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Date: Sunday, August 31, 2014

Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Location: Calvary Chapel Petaluma 1955 S McDowell Blvd Petaluma CA 94954

Contact: Hollie Fortkamp

707-322-3925

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  • Date: Sunday, August 31, 2014

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

• • 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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    Ziad Srouji

    San Mateo CA

    Pastor Z. Samuel Srouji came out of war torn Lebanon in the ‘70s and encountered Jesus at the age of 16 through the truth that “the grave is empty and Jesus is alive.” Since then he has been captured with the Father’s heart of love for the nations, and miracles have followed his ministry of worship and preaching around the world. For twenty five years he has pastored on the peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area.
    
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    Date: Sunday, September 7, 2014

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Lee Bridges

    Jonathan Project, Yuba City CA

    International Coordinator for the Jonathan Project ministry. Instructor has 40 years experience in Church Planting ministry with extensive experience doing evangelism and church planting particularly in restricted access contexts. He also trains others to do the same.
    
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    Date: Sunday, September 14, 2014

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Mark Scandrette

    ReIMAGINE!, San Francisco CA

    Since 1998 Mark Scandrette has worked in the diverse cultures of the San Francisco Bay area in urban neighborhood engagement, church planting, cross-cultural contextualization, spiritual formation and the training of church and missionary leaders. He specializes in addressing the intersection of gospel and emerging post-Christian cultural contexts. Mark and his wife Lisa have raised three children in San Francisco's Mission District.
    
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    Date: Sunday, September 21, 2014

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Ben McBride

    Empower Initiative, Oakland CA

    Ben is a native of San Francisco and a longtime activist for peace and justice in the Bay Area. Ben has a history of spiritual leadership, beginning as a youth pastor and continuing throughout his term as collegiate pastor for Greater St. Paul Baptist Church and Shiloh Church. In 2008, Ben relocated his family to a difficult neighborhood in Oakland known as “The Kill Zone.” During this tenure, he also served as Executive Director of Cityteam, a Christian non-profit providing rescue and recovery; medical and financial; educational and spiritual opportunities to hurting and homeless Oakland residents. As a result of Ben’s zeal for social improvement and judicial restructuring, Ben founded the Empower Initiative in 2014. Empower provides faith-based technical assistance concerning public safety and training for suburban community members around issues affecting the urban core. In 2014, Ben was visibly involved in ministering justice and non-violence in Ferguson, Missouri, in the wake of the Michael Brown shooting. Ben, along with a bevy of clergy and national leaders, were extolled for their message of reconciliation, peaceful protests, and empowerment strategies during the height of racial unrest and social chaos. Ben and his wife Gynelle have been married for 15 years and they reside in Oakland, California with their three beautiful daughters: Brittani, Jasmin and Symonne.
    
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    Date: Sunday, September 28, 2014

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Angela Zimmerman

    New Albany IN

    Angela is a 2006 Perspectives Credit Alumni. Angela joined the Perspectives coordinating team in Fall 2006 and soon thereafter served as a Regional Director over KY, WV, VA, and TN from 2007 to 2014. She co-created the Instructor Development Department in 2014 and served in that capacity until early 2021, resigning to care for an elderly parent who passed away later that year. Angela now serves as a grader in an online capacity while she finishes her MAED with Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. She has two grown children and lives in New Albany, Indiana with her husband.
    
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    Date: Sunday, October 5, 2014

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Sam Earp

    Church Resource Ministry, San Jose CA

    I have an extensive background in every facet of church missions. Currently consult with several Bay Area California churches. I founded the National Association of Mission Pastors and currenlty seve as a network consultant for the Bay Area Mission Network. Consultant for the Californai Assoiciation of Mission Pastors Preach, teach and consult in mission related fields.
    
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    Date: Sunday, October 12, 2014

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Christine Teng Henson

    Grace Community Covenant Church, Santa Clara CA

    Tina grew up on Long Island, New York, but considered Boston home for most of her twenties. She and her husband John moved to the Bay Area in 2011, never imagining they'd have 3 children here in California! She did her MDiv at Fuller Theological Seminary after studying English literature at Harvard College. She presently serves as an assistant pastor at Grace Community Covenant Church in Los Altos. She is a writer, a spiritual director in training, and a community builder and networker wherever God takes her.
    
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    Date: Sunday, October 19, 2014

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    John Teague

    Kids for the Kingdom, Santa Rosa CA

    John Teague serves on the board of directors of Kids for the Kingdom (www.kidsforthekingdom.org), a non-profit 501(c)(3) christian relief organization committed to transforming the living conditions and spiritual lives of children and families in 14 different countries. K4K works with nationals in the developing world, especially war-torn nations and disaster sites bringing food, medical supplies, job training and micro-loans so that they can transform their nation for Christ.
    
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    Date: Sunday, October 26, 2014

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    David Taylor

    Christian Aid Mission, Charlottesville VA

    David served for ten years as a missionary in the Philippines with the Frontier Mission Fellowship. He is the author of Eternal Vision and senior editor of the Global Mission Database. He serves as president of Christian Aid Mission and chairman of COSIM (Coalition on the Support of Indigenous Ministries)
    
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    Date: Sunday, November 2, 2014

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    John Becker

    AIM/3P Ministries/Activate Global, Redwood City CA

    John serves as Global Strategy Director for AIM and the Vice President for Global Networking and Partnerships for GACX. Currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area, John Becker has lived and ministered in Africa and the United Kingdom with his wife and four children. John and his family love to live in community, practice hospitality and practically display God’s love in the community, especially to those displaced by war and violence. John has been a contributing author of several books, two of which are: From Seed to Fruit: Global Trends, Fruitful Practices and Emerging Issues Relating to Muslims and Where There Was No Church: Postcards From Followers of Christ in the Muslim World. John has a heart for Kingdom collaboration and has co-founded a dozen global networks and regional partnerships to serve the least reached communities of the world.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, November 9, 2014

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Viji Cammauf

    Little Flock, Oakland CA

    Viji Nakka- Cammauf is the President of Little Flock Children’s Homes a ministry to orphans and widows .She is on Faculty at a Christian school in India called the Sam Higginbothams University of Science , Agriculture and Technology in the School of Theology. She teaches doctoral students in the filed of Christian Studies. She is a lecturer and Professor of record for the Perspectives Study Program in Northern California.
    
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    Date: Sunday, November 16, 2014

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Steve Vinton

    Village Schools International, Mafinga Not in USA

    Steve Vinton has served for more than three decades as a missionary in Africa, first as a teacher, and then as an adviser to his former students as they worked together to plant churches, to start primary and secondary schools, medical clinics, a teacher training college and a theological college, as well as to launch various community development projects. Steve and his wife Susan took the Perspectives Course together in 1990, quit their jobs in Washington DC and served as missionaries in the Congo until they were forced by war in 1999 to relocate to the neighboring country of Tanzania. In 2005, together with a number of their former students, Steve and Susan founded Village Schools International.
    
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    Date: Sunday, November 23, 2014

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Christian Huang

    SF City Impact, San Francisco CA

    Christian Huang serves as the Executive Director at SF City Impact, a non-profit organization that started in 1984 in the inner-city of San Francisco. In 2011, Christian resigned from his national sales position in health care after receiving a call from a friend who survived being sex-trafficked only four blocks away from SFCI’s main campus. Through SFCI’s Rescue Mission, Health & Wellness Center, Food Bank, Elementary School, Volunteer Center, Adopt a Building, Church, and Social Enterprises, they are intervening in both the lives of the people in the inner-city and the volunteers they mobilize to serve. They believe San Francisco is an epicenter where SFCI’s model of ministry can be scaled and deployed to other inner cities throughout the nation.
    
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    Date: Sunday, November 30, 2014

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Brian Hogan

    Disciple Making Mentors, Fayetteville AR

    Brian and Louise Hogan have served in mission since 1987. From the Navajo Tribe to Outer Mongolia, their passion has been to see Jesus glorified and lifted up among those who have never known Him. From 1993-1996 their team pioneered a church planting movement in Erdenet (AIR-DUH-NET), Mongolia that continues to grow under fully indigenous leadership to this day. Their Mongolian disciples are now training and sending out their own missionaries to other unreached people groups. The story of the work in Erdenet can be read in Brian’s book: There’s a Sheep in my Bathtub (Asteroidea Books), and in the case study article – “Distant Thunder: Mongols Follow the Khan of Khans” – on page 695 of your Perspectives Reader.
    
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    Date: Sunday, December 7, 2014

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Keivan Tehrani

    Compassion Bridges, Campbell CA

    Born into a Muslim family in Iran, Keivan was powerfully moved to follow Jesus in 1992. Since then he has had the honor to preach the Good news of Jesus and share his testimony in dozens of countries over 25 years of ministry. After graduating from UC Davis with degrees in Psychology and Religious studies he served as the Youth and English pastor at the Iranian Christian Church for 10 years and since 2010 has been the Global Compassion pastor at WestGate Church. He also the co-founder and Executive Director of Compassion Bridges. He received a Masters in Theology from Fuller Seminary in 2008 and currently living in California with his wife and three beautiful children.
    
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    Date: Sunday, December 14, 2014

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

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