Class Info

Date: Monday, January 20, 2014

Time: 6:30 PM to 9:20 PM

Location: Charlotte - North - Stonebridge 3700 Prosperity Church Rd Charlotte NC 28269

Contact: Ken Lotze

704-321-5527

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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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    Len Bartlotti

    Frontiers, Springfield MO

    Leonard N. (Len) Bartlotti, Ph.D. is a well-known speaker, author, mobilizer, educator and strategy consultant to faith-based organizations in the Middle East/Asia. He and his wife Debi served 14 years among one of the world's largest Muslim people groups. Dr. Len is a passionate communicator who combines a love for students with deep empathy and understanding of other cultures. He and his wife Debi, a nurse midwife and licensed Spiritual Director, have been married for over 45 years, and have three married adult children, and six grandsons, and live in Springfield, Missouri.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 20, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:20 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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    Coty Pinckney

    Desiring God Community Church, Harrisburg NC

    With a doctorate in the economics of poor countries, Coty worked with developing country governments in Africa and Asia for two decades. During the 1990's God called him out of economics into a full-time preaching and teaching ministry. The Pinckneys served as missionaries in Cameroon during 2001/02. Coty returned to the Charlotte area in 2002 to plant Desiring God Community Church. Coty also partnered with David Voth of Steele Creek Church to bring the Perspectives course back to Charlotte after a long hiatus. In addition to his pastoral work and his service with Perspectives Charlotte, Coty is involved in training and equipping pastors in India, Indonesia, and elsewhere. Coty and his wife Beth have six children and nine grandchildren, and live in Harrisburg, NC.
    
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    Date: Monday, January 27, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:20 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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    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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    Date: Monday, February 3, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:20 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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    Edward Smither

    Columbia International University, Irmo SC

    Ed Smither is Professor of Intercultural Studies, History of Global Christianity and Dean of the College of Intercultural Studies at Columbia International University. Ed spent 14 years in intercultural ministry in France, North Africa, and the USA. He has authored, edited, or translated 11 books, including Christian Mission: A Concise Global History, Mission as Hospitality, and Mission in the Early Church. Ed is married to Shawn and they have 3 kids (Brennan, Emma, and Eve). Ed enjoys biking the backroads of Columbia, following Clemson football, and listening to modern rock and old hymns.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 10, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:20 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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    David Cashin

    Columbia Int'l University, Columbia SC

    Dr. Cashin is professor of intercultural studies at Columbia Int'l University. He is fluent in Bengali and Swedish. The 1st due to investing 9 years with Bengali speakers (the 6th largest living language). The 2nd, thru marriage to Margareta, pastoring churches and earning his PhD in Indiology at Stockholm University.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 17, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:20 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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    Stephen Currie

    North American Azerbaijani Network, RICHARDSON TX

    Stephen takes great delight in learning the passions, gifts, and callings of people, and helping them to connect with Great Commission causes. He has been a member of Wycliffe Bible Translators since 2011, where he serves as a missionary recruiter for the southeastern region. Prior to joining Wycliffe, Stephen worked bivocationally as a church planting strategist and Human Resources professional. He has a Master of Arts in Global Leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 24, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:20 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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    Clarke Kennedy

    National Consultants Group, Beech Mountain NC

    During his IT career at Bell South, Clarke was captured by the Biblical vision of God’s glory on display everywhere. He joined Operation Mobilization, designing and implementing a large HR application, then as assistant to OM’s founder, George Verwer. After teaching Perspectives several times to OM’s staff while living in the UK, Clarke built and runs a retreat house in Western NC. From Banner Elk, Clarke leads a small mission agency, equips others for ministry, and recently launched NewVo, a business as mission (BAM) initiative. Clarke thrives teaching biblical principles to church leaders, hiking, and thru seasons of prayer with close friends.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 3, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:20 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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    Momo S

    Matthews NC

    Born and raised in Pakistan, Momo came to the US to attend college. After undergraduate studies in Architecture and Business Administration, and 3 years of campus ministry, Momo earned graduate degrees in Cross Cultural Studies and in Divinity. Momo and his wife and 4 children, then lived 7 years among a Muslim tribe in West Africa, until displaced by Liberia’s civil war. They then worked 6 years in Karachi. In addition to his full-time job advancing the work of his denomination’s overseas ministries, Momo connects Christians with the many Muslims that God has brought to North America (+15,000 in Greater Charlotte alone). In addition, Momo also gives long term leadership to Perspectives Charlotte.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 10, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:20 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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    Joanne Shetler

    Wycliffe Bible Translators, Waxhaw NC

    Joanne translated the Bible for the Balangao people of the Philippines, completing the New Testament in 1982. With Patricia Purvis, she wrote a book of the resulting people movement in "And the Word Came with Power." Now, Joanne helps others find the doorway into cultures with which they work. With colleague Amy West, she teaches Worldview and Cultural Orientation Workshops and Seminars, on Ethnotheology, and Spiritual Conflict Seminars for Wycliffe colleagues and others. Joanne continues to consults on the Balango's translation of the Old Testament.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 17, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:20 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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    Dennis Cochrane

    Lexington SC

    Dennis and his wife Nancy served as linguists and Bible translators among the 20,000 Duna people of Papua New Guinea. After devising an alphabet for this previously unwritten language they produced primers and readers, teaching many to read their own language. They then translated the first portions of God's Word into the Duna language. Several thousand Duna came to faith in Christ and today there are many churches among these people.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 24, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:20 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 Livingston

    Bethlehem Baptist Church, Burnsville MN

    In 2009 my wife and I completed a sabbatical journey to South Africa & the British Isles to study the famous lives of John Bunyan, William Carey, & David Livingstone . . . seeing all sorts of places from Capetown to Hadrian's Wall! This year we will have completed 25 years of service at our current church and 41 years altogether. And we are the delighted grandparents of 8 grandchildren, ranging in age from 10 years to 6 months.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 31, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:20 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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    Coty Pinckney

    Desiring God Community Church, Harrisburg NC

    With a doctorate in the economics of poor countries, Coty worked with developing country governments in Africa and Asia for two decades. During the 1990's God called him out of economics into a full-time preaching and teaching ministry. The Pinckneys served as missionaries in Cameroon during 2001/02. Coty returned to the Charlotte area in 2002 to plant Desiring God Community Church. Coty also partnered with David Voth of Steele Creek Church to bring the Perspectives course back to Charlotte after a long hiatus. In addition to his pastoral work and his service with Perspectives Charlotte, Coty is involved in training and equipping pastors in India, Indonesia, and elsewhere. Coty and his wife Beth have six children and nine grandchildren, and live in Harrisburg, NC.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 14, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:20 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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    Jeff Sundell

    Shelby NC

    • Started and ran a small business for 16 years • IMB missionary/trainer in India/Nepal for 10 years - returned to the US in 2009 where he has trained 4550 people in the past 5 years in T4T • Leading the 50-5-50 strategy in the US with a goal to see 50 trainers reaching 4 generations in 50 major cities in the US by 2020
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 21, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:20 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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    Karen Griffith

    Center for Intercultural Training, Fillmore CA

    Karen and her husband Gary, served for 17 years in Eastern Europe. In 2010 they returned to the states and served for more than a decade at the Center for Intercultural Training. Karen is burdened to see cross-cultural workers thrive in life and ministry. To that end, she now shepherds missionaries around the world from their base in Southern California. Karen married Gary in 1996, and moved from Poland to Bulgaria, to teach Theological English, preparing Eastern Europeans for ministry. In 2001 the Griffiths moved to Scotland. Karen served in women’s ministries, teacher training and leadership development. Returning to Bulgaria in 2005, Karen taught English to Bulgarians and coached missionaries through language and cultural adaptation. Now, she helps missionaries worldwide to thrive!
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 28, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:20 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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    Reid Satterfield

    Gordon Conwell Seminary, Charlotte NC

    Reid worked with the Pierce Center for Disciple-Building at Gordon Conwell Seminary in Charlotte for eight years and is now co-pastoring a church plant in inner city Charlotte. He is also a consultant with South America Mission. He has a story to tell about the risks of following Jesus among the nations.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, May 5, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:20 PM

• • Celebration

    Dinner & Projects Presentations

    Our final gathering worship, eat together, celebrate what God has done, and hear from the Credit and Certificate students about the integrative projects and interviews that they've just completed.

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    Date: Monday, May 12, 2014

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:20 PM

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