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Date: Monday, January 5, 2015

Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: Perspectives Aiken hosted by Millbrook Baptist Church 223 Aiken Blvd Aiken SC 29803

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• • Registration & Orientation

    Registration & Orientation

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  • Date: Monday, January 5, 2015

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM

• • 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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    Glenn Mason

    Carver International Missions, Stonecrest GA

    Rev. Mason and his wife Kimberly served as missionaries in Liberia in the 90s, teaching in high school and Bible college, counseling, and supervising field staff. Upon their return to Atlanta, Glenn was appointed Executive Director of their agency, Carver Int’l Missions. Glenn’s main role is motivating the Church toward global engagement. Glenn earned his BA in Psychology and Sociology from UPenn, and has done grad studies at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia. The Masons have two adult daughters, Eliana and Calin. Glenn and Kim attend Fellowship Bible Church in Roswell GA.
    
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    Date: Monday, January 12, 2015

    Time: 6:30 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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    Melissa Hoffman

    Perspectives, Garner NC

    Melissa has been involved with Perspectives since 2005 as a coordinator, intern, regional director, and now in the training department. Melissa Loves to teach and is passionate about her role as a mobilizer.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 19, 2015

    Time: 6:30 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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    Phillip Dunn

    Aiken SC

    Dr. Dunn became pastor of Millbrook in 2014. Prior to Millbrook, he pastored North Star Community Church in Fort Lauderdale. He has also served churches in Texas and Florida. His personal ministry motto is “To know the life of Christ and to make Him known.” Pastor Dunn is a graduate of Liberty University and Southwestern Baptist Seminary. Dr. Dunn and his wife, Jamie, have three children, Brenden, Reese, and Indee.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 26, 2015

    Time: 6:30 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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    Peggy Rayman

    Coastal Georgia School of Missions, Ludowici GA

    Peggy is Academic Dean and VP of Coastal Georgia School of Missions. CGSM is the final phase of a two phase vision that focuses on mobilizing African Americans for missions. She has trained leaders in the US, in Kenya, Nigeria, Togo, and Ghana. Her focus is mission mobilization and disciple-making.
    
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    Date: Monday, February 2, 2015

    Time: 6:30 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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    Gene Jennings

    TrueNorth Church, North Augusta SC

    Gene has served churches in Texas, Georgia, and South Carolina. He has spoken and served throughout the U.S. He has spoken and served in many countries over the years and traveled to every continent except Antarctica. Gene is the Associate Pastor of TrueNorth Church in North Augusta, SC. He is the author of 4 books, Discovering God's Plan, The God Robbers, Laughing With Sarah, and Timely Words. He is a graduate of USC-Aiken and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He and his wife Beth have 2 adult children and 5 grandchildren.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 9, 2015

    Time: 6:30 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 Miller

    Salem Church, McDonough GA

    Scott and his wife, Chris, have been married 40 years and are blessed with two grown children and one grandson. Scott completed a BSBA from Mars Hill University (NC), a Master of Divinity from Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY., and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Fuller Seminary in 1995 in Evangelism and Church Growth. After serving as a Lead Pastor for 34 years he has now made the transition to invest 100% of his ministry in Missions as the Pastor of Global Missions at Salem Church in McDonough, Georgia. He is personally involved in mission partnerships on four continents and serves as the Co- Director for Mustard Seed International. He has led 69 short-term mission trips to Asia, Africa, Europe, and Central America. Scott also teaches 6 Perspectives on the World Christian Movement lessons and seeks to weave stories and experiences from the front lines into the time-tested practical principles of the world of missions. He loves helping to mobilize churches and individuals to catch God's vision for the world and to develop ongoing mission partnerships between local churches and believers here with indigenous partners in unreached areas. He loves to teach God's Word in its simplicity and power and has a passion to reach the unreached and to see believers grow in Christ and become pioneers of Kingdom growth.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 16, 2015

    Time: 6:30 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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    Edward Smither

    Columbia International University, Irmo SC

    Ed Smither is Professor of Intercultural Studies, History of Global Christianity and Dean of the College of Intercultural Studies at Columbia International University. Ed spent 14 years in intercultural ministry in France, North Africa, and the USA. He has authored, edited, or translated 11 books, including Christian Mission: A Concise Global History, Mission as Hospitality, and Mission in the Early Church. Ed is married to Shawn and they have 3 kids (Brennan, Emma, and Eve). Ed enjoys biking the backroads of Columbia, following Clemson football, and listening to modern rock and old hymns.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 23, 2015

    Time: 6:30 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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    Glenn Hatcher

    Globe International, Valdosta GA

    As a missional thinker and practitioner, Dr. Glenn Hatcher and his wife Phyllis have spent 35 years in inter-denominational faith ministry living in the US, East Africa and Mediterranean Basin teaching and training leaders. Glenn has discipled students on university campuses in the US, trained pastors to develop churches throughout East Africa and equipped emerging leaders in the underground Church in Islamic Africa. While still having a passion for cross-cultural ministry, the Hatchers returned to the US in 2006 to train new missionaries with Globe International, a mission agency in Pensacola. Glenn continues his ministry of people development as a certified leadership coach and founder of Eikon Associates. He is the author of "Why God Thinks He Can Use You." Glenn and Phyllis have two adult children, Zachary and Jane.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 2, 2015

    Time: 6:30 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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    Trevor Castor

    Columbia Int'l University, Columbia SC

    Trevor and his wife, Katie and their three children live in Columbia, South Carolina where Trevor serves as the Managing Director of the Zwemer Center for Muslim Studies. Prior to coming to the Zwemer Center Trevor and his wife served with Youth With a Mission for seven years. During their missionary service, they worked in a 100% Muslim country in South Asia. He is also a PhD candidate and his research interest is in Muslim Christian relations.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 9, 2015

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Ken Temple

    Faith Global Missions, Lawrenceville GA

    Ken loves Jesus, only because Jesus first loved him! (I John 4:10, 19) Only because of the grace of God in salvation, can we do any ministry. Ken is an ordained minister, missionary among Muslims since 1993, 3 years overseas; speaks a major Middle East Muslim language. Teaches and trains leaders (former Muslims) in Bible, theology, Discipleship, hermeneutics, church history; and mobilizes others for missions. Ken teaches lessons 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, & 15
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 16, 2015

    Time: 6:30 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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    Dennis Cochrane

    Lexington SC

    Dennis and his wife Nancy served as linguists and Bible translators among the 20,000 Duna people of Papua New Guinea. After devising an alphabet for this previously unwritten language they produced primers and readers, teaching many to read their own language. They then translated the first portions of God's Word into the Duna language. Several thousand Duna came to faith in Christ and today there are many churches among these people.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 23, 2015

    Time: 6:30 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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    David Cashin

    Columbia Int'l University, Columbia SC

    Dr. Cashin is professor of intercultural studies at Columbia Int'l University. He is fluent in Bengali and Swedish. The 1st due to investing 9 years with Bengali speakers (the 6th largest living language). The 2nd, thru marriage to Margareta, pastoring churches and earning his PhD in Indiology at Stockholm University.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 30, 2015

    Time: 6:30 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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    Grant Haynes

    Global Frontier Missions, Lilburn GA

    Grant Haynes founded Global Frontier Missions in 2000 while church planting among indigenous groups in southern Mexico. His passion is to see as many individuals and churches as possible praying, giving, welcoming, and going to the least reached people groups of the earth. Grant spent 14 years serving in Oaxaca, Mexico with his wife and three children church planting, hosting short-term mission groups, running an indigenous Bible school, and starting a missionary training school for North Americans. Grant now serves in Clarkston, GA, known as the most diverse square mile in America, reaching refugees from Iraq, Burma, Bhutan, Nepal, Somalia, Ethiopia, and many other nations.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 13, 2015

    Time: 6:30 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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    Abraham Thomas

    Royal Agape Int'l Ministry, Valparaiso IN

    Abraham Thomas founded Agape Royal Ministries in 1993. Abraham came to faith as boy, when his Mom led him to the Lord. After graduation from Bible College Abraham began his ministry of preaching and teaching. Abraham’s wife’s family were the first converts to an Evangelical faith in their village. They were ostracized and ridiculed, but the church they established is still growing today. Agape Royal has planted 400 churches, establish 16 children’s homes and begun an accredited Bible College. Their goal is to "Reach the Unreached". The Thomas’ have 3 children, Asher Finney and twins Achsa & Ann, all born again and baptized.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 20, 2015

    Time: 6:30 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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    CH Hills

    iFace Ministries, Roswell GA

    Chiu Hea loves to teach in a way that displays the power of God in lives released for God’s glory. After 10 years in Pasadena, CA, at Frontier Ventures, she and Mark moved to Atlanta to raise Brandon and Kimberly. From 2000-2015, they invested in Perspectives, mobilized many to serve refugees from Burma, Nepal, Somalia, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Iraq. They also provided homestay to international students learning English in an immersion setting. Recently, after 4 years in Jordan and Malaysia (counseling missionaries and serving refugees), they returned to Atlanta as empty-nesters, encouraging others to go deep with God. They enjoy caring for international students through iFace Ministries, and bringing people together around themes of global significance.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 27, 2015

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM

• • Celebration

    Closing Celebration and Student Testimonies

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    Date: Monday, May 4, 2015

    Time: 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

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