Dave Hunt brings Missional Discipleship to Kansas City Jan. 23-25

For 50 plus years CityTeam has practiced “missional” Christianity. From their early beginnings in San Jose to the urban environs of San Francisco, Oakland, Portland, Seattle, and Philadelphia, CityTeam has incarnated the love of Christ among women and children living in poverty, addicts struggling with drug abuse, inner city youth and even to disaster relief.

In 2003 the leadership of CityTeam came to a bold realization. Not unlike the the claim in Mike Breen’s provocative post Why the Missional Movement Will Fail, the CityTeam leadership team realized that if they didn’t leave the “bride of Christ” where they practice incarnating the love of Jesus, they were not doing the work of Christ.

It was not long after that, City Team had a divine collision with David Watson an innovator in the practice of CPM (church planting movements) in India. The potent mixture of City Team’s missional activities stirred together with Watson’s counter intuitive take on Jesus’ discipleship practices started a quiet revolution.

Internally they “confronted the brutal facts” which meant admiting that they were doing lots of good but they were not making disciple makers as Jesus commanded. This internal confrontation lead to a complete overhaul of everything they do.

First with alliances in east and west Africa then Indonesia, India and South America. And ultimately the adoption of CPMprinciples in their North American work in San Jose and Oakland. Verifiable Church planting revolutions have taken place outside the North American context and now City Team leads the charge in asking, “Can CPMs (disciple making movements) happen in North America?”

In North America they re-engineered their recovery, youth, homeless, single mom and every other initiative they were involved in to focus on finding persons of peace, building small communities of obedience around the Bible and practiced leading from behind rather than in front. They made the last command of Jesus their first obligation so that all of their missional efforts to bring justice, economic equity, relieve pain and suffering were now infused with disciple making.

And now disciple making movements (CPM/church planting movements in North America) are beginning to emerge in San Jose, Oakland, and Philadelphia. Through these efforts and in close partnership with their International cohorts, they have learned which principles are supra-cultural and which must be contextualize, what persons of peace look and feel like in western culture and how the discovery process can be established in a social network.

Dave Hunt who led the charge in the Horn of Africa (click revolutions above to read his research on the results in the Horn) and now is City Team’s leader for North America will be in Kansas City January 23-25, 2012 to share what City Team is learning about disciple making movements and how we might stimulate movements in the North American context.

Join the conversation with Dave Hunt and 3 of his colleagues, Hermie Smith and Ricardo Pinera from San Jose and Delroy Oakley from Philadelphia. These men have some of the most current experience in the application of CPM principles in North America. In 3 days of hands on, upclose, conversation, they will share what they know and what they don’t know about disciple making movement in our culture.

You are needed in this conversation!

Registration is open here.http://conta.cc/t9UCX0