Extreme Nazarene Ministries Overview

Extreme exists to:

"…seek and deploy people into an Extreme expansion of God’s Kingdom"

Extreme’s mission is to find unmet, complex needs all around the world and match the need with the talent and resources available throughout the worldwide body of believers. Since 2005, Extreme has deployed over 1,700 people to Europe and South America to engage in high-impact short term and career mission work. Through its international projects, Extreme has raised over $8 million for compassion, discipleship and evangelism programs, planted over 100 churches, built 110,000 sq ft of Kingdom-expanding structures, started micro-businesses and trained dozens of leaders. The ultimate goal of Extreme is to engage all believers into active Kingdom expansion so as to bring every person to the feet of Jesus.

Completed Projects

Operation Combine – This 2005 project with 35 short term participants successfully completed the implementation of 2 harvester combines in Ukraine for the purpose of business development to fund alcohol rehabilitation houses.

Extreme Makeover 06 Ukraine Edition – This 2006 project with 113 short term participants from 9 different countries successfully completed the expansion of the business development program in Ukraine by building/remodeling 7 buildings to be used to start other micro-businesses. Extreme also partnered with the Ukrainian missionaries to plant a church in Turbov, Ukraine.

Kidzone 07 – This 2007 project with 202 short term volunteers successfully completed phase I of the completion of the Bruno Radi Convention Center in Pilar, Argentina and kicked off 10 church plants in the central Buenos Aires District.

Extreme 08 – This 2008 project with 446 short term volunteers successfully completed Phase II of the completion of the Bruno Radi Convention Center and officially organized 4 of the 10 church plants started in 2007.

Extreme Peru 1 – This project, spanning 2009-2010 deployed over 650 short term volunteers and over 80 long term missionaries to the jungles and south of Peru with the goal of planting 120 churches. Love Extreme: Arequipa in June of 2010 was a highlight of the Peru 1 project attracting over 12,000 locals to an event that inspired over 6,000 people to come forward and accept Christ as their savior.

Current Projects

Extreme Paraguay – This project, commencing in January 2011, will require short term volunteers, 5 pairs of 40/40s and one cluster family to plant the first of 12 churches of 1000 people in the capital city, Asuncion.

Extreme Peru 2 – Continuing to build on the fruit of Extreme Peru 1, short term volunteers will come build 30 church buildings and bring another 40 more pairs of 40/40 to expand on the original church plants and start over 100 new house churches in Arequipa and the capital, Lima.

Extreme Colombia – Starting in 2011, this project will send teams of short term volunteers to Cali, Colombia to help build the 7,000-seat coliseum and engage in community impact projects in the city.

Vision for an Extreme Future

The collective body of Christ contains so much power and potential that if properly channeled, equipped and deployed, could rapidly and effectively deliver the gospel to the entire world in a very short amount of time and at a relatively low cost. As Extreme has exposed a small percentage of believers to how one can be used in effective and impactful Kingdom expansion work, an unmistakable hunger to serve has been discovered. The collective body of Christ deeply desires to engage itself in effective and impactful ministry and it wants to be part of bringing the gospel to the ends of the Earth.

Extreme is constantly seeking to expand the reach of the body of Christ to maximize Kingdom expansion. The next developmental stage for Extreme is to organize and execute multiple projects simultaneously. As more and more people answer God’s call to ministry for either short or long term assignments and as more and more financial and material resources become available, Extreme will spread its expansion efforts around the world. Extreme will ultimately operate dozens and even hundreds of projects of all shapes and sizes each year.

As Extreme’s Kingdom expansion work accelerates and as the larger body of Christ begins to identify its Kingdom expanding potential, the infectious nature of Kingdom work will literally bring millions of believers to the point of total dedication to the task of redemption of the world.

I Corinthians 2:9 (NIV) 9 "…No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him"

Extreme Ministry Philosophy

9% Rule – In an effort to avoid wasteful spending and be good stewards of the precious resources raised through Extreme projects, a maximum of 9% of income is allocated for Extreme’s administrative spending. Extreme donates a true 91% of all proceeds directly to field project needs.

Luke 16:10 (NIV) Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.

Self-Supported Staff - Every member of Extreme’s full and part time staff (over 100 as of 2011) are self-supported. In other words, Extreme staff members receive a salary from Extreme, but are responsible to raise the cost of that salary through their own network of friends, family and associates.

Luke 9:1-2 (NIV) 1 "When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases, 2 and he sent them out to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. 3 He told them: "Take nothing for the journey—no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no extra tunic".

Acts 2:44-45 (NIV) 44 "All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need."

Highest Form of Service – The highest form of service is to volunteer for the benefit of others. Passion, not compensation, is what drives volunteers to loving action. The results of volunteerism are a level of dedication and persistence among the staff in general that cannot be matched by paid positions elsewhere. Additionally, Extreme’s volunteer staff is not only accountable to Extreme leadership for its performance, but also to their individual supporters in how they spend resources.

Luke 16:13 (NIV) 13 "No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money."

Extreme's Purpose

The purpose of Extreme is to seek and deploy people into an extreme global expansion of the Kingdom of God by prayerfully and thoughtfully engaging the specific talents, skills, experience and resources God has given them and to further develop them into permanent full-time constructors of the Kingdom.