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Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: Believer's Church 4705 South Memorial Drive Tulsa OK 74145

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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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    Justin Schell

    Union, Tulsa OK

    Justin is passionate about doing whatever he can to see the Great Commission fulfilled. He mobilized with The Traveling Team for 5 years. He studied missiology and global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and global leadership and business at EDHEC Business School in Nice, France. He has been a part of a church planting team in North Africa. He is the US Director for Union, a ministry based in the UK training leaders for the Church throughout the world. He also serves as the Director of Executive Projects for The Lausanne Movement, creating and catalyzing initiatives to accelerate the completion of the Great Commission. Areas of interest/expertise include Reaching Muslims, Church Planting, Global Christianity, Biblical Theology, the Local Church engaging in mission, Global Partnership, Theological Education, Business as Mission, and Mobilization. He is husband of Megan and papa of Henry and Evie.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2014

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    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: Tuesday, January 28, 2014

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Justin Schell

    Union, Tulsa OK

    Justin is passionate about doing whatever he can to see the Great Commission fulfilled. He mobilized with The Traveling Team for 5 years. He studied missiology and global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and global leadership and business at EDHEC Business School in Nice, France. He has been a part of a church planting team in North Africa. He is the US Director for Union, a ministry based in the UK training leaders for the Church throughout the world. He also serves as the Director of Executive Projects for The Lausanne Movement, creating and catalyzing initiatives to accelerate the completion of the Great Commission. Areas of interest/expertise include Reaching Muslims, Church Planting, Global Christianity, Biblical Theology, the Local Church engaging in mission, Global Partnership, Theological Education, Business as Mission, and Mobilization. He is husband of Megan and papa of Henry and Evie.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2014

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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 Hall

    Student Mobilization, Tulsa OK

    Rob came to Christ during his sophomore year of college at the University of Tulsa, at which point his life direction and purpose was radically changed. After graduating from TU in 2009, he spent a year in India working with college students. In 2010, he returned to his alma mater and has been on staff with Student Mobilization at TU ever since. His focus is personal evangelism and discipleship on the college campus, with the goal of raising up and sending out laborers into the harvest fields of the world.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2014

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Eric Guthrie

    Beautiful Feet, Choctaw OK

    Dr. James Eric Guthrie is the Executive Director of Beautiful Feet, a missionary mobilization, training, and sending organization focused on the unreached and neglected people groups of the world. He has traveled to more than 40 countries and ministered among all of the major religious blocks. Dr. Guthrie was involved with a church planting movement in India that saw more than one million people swept into the Kingdom over fifteen years. He has a Doctor of Intercultural Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary and his dissertation was focused on missionary training. He has been married for 35 years. In his free time, Dr. Guthrie enjoys reading, collecting comic books, playing guitar, and listening to the blues.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2014

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Brandon Brister

    Tulsa BCM, Tulsa OK

    Brandon is the Director for Baptist Collegiate Ministries at the University of Tulsa. He spends his days mobilizing students to share the gospel and make disciples of all nations on the unique campus at TU. He is a board member of First Fruits Ministries, a Mission Giving Ministry that is dedicated to going out to make disciples among all nations and sending others out to do the same in a manner worthy of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He is married to Paula and they have a son, Elijah.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2014

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Greg Lewis

    Tulsa OK

    Greg Lewis is a family practice physician by training, but prefers for himself to be known as a follower of Jesus. He is currently finishing his residency in Tulsa OK at In His Image Family Practice residency. He is married, and has three children. He and his family are planning on leaving the US at the end of his training and beginning a missionary training program in Southeast Asia. His family hopes that they will see a new wave of missionaries sent forth from this uniquely placed country into closed countries throughout Asia, Eurasia, and Africa.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2014

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Bryan Padgett

    Redeemer Stillwater, Stillwater OK

    Bryan has served in mission mobilization for over 10 years with ministries such as The Traveling Team, Perspectives on the World Christian Movement, Frontiers, Avant and more recently as missions pastor at Redeemer Church in Lubbock, TX. He and his wife are currently planting a church in Stillwater, OK. They hope to plant a church that would intentionally develop and send many church planting teams out among unreached and unengaged people groups. If there was one verse that drives what he does, it would Habakkuk 2:14 which states, "For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as water cover the seas." He is married to Abbey and has four kids - Judson, Lydia, Isobel and Hazel.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2014

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    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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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2014

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    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: Tuesday, April 1, 2014

    Time: 6:00 AM to 9:00 AM

• • 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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    Holly Hair

    Norman OK

    
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2014

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    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: Tuesday, April 15, 2014

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    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: Tuesday, April 22, 2014

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Craig Woolsey

    , Tulsa OK

    
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2014

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    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: Tuesday, May 6, 2014

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

• • Celebration

    Finishing Well

    Come enjoy solid fellowship with the team and local ministries as we wrap up the course! Learn ways to be plugged in, where to go from here, and how to join in the Perspectives movement of bringing God's Kingdom to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the ends of the Earth!

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    Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2014

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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