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Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: Menomonie Alliance Church 502 21st Street N Menomonie WI 54751

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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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    Doug Stolhand

    Menomonie WI

    The journey from my roots on the west coast of southern California to the Midwest has been a great adventure that sums up my life so far. It started with my own response as a little punk to the plea of a young pastor who said, "If you don't want to go to hell raise your hand!" 40 years later, after coming to know Christ, having served for 20 years in 2 different churches, then 9 more in Short Term Missions with ReachGlobal, God has led us "full circle" back into local church ministry here in WI at Menomonie Alliance Church. A graduate of BIOLA University and Talbot Seminary, my love for scripture and passion to communicate God's Word has fueled all of the ministries that we have served in. In addition to the many hats I have worn in "vocational ministry," I have been blessed to have spent a significant span of time working internationally with brothers and sisters in Christ from a wide variety of ethnic heritages. Each time I travel internationally 3 things change in my noggin; my view of scripture, my view of the church and my view of God. Not because they change, but because God changes me.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Wednesday, January 21, 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. John and his wife Kathie will co-teach this lesson.

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    John Pederson

    From Scattered to Gathered (FS2G) Twin Cities, Little Canada MN

    JOHN PEDERSON spent 12 years in Venezuela with his wife, Kathie, serving with TEAM (The Evangelical Alliance Mission) before returning to the U.S. to mobilize others to reach the least, the last, and the lost. Since 2000, he has recruited, trained, and led teams for STEM (Short Term Evangelical Missions) and Bethany Global Teams. John served as President of STEM Share (short-term teams to restricted-access nations) from 2006-2009. Currently John serves as Director of Mobilization for Bethany International, a mission sending agency in Bloomington, MN serving in 25 countries. Bethany International’s main vision is to Take the Church to Where it is Not. A ministry of Bethany to train the next generation to serve the Unreached is Bethany Global University / Bethany College of Missions. Bethany also partners with more than 200 international Mission Training Schools. The Pedersons have 3 adult children and live in Bloomington, MN. John’s passion is networking and mobilizing others in the “task remaining” to impact Unreached People Groups with the Hope of Christ. He has led Prayer Journeys to Turkey as well as 4 trips to the Unreached on the Silk Road in China. John has a Master’s Degree from Azusa Pacific University in Global Leadership.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Wednesday, January 28, 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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    Don

    World Team, Orlando FL

    Canadian-born, Don received Christ at a YFC rally in 1952 and later graduated from Prairie Bible Institute and Wycliffe's SIL course. From 1962-1977 Don and his late wife, Carol Joy [Soderstrom], an RN, served in Irian Jaya (now Papua, Indonesia) among the Sawi, a Stone-Age cannibal-headhunter tribe. After Don designed a Sawi alphabet, he and Carol taught literacy, planted churches, healed the sick and translated the New Testament. More than half the tribe came to Christ. Author of six books, including "Peace Child" and "Eternity in Their Hearts," Don holds an honorary doctorate from Biola University. He represents World Team at missions conferences and in churches, teaches seminars, and lectures for Perspectives on the World Christian Movement. 17 months after his late wife's passing, Don wed Carol Joyce Abraham, who now serves with him in ministry by speaking to women's groups, singing solos, mentoring, and providing hospitality.
    
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    Date: Wednesday, February 4, 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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    Todd Ahrend

    The Traveling Team, Fayetteville AR

    Todd Ahrend graduated from Northeastern State University, has a Masters from Dallas Theological Seminary and a Doctorate from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is the founder and international Director of The Traveling Team, a national missions mobilization movement. He and his wife, Jessica, have spent almost two decades traveling both nation-wide and abroad, speaking to thousands of people about involvement in world evangelization. Todd has exposure in over sixty countries and has lived in the Middle East. He is the author of The Abrahamic Revolution and In This Generation. Todd and Jessica have six children: Camden, Brody, Axel, Noble, Quincy and Cruz!
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Wednesday, February 11, 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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    Garry Morgan

    Retired, University of Northwestern-St. Paul, Spokane WA

    Garry Morgan is Professor Emeritus of Intercultural Studies and former Director of Global Initiatives at the University of Northwestern- St. Paul, where he taught from 1999-2016. Prior to that, he spent 18 years in Kenya, serving in a variety of ministry settings. He is the author of Understanding World Religions in Fifteen Minutes a Day, published by Baker. He has been married to Connie since 1981, and they have a married daughter and two grandchildren.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Wednesday, February 18, 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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    Scott Countryman

    Global Training Network, Lakeville MN

    Scott serves as the Executive Director of Resource Development with Global Training Network. His focus is to equip and encourage leaders in the majority world. Scott began his career in southern Germany and has served in over 45 countries on 5 continents. Pastor Scott received his M.Div. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, IL and is currently completing a doctoral degree in Global and Contextual Leadership at Bethel University.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Wednesday, February 25, 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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    Paul Van Der Werf

    GoCorps, Minneapolis MN

    Paul Van Der Werf caught a vision for the least reached peoples globally after going on a short term mission trip in college. Since then he’s lived and ministered in the Red Light District of Amsterdam and in a border town in Mexico and has traveled to over 40 countries. He’s passionate about college students going after their dreams and finding the place where their passions intersect with God’s global dream. He is the founder and executive director of GoCorps [www.GoCorps.org] – an on-ramp for recent grads to serve globally for two years. He and his wife Julia are based in Minneapolis where you can most often find him biking or playing a pickup game of Ultimate.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Wednesday, March 4, 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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    David Livingston

    Bethlehem Baptist Church, Burnsville MN

    In 2009 my wife and I completed a sabbatical journey to South Africa & the British Isles to study the famous lives of John Bunyan, William Carey, & David Livingstone . . . seeing all sorts of places from Capetown to Hadrian's Wall! This year we will have completed 25 years of service at our current church and 41 years altogether. And we are the delighted grandparents of 8 grandchildren, ranging in age from 10 years to 6 months.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Wednesday, March 11, 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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    Erik Hyatt

    Creation Stewards International, Indialantic FL

    Erik is the International Director of Creation Stewards International. He has a B.A. from University of the Nations, Hawaii; M.Div. from Western Seminary; and a D.Miss. from Fuller Seminary. Erik has ministered in over 25 countries as a missionary (YWAM) and as a Missions Pastor. From 2002-2012 Erik served as the Global Outreach Pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, with Pastor John Piper. In 2012 Erik was commissioned from Bethlehem to plant New City of Nations Church in St. Paul, MN. He and his wife, Charlotte, now live in Indialantic, FL. with their three daughters (Anna, Kathryn, and Clara).
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Wednesday, March 18, 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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    Dan Venberg

    Lutheran Brethren International Mission, Fergus Falls MN

    Dan is a missionary kid who grew up in Cameroon and Chad. He has served vocationally as a missionary in Chad with his family for ten years, among an unreached people group. Currently, Dan serves as international director of Lutheran Brethren International Mission. His hobbies include hiking, camping, traveling and wildlife photograph.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Wednesday, March 25, 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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    Andy Krause

    EFCA ReachGlobal, MInneapolis MN

    Andy currently serves with EFCA ReachGlobal as Leader of Partnership Development for their ministry in Asia. He has served as pastor in the USA, church planter in a Muslim context in Asia, and church mobilizer.
    
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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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    T. Cher Moua

    Cru, Maplewood MN

    Sinner. Saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Called by Christ to serve the Church of Christ to share the gospel of the kingdom of Christ with the world by connecting with, developing, and empowering the follower of Christ to live out God's heart for the world so that all can grow in Christ and spiritually multiply. One person at a time.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Wednesday, April 8, 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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    Richard Kronk

    Gainesville GA

    Rick and his wife, Denise, spent 17 years in Europe as church planters with Christar in France among North African Muslim immigrants. They served on church planting teams in Lyon, Grenoble, and Mulhouse, France. In addition, Rick has been involved in the training of potential workers among Muslims and contributes to the development of pastoral leadership of the emerging North African church. Rick is Associate Professor of Global Ministries at Toccoa Falls College.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Wednesday, April 15, 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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    Rick Schupp

    Salem Evangelical Free Church, Englewood FL

    Experienced church planter and pastor with extensive experience in the Middle East
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Wednesday, April 22, 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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    Rick

    Minneapolis MN

    Rick planted churches among refugees in the US for over 20 years before moving to SE Asia to serve on a church planting team. During his time in Asia he was involved in developing an English vocational center as well as seeing a church planted among an UPG in that country. He now devotes his time living out his God given vision through a ministry called Engage Global. Engage Global exists to be a catalyst for the long term engagement of unreached peoples around the world by providing intensive World Christian training among unreached people groups living in the Twin Cities. He serves with a fantastic team along with his wife, Nicky and their two daughters Lilly and Liana.
    
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    Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2015

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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