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Date: Monday, January 12, 2015

Time: 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

Location: Champion Forest Baptist Church 15555 Stuebner Airline Rd. AB 115 / 118 Houston TX 77069

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  • Instructor

    

    Robert Harper

    Spring TX

    
    

  • Date: Monday, January 12, 2015

    Time: 6:30 PM to 8:00 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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    David Fleming

    Houston TX

    
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 19, 2015

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Greg Despres

    East-West Ministries International, Cypress TX

    Dr. Greg Despres is the Regional Director of the North American Field for East-West. He lives in Cypress and also directs the Houston East-West Team. Greg has formerly served as a Lead Pastor, Missions Pastor, and Youth Pastor. He is married to Alli and they have 5 kids. Both Greg and Allison have a desire to see people get mobilized for Great Commission service.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 26, 2015

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Dwight Edwards

    Houston TX

    Dwight Edwards is a bestselling author and powerful speaker. He presently serves as pastor of the WatersEdge Community Church in Houston, Texas, and has ministered throughout the United States and many places in the world for the last 30 years.
    
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    Date: Monday, February 2, 2015

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Kelley Kerr

    , Fulshear TX

    Kelley Kerr has spent the last 16 years in full-time ministry in Texas and New Mexico. She currently serves as the Missions Pastor at Grace Fellowship in Katy, TX focusing on both local outreach and the global adoption of unreached people groups from the 10/40 Window. Kelley enjoys teaching God's Word, encouraging others to understand the importance of the 10/40 Window and how the local church can join God's work there, and leading missions teams around the world. She has the ability to relate to multi-generations and various denominations.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 9, 2015

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Saleim Kahleh

    SK ministries, Houston TX

    Saleim Kahleh ministers globally as an ordained minister through Lakewood Church [Houston, Texas]. He empowers youth to share their own faith through Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Campus Crusade for Christ, YWAM, Young Life and the Navigators. In addition, he shares his faith to college students on campuses such as Houston Baptist University, Penn State, Southern Illinois, Kansas State, Rice, Texas A&M and the University of Houston. He also leads chapel services for professional sports teams such as the Houston Rockets and the former Oilers. As a recognized speaker, he has spoken at Baptist State Evangelism Conferences in Alaska, North Carolina and Tennessee.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 16, 2015

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Joel Hodges

    , Georgetown TX

    Joel is a resident of Georgetown, TX and an active member of Hill Country Bible Church - Brushy Creek Campus. Having an MBA from Texas A&M, he is a businessman with a heart for missions. Joel cut his mission teeth in the Rio Grande Mission Ministry in the mid 80s, participating in construction/repair work, VBS, and evening evangelistic services on both sides of the Texas/Mexico border. That led to a passion for ministry to Latin-America.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 23, 2015

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    James Eby

    Mission Catalyst International, Houston TX

    James Eby is the Founder and President of Mission Catalyst International, Inc., an interdenominational missions organization which trains and mobilizes national church planters from the Two-Thirds World for ministry among the least-reached peoples of the earth. With a recognized leadership and teaching ministry, Pastor Eby has been involved in training leaders, both nationally and internationally, for more than 30 years. His broad experience as pastor, church planter, missionary, Bible College president, church executive and overseer of pastors and churches enables him to speak with clarity and discernment to the needs of leaders around the world as he lives out his passion to help get the Gospel to the two billion and the more than 6,000 Unreached Peoples who have yet to hear the message of Christ for even the first time. Pastor Eby has an earned Master’s Degree in Church Growth and Church Planting from Southwestern Christian University and has traveled in some 40 nations of the world preaching and teaching the message of Christ and helping train national leaders. He also serves as an Associate Trainer for Dr. John Maxwell’s EQUIP organization in Maxwell’s “Million Leaders Mandate” outreach.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 2, 2015

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Rick Seifert

    The Woodlands TX

    Rick Seifert is a businessman by day and a missions mobilizer by night. He has been involved with world missions for the past 30 years. For many years he served as the Missions Chairman of Faith Bible Church in The Woodlands. During the years, his wife, Suzanne and Rick have had the privilege of helping on cross-cultural trips to The Philippines, El Salvador, Dubai, Haiti, Romania, China, Albania, the Gaza Strip, Germany and Turkey. Rick is a member of Faith Bible Church in The Woodlands. He is a graduate of Baylor University.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 9, 2015

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Dan Farr

    Circle Pines MN

    Dan, his wife Kelly and their 3 children work with Engage Global and minister among immigrants, refugees, and international students in the United States in Minneapolis, MN. We mobilize churches, train disciples, and send out those disciples all over the world to reach the unreached peoples of the world.Our heart is to get the Western Church impassioned to see how they can be a part of the great commission by welcoming unreached people groups to the U.S, and getting involved in the lives of those who up until this point have been left without a witness to the Love that is Jesus Christ. Our passion is to reach out and help newcomers that have recently arrived in the US by helping with English, tutoring, paperwork, job placement, etc. Many of these internationals have escaped persecution, genocide, and political unrest. By training people here to meet the physical needs of those coming from overseas, we can meet their even greater spiritual needs. The goal is to share the gospel and help develop full devoted followers of Christ. We have hope of seeing those that have entered into the Kingdom return to their home countries as apostolic leaders where still 1.9 Billion people remain without the Good News of Christ. Prior to coming to Minneapolis our family spent 4 years in Oaxaca, Mexico reaching out to the unreached Indigenous Mixteco people groups, then the last 5 years working in very diverse US cities training the local church and indigenous believers to reach out to those coming to America. The goal and passion of our organization is to see Matthew 24:14 come to pass and that all unreached peoples of this earth will have the opportunity to hear the Gospel of this Kingdom.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 23, 2015

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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.

  • Instructor

    

    Richard Gunasekera

    Online Perspectives Programs/Courses, La Mirada CA

    Richard is assoc dean and professor at Biola University CA and Faculty at Rice University, Houston, TX. Richard grew up in a Christian family in old Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). He earned his undergraduate degree and a doctorate in biochemical genetics at the Baylor University- Medical Center in Dallas. Richard has served Perspectives Since early 1990s as an instructor, Coordinator, the founding Director of Online PSP Programs and POR. He lives in the Houston, Texas area with his family; wife is an Anesthesiologist and they have two grown children.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 30, 2015

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Omar Garcia

    Kingsland Baptist Church, Katy TX

    Omar is the Missions Pastor at Kingsland Baptist Church in Katy, Texas. He is a graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and has served as a writer for LifeWay Christian Resources since 1995. Omar enjoys leading the people of Kingsland to make meaningful connections with others from Katy to the ends of the earth. The Kingsland Missions Ministry mobilizes more than 4,000 volunteers annually to serve in local and international missions initiatives. Omar and his wife Cheryl have three grown children. When Omar is not traveling, he enjoys outdoor activities and marathon canoe racing with his son, Jonathan. You can read more about his global adventures at GoBeyond.blog.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 6, 2015

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Doug West

    East-West Ministries International, Belton TX

    Doug currently is engaged in coaching church planters in Muslim areas of Southeast Asia. His prior background is in business start-ups and entrepreneurship. **This instructor's identity is concealed due to the nature of their work**
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 13, 2015

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Brian H

    Cypress TX

    * The interesting last name is Finnish. I'm the son of an immigrant. * born in Washington, DC and thus exposed to internationals from childhood * My 'parents prayed for and hosted missionaries, and I received an informal 'global education' from these captivating guests. * A shepherd's heart and a cross cultural focus * Long-time pastoral service in Houston area, especially Cypress. * In recent years - work in southern Russia: cultural exchange and teaching conversational English and other very important topics.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 20, 2015

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Jimmy Dorrell

    Texas Christian Community Development Network, Waco TX

    Jimmy & Janet Dorrell moved into an low-income neighborhood in Waco, TX, in 1978, and founded and is now president emeritus of Mission Waco, a large urban Christian community development organization with 16 programs and 80 staff, with work among the addicted, unemployed, homeless, sick, illiterate and unchurched. In 1992, The Dorrells planted Church Under the Bridge in 1992 as an outdoor church meeting under the Interstate 35 and S. 4th Street underpass (currently meeting at the Magnolia Silos until Summer 2022). As pastor, the church now has 275 very diverse attendees. Dorrell also founded the statewide Texas Christian Community Development Network. As an adjunct professor at Truett Theological Seminary and Baylor, he teaches Christian community development, missions, and community engagement classes. Dorrell has written four books, including "Commonwealth: Transformation through Christian Community Development;" "Dead Church Walking," "Trolls and Truth" and "Plunge2Poverty." The couple, married 43 years, also continue to work in Haiti, India, and MxCity. They have four children (one deceased) and 10 grandchildren.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 27, 2015

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    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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    Date: Monday, May 4, 2015

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

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