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Date: Monday, January 13, 2014

Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Location: Hesston Mennonite Church Community Center 309 S Main Street Hesston KS 67062

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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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    James Krabill

    Mennonite Mission Network, Elkhart IN

    James R. Krabill served for fourteen years as a Bible and church history teacher in West Africa. While working with the Harrist Church he recorded and transcribed over 500 locally-composed songs in the Dida language. These were compiled into four hymn booklets for use in worship and literacy training and later became the subject of a PhD dissertation at the University of Birmingham (U.K.). Author of several books, including, Does Your Church “Smell” Like Mission?, Is It Insensitive to Share Your Faith?, and Worship and Mission for the Global Church. Krabill is currently Senior Executive for Global Ministries at the Mennonite Mission Network.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 13, 2014

    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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    Mary Ho

    All Nations Family, Inc, Kansas City MO

    Dr. Mary Ho is the International Executive Leader of All Nations (http://allnations.international), a global Christian missions organization with workers making disciples and doing church planting in 44 countries. Dr. Ho is passionate about finishing the Great Commission in this generation by sharing the love of God among every people and in parts of the world where the name of Jesus Christ is little or not known. Dr. Ho received her Doctorate of Strategic Leadership from Regent University, VA, U.S.A. in 2016.
    
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    Date: Monday, January 20, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    David Shenk

    Eastern Mennonite Missions, Mountville PA

    David was born and grew up in Tanzania, the son of pioneer Mennonite missionaries. He and his wife Grace have served overseas 20 years in Somalia, Kenya, and Lithuania. In the US David has served in missions adminsitration, pastoring, and teaching. He is a teacher, author, and preacher. His special interest is communicating the Gospel in a world of religious pluralism with special focus on Islam. He is currently a Global Consultant and a member at Mountville Mennonite Church.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 27, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Ken Davidson

    Heart Sounds International, Harper KS

    Ken Davidson is co-founder of Heart Sounds International which exists to encourage the release of indigenous worship in the emerging church around the world. Ken graduated from Oklahoma Baptist University with a Bachelor of Music degree and from Fuller Theological Seminary with a Masters of Arts in Theology and Biblical Studies. He is an ordained minster, music missionary, worship leader, audio engineer and videographer. He lives in Harper, KS with his wife Dana.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 3, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    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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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 10, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Date: Monday, February 17, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Jorge David Chan

    Calvary Baptist Church, McAllen TX

    Jorge David Chan is the Executive Pastor at Calvary McAllen. Prior to this he spent 5 years serving in the Republic of Georgia (about 6000 miles east of Atlanta!). A self-described "Mexican-American-Chinese", David has a diverse identity that reflects his call to global ministry. His passion is to build cross-cultural bridges that mobilize the worldwide Church and extend the Kingdom of God to all peoples. His friendships reflect his cross-cultural values as they derive from many nationalities. David has been to over 35 countries, if you include standing just inside the North Korean border!
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 24, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Matthew Krabill

    Pasadena CA

    Matthew was born and lived in Cote d'Ivoire as a Mennonite missionary kid for the first 16 years of his life. He currently lives in Pasadena, Ca where he is a PhD student at Fuller Seminary. His research is on African immigrant Mennonite congregations in the US. He attends a Congolese church, where he is on the pastoral staff. He is also the co-editor of a journal entitled Evangelical Interfaith Dialogue (www.fuller.edu/eifd).
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 3, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Doug Schaible

    Ethnos360, Wichita KS

    Doug & Cheryl Schaible were church planters among the Solong people of Papua New Guinea from 1991- 1998. They were able to see believers raised up as a result of learning the language and culture, building relationships and teaching and translating the Scriptures in the native language.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 17, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Dave Brunn

    International Translation Consultant, Camdenton MO

    Dave Brunn is an international translation consultant for New Tribes Mission (NTM). A missionary, translator and educator, Brunn spent over twenty years in Papua New Guinea where he served the Lamogai people through church planting, literacy training and Bible translation and consultation. He facilitated the translation of the New Testament into the Lamogai language. Dave is the author of "One Bible, Many Versions: Are All Translations Created Equal?" (InterVarsity Press 2013)
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 24, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    James Franklyn

    Act Beyond (formerly Mission to Unreached Peoples), Broken Arrow OK

    James Franklyn was born in Kansas, raised in Colorado, educated at Wichita State University, William Carey International University, Fuller School of World Mission and UCLA Extension School of Entertainment Studies. Jim’s mission journey began with a short-term trip to Costa Rica, and through this and Perspectives on the World Christian Movement, God expanded Jim’s vision to the unreached peoples of the world. While on staff at the US Center for World Mission, Jim authored the World View Video Library. In India he researched, wrote and produced a top running Telugu-language soap opera for social change, which changed the lives of countless numbers of Indian women and their families. He continues to serve the Lord as the South Asia Advocate for Act Beyond (formerly Mission to Unreached Peoples), seeking to raise up and equip people whom God has called to establish church planting movements among unreached peoples in South Asia. As the opportunity arises, he teaches Perspectives classes where he can teach and engage others in missiological discussion.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 31, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Michele Hershberger

    Hesston KS

    A prolific writer and speaker, Michele Hershberger teaches Bible and Youth Ministry at Hesston College, Hesston, KS. She has a keen interest in biblical hospitality and how that can impact missions. Her own missions experience includes a year teaching Bible at LCC International University in Klaipeda, Lithuania.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 7, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Phillip Nelson

    SIM, Charlotte NC

    Rev. Dr. Phillip Nelson pastored for over thirty years. He has served as a mission mobilizer for over ten years and, in addition, began teaching Perspective classes 25 years ago. He is the husband of one wife and father of five saved adult children. He is a preacher and teacher of the Gospel for 45+ years.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 14, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Brad Brisco

    Shawnee KS

    
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 21, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    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 28, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

• • Celebration

    International Supper & Celebration

    Celebrating the end of class by telling about our experiences and what we learned from the class. Everyone brings an international food to share.

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    Date: Monday, May 5, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

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