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Date: Monday, January 7, 2013

Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Location: Garnett Church of Christ 12000 E. 31st Street Tulsa OK 74146

Contact: Beth West

918-663-3000

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• • 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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    Todd Ahrend

    The Traveling Team, Fayetteville AR

    Todd Ahrend graduated from Northeastern State University, has a Masters from Dallas Theological Seminary and a Doctorate from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is the founder and international Director of The Traveling Team, a national missions mobilization movement. He and his wife, Jessica, have spent almost two decades traveling both nation-wide and abroad, speaking to thousands of people about involvement in world evangelization. Todd has exposure in over sixty countries and has lived in the Middle East. He is the author of The Abrahamic Revolution and In This Generation. Todd and Jessica have six children: Camden, Brody, Axel, Noble, Quincy and Cruz!
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 7, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

• • Lesson 2

    The Story of His Glory

    Due: Review 1 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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    Jason Goings

    FBC Belton, Temple TX

    
    
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    Date: Monday, January 14, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

• • Lesson 3

    Your Kingdom Come

    Due: Review 2 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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    Jamie Zumwalt

    Outrageous Love, Oklahoma City OK

    Jamie Zumwalt is the Founder and President of Outrageous Love, an organization that starts Communities of Hope among marginalized peoples. Jamie and her husband, John, served as missionaries in Taiwan among the Hakka and Taiwanese. For 22 years, John and Jamie have been training and sending missionaries out to plant the church among the unreached. She now pastors and a leads a coffee house, church community called Joe's Addiction in a "red light" district of Oklahoma City, doing life together with the poor. She has authored two books: Simple Obsession: Enjoying the Tender Heart of God and Beloved Chaos: moving from religion to Love in a red light district. Jamie travels widely, teaching and inviting more people to plant Communities of Hope. She and John have five children and one grand daughter.
    
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    Date: Monday, January 21, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

• • Lesson 4

    Mandate for the Nations

    Due: Review 3 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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    Greg Taylor

    The Journey, Tulsa OK

    Greg Taylor is lead minister of The Journey: A New Generation Church of Christ in Tulsa, Oklahoma and has been with the church for twelve years. He and his wife, Jill, and three children, Ashley, Anna, and Jacob, were working with a church planting team in Uganda from 1994-2001, and they continue to be active in the ongoing mission in Jinja, Uganda through The Kibo Group (www.kibogroup.org). He is co-author of the book, How to get ready for short-term missions, and author of the novel, High Places, which takes place in East Africa. His most recent book is Lay Down Your Guns: a true story about Dr. Amanda Madrid, a Honduran doctor who opposed drug cartel mercenaries in the mountains of Honduras when they were threatening to destroy her organization's medical clinics.
    
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    Date: Monday, January 28, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

• • Lesson 5

    Unleashing the Gospel

    Due: Review 4 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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    Kara Culp

    Welcomers International, Tulsa OK

    Kara Culp has served in ministry to international students, immigrants, and refugees for the past 14 years. Currently, she is the director of Welcomers International in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which she founded in 2008. She also has been teaching English as a Second Language at local community colleges for the past 14 years.
    
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    Date: Monday, February 4, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

• • Lesson 6

    The Expansion of the Christian Movement

    Due: Review 5, Personal Response 1 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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    Adam Blehm

    Rejoice Christian School - Bible teacher, Sperry OK

    Adam Blehm serves as Head of the Bible Department at Rejoice Christian School in Owasso, where he has been faithfully teaching the Biblical and Historical Lessons of Perspectives for eight years. He and his lovely wife, Jennifer, have been married for nine years, and they are the proud parents of a beautiful four year old daughter. Adam has also written Biblical-Based Sunday School Curriculum for Randall House Publishers and he is currently finishing his Master’s Degree at Oklahoma Wesleyan University. Adam has a growing passion for Apologetics, Church History, Discipleship and Mobilizing this generation to fulfill the Great Commission.
    
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    Date: Monday, February 11, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

• • Lesson 7

    Eras of Mission History

    Due: Review 6 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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    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: Monday, February 18, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

• • Lesson 8

    Pioneers of the World Christian Movement

    Due: Review 7 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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    John Zumwalt

    Outrageous Love, Choctaw OK

    John Zumwalt is the Cross Cultural Coach for the innovative organization, Outrageous Love. After serving as a missionary among the unreached Minnan he returned to America and for over 22 years served as the founder and Director of the Missionary Training Institute, Beautiful Feet Boot Camp. He has trained over 300 Career Missionaries. He has a Doctorate of Divinity from International University for Graduate Studies. John has authored the book, Passion for the Heart of God and travels widely, preaching and holding seminars, raising up activist to go to the ends of the earth. John and his wife, Jamie, also pastor a church in a “red light district” of Oklahoma City. They have five children, Jessica, Josiah, Jael, Jewel and James.
    
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    Date: Monday, February 25, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

• • Lesson 9

    The Task Remaining

    Due: Review 8, Personal Response 2, Midterm Exam 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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    Steve Elworth

    Baton Rouge LA

    Steve serves at The Chapel on The Campus, a non-denominational church in Baton Rouge LA, as the Global and Local Outreach Director. He helps lead the church in reaching the nations, both in Baton Rouge through International Ministry, and around the world through trips and partnerships. He and His wife Amber have a passion to see the church grasp and act on her God given opportunity and responsibility to make disciples of all nations. After pursuing going to the Muslim world themselves, God has had them stay in the states to help every follower of Jesus see that their lives have been bought and their redemption has been given not just for themselves, but so Jesus will be made known through every tribe, tongue, people, and nation. In 2018, they opened Light House Coffee in Baton Rouge, a coffee shop with the mission to Serve the World Through a Baton Rouge Coffee Experience. They use this business as an opportunity to employ, love, and serve refugees from around the world, and train up global workers to use business to impact the world.
    
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    Date: Monday, March 4, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

• • Lesson 10

    How Shall They Hear?

    Due: Review 9, Personal Response 3 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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    Jerry Lout

    International Community Outreach, Tulsa OK

    Jerry Lout and his wife Ann served for twenty years in East Africa with Elim Fellowship in leadership training, evangelism and church development. In 1993 Jerry became director of International Student Ministries at the University of Tulsa. He founded and directed International Community Outreach. He currently serves in 'mobilizing, equipping and encouraging Christ-followers in global outreach'. Jerry and Ann have three children and eight grandchildren.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 18, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

• • Lesson 11

    Building Bridges of Love

    Due: Review 10 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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    Keith Wheeler

    Keith Wheeler Ministries, Tulsa OK

    Since 1985, Keith Wheeler has carried a 12-foot wooden cross around the world sharing the simple message of God's love. He has walked over 19,000 miles through more than 180 countries on all 7 continents.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 25, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

• • Lesson 12

    Christian Community Development

    Due: Review 11, Personal Response 4 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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    Matt Fries

    NET Development Incorporated, Springdale AR

    MATT FRIES Brief Bio Matt became a Christian in 1984 while in college at the University of Arkansas and has been involved with Jesus and the expansion of His kingdom ever since. He met his wife, Michelle, while doing collegiate ministry at Arkansas Tech University. Matt and Michelle married in 1991 and have three amazingly different and wonderful adult children and one grand-daughter! They spent nine years on the Tibetan Plateau in China doing ground-breaking church planting work among one of the unreached people groups there. Holistic ministry and business-as-mission continue to mark their work. After directing The Emmaus Foundation (at the National Christian Foundation) for 15 years, Matt started NET Development in 2022 to focus on business and economic development in Zambia and Madagascar.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 1, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

• • Lesson 13

    The Spontaneous Multiplication of Churches

    Due: Review 12 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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    Jacob Boss

    Meridian, Tulsa OK

    My family and I served in India for 3 years in pioneer Church planting with the IMB. We facilitated Church plants among the Hindu's, Muslims, and the next generation of young Indians. I currently train nationals around the globe in Church multiplication to see movements that will change people and cultures to the image of Christ!
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 8, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

• • Lesson 14

    Pioneer Church Planting

    Due: Review 13 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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    Pam Arlund

    All Nations, Kansas City MO

    Pam is currently the Co-Editor of Perspectives 5th Edition and a member of All Nations. She lived in Central Asia for ten years, where she planted churches among three people groups, two of whom are Muslim. She earned an MA and PhD in Linguistics (i.e. Bible Translation) from the University of Texas at Arlington. She has published numerous books and articles in missions. She is most well known as “The Stick Figure Lady” for her popular book “Stick Figures Save the World.”
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 15, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

• • Lesson 15

    World Christian Discipleship

    Due: Review 14, Personal Response 5, Integrative Project, 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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    Amy Protonentis

    Raleigh NC

    After 20 years of teaching, training and serving missionaries, Amy thinks Jesus has a great sense of humor to be using her: Failed church-planter, spazzed-out mobilizer, instant mommy to 2 toddlers, she knows forgiveness and healing and jumping in the deep end of God's incredible grace. Her passion is to encourage people with hope to impact their world.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 22, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

• • Celebration

    Celebration Night

    Due: Review 15, Final Exam Celebration

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    Date: Monday, April 29, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

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