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Pittsburgh, PA
Spring 2016
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14 weeks. 14 Instructors. One Epic Story
In the beginning - no, before
there was a beginning -
a story began...
Come, explore the depths and riches of
this story,
as it has unfolded throughout
the pages of the Bible and beyond, into modern history.
Come, learn how God's redemptive
plan is reaching, stretching, welcoming
every tribe, tongue, and
culture to worship before his throne.
Come, disciple of Jesus Christ,
discover your unique place,
and get threaded into this cosmic story
of God's glory.
Come
and hear what God has to say to you.
Your mind will be challenged.
Your heart will be moved.
Your commitment will be tested.
For decades, and around the world, Perspectives
on the World Christian Movement has drawn everyday people deeper into
God's missionary purpose for the world. People of all ages, walks of life, and
backgrounds have come out of the class with an expanded vision of God's work in
the world and a new grasp of their part in it, revitalizing their walk with the
Lord and strengthening their faith.
Feel free to explore this site and learn more about
the class. Click through the Lessons below to learn about their
content and the instructor who will be teaching that class. View the promo videos found on the Perspectives home page.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact Tonia Beaver ().
Childcare will be provided.
Depending on your
time and availability, you may take the course at a variety of levels.
We recommend the Certificate Level for most people. We also offer it for
undergraduate or graduate credit through Trinity University and
Excelsior College.
If you need to miss a Wednesday evening class you may attend our loop class on Tuesday evening at Grove City College (HAL Room 110), Grove City, PA. Same time, same instructor.
Is this course only for those interested in
missions? Absolutely not! This is a course for the Church.
The goal is to bring our individual lives into a closer alignment with God's
purpose. To join God in His story. If you want to grow and be challenged—want
more vision, direction and eternal impact to come from your life…
Join us for Perspectives 2016
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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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Instructor
Jennifer Haddox
ECO (A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians), Waynesburg PA
Jen first took the Perspectives class at Eastern College, and since then has been passionate about mobilizing the church for frontier mission. Jen served as a Perspectives class coordinator in Western, PA from 2002-2016. She currently serves as the Director of Global Engagement for ECO (A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians). In this role, she is a resource for mobilizing and equipping congregations for meaningful and effective global mission engagement. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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New Castle PA
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Instructor
Robert Blincoe
Frontiers, Mesa AZ
Bob led a Frontiers team into northern Iraq following the first Gulf War in 1991. He is president emeritus of Frontiers USA, living in Phoenix. He has a Ph.D. in History from William Carey International University in Pasadena. He has twice lost on television game shows. He blogs at robertblincoe.blog. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Kristopher Keating
Methodist Evangelical Church of the USA, Richmond VA
Over the past 20 years, Kristopher has served as the director of two different international mission agencies. He has worked in more than 30 countries. He has offended people on 3 continents with his bad Karaoke skills.
He is an adjunct professor at Liberty University, has degrees in Communication, Organizational Leadership and Counseling. He also completed seminary studies. He lives in downtown Richmond, Virginia with his wife Gloria, his son Max and his daughter Ana. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Martha Rice
Harvest Bridge, Grove City PA
Martha grew up in Kenya, attended Columbia Bible College and has a B.S. in Nursing from the Univ. of Pennsylvania. Retiring as a public school nurse she went with Alan to Sudan, worked in children's ministry in refugee camps; in 2015 she was the teacher at a conference for women in Chennai.
Alan has degrees in engineering and theology, has worked as a pastor for 5 years, taught engineering for 20 years. His contacts with other cultures include a mission trip to Mexico; teaching two years in theological colleges for internally displaced tribal pastors in Sudan, and ten-day trips to Chennai and New Delhi in 2014 and 2015 for conferences with native pastors and evangelists on church planting.
The Rices have five adult children and five grandsons.
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Yvonne Huneycutt Video Instruction
Austin TX
Yvonne from Austin, Texas loves mobilizing Christians and entire churches to find and engage their God-designed role for participation in the completion of the Great Commission. She has been active in this ministry since 1991 first as founder and director of the Nashville Office of the US Center for World Mission. During the 1990's, Yvonne helped raise up and equip well over 100 new missionaries from Nashville. Yvonne's overseas field experience includes one year in Russia and numerous short-term trips into over 30 nations. She holds a Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry in Missions and Cross-Cultural Studies from Gordon-Conwell. Yvonne is now in the Austin, TX area, working with the Global Extension of the Perspectives course, presently spearheading the adaptation of the Perspectives Class into the Spanish language. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Richard Haney
Frontier Fellowship, North Chesterfield VA
Ordained Presbyterian minister, married and father of three grown daughters. Led mission trips since 1982 in Latin America, Europe, Africa. Teaching trips to Central and East Asia. PhD from the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. Teaches DMin students at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Chairman of the Board of the World Christian Research NGO. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Richard Haney
Frontier Fellowship, North Chesterfield VA
Ordained Presbyterian minister, married and father of three grown daughters. Led mission trips since 1982 in Latin America, Europe, Africa. Teaching trips to Central and East Asia. PhD from the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. Teaches DMin students at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Chairman of the Board of the World Christian Research NGO. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Al H
RUN Ministries, Chesapeake VA
Al H. is director of research for a non-profit organization that equips first-generation Christian leaders from within the 10/40 Window, providing evangelistic media tools, a culturally sensitive discipleship model and practical skills for their ministries to become self-sustaining. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Suzanne Rumbaugh
Frontiers, Grove City PA
Suzanne and her family served 7 years in Honduras, equipping latinos to go to unreached Africa. A home educator for 25 years, Suzanne launched the MATCH program, "Missions and Academic Training Center in Honduras," hosting and training college interns, as well as teaching MKs. Now back in PA, Suzanne volunteers with Frontiers, encouraging churches and workers to go to the least reached peoples, and mentors future goers through the local church. Suzanne enjoys discipling students at Grove City College, being Grandma to 11, biking with Don, and once jogged with a scorpion in her shoe. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Scott Boyd
Pittsburgh Region International Student Ministries, Pittsburgh PA
Rev. Scott Boyd and his family served nine years as church planters in Slovenia. He is currently Director of the Pittsburgh Regional International Students Ministry. P.R.I.S.M. is a dynamic network of cross-cultural programs and ministries to international students and visiting scholars in the Pittsburgh area. We include Scott in every Perspectives class as his ministry is so important to our area. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Donald Rumbaugh
Grove City PA
Dr. Don Rumbaugh is a Family Practice MD, C&MA pastor, and Medical Mobilizer for Frontiers. He served in the USAF for 13 years as a flight surgeon through Desert Storm, and then went into private practice. He started Team Healthcare, a short term missions organization serving in various countries. Ordained in the C&MA and With a heart for global medicine, Dr. Rumbaugh and his family moved to Honduras to serve at Hospital Loma de Luz between 2003-11. Pursuing his passion for cross cultural medical work, Dr. Rumbaugh has partnered with other like-minded physicians and started VillageDoc.net, a non-profit dedicated to serving the global poor. Currently, Dr. Rumbaugh works in a Family Practice clinic, mentors students, and preaches as needed in western PA. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Jeff Sundell
Shelby NC
• Started and ran a small business for 16 years
• IMB missionary/trainer in India/Nepal for 10 years - returned to the US in 2009 where he has trained 4550 people in the past 5 years in T4T
• Leading the 50-5-50 strategy in the US with a goal to see 50 trainers reaching 4 generations in 50 major cities in the US by 2020 b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Derek
KRIN , Allison Park PA
Derek is the Executive Director of a network for an unreached people group in East Asia.
He was formerly the East Asia Director for Beyond, overseeing missionary strategy for starting discipleship / church planting movements among unengaged / unreached people groups of East Asia. He lived in Asia for 12 years. Derek has taught extensively on church planting movements and pioneer church planting to locals in numerous Asian countries. Author of "Innovation in World Mission" through William Carey Library. He started several companies for business as mission. Holds a Master's degree in Organizational Leadership and Foresight from Regent University. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Bart Simpson
Jamestown NY
Bart began learning about unreached peoples through Destination 2000 (Bob Sjogren) in the late 80’s and then a Perspectives course in the D.C. Area. He has been a Perspectives coordinator and speaker. He has served with his family for 20 years overseas in a Muslim context. With key locals who were won to Christ, he established 2 English businesses that are now run by nationals and thriving. Those businesses are also where the believers experience community in Christ. He is married and has 3 teenagers transitioning to life in their passport country. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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