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Richmond VA
Fall 2014
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“Take Perspectives – it will ruin you for the ordinary!” Floyd McClung, YWAM
Simply put, Perspectives is an effort to help the body of Christ see the world and their place in it as Jesus does.
Who Should take Perspectives? Anyone and everyone who wants to better know the heart of God and His Work in His World.
What will I learn? You will be challenged to see the world through God's eyes in four different perspectives. Biblical perspective - what the Bible tells us about the heart of our Father. Historical perspective - history of the early church. Cultural perspective - look at the least evangelized peoples of the world. Strategic perspective - what is the nature of the task remaining for the Church and what part do I play?
Where? Eternity Church 1900 Chamberlyne Ave. Richmond, VA 23222
When? Classes- September 2 - December 9, 2014 6-9 pm, on Tuesday nights First Two Sessions (9/2 & 9/9) are open to the public!
Cost: Key Reading or Certificate Level new students is $250. Credit students are $575 (undergrad or graduate level).
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION DISCOUNT!
$25 Off if you register before 8/19
If you take Perspectives with your spouse or household member, a $50 discount is available as well as a discount for sharing textbooks.
PAYMENT VIA CREDIT OR DEBIT CARD ONLY, PLEASE
Perspectives Alumni are welcome to join us at Key Reading level at no cost. And please bring your friends the first night free!
How to Register:
Time Investment: Class meets for 3 hours on Tuesday nights with a 20 minute break for snacks and conversation, plus 2-3 hours of reading time a week and a class project due at the end of the term for Certificate and Credit students.
Is this for Eternity Church members only? No, Perspectives is an interdenominational course and will include a diversity of speakers and authors. Eternity is graciously hosting the class. Classes are quite diverse.
Is the class mostly for missionaries? It isn’t a class about missions, but a course on how every believer can be intimately woven into the story of God using His people to be a blessing to all the peoples of the earth. This is a class for the Church. The goal is to bring our individual lives into a closer alignment with the purposes of God. The goal is to join God in His story. If you are content with the status of your life, don't register. If you want more of God. More vision and direction and eternal impact to come from your life. If you want to grow and be challenged, you will love the class!
Who are the instructors? The most unique aspect of the course is the diversity and quality of our instructors. Generally, every class schedules a lineup of Biblical scholars, missionaries, pastors, professors, and mobilizers who bring a wealth of experience and passion to each lesson. Some are flown in and some are local. You just may meet a businessman who’s using his company to bless an impoverished African country, a pastor from a local church, or a missionary fresh back from Timbuktu (that actually is a city in North Africa!).
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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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Instructor
Luke Kuepfer
The Truth Made Simple, Prospect Heights IL
Luke Kuepfer is a keynote speaker, workshop leader, and co-author of Becoming a Leader Worth Following. Having founded and directed a non-profit in Southeast Asia, he now serves as president of the Reverb Network, a non-profit organization committed to growing missional leaders and starting serving leadership movements around the globe. Primarily focused on the business world in North America, Luke facilitates workshops on Serving Leadership, The Art of Listening, Employee Engagement, Teamwork, and Winning at Customer Service. He has a Master's degree in Leadership and has taught a class on Foundations of Management and Leadership at Colorado Christian University. As a leadership developer and life coach, Luke helps business and non-profit leaders understand how to maximize their God-given potential to lead and serve others. His newest venture in the experience economy integrates leadership development with high-mountain trekking adventures. You will find Luke online at LukeKuepfer.com, thetruthmadesimple.org, and ReverbNetwork.org. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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Lissa Eggleston
Education, Midlothian VA
I am a Bible Teacher who had the privilege to serve in Uganda as a missionary to orphaned children who were being rescued from the devastation that HIV/AIDS has brought to their land. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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Instructor
David Miller
Mechanicsburg PA
Education:
BS, University of California, Berkley.
MA Hebrew Language, Jerusalem University College
Govt. of Israel guide licensing certification course
DLitt et Phil, Biblical Literature (OT), University of South Africa (graduation Sept. 2013)
Teaching experience
1985-1993 Israel: adjunct faculty,
Jerusalem University College;
Biblical Resources Institute
Alexander College study program
1993-1995 Faculty, Biblical Studies, Scott Theological College, Machakos, Kenya
1995-1999 Academic Dean, ICM Seminary, Kitale, Kenya
1999-2007; 2010-present Adjunct Faculty,Biblical Studies, Messiah College, PA.
Cross-Cultural Ministry Experience
1993-1999 Kenya, E. Africa. Theological education and pastoral training
2007-20010 Didinga, S. Sudan. Unreached people group church planting and on field missionary training
Personal and Misc:
Married, with three children
Language fluency: English, Hebrew, Swahili
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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Instructor
Eric Watt
RUN Ministries, Virginia Beach VA
Eric Watt is passionate about loving God, embracing life and living on the edge. Watt is Founder and President of Reaching Unreached Nations (RUN), an organization dedicated to bringing the revelation of God and His Kingdom to unreached people.
For the past 20 years Watt has trained missionaries to serve among the unreached as well as provided strategic equipping to first generation Christian leaders, some from among the world’s least evangelized nations. Whether among new believers from the Middle East, or disciping former Hindus from Nepal or India, Watt teaches the Word and guides the planting of house churches and even the development of networks of house church fellowships.
An international speaker and author of books in more than 15 languages, Watt mentors and provides strategic equipping materials to first generation Christian leaders who then pass along what they have heard to others (2 Timothy 2:2). Other titles include: “Igniting a Spiritual Movement,” “Abraham, Friend of God,” “31 Days to PEACE,” and “31 Days to WORD Power.” Since 1990, Watt has been privileged to equip and provide training materials to more than 2 million 1st generation Christian leaders living among the unreached.
An ordained minister, Watt serves as Senior Pastor with Greenbrier Church in Chesapeake, VA. Watt has a BA degree from Oral Roberts University and a Master of Arts from Yale University.
Watt’s wife, Becky, the daughter of a medical missionary, is also active in international missions. They have two children, Ian and Kiersti and live in Virginia Beach, VA.
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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Instructor
Andrew Fuller
World Horizons, Richmond VA
Andrew Fuller is the Director of Operations for Al Massira (www.almassira.org), a media outreach ministry. He formerly served as the International Director of World Horizons from 2011 to 2020. (www.worldhorizons.org) b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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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 Haney
Frontier Fellowship, North Chesterfield VA
Ordained Presbyterian minister, married and father of three grown daughters. Led mission trips since 1982 in Latin America, Europe, Africa. Teaching trips to Central and East Asia. PhD from the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. Teaches DMin students at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Chairman of the Board of the World Christian Research NGO. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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Joni Carlson
Surry VA
Can God really use ordinary people to do extraordinary things in making His Name great among the nations? He delights in it!
Joni has a background in food and nuclear analytical chemistry, but has allowed God to use her in His kingdom purposes as an educator and mobilizer. Joni and her husband, Mike, left corporate world, sold their home and volunteered with a faith-based global charity called Mercy Ships bringing hope and healing to the poor and needy of the world for three years. She is passionate about encouraging others to "go", leading short-term trips all over the world and delights in showing the love of Jesus to all people, especially those in hard to reach places. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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Christopher Deckert
JESUS Film - Cru, Orlando FL
Chris works with The JESUS Film Project, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ. He has been working in the field of missions research and mapping of languages and people groups for 27 years. Chris has shared the story of the unfinished task at conferences around the globe and helps coordinate the World Missions Atlas Project (www.worldmap.org). b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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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. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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Kristopher Keating
Methodist Evangelical Church of the USA, Richmond VA
Over the past 20 years, Kristopher has served as the director of two different international mission agencies. He has worked in more than 30 countries. He has offended people on 3 continents with his bad Karaoke skills.
He is an adjunct professor at Liberty University, has degrees in Communication, Organizational Leadership and Counseling. He also completed seminary studies. He lives in downtown Richmond, Virginia with his wife Gloria, his son Max and his daughter Ana. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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David Cornelius
Deacons Coordinator, Huguenot Road Baptist Church, Richmond, VA, Midlothian VA
BORN: Texarkana, AR, grew up in Texarkana, TX.
SCHOOLING: Dunbar High School, Texarkana, TX; Jarvis Christian College, Hawkins, TX; Texas Christian University; Ft. Worth, TX; Dallas Seminary; Dallas, TX; Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ft. Worth, TX.
FAMILY: Married with 2 children and 5 grandchildren.
WORK EXPERIENCE: Chemist, Minister of Education, Campus Minister, Assistant Pastor, Pastor, Missionary to Nigeria (church planter and church growth consultant,) Missional Church Strategist, International Mission Board, SBC. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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Percy Strickland
CHAT, Richmond VA
Percy is a PhD student in Biblical Studies at Union Seminary in Richmond, VA. He is also the founder and CEO of Church Hill Activities and Tutoring (CHAT). This is an inner city ministry dedicated to impacting the lives of youth through 'opening homes, transforming lives and rebuilding communities'. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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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. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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James Cha
Crescent Project, Leesburg VA
Rev. James Cha was born in Korea, but grew up here in the US. He studied electrical engineering at Cornell University, and worked ten years as an engineer. In 2000 he and his wife, Faith, took their 3 kids to Central Asia, where they served ten years as church planting missionaries with Pioneers. They are now back in the US reaching out to the Muslims in the Washington, DC area. James & Faith are Washington DC Area Coordinators for Crescent Project. They also direct ESL ministry in Leesburg, VA. They have three adult children and one grandchild. James recently published a book about their missions journey - Fear Not: Living a Life of No Regrets. Available on amazon. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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