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Date: Monday, January 12, 2015

Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: Fellowship Church 2376 47th Ave. Greeley CO 80634

Contact: Reed Koehn

970-576-1044

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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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    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: Monday, January 12, 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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    Don McCurry

    Ministries to Muslims, Divide CO

    Dr. Don McCurry served as a missionary among Punjabi peoples in Pakistan for eighteen years with the United Presbyterian Church. In 1975, Don came home to work on his doctorate at The School of World Mission at Fuller Theological Seminary. From 1977 to 1985, Don taught at Fuller in the field of Muslim Evangelism. He also founded and taught for seven years in the Zwemer Institute of Muslim Studies, training eight hundred missionaries who went to the Muslim world. In 1986, Don founded a new ministry called "Ministries To Muslims." This has enabled Don to teach freely throughout the two-thirds world in 67 countries, preparing missionaries to stand alongside of the western missions in reaching Muslims. Don's authored, Healing the Broken Family of Abraham: Bringing New Life to Muslims, which has been translated into Spanish, Russian, Arabic, German, Tatar, Azeri, Tajik, Turkmen, Uzbek, and Georgian. Other books include The Gospel and Islam: A Compendium and Sharing the Good News With Iranians and Now You Can Know What Muslims Believe. Dr. McCurry currently offices in Colorado Springs where he serves as President of Ministries To Muslims.
    
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    Date: Monday, January 19, 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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    Steve Harling

    CompelGlobal, Colorado Springs CO

    Steve Harling is the founder and President of CompelGlobal. CG is a nonprofit search firm that recruits workers, resources, and church partners for a select group of mission agencies
    
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    Date: Monday, January 26, 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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    Al Fadi

    CIRA International, Queen Creek AZ

    Brother Elijah *** Lessons taught: 4 & 11 *** * Missionary to Muslims * Islamist – Researcher, Writer, and Blogger * Co-Editor/Co-author/Translator * Guest Lecturer/Speaker on Islamic Studies & Apologetics * Adjunct Professor of Islamic Studies at numerous Bible colleges and Seminaries * Invited guest speaker and trainer at churches and mission agencies * Invited Guest Analyst on the topics of the Middle East & Radical Islam * Host of the faith talk radio show, "Let Us Reason. A Christian-Muslim Dialogue with Al Fadi" on KPXQ 1360 AM [ http://soundcloud.com/let-us-reason ] Elijah is a former Wahabbi Muslim from Saudi Arabia. He is a researcher, editor, writer, and translator for numerous ministries, including "Answering Islam", “Desiring God”, “The Gospel Coalition”, and “Jesus On Line”. Elijah is the founder & director of an outreach training & equipping Ministry (The Center for Islamic Research & Awareness – CIRA) which focuses on bringing awareness about Islam, building bridges with Muslims, training on outreach and evangelism to Muslims (i.e. immigrants, refugees, & international students), and to provide expert opinion and consultations on issues related to Muslim evangelism, Academic training, Political Islam, & Sharia Law. From 2008 – 2013, Elijah was also involved as a co-editor, co-author and contributor of "The Qur'an Dilemma" (English Book – Vol. 1) - a critical analysis book of the Qur'an. His responsibilities included overseeing and managing TheQuran.com blog & social media. Elijah holds a Masters in Engineering and an M.Div. in Biblical Communications.
    
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    Date: Monday, February 2, 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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    Von Heckman

    YWAM Strategic Frontiers, Colorado Springs CO

    Von Heckman serves on the YWAM Strategic Frontier's Senior Leadership Team and directs Personnel Development at the Colorado Springs campus. He has served in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Indonesia.
    
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    Date: Monday, February 9, 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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    Virgil Amos

    Ambassadors Fellowship, Colorado Springs CO

    Virgil Lee Amos was born in Oakland, California in 1942 and was reared in Central California. He studied at Moody Bible Institute, Biola University, and Talbot Seminary. Virgil has been involved in missions since 1962, and has been ministering in Latin America, Europe, South Asia, West Asia, and Africa. Virgil is Director of Ambassadors Fellowship, a mission agency. Virgil is married to Martha, and has two children: Norma Allen and Lou Ellen Garcia. Virgil and Martha live in Colorado Springs, CO USA.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 16, 2015

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Doug Holm

    Cru, Parker CO

    Doug Holm is currently a Theological Development Specialist for Cru equipping missionaries and Christian leaders in the U.S. and Latin America. For 9 years he was the National Director of Campus Crusade for Christ Chile. Previous to that time he helped to develop campus ministries in Colorado as well as Costa Rica and Russia. Doug also currently serves on the teaching faculty of IDEAL, a leadership institute sponsored by the Hispanic Initiatives department of Denver Seminary that trains Spanish-speaking pastors and lay people for ministry. He received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Oregon State University, Master of Divinity from Denver Seminary, and PhD in Theology from Trinity College/University of Bristol.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 23, 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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    Viji Cammauf

    Little Flock, Oakland CA

    Viji Nakka- Cammauf is the President of Little Flock Children’s Homes a ministry to orphans and widows .She is on Faculty at a Christian school in India called the Sam Higginbothams University of Science , Agriculture and Technology in the School of Theology. She teaches doctoral students in the filed of Christian Studies. She is a lecturer and Professor of record for the Perspectives Study Program in Northern California.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 2, 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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    Vanna In

    Greeley CO

    
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 9, 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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    Denis LaClare

    Bridges International, Bakersfield CA

    Denis has spent 30 years working with students in Canada, Uruguay and the United States. He currently works and speaks with Bridges International, Cru’s ministry to international students. Denis holds a PhD in Intercultural Education, and is adjunct faculty at Fresno Pacific University.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 16, 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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    Lisa

    Plymouth MI

    Lisa received her PhD in International Relations, JD in Law, MA in Diplomacy and International Relations and BA in Political Science. She currently works in higher education. She previously founded and directed a nonprofit which did conflict resolution and capacity building work in the developing world and has served in missions for many years. Lisa has a unique voice on global terrorism having lost her brother on the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. She has seen the power and restoration that comes from seeing true justice, forgiveness and reconciliation in cases such as these. Lisa has a desire to impact society by addressing the root issues that result in human rights abuses such as injustice, oppression, and terrorism around the world.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 23, 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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    Ron Binder

    Wycliffe Bible Translators, Santa Ana CA

    Ron and his wife, Kathy, worked in Panama and Colombia for 23 years with Wycliffe. They completed a New Testament translation among the Wounaan people and also did extensive work in developing literacy materials, training pastors, teachers and artists, community development and ethnomusicology. They have published some 80 books in the Wounaan language besides the New Testament and have seen God raise up some 15 churches, all of which are led by Wounaan pastors without the presence of missionaries. Ron has been a speaker in Perspectives classes since 1994, has coordinated several classes himself and is Professor of Record for many of the classes in which he teaches. In the U.S. he is a speaker and events coordinator for Wycliffe, but he and Kathy also help facilitate ongoing ministry goals determined by the Wounaan church leaders by traveling to Panama 2-3 times a year. These goals include creating new media and written resources in their language for evangelism and outreach ministries. Currently working on Old Testament translation, discipleship materials and a bilingual dictionary.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 30, 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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    Georges Houssney

    Horizons International, Boulder CO

    Georges Houssney, raised in the predominantly Muslim city of Tripoli, Lebanon, came to the Lord as a teenager. At a young age he began to sense God's call for full-time service among Muslims;  preaching, teaching and planting churches. Georges is well known for his work supervising the translation and publication of the Bible in modern Arabic. He and his family moved from the Middle East to the United States in 1982 to minister to Muslims and international students. He is the founder and director of Horizons International.  Georges is passionate about reaching Muslims here and abroad with the great news of salvation.  He writes and lectures internationally and longs to awaken a new generation of bold witnesses to the gospel.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 13, 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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    Dan Shannon

    Youth With A Mission, Kailua, Kona HI

    Dan and his wife Meehan have worked with Youth WIth A Mission (YWAM) for nearly 18 years now. In the midst of this they also became a part of All Nations, the church planting network founded by Floyd and Sally McClung. Dan and Meehan moved to South Africa under Floyd's mentorship right after they were married in 2009. Dan has traveled and taught with Floyd and had the honor to co-lead two church planting schools with Floyd. Dan and Meehan have practiced simple church planting among Muslims, Hindus, nominal Christians, and Buddhists. For 10+ years now they have spend a portion of each year in Northern India focusing in on the unreached Tibetan and Gaddi people of Northern India. Most recently, Dan and his family have been working with Youth With A Mission, pioneering a ministry called YWAM Beyond that empowers, equips, and encourages YWAMers who return to their indigenous nations to church plant. Dan has been invited and spoken in nearly 40 countries on missions and church planting.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 20, 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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    Joseph Shane Bennett

    Healing Nations , Rye CO

    Shane helps Christians love Muslims and Muslims love Jesus. He has served in missions mobilization since 1987, recruiting, training, and sending short term research teams. He's been on teams in Bangkok, Bombay, and Turkey and he's lived among Muslim migrants in Europe. Shane writes a weekly email called Muslim Connect that helps Christians think about Muslims the way God does and love them like Jesus does. He works with Healing Nations and he and his family live in southern Colorado.
    
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    Date: Monday, April 27, 2015

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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