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Date: Sunday, August 4, 2013

Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Location: Pittsburgh Theological Seminary 616 N. Highland Ave. Pittsburgh PA 15206

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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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    Joseph Shane Bennett

    Healing Nations , Rye CO

    Shane helps Christians love Muslims and Muslims love Jesus. He has served in missions mobilization since 1987, recruiting, training, and sending short term research teams. He's been on teams in Bangkok, Bombay, and Turkey and he's lived among Muslim migrants in Europe. Shane writes a weekly email called Muslim Connect that helps Christians think about Muslims the way God does and love them like Jesus does. He works with Healing Nations and he and his family live in southern Colorado.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, August 4, 2013

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Joseph Shane Bennett

    Healing Nations , Rye CO

    Shane helps Christians love Muslims and Muslims love Jesus. He has served in missions mobilization since 1987, recruiting, training, and sending short term research teams. He's been on teams in Bangkok, Bombay, and Turkey and he's lived among Muslim migrants in Europe. Shane writes a weekly email called Muslim Connect that helps Christians think about Muslims the way God does and love them like Jesus does. He works with Healing Nations and he and his family live in southern Colorado.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, August 5, 2013

    Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 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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    Jannie Swart

    Oil City PA

    Dr. Johannes (Jannie) Swart initiated Partnership for Missional Churches in South Africa (with a group of other pastors) and was involved in the first phases of PMC there. He received his PhD in Congregational Mission and Leadership at Luther Seminary, St Paul MN. Jannie is currently serving as assiciate professor of mission and evangelism at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, August 5, 2013

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Robert Weingartner

    The Outreach Foundation, Franklin TN

    Rob Weingartner is Executive Director of The Outreach Foundation, a validated mission support group of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Outreach engages Presbyterians and others in Christ-centered evangelistic mission, building relationships between Presbyterian congregations and global partners. Rob’s ministry takes him across the country and around the world. Prior to coming to The Outreach Foundation, Rob pastored congregations in Indiana and Ohio. www.theoutreachfoundation.org
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, August 6, 2013

    Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 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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    Kang Na

    New Castle PA

    Rev. Kang Na is a professor in the Department of Religion, History, Philosophy, and Classics at Westminster College. He teaches courses on the Bible, biblical interpretation, and Reformed theology. His area of specialty is the New Testament, particularly Paul’s letters. The son of first-generation Christian parents, he was baptized in South Korea and brings special perspectives to the course. Kang studied at Princeton and Emory Universities
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, August 6, 2013

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Richard Noble

    Center for Missional Engagement, Pittsburgh PA

    Rich is a husband and father who is committed to developing people, which is seen in his roles as missions mobilizer, college professor, pastor, and writer. Most importantly, he is on a journey of faith as a follower of Jesus Christ. He is passionately committed to missions and has been on many short-term ministry trips to various places in the world (mostly Eastern & Central Europe and Africa). He earned his Doctor of Ministry in Missions & Cross-Cultural Studies from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in 2004 and is the author of "On Mission Together: Integrating Missions into the Local Church".
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Wednesday, August 7, 2013

    Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 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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    Richard Noble

    Center for Missional Engagement, Pittsburgh PA

    Rich is a husband and father who is committed to developing people, which is seen in his roles as missions mobilizer, college professor, pastor, and writer. Most importantly, he is on a journey of faith as a follower of Jesus Christ. He is passionately committed to missions and has been on many short-term ministry trips to various places in the world (mostly Eastern & Central Europe and Africa). He earned his Doctor of Ministry in Missions & Cross-Cultural Studies from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in 2004 and is the author of "On Mission Together: Integrating Missions into the Local Church".
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Wednesday, August 7, 2013

    Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 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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    Chuck Walton

    Wycliffe Bible Translators - Ret., Hatboro PA

    Chuck Walton is a graduate of Cairn U, Wheaton College and Temple University. He and his wife Janice have served with Wycliffe Bible Translators for many years. Most of their career has been in the Philippines. They worked with two very different ethnic groups in there, the Itneg of Northern Luzon and the Sama of Pangutaran Island (a Muslim UPG) where they completed the translation of the New Testament. In addition to translation Chuck had been involved in mission administration and has taught Linguistics at the Wycliffe affiliate school in Dallas, Texas, Alliance Biblical Seminary in Quezon City, Philippines and the University of North Dakota. In 2013 Chuck retired but still does Mobilization for Wycliffe on a volunteer basis, and teaches ESL. They live in Newtown, PA (Bucks County). Chuck has taught for Perspectives since 2006 and is a coordinator.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Wednesday, August 7, 2013

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Chuck Walton

    Wycliffe Bible Translators - Ret., Hatboro PA

    Chuck Walton is a graduate of Cairn U, Wheaton College and Temple University. He and his wife Janice have served with Wycliffe Bible Translators for many years. Most of their career has been in the Philippines. They worked with two very different ethnic groups in there, the Itneg of Northern Luzon and the Sama of Pangutaran Island (a Muslim UPG) where they completed the translation of the New Testament. In addition to translation Chuck had been involved in mission administration and has taught Linguistics at the Wycliffe affiliate school in Dallas, Texas, Alliance Biblical Seminary in Quezon City, Philippines and the University of North Dakota. In 2013 Chuck retired but still does Mobilization for Wycliffe on a volunteer basis, and teaches ESL. They live in Newtown, PA (Bucks County). Chuck has taught for Perspectives since 2006 and is a coordinator.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, August 8, 2013

    Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 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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    Charlotte Stemple

    within C&MA, Fort Myers FL

    Charlotte has been a missionary to Vietnam and Malaysia, Pastor's wife,national women's leader short-term administrator. Her current passion is missions mobilizing through speaking and teaching. She authored MY VIETNAM in 2010 and speaks over 50 times a year to diverse secular, church and college groups. She has traveled to 57 countries and spoken in many of these. She and her husband Woody have two sons, both of whom currently serve overseas.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, August 8, 2013

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Jennifer Haddox

    ECO (A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians), Waynesburg PA

    Jen first took the Perspectives class at Eastern College, and since then has been passionate about mobilizing the church for frontier mission. Jen served as a Perspectives class coordinator in Western, PA from 2002-2016. She currently serves as the Director of Global Engagement for ECO (A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians). In this role, she is a resource for mobilizing and equipping congregations for meaningful and effective global mission engagement.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, August 8, 2013

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Graham Hodgetts

    Wexford PA

    Eileen Hodgetts is a much traveled writer. For ten years she directed a humanitarian mission in East Africa. She and her husband Graham, an engineer and president of Fidelity Flight Simulation on Pittsburgh's North Side, are involved in Ugandan Gold, a Ugandan coffee company/community development project.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Friday, August 9, 2013

    Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 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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    Steve Niphakis

    OMF International, Dallastown PA

    Steve Niphakis, has served in various leadership roles for OMF USA since 1999 after 17 years as a church planter with OMF in Thailand (5 years as Superintendent of language, orientation and training for new missionaries). In the US he developed a ministry of mobilizing seminaries to adopt un-reached people groups. He is presently focusing his efforts in helping churches develop creative strategies in reaching East Asia's peoples and coaching potential long term missionaries. He has been involved in Perspectives since 2001.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Friday, August 9, 2013

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Bill Young

    The Antioch Partners, Chattanooga TN

    Bill was working as an electrical engineer when God called him to gospel ministry. All through his pastorates, in an older congregation and then as a new church development pastor, he and Judi felt called to serve cross-culturally. From 1989-1998 they served as Presbyterian missionaries. They began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. After evacuation, return, and continued turmoil, they then went to Fuller Seminary, where Bill earned a ThM in Missiology. Their next assignment was in Ghana at a lay training center, in a part of the country with many unreached people groups. Bill then served 7 years, coordinating International Evangelism for the PC(USA). Bill served Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship as the Executive Director from 2005-2014. From 2014-2016 he served as the initial Director of Global Engagement for ECO (A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians). And since 2007 he has served The Antioch Partners in a variety of ways, including on the Board. Bill and Judi have 3 married children and 8 grandchildren.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Saturday, August 10, 2013

    Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 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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    Don Dawson

    World Mission Initiative and New Wilmington Mission Conference, Gibsonia PA

    Rev. Dr. Don Dawson is the director of World Mission Initiative at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and also director of the New Wilmington Mission Conference. Don had 24 years of pastoral experience leading churches in mission involvement before beginning as director of WMI and NWMC in 2000. Learn about these mission organizations at www.WorldMissionInitiative.org and www.NWMCmission.org.
    
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    Date: Saturday, August 10, 2013

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM

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