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Date: Monday, January 19, 2015

Time: 6:45 PM to 9:15 PM

Location: Indiana, PA Harvest Community Church 699 Philadelphia St, 3rd Floor Indiana PA 15701

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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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    Kevin Kimbrough

    UnveilinGlory, Clearwater FL

    Kevin is an everyday businessman who is passionate about glorifying God and seeing that glory go to all peoples of the world. Kevin's life demonstrates how anyone, no matter their station in life, can be involved in God's plan of reaching the nations for His Greatest Glory. Kevin relates well to students and dispels the myth that you have to be a "full-time Christian worker" to have impact for the Kingdom of God. Kevin lives in Clearwater Beach, FL with his wife, Kathleen, and their two children, Kevin, Jr. and Ashley.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 19, 2015

    Time: 6:45 PM to 9:15 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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    Rick Wolling

    Beverly Heights Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh PA

    I am a graduate of Gordon College (BA in Philosophy) and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (M.Div and D.Min). I have pastored churches on Long Island, New York (1975-1977) and Seminole, Ok (1977-1985). For the past 29 1/2 years I have been the Senior Pastor of the Beverly Heights Presbyterian Church (EPC) in Pittsburgh, PA. I have been married to my wife, Mary, for 43 years and am the father of 3 grown children and grandfather of 5.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 26, 2015

    Time: 6:45 PM to 9:15 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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    Judah Thomas

    Word of Grace Fellowship, Indiana PA

    A guy who's sold out on making Jesus famous, being a husband to an amazing godly wife, a father to two lively little boys, and a brother serving as the pastoral elder to a local church in Indiana. Born in Bombay, India, I grew up in a Christian home and committed my life to Christ when I was six. Since then, I have been on some amazing adventures to several countries and grown into a passion to equip churches and convey the love of Jesus everywhere I go. I have had the privilege of serving on missions in India, Rwanda, Malaysia and England. Being a people-person eager to see people developed, I went to university in the UK and got into a consulting and administration career. All the while, I was most captured by working in the community and with the church. With that view, I have served as a youth leader, worship leader, worship pastor and missions coordinator in local churches in India and England at different times. Now in Indiana as a pastor, I am thrilled to serve this community alongside others and see Indiana thrive. Ultimately, I am excited about local churches and the impact functioning churches can make in a community.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 2, 2015

    Time: 6:45 PM to 9:15 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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    Jim Rhodes

    Cru, Malvern PA

    Jim has served on the full time missionary staff of Cru for 44 years. Over the years, Jim has directed the Hampton Beach Summer Project for 15 years and has helped initiate ministries in Japan, the former Soviet Union, Egypt, and throughout North Africa and the Middle East. Jim's favorite lessons to teach in the Perspectives course are Lessons #4 & #5. Jim has been married to his wife, Barbara, since 1979. They currently live in Malvern, PA. They have three grown children, Becky, Mike, and Heather who are now serving as missionaries, also.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 9, 2015

    Time: 6:45 PM to 9:15 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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    MICHAEL GREINER

    Harvest, Kittanning PA

    Mike is pastor of Harvest Community Church in Kittanning, PA. He previously served as pastor in New Jersey. He has a BA from Penn State and a Master of Divinity from Columbia International University. He has been involved in the cause of missions for many years and sits on the board of World Team. He has a wife and 3 Children.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 16, 2015

    Time: 6:45 PM to 9:15 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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    MICHAEL GREINER

    Harvest, Kittanning PA

    Mike is pastor of Harvest Community Church in Kittanning, PA. He previously served as pastor in New Jersey. He has a BA from Penn State and a Master of Divinity from Columbia International University. He has been involved in the cause of missions for many years and sits on the board of World Team. He has a wife and 3 Children.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 23, 2015

    Time: 6:45 PM to 9:15 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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    Derek

    KRIN , Allison Park PA

    Derek is the Executive Director of a network for an unreached people group in East Asia. He was formerly the East Asia Director for Beyond, overseeing missionary strategy for starting discipleship / church planting movements among unengaged / unreached people groups of East Asia. He lived in Asia for 12 years. Derek has taught extensively on church planting movements and pioneer church planting to locals in numerous Asian countries. Author of "Innovation in World Mission" through William Carey Library. He started several companies for business as mission. Holds a Master's degree in Organizational Leadership and Foresight from Regent University.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 2, 2015

    Time: 6:45 PM to 9:15 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 Grusendorf

    New Wilmington PA

    Pastor, New Wilmington Alliance Church John has been serving the Lord for 40+ years in various roles, including as pastor, educator, administrator and adjunct professor. He is currently serving as the Pastor of Wilmington Alliance Church. John took Perspectives in 2009 and has been teaching Perspectives classes since 2011. Missionaries and missions have played an important role in his life and he has been a strong supporter and promoter of missions throughout his ministry days.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 16, 2015

    Time: 6:45 PM to 9:15 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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    Jennifer Haddox

    ECO (A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians), Waynesburg PA

    Jen first took the Perspectives class at Eastern College, and since then has been passionate about mobilizing the church for frontier mission. Jen served as a Perspectives class coordinator in Western, PA from 2002-2016. She currently serves as the Director of Global Engagement for ECO (A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians). In this role, she is a resource for mobilizing and equipping congregations for meaningful and effective global mission engagement.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 23, 2015

    Time: 6:45 PM to 9:15 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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    Steve Sanford

    Ethnos360, Sanford FL

    My wife Sharon and I served as Church Planters with Ethnos360 from 1993 to 2005 among the Joti people of Venezuela. We returned to the U.S. in 2006 after Ethnos360 was forced to leave all church planting works by the Venezuelan government. We have been serving in mobilization for Ethnos360 in Pennsylvania since our return. In November 2023 we will be moving to our home office in Sanford, FL to assume the role of Ethnos360 CEO.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 30, 2015

    Time: 6:45 PM to 9:15 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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    Scott Boyd

    Pittsburgh Region International Student Ministries, Pittsburgh PA

    Rev. Scott Boyd and his family served nine years as church planters in Slovenia. He is currently Director of the Pittsburgh Regional International Students Ministry. P.R.I.S.M. is a dynamic network of cross-cultural programs and ministries to international students and visiting scholars in the Pittsburgh area. We include Scott in every Perspectives class as his ministry is so important to our area.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 6, 2015

    Time: 6:45 PM to 9:15 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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    Eileen Hodgetts

    Pittsburgh PA

    Eileen Hodgetts is a much traveled writer. For ten years she directed a humanitarian mission in East Africa. She and her husband Graham, an engineer and president of Fidelity Flight Simulation on Pittsburgh's North Side, are involved in Ugandan Gold, a Ugandan coffee company/community development project.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 13, 2015

    Time: 6:45 PM to 9:15 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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    Chuck Lenhart

    , Butler PA

    
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 20, 2015

    Time: 6:45 PM to 9:15 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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    Jay Shifley

    OPEN USA, Ashland OH

    Jonathan Shifley is a Business as Mission (BAM) practitioner and instructor with over 17 years of overseas ministry experience in Muslim nations. He currently serves BAM Director for a large mission organization.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 27, 2015

    Time: 6:45 PM to 9:15 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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    Donald Rumbaugh

    Grove City PA

    Dr. Don Rumbaugh is a Family Practice MD, C&MA pastor, and Medical Mobilizer for Frontiers. He served in the USAF for 13 years as a flight surgeon through Desert Storm, and then went into private practice. He started Team Healthcare, a short term missions organization serving in various countries. Ordained in the C&MA and With a heart for global medicine, Dr. Rumbaugh and his family moved to Honduras to serve at Hospital Loma de Luz between 2003-11. Pursuing his passion for cross cultural medical work, Dr. Rumbaugh has partnered with other like-minded physicians and started VillageDoc.net, a non-profit dedicated to serving the global poor. Currently, Dr. Rumbaugh works in a Family Practice clinic, mentors students, and preaches as needed in western PA.
    
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    Date: Monday, May 4, 2015

    Time: 6:45 PM to 9:15 PM

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