F3 MIP / Recovery AOs
WHAT IS MIP?
• The name of the workout at the Charlotte Rescue Mission is a play on words with the name of the recovery center and the popular Tom Cruise movies: “Mission I’m Possible”
• CRM’s “Rebound” is a drug and alcohol addiction recovery program that helps men and women overcome addictions through a Christ-centered 120 days drug/alcohol rehabilitation 12-step program
• We are partnering with the Citygate network, a group of over 300 rescue missions nationwide that have programs similar to CRM
• The F3 footprint overlaps nicely with CityGate’s footprint i.e. there are rescue missions in every city where F3 operates
https://www.citygatenetwork.org/agrm/Locate_a_Mission.asp
• Residents of these programs have everything at their disposal to conquer addictions except the first F in F3. They may have gyms or workout equipment, but most 12-step recovery programs are lacking one particularly important component and that is physical fitness
• We find that doing an F3 workout may be the first time any of them have worked out since high school (or ever)! Also, an F3 workout replaces the feeling of being drunk or high with natural endorphins, a healthy high only attained by rigorous (F3 type) exercise
• Addiction is synonymous with hopelessness and solitude whereas our workout is all about the brotherhood and fellowship and after just one workout the program residents totally get that
• F3 seems like an integral ingredient or “secret sauce” to addiction programs and the phenomenally successful 12 step recovery programs that have saved millions of lives since they began back in 1936
• F3 MIP Expansion delivers on the mission of F3 to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership
• Once new members of the PAX graduate from their recovery program, we see them re-entering society with a feeling of empowerment and many go on to establish new AO’s and even come back to Q our workouts
• F3 is rescuing sad clowns in recovery from isolation and addiction in Charlotte, Raleigh, Columbia and can do the same in every city in F3 Nation
• The time to start planting is NOW so that when COVID-19 passes we will be up and ready to go nationwide*
DIFFERENCES
• F3 members who attend need to know this workout is NOT for them: it is to help others
• MIP Workout Q’s need to Take the intensity of a normal workout to about 60%. Lots of 10 counts and more core than running. We want the new PAX members to COME BACK!
• Start/Finish times require more flexibility because of individual rescue missions required meetings. I.e. if the workout starts at 9am but they are in chapel from 8-9am and the service runs over, we accommodate. Again, it is about THEM
• Times are when it is convenient to the RM (Rescue Mission). I.e. every Saturday at 9am, every Friday at 3pm, every Tuesday at 5.30pm and so on
• The COT is modified (and is the best part) where one F3 Nation member begins with a prayer, then RM PAX members can pray if they feel led, followed by closing prayer led by another F3 Nation member. This has proven to be one of the most powerful parts of any workout, anywhere
• I’d like to encourage Nantans and all PAX members of F3 Nation to watch these three 2-3-minute video clips (8 minutes total)
The first is about this Charlotte F3 MIP workout, the second is about another weekly workout we do called “Fortitude” at the local homeless shelter and the third is a 2 minute segment WRAL-TV in Raleigh did recently on the MIP-type program they do in that city.
https://youtu.be/lBDnRhoZI7w
https://youtu.be/-gmaBmW8zRM
https://www.wral.com/news/local/video/18045112/
