believe that God not only created the world but also now upholds, sustains, governs, and lovingly directs the affairs of human kind, and that He will one day bring all things to their proper consummation in Christ Jesus to the glory of His name. Psalm 104; Psalm 139; Matthew 10:29-31; 28:19; Acts17:24-28; 2 Corinthians 13:14; Ephesians 1:9-12; 4:4-6; Colossians 1:16-17; Hebrews 1:1-3; Revelation 1:4-6.
3. We believe that Satan, originally a great and good angel, rebelled against God, taking a multitude of angels with him. He was cast out of God’s presence and is at work with his demonic hosts to establish his counter-kingdom of darkness and evil on the earth. Satan was judged and defeated at the cross of Christ and will, at the end of the age, be cast forever into the lake of fire which has been prepared for him and his angels. Matthew 12:25-29; 25:41; John 12:31; 16:11; Ephesians 6:10-20; Colossians 2:15; 2 Peter 2:4; Jude 6; Revelation 12:7-9; 20:10.
4. We believe that Adam was originally created in the image of God, righteous and without sin. In consequence of his disobedience, and the ratification of his disobedience by every person, Adam’s posterity are by nature and by choice separated from God, justly condemned in the sight of God, and unable to save themselves. Genesis 1-3; Psalm 51:5; Isaiah 53:5; Romans 3:9-18; 5:12-21;Ephesians 2:1-3.
5. We believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate, fully God and fully man, that He was conceived and born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, and offered himself as a substitutionary sacrifice for sinners. By the blood of His cross He obtained for us eternal redemption, the forgiveness of sins, and life everlasting. He was raised bodily on the third day and ascended to the right hand of the Father, there to make intercession for the saints. Matthew 1:18-25; John 1:1-18; Romans 8:34; 1 Corinthians 15:1-28; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 3:10-14; Ephesians 1:7; Philippians 2:6-11; Colossians 1:15-23; Hebrews 7:25; 9:13-15; 10:19; 1 Peter 2:21-25; 1 John 2:1-2.
6. We believe that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. We believe repentance from sin is a necessary response God’s grace. The saving grace of God, through the power of the Holy Spirit, sanctifies us as we obey the word of God. We are pleasing to God. We are progressively conformed to the image of Christ as we resist the stronghold lies of the enemy and walk in the spirit and not the flesh. John 1:12-13; 6:37-44; 10:25-30; Acts 16:30-31; Romans 3-4; 8:1-17, 31-39; 10:8-10; Ephesians 2:8-10; Philippians 2:12-13; Titus 3:3-7; 1 John 1:7,9, 2 Corinthians 10:1-4.
7. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ baptizes believers in the Holy Spirit, in whom also we are sealed for the day of redemption. The Holy Spirit regenerates, indwells, empowers to give witness to Jesus and testifies to our spirit that we are the children of God. We believe that signs and wonders, as well as all the gifts of the Spirit described in the New Testament, are operative today and are designed to testify to the presence of the kingdom and to empower and edify the church to fulfill its calling and mission. Matthew 3:11; John 1:12-13; 3:1-15; Acts 4:29-30; Romans 8:9; 12:3-8; 1Corinthians 12:12-13; 2 Corinthians 1:21-22; Galatians 3:1-5; Ephesians 1:13-14; 5:18.
8. We believe that water baptism and the Lord’s Supper are to be observed until the time of Christ’s return. They are not a means of salvation but are channels of God’s sanctifying grace and blessing to the faithful in Christ Jesus. We believe all God’s people are qualified to lead these two functions of worship and service to the Lord Jesus and His people. Matthew 26:26-29; 28:19; Romans 6:3-11; 1 Corinthians 11:23-34; 1 Peter 3:21.
9. We believe that the church is God’s primary instrument through which He is fulfilling His purposes in the earth. To equip the saints for the work of ministry, God has given the church apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers. We also affirm the priesthood of all believers and the importance of every follower of Jesus being joined with and actively involved in a local community of Jesus followers. We believe that women, no less than men, are called and gifted to lead, proclaim the gospel and do the works of the kingdom. Matthew 16:17-19; Acts 2:17-18,42; Ephesians 3:14-21; 4:11-16; Hebrews 10:23-25; 1 Peter 2:4-5,9-10.
10. We believe that God has called the church to preach the gospel to all nations, and especially to remember the poor and to minister to their needs through sacrificial giving and practical service. This ministry is an expression of the heart of the Lord Jesus Christ and is an essential part of the kingdom of God. Isaiah 58:6-12; 61:1; Matthew 28:18-20; Luke 4:18; 21:1-4; Galatians 2:10; 1 Timothy 6:8.
11. We believe in the second coming of Christ at the end of the age when He will return to the earth personally and visibly to consummate His kingdom. We also believe in and are praying for a great harvest of souls and the emergence of a victorious church at the end of the age that will experience an unprecedented purity and power in the Holy Spirit to preach the gospel as a “witness to all nations, and then the end will come.” Psalms 2:7-9; 22:27-28; Mathew 24:14; John 14:12; 17:20-26; Romans 11:25-32; 1 Corinthians 15:20-28,50-58; Ephesians 4:11-16; Philippians 3:20-21; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11; 2 Thessalonians 1:3-12; Revelation 7:9-14.
12. We believe that when the Christian dies he/she passes immediately into the blessed presence of Christ, there to enjoy conscious fellowship with the Savior until the day of the resurrection and glorious transformation of the body. The saved will then forever dwell in blissful fellowship with their great Triune God. We also believe that when the unbeliever dies he/she is consigned to hell, there to await the day of judgment when he/she shall be punished with eternal, conscious separation from the presence of God. Matthew 25:46; Luke 16:19-31; John 5:25-29; 1 Corinthians 5:35-58; 2 Corinthians 5:1-10; Philippians 1:19-26; 3:20-21; 2 Thessalonians 1:5-10; Revelation 20:11-15; 21:1-22:15.

Philosophy of Ministry

Three Non-Negotiables of All Nations

Love God - Passionate Spirituality.

We are committed to living a life of prayer and devotion to Jesus, worship as a way of life, finding our identity and security in Jesus, fasting and prayer, listening to God’s voice, walking in the power of the Spirit and not the flesh, cultivating brokenness and repentance before others, and living for the glory of God in the earth above all things. God speaks to His children in many ways. He gives spiritual gifts to the church, and as His children discern God’s voice and obey it, His spirit’s power is released in greater and greater dimensions. We believe Christ in us is the hope of glory for the nations, therefore we recognize our desperate need to experience intimacy with Jesus on a daily basis.

Love Each Other - Authentic Relationships.

We are committed to authentic relationships by building genuine friendships, not just working relationships; by working in teams not just as individuals; by being transparent and broken before others, not hiding our sins; by cultivating accountability to one another, not being independent; by living from the heart, not hiding behind masks; by working through conflicts, not withdrawing from one another; by being submissive to our leaders, not going it alone; and by investing in discipling relationships, not presuming that we are all doing well. Being authentic in our relationships means going beyond clichés and superficial ways of relating to honesty and transparency. Authentic relationships means resisting strongholds and repenting from flesh patterns that keep us from trusting and loving those God calls us to serve and work beside. Authentic relationship means inviting others to help us see and overcome “flesh patterns” of behavior in our lives and the stronghold lies that empower them. We believe in celebrating life with each other, and look forward to growing old together as we love Jesus passionately and live for His purposes in the earth.

Love the Lost - Life-giving Evangelism.

We are committed to sharing Jesus daily with those who don’t know him, with a goal of making disciples, training leaders and planting self-multiplying churches. We believe every person we meet deserves a chance to know Jesus and spend eternity in heaven. We are aware that very human being is separated from God through personal sin and brokenness. The result of sin is death: profound pain and deep longing for fulfillment. We believe there is no way to heaven and no way to be free from sin unless a person consciously places their faith in Jesus as their personal savior. Life giving evangelism recognizes the need to tell people about Jesus in personal and respectful ways, while recognizing that the truth will be offensive to those who resist God’s grace. Life giving evangelism seeks to lead people to repentance and wholeness by emphasizing the goodness and kindness of God. We believe sharing Jesus through building friendships with people and inviting them into a community of fully devoted followers of Jesus is the most powerful witness there is to the love of God.

All Nations’ Church Planting Values

Focus on Neglected Peoples - We believe that God is biased towards the poor, the unreached and those who have been ignored or overlooked. God is a Father, and good fathers give special attention to those of their children who need them most. The poor, the unreached and the ignored don’t have the normal choices that others have. They desperately need the Father’s love. We agree with Jesus’ desire to “do what I see the Father doing” (John 5:19), by having a special emphasis on the neglected peoples of the earth. We know that God’s desire is for all people to know and love Him, so we encourage church planting all over the earth, including the Europe and North America.

Honor For Host Cultures – Paul said about Jesus, “…who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a servant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.” Philippians 2:2-8

It is the incarnational example of Jesus that motivates us to enter host cultures as servants. We believe there are expressions of God in every culture that are to be discovered and redeemed (Acts 17:24-28). It is not our desire to export a western culture, but to bring Jesus into the context and cultures we are called to serve.

Personal Discipleship - The goal of discipleship is to know, love and obey the Lord Jesus, and to reproduce the life and ministry of Jesus in others. Church planting movements are built by those who invest their time and resources in making disciples and training leaders.

Team Ministry – We believe small teams of 4-8 preferably are most effective for establishing church planting movements. Teams teach people to trust from the heart, enhance covenant relationships, give credibility to our values and vision, help create a corporate culture, teach the importance of collaboration, empower people for service, allows for accountability and creates a learning community. Team leadership is an outworking of what Paul did when he appointed elders to lead the churches he planted. Teams are able to utilize the variety of giftings that the different members possess.

Indigenous Leadership - All Nations is committed to establishing church planting movements that are led by indigenous leaders. For that reason, an emphasis is placed on identifying and equipping those whom God has chosen to lead new churches from the very beginning of a church planting effort.

Holistic Approach - We believe in the “two handed gospel” i.e., of meeting both felt needs and spiritual needs. It is hard to hear the gospel with an empty stomach or untreated illness. We believe we earn the right to be heard by showing God’s love in practical ways. We seek a balanced ministry that serves people practically, and shares Jesus personally.

Self-Multiplying Local Churches - Our goal is to small, easily reproducible churches that reproduce and plant other churches. Our vision is raise up movements of churches among the people groups we are called to reach.

Following Biblical Patterns - We are learning from and following the example of the early apostles in how they built and nurtured church planting movements. The church in Acts 2:42-47 inspires us to believe for the same experience today.

Pioneering New Locations -Jesus said: “This gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all nations (people groups), and then the end will come.” (Matt 24:14). By focusing on those peoples who have never heard the gospel, we believe we are partnering with Jesus in His heart’s desire for all peoples, tribes and tongues to be worshipping before His throne for all eternity.

All Nations’ Distinctives

• Seasoned, experienced leaders
• Field based decision making
• Church planting focus
• Welcome the presence of the Holy Spirit
• Local church oriented
• Care well for our people
• Celebrate life together

All Nations Objectives

Make Disciples

Jesus chose personal discipleship as the primary way he gathered, trained and birthed a worldwide movement of followers to live for his glory. Discipleship is a relational process of equipping and empowering people to joyfully obey Jesus by deliberately imparting to others what God has given them. It is laboring in prayer and personal investment to see Christ formed in the people we are called to reach with the good news. The goal of making disciples is reproducing the life and ministry of Jesus in others, just as Jesus multiplied his life and ministry in us.

Train Leaders

The church needs bold, risk taking leaders. Such men and women are modern day apostles. Their leadership is desperately needed. They search for opportunities to change things. They break new ground and lay new foundations. They are not satisfied with doing church as usual. They look for innovative ways to take the church into new territory of spiritual influence. Inspired by what God has put in their heart, they experiment and take risks. The church needs the vitality and inspiration such leaders bring to the body of Christ. It is our commitment in All Nations to welcome such leaders and encourage their growth and development. We pray God will help us find such leaders and invest in their lives. All Nations has a vision of being a movement of movements led by such leaders.

Plant Church Planting Churches

Because it is the will of God to have a people for Himself, we can engage in church planting with the confidence that all the forces of heaven are backing us. God endorses those who seek to raise up a people for the sake of his name. He wants us to be successful in discipling and gathering new believers into kingdom communities because it brings Him glory and spreads the fame of His name throughout the earth.

Church Planting Experience (CPx)

Background

The purpose of CPx is to ensure that prospective All Nations members are prepared to fulfill the mission their calling of reaching people with the gospel.

This requirement is necessary to help our teams be trained in the same vision and values, so everyone is on the same page in their efforts to birth and nurture church planting movements. It also allows the All Nations leaders to get to know new team members and help them be the most effective that they can be on the field. We believe that 9 months is a short requirement to help prepare for a lifetime of effective service.

Philosophy of Training

We believe that evaluated experience is the best teacher. Our goal is to provide a learning environment in which students will learn from Godly teachers, classroom discussion, cell group participation, book reviews, and overseas short-term experience. Planting house churches among unreached people groups play an important part in the training, as they provide an opportunity to live “here” what we plan to do “there.” House church participation, along with classroom teaching and times of coaching and feedback, provide a learning environment where future church planters are given the tools needed for long-term service on the field.

School of Church Planting Learning Objectives

Biblical foundations – the mission of God
Character formation
Team skills
Church Planting models and principles
Cross cultural training
Field debriefing and preparation

How does the role of All Nations differ from that of your sending church?

All Nations is not a local church or sending agency. We are a fellowship of affiliated churches and church planters. All Nations’ support staff are available to assist sending churches in developing their missions vision, strategy and member care philosophy.

All Nations support staff work closely with sending churches to care for their members, and in some cases, supplements pastoral care for members. Our passion is to see local churches train and prepare their own missionaries and become deeply involved in their lives.

The role of the sending church:

• Commissioning / Ordination
• Interview, approve, and send with blessing
• Financial Support
• Monthly communication
• Crisis care
• Prayer Backing
• Assistance in sending prayer letters, etc.
• Ongoing care on the field
• On site annual visits
• Debriefing/reentry support for furloughs and home leaves
• Crisis intervention
• Annual field conferences

Serving Our Members

How does All Nations serve our members? All Nations serves members in the following ways:

1. Administration - All Nations provides legal covering and in some cases, crisis intervention for those on the field. This includes regular communication to each member, assistance in planning furloughs, and training for personal support raising.
2. Financial Services - All Nations provides a full range of financial services for its’ members. We process financial support for our members and work closely with each person or couple in regard to issues of health care, retirement planning, furloughs, budget development, life insurance, etc.
3. In service training – Courses are offered on a regular basis for ongoing education for our members. All Nations staff work closely with team leaders to provide ongoing leader development.
4. Strategy development – Church planting coaches are available to our members. This service is done online and through field visits. Team building exercises and conflict mediation is also available. CP coaches are also available in helping new team members write a “memorandum of understanding” to define expectations, roles and responsibilities.
5. Member Care - All Nations member care services include annual field visits, monthly e-mail reports, once a year field conferences, team building assistance during home leaves, debriefing, and furlough planning. In addition, assistance is provided to member’s sending churches in developing their member care philosophy and skills. Support staff is available to train local church mission pastors, and/or spend time with senior pastors and elder boards to encourage vision and understanding for church planting strategies and philosophy.
6. Recruiting and Mobilization – The AN support team is available to assist members with short term teams, interviewing and screening potential team members, and helping churches with similar vision connect with our members. We believe communications to and from the field is vital to increase both awareness and support for our members.

Short-term teams are sent each year through Global Storm to work with church planting teams. Our goal is well-equipped, self-contained teams that serve, not drain, the workers on the field. We believe that through these trips, some will decide to make a long term commitment to cross cultural church planting, and someday join existing teams on the field. Hopefully, other short termers will return home with a new understanding and passion for the mission of God. All Nations works with sending churches with similar vision and values to help release more resources for the field.

All Nations Ministries

Global Storm – Short Term Outreaches

Global Aid - Serving neglected peoples through community development and primary health care.

All Nations Training Center - Preparing workers for the harvest field.

Rest for All Nations - Missions retreat center for All Nations members on furlough.

Contact Information

Please find our details online at www.all-nations.info