Class Info

Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: Grace Evangelical Church 5103 S 50th (FF Hwy) St Joseph MO 64507

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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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    Richard O Coleman

    TMS Global, Decatur GA

    For 10 years Richard served as the director of mobilization and candidacy for TMS Global, a sending agency in Peachtree Corners, GA. He left this role in June 2017 in order to pursue an opportunity In Ethiopia through TMS Global. Richard's ministry passions are networking, teaching, evangelism, and helping people to discern their calling. In addition to his responsibilities with TMS Global, Richard participates in several national and international networks, including the Lausanne Movement. He had the privilege of serving as the global selection chair for the 2016 Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering, which brought together younger leaders and mentors from over 140 countries. A person who loves diversity, Richard has a variety of friendships all of which have made him who he is today. He and his wife Amanda have 4 young children, who they enjoy raising as World Christians.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2015

    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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    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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    Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2015

    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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    Gary Kendall

    Olathe KS

    Gary Kendall is the founding pastor of Indian Creek Community Church in Olathe, Kansas. Gary, his wife Belinda, and a group of 27 adults planted Indian Creek in September of 1985. Indian Creek grew, adding new ministries such as Little Treasures Childcare Center and LifeLine Counseling Center. In 2004 Gary partnered with Robin Wood to start a ministry called the Church Multiplication Association, CMA. CMA assisted 80+ church plants in the 8 years that followed before folding into Healthy Growing Churches.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2015

    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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    KJ Kenfield

    Wycliffe Bible Translators, Duncanville TX

    I was born in Bemidji MN and have been a member of Presbyterian church all my life. However I became a Christian in college through friends. After graduating from Montana State University BS in Photography, Film & TV I served for a year with Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship in California. I then served as youth director years 6 small Hawaiian Congregational Churches in Kona - Hawaii for 2 ½. These were also exciting years for me because I met my bride, Lori in Kona. From there I went to Fuller Seminary where Lori and married. We both graduated in 1978, she w/ MA in Marriage & Family Counseling, and I w/ MDIV. From 1978-86 I served as Assoc. Pastor for First Presbyterian church, Honolulu. In 1983 God began a process of transformation in our lives that lead to a call into mission service. We took the Perspectives course in 1984 and it was instrumental in that call. In Dec. 1986 we joined Wycliffe Bible Translators and were commissioned and sent by First Presbyterian church. We served nearly 8 years in the Philippines as the Government/Public and in the Asia area in Church Relations. In 2012 we returned to Dallas Where Lori Serves on our international Scripture Engagement team and I serve on our Church Partnerships team. Our 2 children were in Hawaii. Joshua, graduated from BIOLA University in Los Angeles CA, in 2002. He married Katie in 04. They have 3 children. Our daughter, Nuolilani (Lani) graduated from John Brown U. in Siloam Springs, AR in 2003, and is currently practicing Counseling as a LPC in Birmingham, AL.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2015

    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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    Stan Yoder

    World Partners, Maquoketa IA

    Stan and his wife, Valli, served full-time with World Partners since 1978. Valli passed away in November 2021 after a long battle with M.S. Their experience includes 10 years of church planting and curative medical work in Sierra Leone, West Africa among the Yalunka People; 3 years at the US Center as Administrative Director for the Adopt-a-People Clearinghouse; 3 years mobilizing churches to adopt unreached people groups; 2 years training students at Bethel College, Mishawaka, IN; 4 years coaching workers in Africa and the Middle East; and 16 years reaching out to Middle Wast refugees in Kansas City, Missouri. They moved to Maquoketa, Iowa in October 2018 and will begin a new ministry to Middle East students. Stan will continue to serve with World Partners as a traveling evangelist among Muslims and instructor for Perspectives.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2015

    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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    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, February 17, 2015

    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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    Edgar Elliston

    Indiana Wesleyan University, Weatherford TX

    18 years missionary in Ethiopia & Kenya with Christian Missionary Fellowship. 12 years missions professor at Fuller Theological Seminary/School of World Mission/School of Intercultural Studies. Published in Amharic, Oromo, Maasai and English languages about church leadership development, missions education, international development, contextualization, mission mandate. Consulted about int'l development and Christian leadership development on every continent. Directed graduate research in more than 80 countries. Supervised doctoral research in more than 80 countries. Involved in missiological strategic planning in Africa, S. America, E. Europe, Asia and USA.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2015

    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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    Steve Shadrach

    The Center for Mission Mobilization , Fayetteville AR

    Steve has a passion for developing laborers for Christ to finish the Great Commission. He is the founder of Student Mobilization, The BodyBuilders, NVision, and The Traveling Team. Formerly the Director of Mobilization for the US Center for World Mission, he is now the Executive Director for The Center for Mission Mobilization, headquartered in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2015

    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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    Jeff Adams

    Missional Impact/Graceway, Kansas City MO

    Jeff was Graceway’s lead pastor for 33 years, having spent the previous ten years pastoring in Latin America with his wife Cheryl and daughters Sarah and Rebekah. He continues on Graceway's team as Teaching Pastor. He shares his passion for the Word of God in English and Spanish at Graceway and as an international conference speaker. He holds a Ph.D from Trinity Theological Seminary. He enjoys the cultural and dining diversity of Kansas City and is an active supporter of Kansas City's active arts scene. Having traveled and ministered in approximately 70 countries he is an avid student of culture. He trains leaders in cultural competency through cultural immersion experiences in Paris and Amsterdam and is also a certified Paterson LifePlan facilitator, a powerful tool that he uses in equipping and coaching leaders
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2015

    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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    Tim Garrett

    Frontiers, Gardner KS

    Tim is the Strategic Coordinator for new initiatives to Africa with Frontiers. His passion is encouraging and resourcing African disciple makers and mobilizing others to join in this task. Tim is a farm boy from Nebraska who has a Bible college degree and a Masters in College Student Affairs from Azusa Pacific University. He has ministry experience in North America, Europe and several African countries. When he’s not hanging out with his African brothers and sisters he can be found in junk shops and antiquing.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2015

    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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    Jamie Zumwalt

    Outrageous Love, Oklahoma City OK

    Jamie Zumwalt is the Founder and President of Outrageous Love, an organization that starts Communities of Hope among marginalized peoples. Jamie and her husband, John, served as missionaries in Taiwan among the Hakka and Taiwanese. For 22 years, John and Jamie have been training and sending missionaries out to plant the church among the unreached. She now pastors and a leads a coffee house, church community called Joe's Addiction in a "red light" district of Oklahoma City, doing life together with the poor. She has authored two books: Simple Obsession: Enjoying the Tender Heart of God and Beloved Chaos: moving from religion to Love in a red light district. Jamie travels widely, teaching and inviting more people to plant Communities of Hope. She and John have five children and one grand daughter.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2015

    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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    Edgar Elliston

    Indiana Wesleyan University, Weatherford TX

    18 years missionary in Ethiopia & Kenya with Christian Missionary Fellowship. 12 years missions professor at Fuller Theological Seminary/School of World Mission/School of Intercultural Studies. Published in Amharic, Oromo, Maasai and English languages about church leadership development, missions education, international development, contextualization, mission mandate. Consulted about int'l development and Christian leadership development on every continent. Directed graduate research in more than 80 countries. Supervised doctoral research in more than 80 countries. Involved in missiological strategic planning in Africa, S. America, E. Europe, Asia and USA.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2015

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Roy Moran

    Shoal Creek, Liberty MO

    Roy is on the board of directors of Beyond and Cityteam, he is founder of Shoal Creek Community Church, DiscipleKC and the DMM Collaborative. Thomas Nelson published Roy's first book Spent Matches where he describes the integration of disciple making movements into the heart of a western church. He was born in Tokyo, Japan and graduated from high school in Honolulu Hawaii. That vagabond lifestyle can be blamed on the United States Air Force which Roy’s dad Ed served for 30 years. Roy is a graduate of Baylor University and Dallas Theological Seminary. In 1988 Roy moved to KC and worked in the HQ of FCA for four years. Leaving FCA Roy his wife Candy and a group of 4 others started Shoal Creek Community Church where Roy currently serves as the directional leader and spiritual literacy advocate. Roy is madly in love with Candy his wife of 39 years and golf, in that order! He has 4 grown and married children and ten beautiful grand children all living in the KC area and vitally connected to Jesus. The theme of Roy’s life can be described as an addiction to creating disciple making movements (DMM). Over the past 10 years he has traveled to world studying the great movements of the gospel in Indonesia, India, Africa, South America and Europe. These travels have lead to the development of a Hybrid Strategy at Shoal Creek and the dedication to see movements of disciple making in the US begin out of Kansas City.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2015

    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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    Kent Parks

    Beyond. Formerly "Act Beyond" and "Mission to Unreached Peoples", Plano TX

    http://beyond.org/president/ Kent Parks is President and CEO of Beyond (formerly "Act Beyond" & "Mission to Unreached Peoples"). See beyond.org for a powerful video. This mission sending organization is focused on launching Disciple-Making Movements (also called Church Planting Movements) among the Unreached People Groups of the world. This 29% of the world does not have even access to witness of word or deed about Jesus in any kind within their culture. Act Beyond is focused on global collaboration to change this spiritual injustice. Kent and his wife Erika worked among Muslims in Asia for 20 years. They continue to lead regular Disciple-Making Movement trainings around the world. He continues to occasionally teach graduate courses in mission strategy. Previously, he coordinated outreach strategies for Unreached People Groups, and developed trans-national, trans-denominational networks at various levels. Kent also pastored in Texas for 7 years before going to the mission field. He has been a seminary professor, the academic dean of a seminary and has taught internationally in a graduate school. Kent is Co-Facilitator for the Ethne (a global network of UPG-focused leaders; is a part of the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission and is Senior Assoc. for Least Reached Peoples with the Lausanne Committee on World Evangelization.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2015

    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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    Jon Hardin

    Frontiers, Highlands Ranch CO

    Dr. Jon Hardin is the National Communications Specialist for Frontiers. He has served in full-time missions work for over 25 years. Jon regularly speaks and teaches in churches, conferences, and various training events around the world--he has taught over 35,000 Perspectives students. Jon has a passion for seeing local churches and ordinary Christians step into strategic roles in the global missions enterprise. Jon is an ordained minister, holds a PhD from the VU University in Amsterdam, and did post-graduate studies at the International Baptist Theological Seminary in Prague. He is also a graduate of Denver Seminary. Jon is a CPA and prior to going into full-time ministry he worked for IBM Corporation for nine years.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2015

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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    Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2015

    Time: 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM

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