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Date: Thursday, January 17, 2013

Time: 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Location: Stony Lane Baptist Church 885 Old Baptist Road (East Bay) North Kingstown RI 02852

Contact: Gretchen Pierce

401 792-0322

• • Registration & Orientation

    KICK OFF

    This is a Kick-off Meeting to: * Locate your classroom * Receive textbooks * Understand class logistics * Meet the Class Team * Connect with your classmates * Be prepared to G-O

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  • Date: Thursday, January 17, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

• • Lesson 1

    The Living God is a Missionary God

    God's purpose is three-fold: against evil—kingdom victory; for the nations—redemption and blessing; and for God—global glory in worship. God's purpose revealed in promise to Abraham. Exploring God's purpose for the nations: Blessing to the nations described.

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    Bob Sjogren

    UnveilinGLORY, Mechanicsville VA

    Bob Sjogren (pronounced show - gren) is the president of UNVEILINGLORY, a ministry awakening the Church to new awareness of God's glory in all areas of life, and to seeing His glory go to all the world's peoples. Bob has been mobilizing the Body of Christ to reveal God's greatest glory through reaching all ethnic groups with the gospel. He and his wife Debby have written homeschool Bible curricula. And in 2021, Bob launched a YouTube Channel called, "Maturing The Bride." Bob and Debby live in Richmond, VA.
    
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    Date: Thursday, January 24, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM

• • Lesson 2

    The Story of His Glory

    Exploring God's purpose for Himself: How God has been steadily unfolding a plan throughout all nations and generations to bring about His greater glory, ultimately drawing to Himself the worship of all the peoples. Passion and prayer for God's glory.

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    Yvonne Huneycutt

    Perspectives Global, Round Rock TX

    Yvonne from Austin, Texas loves mobilizing Christians and entire churches to find and engage their God-designed role for participation in the completion of the Great Commission. Currently on staff with Perspectives Global, Yvonne's varied career experience includes the corporate world, local church ministry, mission ministry, and managing a non-profit organization. She has worked with the Perspectives movement for over 25 years both nationally and internationally. Her overseas field experience includes one year in Russia and travel in 40 nations. She holds a Doctor of Ministry in Missions and Cross-Cultural Studies from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
    
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    Date: Thursday, January 31, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM

• • Lesson 3

    Your Kingdom Come

    Exploring God's purpose regarding evil: How God has accomplished a defeat of evil powers in order to open a season of history in which the nations can freely follow Christ. The kingdom of God as the destiny of all history. Christ's mission seeks a hindering of evil to bring about a sign of the coming peace of the kingdom of God. Our prayers contend with evil in order to bring about the transformation of society with Christ's kingdom in view.

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    John Chung

    Park Street Church, Boston MA

    John is passionate about the churches mission in the world. Growing up as a child of missionaries in Bangladesh and Pakistan amongst millions who have never heard of Jesus he is thrilled that his job allows him to mobilize followers of Jesus for mission both as senders and goers. He serves as the Minister of Missions at historic Park Street Church in Boston and also oversees the Young Adult Groups. He has been a Church Planting Pastor and Senior Minister of Bethany Presbyterian Church in Brookline, MA. John has served in Churches in New Jersey, Texas, and New York working with youth groups and college students before coming to Boston. He is ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He currently serves on the board of directors of World Relief, an international Christian relief and development organization and on the national leadership team of the US Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. He is a graduate of Wheaton College, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and of Princeton Theological Seminary where he received a Masters of Divinity. He is a teacher for the US Center for World Missions Perspectives Courses and speaks at various conferences. John has been married to his wife Sun Young since 2001. They have one son Noah, Sun Young is a graduate of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary and is a high school teacher.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, February 7, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM

• • Lesson 4

    Mandate for the Nations

    Jesus shows great strategic interest in Gentiles; wise strategic focus by initiating a global mission on a few disciples among the Hebrew people. The Great Commission and the ways of God's sending in relational power. Dealing with the ideas of pluralism (all religions the same) and universalism (all persons saved).

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    Philip Curtis

    Ministry Training Network of Southeastern New England, Exeter RI

    By the grace of God, I committed my life to Jesus Christ in 1970. Founding Pastor of Exeter Chapel: 1982-2019. Exec. Dir. of Ministry Training Network of Southeastern New England, 2019-present. Exeter Chapel is whole-heartedly involved in the global mission of the Christ: serving as a sender of cross-cultural missionaries, both short-term and career, and partnering with our missionaries on the field. I have been privileged to participate in five short-term missions to five different nations. This will be my 6th opportunity to teach with Perspectives.
    
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    Date: Thursday, February 14, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM

• • Lesson 5

    Unleashing the Gospel

    The first followers of Jesus: obedient in costly, foundational ways. The climactic act of the book of Acts is the freeing of the gospel to be followed by Gentiles without Jewish traditions as a requirement. A foundational act of God which speaks to the situations where the gospel is hindered today. Strategic suffering and apostolic passion.

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    Chris Clayman

    Global Gates, Bronx NY

    Chris Clayman is the Co-Founder and an Associate Director of Global Gates (www.globalgates.info), a mission organization focused on reaching the ends of the earth through global gateway cities. He has been involved in pioneer mission work in urban and rural West Africa and New York City among unreached Muslim peoples. Chris is also the author of Superplan: a journey into God’s story (thesuperplan.com) and ethNYcity: The Nations, Tongues, and Faiths of Metropolitan New York (unreachednewyork.com). He has initiated and helped develop numerous mobilization and outreach efforts focused on unreached peoples, including Heart for Muslims (heartformuslims.com), Welcome Africans (welcomeafricans.com), and UPG North America (upgnorthamerica.com). Chris lives with his wife Nichole and three children in New York City.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, February 21, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM

• • Lesson 6

    The Expansion of the Christian Movement

    The story of God's purpose continues relentlessly from Abraham's day until the present moment. An overview of the largest and the longest-running movement ever in history—the world Christian movement. How the gospel surged through the peoples and places of the world. Important insights for our own day.

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    Brian Hogan

    Disciple Making Mentors, Fayetteville AR

    Brian and Louise Hogan have served in mission since 1987. From the Navajo Tribe to Outer Mongolia, their passion has been to see Jesus glorified and lifted up among those who have never known Him. From 1993-1996 their team pioneered a church planting movement in Erdenet (AIR-DUH-NET), Mongolia that continues to grow under fully indigenous leadership to this day. Their Mongolian disciples are now training and sending out their own missionaries to other unreached people groups. The story of the work in Erdenet can be read in Brian’s book: There’s a Sheep in my Bathtub (Asteroidea Books), and in the case study article – “Distant Thunder: Mongols Follow the Khan of Khans” – on page 695 of your Perspectives Reader.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, February 28, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM

• • Lesson 7

    Eras of Mission History

    The greatest explosion of growth ever has taken place in last 200 years in three "bursts" of activity. Why we could be in the final era of missions. The global harvest force comprised increasingly of non-Western missionaries.

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    Stephen Vannah

    SIM USA, Lee MA

    Stephen Vannah is an ordained pastor, has been the field leader for SIM in Senegal for about ten years. He is presently the Northeastern Regional Director for SIM. He and his wife live in Western MA. They have two daughters. He holds a Masters in New Testament Studies, an MDiv. and a DMin. His current responsibilities involve a considerable amount of traveling to churches, Christian colleges and institutions to preach, teach seminars and workshops on missions, leadership and synergetic teamwork. He teachers Missions, at Berkshire Institute of Christian Studies.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, March 7, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM

• • Lesson 9

    The Task Remaining

    God's pressed His purpose forward until the present hour of amazing opportunity. Understanding the concept of "unreached peoples" to assess the remaining task. Recognizing the imbalance of mission resources shapes strategic priorities. The basic minimal missiological achievement in every people group opens the way for working with God against every kind of evil so that the gospel of the kingdom is declared and displayed with clarity and power. The need and opportunity of urban mission.

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    David Gadoury

    TOGETHER, Cranston RI

    David Gadoury served as Lead Pastor of the Cranston Christian Fellowship for 42 years, a missions focused church that invested heavily in its global partners and directly engaged in numerous projects among the world's unreached peoples. He and his wife have ministered to cross-cultural workers in nine foreign countries. In 2017 he became Executive Director of TOGETHER, a multi-church, multi-denominational partnership formed in 2010 to advance the gospel in the greater Rhode Island area.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, March 14, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM

• • Lesson 8

    Pioneers of the World Christian Movement

    Today we anchor the race by continuing what others have begun. It's a day of finishing. All the more reason to learn the wisdom and the heart of ordinary people who did extraordinary things in earlier generations. Reading the writings of William Carey and other leaders to discern what these people have left to us. Exploring the contribution of women in missions throughout the centuries.

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    David Flynn

    Center for Mission Mobilization, San Isidro, Lima Not in USA

    David graduated from Nyack College in 1986 with an MS Degree in Missiology, and a Mastors in Management, International Development from Hope International University in Fullerton, CA. After 12 years in the corporate world in the greater NY/NJ area, he joined the U.S. Center for World Mission in Pasadena, where he served as the Director of Recruiting for 6 years. In 2005, he moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he assumed the role of National Director for the Perspectives Study Program. In 2012, he joined the Center for Mission Mobilization. He is also part of the Perspectives Global Team, living and serving in Latin America. He has served on brief short term trips to India, Kenya and Peru.
    
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    Date: Thursday, March 21, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM

• • Lesson 10

    How Shall They Hear?

    Culture and intercultural communication of the gospel. Communicating the gospel with relevance at the worldview level helps avoid syncretism (blending of cultural error with God?s truth) and also enables powerful movements of the gospel. Sensitive missionaries will look for ways that God has preserved or prepared people to hear the gospel, often finding redemptive analogies for God's truth.

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    LouAnn Stropoli

    , La Canada Flintridge CA

    LouAnn Stropoli holds an MM degree from the Eastman School of Music, and an MDIV and a ThM from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. She has taught or guest lectured at Gordon College, Newbury College, and at Perspectives classes, as well as in India and Cambodia. She is currently a missions conference speaker and world religions instructor, and inspirational speaker, and the interim Pastor at South Gorham Baptist Church. Her ministerial license is held with the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference (CCCC). View her website at: www.louannstropoli.com
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, April 4, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM

• • Lesson 11

    Building Bridges of Love

    The incarnation as a model of missionary humility. How missionaries can enter appropriate roles in order to form relationships of trust and respect to develop a sense of belonging, and thus to communicate with credibility for understanding. Explore the intricacy of identification in another culture. Explore the even greater complexity of presenting identity with integrity in a globalized, terrorized, pluralized world. Recognizing the dynamics of social structure in order to initiate growing movements of ongoing communication throughout the society.

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    Judy A.

    PI, South Yarmouth MA

    A long-term worker committed to seeing God's glory among all nations. Loved serving overseas, but also loves walking beside and behind the next generation as HE calls them out to serve HIM here and to the ends of the earth.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM

• • Lesson 12

    Christian Community Development

    A survey of world need. Dynamic balance of evangelism and social action. Hope for significant transformation as a sign of Christ's Lordship by Christian community development. Exploring the charge that missionaries destroy instead of serve cultures. Healing the wounds of the world between the peoples.

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    Kimberly Klaus

    Columbus GA

    Kimberly loves to see God's healing power touching people's lives through medicine and prayer. Whenever she can, Kimberly treks the globe, where her heart is most alive among the poor. After 2+ years running a medical clinic in Indonesia (the subject of her book “Degrees of Sight”), Kimberly moved to Clarkston, GA, to live among a refugee community, and practice medicine for under-served populations. After subsequently earning a PhD in International Public Health at USF, she moved to SE Asia with her family, where she has lived for 5.5 years. She also enjoys challenging churches and Perspective students to capture God's heart for the world.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, April 18, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM

• • Lesson 13

    The Spontaneous Multiplication of Churches

    Look beyond institutional features of churches to understand churches as dynamic movements of Christ Himself being followed. Such a view of churches as organic, living things opens up the practicality of seeing them multiply rapidly as movements and also flourish in society bearing the fruit of social transformation. Churches as counter-communities, acting as salt and light, bringing change to their cultures. How movements multiply by connecting with entire families and larger social structures.

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    David Ro

    OMF International, North Andover MA

    David Ro currently serves as the Director for the J. Christy Wilson Center for World Missions at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and the Regional Director for the Lausanne movement of East Asia. David is a graduate of Wheaton College, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Peking University.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM

• • Lesson 14

    Pioneer Church Planting

    The hope of planting churches among unreached peoples. How the breakthrough of the gospel in an unreached people requires that the gospel be "de-Westernized". The difference of contextualizing the message, the messenger and the movement. Distinguish and appreciate people movements, church planting movements and insider movements.

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    Don Perry

    Equipping You!, Plantation FL

    Don Perry has spent years equipping and training church planters in South Asia, East Africa and the Middle East, working in Hindu and Muslim contexts. Here in the States, he works as a writer, trainer and consultant, helping ministries and churches with creative outreaches. Don says, “I love teaching Perspectives - our class will be informal, interactive and will stretch all of us together. Bring your hardest questions, and come prepared to challenge assumptions, look afresh at the Scriptures and the Kingdom of God, and to look as a group honestly and deeply within ourselves. We will dialogue and pray together; sometimes we will laugh, sometimes we will repent. I am excited to come and spend time together with you.”
    
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    Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM

• • Lesson 15

    World Christian Discipleship

    What it means to integrate life for Christ's global purpose as a "'World Christian". Into the great story for His glory: a Person-driven life as a way of. pursuing a purpose-driven life. The basic practices of world Christians: going, sending, welcoming and mobilizing. The essential disciplines of World Christian discipleship: community, giving, praying and learning. Simplifying your lifestyle as if in "war-time". Exploring the practical ways of pursuing God's purpose. Business and mission. Short-term mission. Welcoming international visitors. Wisdom in working with local churches and in partnership with Christians in different parts of the world.

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    Jim Rhodes

    Cru, Malvern PA

    Jim has served on the full time missionary staff of Cru for 44 years. Over the years, Jim has directed the Hampton Beach Summer Project for 15 years and has helped initiate ministries in Japan, the former Soviet Union, Egypt, and throughout North Africa and the Middle East. Jim's favorite lessons to teach in the Perspectives course are Lessons #4 & #5. Jim has been married to his wife, Barbara, since 1979. They currently live in Malvern, PA. They have three grown children, Becky, Mike, and Heather who are now serving as missionaries, also.
    
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    Date: Thursday, May 9, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM

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