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Date: Sunday, January 18, 2015

Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Location: Rochester Pittsford Community Church 421 Marsh Rd Pittsford NY 14534

Contact: Adelle Johnson

585-662-5799

• • Registration & Orientation

    Registration & Orientation

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    Tom Brunner

    MissionNext, Strongsville OH

    Tom Brunner is the National Mobilizer for MissionNext (a Perspectives partner). He has served as Church Planting Diretor for the Christian & Missionary Alliance in the Washington DC area, was Lead Lead Pastor of The Syracuse Alliance Church (a multi-cultural church of 15 people groups in a city that was 97% unchurched). He has transitioned older churches, planted a church, and has served as a singles, missions, and youth pastor. He and his wife have ministered to missionaries in Mali and Mongolia. After taking the Perspectives Course at the USCFWM on their honeymoon, they started the first Perspectives course in the C&MA and the New York City area. He holds degrees in Biblical studies from Asbury University, Evangelism & Theology from Asbury Seminary, and has done doctoral work at Drew University and Fuller Seminary. 3 of his daughters have lived outside the US and a 4th is considered medical missions.

    
    

  • Date: Sunday, January 18, 2015

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    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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    Date: Sunday, February 15, 2015

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Ben Palka

    Randall Church, Buffalo NY

    Ben grew up in Western New York and earned his Bachelors of Arts degree from Buffalo State in Communication. Ministering for some time in Buffalo, he moved to North Carolina and earned a Masters of Divinity degree from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is currently pursuing from there a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology. While completing his masters degree, he served as a Christian teaching and research assistant. In addition to teaching duties, he also helped start a church-planting and missions-sending church while serving as a pastoral intern and minister to college students. He is presently serving as a pastor/elder at Randall Church.
    
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    Date: Sunday, February 22, 2015

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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 Mansfield

    , Williamsville NY

    
    
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    Date: Sunday, March 1, 2015

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    David LaRavia

    Missions Door, Lacombe LA

    Josh received his Bachelors of Arts degree at Louisiana State University in history and a Masters of Divinity degree from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in Biblical Languages. Before leading Randall Church, Josh lead the college ministry at The Chapel on the Campus (2002-2011 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana). Josh is married to Allison LaRavia and they have three wonderful children. Josh believes the Great Commission and the Great Commandment provide the church with its mission, and these imperatives are unchanging and timeless.
    
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    Date: Sunday, March 8, 2015

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Harry Vellekoop

    Livonia Community Church, Lima NY

    Ordained with Elim Fellowship, member of Elim Fellowship Council of Elders. 14 years pastoral and missionary service Argentina & Paraguay, 7 yrs Director Elim World Mission Agency, 20 yrs instructor & leadership Elim Bible Institute & College. Currently pastoring Livonia Community Church, Livonia, NY. For several years annual seminar ministry to pastors throughout Paraguay on behalf of the Paraguayan National Association of Evangelical Pastors.
    
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    Date: Sunday, March 15, 2015

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Josh Collins

    Global Gates-NY Bengali Outreach, Briarwood NY

    Josh and his family moved to New York City in 2012 to plant churches among the 100,000 Bangladeshi immigrants in this city. He has experience living and working among Bengali Muslims and Hindus in India prior to moving to NYC.
    
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    Date: Sunday, March 22, 2015

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Grace Fabian

    Douglassville PA

    Grace tells her amazing story in her book, Outrageous Grace. You’ll be inspired to hear how our Almighty God brings life out of death. Grace Fabian, whose missionary husband was slain while translating the New Testament into a Pacific island language, could easily be excused if she were to carry to her grave the conviction that the loss was meaningless. “Couldn’t I also, in a gesture of adoration and faith, offer my husband’s blood as a precious ointment to my Savior?” she asked after reading in God’s word about a woman who, in an act of worship, poured out expensive perfume over Jesus’ head. She along with her husband, Edmund, lived in an isolated Nabak-speaking village in Papua New Guinea, learned the language, devised an alphabet, produced literacy materials and translated the Scripture for the 25,000 people speaking this language. God’s kindness was poured out on this family, and after Edmund’s death, Grace, along with dedicated Nabak men and women completed the translation. In 1998 the Nabak New Testament was dedicated to the glory of God. Now Grace resides in Pennsylvania where she speaks, teaches and writes, hoping that others will be inspired to join in the work of reaching Bibleless people groups around the world.
    
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    Date: Sunday, March 29, 2015

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Justin Raby

    Grace Church, Kansas City MO

    Justin has been married to Amy for 14 years and they have 3 wonderful children and are involved in foster care. They have served in over 25 countries including Spain, India, Myanmar, Iraq and the US in a variety of roles that include: Church-Planting, Youth, Teaching, Preaching, Discipleship, & Evangelism. Their desire is to see people and the church mobilized to reach unengaged & unreached peoples.
    
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    Date: Sunday, April 12, 2015

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Mike Rufo

    Pioneers, Manlius NY

    Mike and Dorene recently sold the company they founded and operated for 17 years and now serve with the Pioneers Orlando Base. Mike is the assistant to the president for marketplace ministries. Marketplace ministries includes equipping and assisting missionaries in starting and operating businesses; and mobilizing and equiping professionals to participate in the great commission while working as an expat in a full time position.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, April 19, 2015

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Dwight Smith

    , Columbia SC

    Dr. Dwight Smith (D.Miss, Biola University) was elected to the position of President of Saturation Church Planting International, Inc. (SCP International) in January 1996. Prior to that time, he most recently was the President of United World Mission (UWM), the President of the Alliance for Saturation Church Planting (Alliance), the founding Pastor of Cornerstone Bible Church in San Jose, California, and he served two terms in South America, one developing Theological Education by Extension (TEE) programs and the second as Bolivarian Area Director. With the breakup of the former Soviet Union, UWM, under Dr. Smith's leadership, along with Worldteam, Slavic Gospel Association and Dawn, convened and launched the "Alliance". The Alliance is a strategic network of over sixty mission agencies and local churches that continues to be engaged in training, and facilitating Church Planters and church planting throughout the former Soviet empire. SCP International's ultimate commitment is to world evangelization through Saturation Church Planting... an SCP movement initiated in every country and/or every significant geographical region of the planet within this generation. In addition to his responsibilities as the leader of Saturation Church Planting International, Dr. Smith carries a strong burden for the local churches of North America because it is his firm belief that the local church is God's primary instrument for world evangelization. In recent years, Dwight has worked with a growing number of church leaders and church planters in the US. The goal of those relationships is the re-evangelization of the some 300 million people living in America by the planting, replanting and repurposing of 100,000 churches. Dr Smith and his wife Patti have four children and eleven grandchildren. More about SCPI is available at www.scpglobal.org
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, April 26, 2015

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Bradley Buser

    Founder Radius International, San Diego CA

    Brad came to faith in Christ at 17 and soon after was challenged with the need of unreached people groups. He began training for this directly after High School. Beth is from St. Johns MI., her Mom and Dad love the Lord Jesus and raised her with a heart for the world. They met, had two boys and left for Papua New Guinea in January of 1979. Soon after arriving they moved in among the Iteri people who live in the headwaters of the Sepik River Basin. After 4 years of studying the language and culture of the Iteri people they were fluent and began to share Christ with them for the first time. The baby church was discipled and in a few years leaders were ordained. The Busers worked on the New Testament translation and by 1999, after 20 years in the village, with the translation done, the church up and thriving, their need to be among the Iteris was over. Upon returning from PNG he and other men saw the need for appropriate training for missionaries who would be sent to Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists. In 2010 he helped found Radius International as a ministry to do such training. Radius is currently the largest training program for those going into Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and Tribal peoples. For those who desire to do church planting among the least reached it is the premier training available.
    
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    Date: Sunday, May 3, 2015

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Saturation Church Planting, Denham Springs LA

    Kody is a missionary serving with Saturation Church Planting. He and his wife are currently in the process of being mobilized to move to Bangkok, Thailand where they will work towards planting churches in Bangkok and training church leaders throughout Asia.
    
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    Date: Sunday, May 10, 2015

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM

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