eXtreme Walk

One of my best friends during our time in Spain was a guy by the name of Paul Cox. We normally got together for coffee once a week to share life, pray for one another and hold each other accountable. He is up to some new things lately. I recently talked to him about eXtreme Walk. Check it out!

What exactly is eXtreme Walk?

eXtreme Walk is a formative 10 month cross-cultural church multiplication
and discipleship experience.

Formative: Our prayer is that the Lord will form you in new and immense  ways to be totally His. We hope to inspire you to catch a global and local vision for making disciples and multiplying churches. We want you to be malleable clay in the hands of the Lord.

10 month: The first three months are devoted to intense language
acquisition and culture learning on location. The following seven months
are for you to learn from local church planters to multiply local
churches. This is a spiritual, relational, and incarnational ministry.

Cross-cultural: Through eXtreme Walk, you are sent and received into a
community with different values, customs, and worldviews. This community
has different strengths and weaknesses than your native community. Church
multiplication: Through evangelism and discipleship, eXtreme Walkers work
to start worshipping bodies of believers that start other worshipping
bodies of believers.

Discipleship: In eXtreme Walk you will both learn (from local church
multipliers) and teach (persons in the local community). This will provide
you with multiple opportunities to both grow as a disciple as well as make
disciples. We hope you will give prayerful consideration to leading other
young missionaries on eXtreme Walk after you return from your first
eXtreme Walk experience.

Experience: Learn hands on by observing and doing, with the freedom to
learn from failure. This takes initiative, responsibility, humility, and a continual focus on Jesus.

What will I do on XW?
eXtreme Walk is an opportunity to learn from and serve alongside local
church planters. What you do will involve being trained by the locals to
share the gospel and make disciples in their culture, language, and
community. Sharing the gospel can take many different forms – all of which
depend on prayer for effectiveness. Embodying Christ’s love along with
local Christians is a major part of this. You will live among the people
you seek to reach with the wholeness that Jesus brings. Making disciples
involves investing yourself – your time, your energy, your life – into a
few faithful, available, and teachable disciples. Our prayer is for you to
share the gospel extensively and invest yourself intensively in a few
people while the local workers and other missionaries invest in you.

Paul  is now the Director of Recruitment for  One Mission Society. If you have an interest in eXtreme Walk then he says give him a call at 317.888.3333 or send him an email at pcox@onemissionsociety.org