I believe in giving formation to emerging leaders not just information. There is a place for teaching young leaders, but the primary way young leaders are are developed is through empowering relationships. That requires time and investment of our lives.

We strive to do that by discernment, selection, investment and celebration. Trust must be given, and time must be spent coaching and giving feedback. Our assumption is that leaders are not grown through experience but through evaluated experience. Check out the pictures that introduce you to some of the guys we are investing in.

Bruce in the back ground facing the camera, Vuyani is the white hat, and Sibu in the foreground - all on top of Table Mountain during a worship and celebration time. Bruce is the leader for Ten Days for Jesus,  a summer camp we run each year in December at the start of the summer holiday season. Vuyani and Sibu are guys we have met in Red Hill and Masiphumelele where we minister.



Below - I'm with Eric. Eric is a awesome young man from Limpopo who has given up everything to work full time in Red Hill. Eric is a natural evangelist and church planter and a young man of wonderful character.



Below: Eric and Petrus - two young leaders who are working in Red Hill. Both young men are graduates of CPx, our leadership training program.

Every morning when I open my emails and read letters with news of people's prayers and gifts, I am deeply moved and encouraged. It builds my faith.

I confess it is quite easy for me to experience unbelief. I don't seem to have to work at it…when I think about the economic mess we experience right now in the world, and when I look at the faith steps we are taking, unbelief tends to creep in.

But when I pray, and when I reflect on the promises of God, and when I remember it is for Africa that we are interceding, then faith stirs in my heart. A friend once said to me, "If you intercede to God for people, then you have authority to intercede to people for people."

It is for Africa that I intercede right now. Not for us, or for a property, but for Africa. So I boldly ask you, would you prayerfully consider a year-end gift for Africa?

If you did not read my last letter, we are trusting God for a leadership training center. We have signed a purchase agreement to buy a property with wonderful facilities. We will use it for leadership training, to house students and emerging leaders, to host outreach teams, and to run a trade school.

There are two ways you can help us:

1. One is to pray. I really mean that – I believe there is power in prayer.

2. The other is to give a gift. I have asked people to consider a gift of $1000 (R10,000), but no gift is too small.

I asked last week for 200 people to give a gift. Quite a few people have responded. Thank you!

Yours for Africa,

Floyd

To send your gift:

USA: Send your check made out to All Nations to All Nations Support, c/o Walsh and Washburn, Attn: Mark Smith, 5360 College Boulevard, Suite 100, Overland Park Kansas 66211 Please attach a note saying it is for property purchase in South Africa.

South Africa or Europe:
Standard Bank, All Nations Account #072110619, Fish Hoek Branch: #03-6009-80, Address: 77 Main Rd., Fish Hoek 7975, South Africa Telephone: +27-21-748 1817 Swift Number: (for international bank transfers) SBZAZAJJ. Mark your gift "Property" in the reference line. Gifts from Europe should be sent in Pounds or Euro, not Rand.

THANK YOU!

Hello,

Every year they have a "big wave" surfing contest here in Cape Town. It's hard to imagine surfing in Africa, but there are some huge waves that come crashing on the shores of the Cape of "Good Hope." The largest wave ever ridden in Africa, and maybe the world, was surfed by a guy earlier this year very close to where we live. It was over 75 feet tall on the face of the wave! It was scary to look at, believe me!

For Sally and me and the rest of our team it feels like we're riding the biggest wave of our lives as well. We just signed a purchase offer to buy a property that will serve as a leadership-training base and trade school for All Nations in Africa. The offer was accepted and signed yesterday by the owner.

We have to have the finances to complete the purchase by December 15th. That means we need over $200,000 (R2Million) in ten days time. We believe God wants us to be debt free on this property. That will allow us to give scholarships to many African leaders who are coming in February for the next CPx leaders school.

Already over $200,000 has come in for the property. That's a little more than two million South African Rand!! Several large gifts were given in South Africa. I am asking you to join your faith and sacrifice with Sally and me and our team, and with those who have already given, to help us complete the purchase debt free.

Help us ride this "big wave" would you?

If you break it down, that is only 200 people giving US $1000 each, or the equivalent in Rand or Euros (R10, 000 or Euros 900). In the next ten days.

But most of the money is going to come through those who gift $1000 dollar or R10, 000 size gifts. Would you pray about being one of those people? I believe God for one person to give $50,000 (R500,000) and a few others to give large gifts as well.

Just to be clear about the vision, this money is for a training center for equipping African leaders. We're launching a thousand African leaders into Africa in the next ten years. The focus is training leaders with job skills and Godly character to reach the poor and the unreached of this continent. It is a sustainable model of leaders discipling leaders while serving as tent-makers, working like the Apostle Paul did, to bring in their income.

The outcome of this vision is a goal to start discipleship based church planting movements among the 300 million unreached peoples of Africa who have never heard the name of Jesus – that includes 270 million Muslims.

We are not interested in a model of ministry dependent on buildings. The churches we start meet in homes and in the open fields and in offices and schools. We call it simple church – simple because it is a discipleship model based on training potential leaders in small, simple, easily reproducible churches of 10-20 people. All Nations has started hundreds of these simple churches already in Africa and different parts of the world.

We are committed to sustainability – that is, training leaders to support themselves with job skills while we equip them to be servant leaders. It is incredible to see the response of those we have already trained. I sat with a small group of Zimbabwean young men in a simple church last week, led by Munyaradzi, one of the African leaders who graduated from our leadership school. We trained Munyaradzi and he is now training others.

What will transform Africa? A grassroots, simple church movement of leaders discipling leaders in small groups, who in turn raise-up more leaders. In the market-place, in schools, in shops, in shacks, everywhere. The movement has already begun.

What will transform Africa is godly leaders who don't come with their hand out for money, who have learned to support themselves through trade skills, and who move into Africa making disciples, transforming one life and one family and one village at a time.

Please help us, would you? Help us train and send this kind of leader. Help us change Africa one leader and one life at a time. Please send your gift of R10,000 or Euro900 or $1,000. We need your help to ride this big wave!

Thank you,

Floyd and Sally McClung

To send your gift:

USA:
Send your check made out to All Nations to All Nations Support, c/o Walsh and Washburn, Attn: Mark Smith, 5360 College Boulevard, Suite 100, Overland Park Kansas 66211 Please attach a note saying it is for property purchase in South Africa.

South Africa or Europe:
Standard Bank, All Nations Account #072110619, Fish Hoek Branch: #03-6009-80, Address: 77 Main Rd., Fish Hoek 7975, South Africa Telephone: +27-21-748 1817 Swift Number: (for international bank transfers) SBZAZAJJ. Mark your gift "Property" in the reference line. Gifts from Europe should be sent in Pounds or Euro, not Rand. THANK YOU!December 2008 Cape Town, South Africa

Floyd speaks to a group of church leaders in Northeast Scotland about how to start a movement in their area. Though the illustrations he uses and the information he draws is from the area of Scotland where he is speaking, the power of what he teaches applies anywhere.

Check out this new 3 part series from October 2008 on the Media Page.

Hello,

I thought I should share some news and prayer fuel for Red Hill... this is the community where a fire destroyed many homes and wrecked havoc in many people's lives last February. We have been involved in serving the people of Red Hill and spreading the good news of Jesus there since the fires took place. There are new house churches, but also new challenges. I would like to ask you to consider taking a day or a couple days and commit to pray and fast on behalf of the people of Red Hill .

A passage that was impressed on one of our community members for Red Hill is ISAIAH 62.

As you pray I encourage you to meditate on this passage and let the Lord speak to you through it.

- Please pray for the promises given so many years ago through Isaiah to come true in Red Hill.

- Please pray for transformation of the community, that every aspect of people's lives would be changed.  As Isaiah said, let's "give the Lord no rest until he completes his work."  Please thank God with us for the many wonderful changes already taking place in Red Hill. Gardens have been planted, jobs have been created and found, and people have been set free from alcohol, drugs and sexual addictions. House churches have been started. A leadership team from the community has been selected and is functioning to give a measure of governance for the people.

Here are some other prayer points regarding Red Hill:

- Strengthening, deepening and envisioning of the house churches. Pray for leaders of Godly character and faithfulness to be raised up in each church. Pray for the churches to multiply through discipleship.

- Pray for our All Nations team working in Red Hill, for faith, for financial provision, and for a "bakkie" (pickup truck) to take them back and forth and to haul supplies. Pray for team members Alexander, Joanna, Petrus, Eric, Gawie, and Bruce. Pray for financial provision, for love, humility, and unity. Pray also protection from crime and disease. For the team to grow in devotion to the Lord, and grace to accomplish all Father desires of them.

- The continuous cry for work by the young men in Red Hill. They are desperate to find jobs.

- Nomandla, age 34, due to deliver her baby today by Cesarean. She has diabetes and high blood pressure that could jeopardize the baby's safe delivery and life. She has had two pregnancies before and both times the baby died. Pray for safe delivery and a healthy child. 3 times she's been taken in to hospital and 3 times she's been denied a bed. Please pray that she would get a bed. She and the father want to get married but are hindered by the lobola – the bride price one must pay for marrying a daughter - and the fact that he is not yet a Christian. Pray for breakthrough in this area. Pray he will fall under conviction and give his life totally to Jesus!

- Strengthening of the many young believers in Red Hill especially David with his history of alcoholism and rejection. Pray for Thandisizwe who has turned away and is now running a shabeen. The pull of the world is strong for him.

- Pray for Michelle, Maggie's daughter who's interested in Jesus, but giving into temptations. Pray for restoration of relationship with her mother and that she would find the love of Christ in her own life.

- Pray for Asanda and Wonder. Asanda recently got a job in response to prayer and we praise God for that! These young men need prayer to rise and be the young leaders we believe God wants them to be. Also pray for Bantu. He is a smart young guy with a family to care for and recently lost his job. Pray that he would both meet Jesus in a special way (we see leadership potential in him) and that God would provide for him and his family. Pray for him for a job.

- Pray for the raising up of more young leaders for the house churches.

- Pray for an increase in the presence and love of Jesus to prevail and spread throughout Red Hill community, also the fear of God to permeate the community... we long that this would be a Godly community, fully devoted to the Lord.

- Pray for the finances to build a community center that will be used for job skills training, celebration services for the house churches, and weddings and community meetings.

Thank you! It means so much to us that you stand with us for God's work to be done in Red Hill. Over the years there have been many impressions given to people while praying that a move of God would take place from Red Hill-Cape Town - all the way to Cairo. Red Hill is the southern most community in all of Cape Town. We believe God wants to raise up the poor to spread the good news all over Africa - even to Cairo!

With gratitude,

Floyd and Sally

P.S. We are once again meeting with the owner of the property that we would like to buy for a training center. It will serve as home base for All Nations, and will include facilities for a trade school, church planting training, seminars for potential business people from the townships, and more. PLEASE PRAY!

Some of our friends think Sally and I are crazy. Firstly, in 2006 we moved to South Africa, with one of the highest violent crime rates in the world. Secondly, supposedly we are promoting “house churches,” a form of church that is more a “reaction” than it is real church.

In an effort to help you and others understand what we are up to, I thought it would be good to share with you our core beliefs, what some call core values, and how we try to live out those core values in what we call our “core practices.” We often share our stories in this website, but I felt it would be good to share what’s behind those stories.

Three “Inner Beliefs” Guide Us

There are three “inner beliefs” that guide us in all we do. We try to allow our core values to guide the decisions we make and inspire the risks we take. We believe these three core beliefs don’t originate with us but flow out of the heart of God and the purposes He has set for Himself on the earth. They flow together in one seamless connection; no one of these core beliefs can be lived without embracing and living the others as well. Obeying these beliefs in the power of the Holy Spirit is the engine that keeps us going. Our core beliefs are based on Jesus’ teaching in John 15. They are as follows:

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  Intimacy – Intimacy, or “abiding” as Jesus described it in John 15, means a lifestyle of daily personal devotion, including prayer, fasting, reading the Word of God, and receiving the Father’s love. We try to make Jesus the source and goal of all we are and do. As a result of experiencing His love, we long to see the grace and mercy we have found in Jesus spread to others wherever there is poverty, injustice and spiritual darkness.

  
  

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  Community – Jesus said in John 15, “…love one another…that your joy may be full.” Sharing our lives with those who carry the same desires and longings of knowing and sharing Jesus is not just a noble idea to us, but the very purpose of the church. We have embraced the command of Jesus to love one another, disciple one another, and together to reach out to those who don’t know Him. We love His church and seek to ‘turn it inside out’ as we reach out to the poor and the unreached – and to do that as we

  
  

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  Mission – We are on mission with God. That is not just rhetoric to us in All Nations. It is God’s mission and it is a privilege to join His mission. He is the source and goal of His mission and we believe He has commissioned us, all of us for that matter, to join Him. He warned His disciples in John 15 that they would face opposition and persecution as they bore witness to Him in the world. That doesn’t happen if we do nothing to spread to good news of Jesus, but if we get involved with the poor, or stand up for those suffering injustice, or reach those who are closed off behind the walls of religious fanaticism and political oppression with the good news of Jesus, then we will experience the hatred Jesus warned about in John 15. Jesus is at work to reach out to those in hard places in our planet, and we gratefully accept His gracious invitation to join Him in doing so. We see Him at work to build His church through book of Acts type of movements where He is breaking into those so-called “closed countries.”

  
  

Everything we do in our church planting, working with the poor and the training programs and leadership equipping we do is aimed at preparing people to create communities that change people’s lives. We are burdened to reach “all nations.”

The three beliefs described above are at the core of who we are and what we are trying to do. To be accountable in our obedience to those core beliefs and to give them practical expression, we have adopted the following five “core practices.” They are like the wooden ties, the “sleepers” as some people call them, that railroad rails lie on. These core practices keep us focused and on track. By “staying on the tracks” we keep focused on our calling. By following the five core practices in all the various programs and projects we are involved in, we keep moving forward in the same direction. We do a lot to serve the poor. We rescue babies, do AIDS awareness and prevention, volunteers in hospices, conduct skills training programs in schools and community centers, run sports programs for youth, do job creation and and help young entrepreneurs get started, teach the poor to save and budget, and much more! Following the five core practices outlined below keep us unified in the rich diversity that is All Nations.

Five Core Practices

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  Prayer – We believe we are totally dependent on God as we seek to plant the seed of the good news in people’s hearts. That dependency is expressed in personal and corporate prayer, in both intercession and worship. We have experienced that God answers our prayers when we cry out to Him, especially when we pray and act on behalf of the poor. Through listening prayer He inspires us to discover new and effective ways to serve the communities, cities, peoples and nations where we are called. Through prayer and spending time alone with God He gives new strength to carry out our dreams, to stay faithful when we are discouraged. Through prayer we are enabled to experience the gentle conviction of the Holy Spirit when we sin, become proud or critical, or commit any other sin that grieves God or hurts people. Listening to God gives us the grace we need to confess our sins to Him and to others and to receive His forgiveness. Through prayer, God encourages us to understand how He wants to use our gifts, passions and abilities to serve the poor.

  
  

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  Meeting people – We are called to go to people, not ask them to come to us. We call this “incarnational versus attractional mission.” Jesus came to people. He left His home in heaven and came to us. In other words, we seek to get among people where they live. We see this as “turning church inside out” by going to people rather than asking the people to come to the church. We believe we have been commissioned to tell people about Jesus and his offer of forgiveness for sin – where they live and work and do life. We believe in doing church where people are. We seek to walk and live among people, particularly those who don’t know Jesus. We are carriers of good news, and we seek to share that good news in every relationship and every community where we work, live and serve. That includes every nation/people we seek to reach.

  
  

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  How do we do that? We begin by sharing our stories, we speak of Jesus, what our lives were like before we met Jesus, how we came to faith in Jesus, and the difference He has made in our lives. We are committed to telling people about the loving rule of the God who has come to set them free and restore purpose and hope to their lives. We look for and give special attention to “good soil” hearts that are open to receive this good news while we continue to serve those who are too broken or hard to receive from us. As we meet people who don’t know Jesus, we also seek to meet their needs in practical expressions of service and compassion.

  
  

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  Making disciples – We are committed to obeying Jesus’ command to, “…go, teach, baptize and make disciples of all nations,” and equally, to obey His command to “…love your neighbor as your self.” (Matthew 23:19, 28:19-20). He commanded us to make disciples, and to teach our disciples to make disciples. He commanded us to serve those less fortunate than ourselves. His commands to make disciples and to serve others starts for us when we meet get involved with people, and it continues as we invest in their lives and teach them to love and obey Jesus.

  
  

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  We make disciples by following the example and teachings of Jesus: he started a new way of church by gathering a few followers and teaching them to teach others also, who in turn passed on the good news to still others. Remember, Jesus was not trying to start a meeting, but He was launching a movement. We seek to follow the same pattern of Jesus by gathering those we meet who are open to Jesus with others who are open to Jesus in Bible studies, and as they grow, to turn those Bible studies into simple churches that help them grow in God’s love as they obey His commands. We begin with the end in sight: a multiplying movement that is made up of small, easily reproducible simple churches led by non-professionals. We believe every disciple can start a simple church, and that many of our disciples can lead a church planting movement. We treat them like that, and you know what, many of them believe it too?! And they are living up to our expectations!

  
  

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  Gathering in simple churches – A simple church is two or three or more people who have come to faith in Jesus and who seek to obey His commands. As we do these core practices of prayer, meeting people who don’t know Jesus, and making disciples, we then seek to gather those who are open to Jesus in simple churches. Simple churches begin as we gather a few people to study the words of Jesus, to pray for each other and to share their Jesus story with others who don’t know Jesus. The goal of gathering in simple churches is not only to grow together, but for each disciple to start more simple churches that start still more simple churches. Simple churches begin wherever people are open to Jesus: any day, any time, and any location. Where possible and when helpful, we encourage networks of simple churches in a region to gather for celebrations of corporate worship and prayer.

  
  

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  Multiplying movements of simple churches - The goal of meeting people who don’t know Jesus and making disciples is to start simple churches that rapidly reproduce into a movement of simple churches that are preaching the Kingdom of God and transforming the lives of people in practical ways. We don’t seek to plant one church at a time through “addition,” but to initiate church planting movements through “multiplication.” Our role is to initiate a few simple churches and then coach local leaders who lead and multiply the movement.

  
  

This is our dream. Fortunately, it is not our dream alone, but God’s dream. He longs to have sons and daughters who love and obey Him. We have aligned our lives with His mission, His dream.

To learn more about what we’re doing, you can order a copy of my new book, You See Bones – I See an Army. Or watch the six minute video about All Nations found on the Media page of this website. If you would like to help us reach and train a new army of leaders for Africa and the Middle and Asia, write to us today.

Are we crazy? We’re crazy about Jesus! And we are crazy enough to believe that He wants to change the world, one life, one village, one family and township and city and nation at a time.

God bless,

Floyd and Sally McClung

Several years ago, while we were still living in Kansas City, I felt a desire growing in my heart.  It was pretty simple and straight forward......a desire to live by the water.  I must say that I couldn't understand it!  Here we were, living in Kansas City in the middle of the U.S.  You couldn't be much further from the water!

I wondered if it was something going back to my childhood.  I grew up in Galveston, Texas - an island.  The Gulf of Mexico was about a mile from my home.

I tried to forget about this desire, ignore it, think it would go away.......but it got stronger.  I really didn't know what to do about it, except to pray and give it back to the Lord.  As I did this, I became increasingly convinced that it was of Him, but I just didn't understand it.

If you are reading this you will know that we now live in Cape Town, South Africa - an ocean city.  When we moved here and began looking/searching/praying for where we would live, I kept thinking of that desire that had been in my heart.  It could be that God was preparing me for our move to Cape Town, but I wondered if there was more to it.  The end result is that we have ended up in a neighborhood that's on the Atlantic side of the Cape Peninsula.......looking out at the ocean about a mile away.  It's still hard for me to believe how specifically the Lord prepared my heart for the change that was to come in our lives.

One of my delights is looking out at our ever-changing view of the water and mountains.......and thinking about how what I'm seeing reflects different aspects of God and His character.  Beautiful, peaceful, calm, stormy, awesome colors, majestic, ever-changing yet solid and firm, cloudy, sunny, rainy, windy.  Every time I look out the window, I feel like my soul is touched and blessed.  God always ministers special things to my heart.

If my heart is troubled, if I'm concerned for our safety and security, if I'm tired, if I'm discouraged, if I'm missing friends and family........being by the water and thinking of how it reflects my Father constantly speaks to me.

I would have never known I needed this - or what it would mean to me in this season, but God did!  He prepared my heart by the desire He put there.....and He carried me through all the changes to where we are now.  He also, very literally, fulfilled that desire He put in my heart.  I am in awe!  What a great God He is.  He knows and understands us better than we know ourselves!

"A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul."  Prov. 13:19