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Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: Las Cruces 1800 South Locust Las Cruces NM 88001

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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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    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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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2016

    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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    Phil Luckett

    Coppell TX

    Most conversations with Phil at some point get around to football. That's because he is a recently retired referee for the National Football League. The NFL hired him in 1991 and in that capacity, he has officiated games from Tokyo to Europe. In 1997 he worked both the Super Bowl in New Orleans (Green Bay vs. New England) and the World Bowl in Barcelona, Spain (Barcelona vs. Frankfort). He brings this unique perspective to telling the world the story of God's Glory. He is a certified, national & international instructor with UnveilinGLORY, speaking on the Glory of God (by means of light-hearted yet revealing 'Cat and Dog Theology') and on God's heart for all nations. He shares in settings as small as Sunday school, in large church-wide seminars, or in just-right sized Perspectives classes. Overseas ministry has been primarily in and around 7 major cities in Russia with the UnveilinGLORY material and conducting summer English camps.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2016

    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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    Chad Vegas

    Sovereign Grace Church, Bakersfield CA

    
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2016

    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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    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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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2016

    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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    Brian Zunigha

    California Baptist University, Riverside CA

    Brian graduated from the University of Oklahoma, where he was trained to make disciples. After graduation he joined staff with the campus ministry that trained him at OU, then traveled nationally for The Traveling Team, challenging students to embrace God's heart for the world. Brian earned a MDiv at Midwestern Seminary and is now Director of Campus Ministry at California Baptist University, in Riverside (CA). He is married to Jennifer.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2016

    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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    Marti Wade

    Pioneers, Hillsboro OR

    Marti has been teaching Perspectives since the 1990’s and serving with Pioneers (Pioneers.org) since 2007, where she is the editorial director for the Marketing Team. Previously she was part of a ministry that sent teams to conduct ethnographic research to support strategic prayer and ministry efforts in unreached cities. She is the editor and publisher of the weekly Missions Catalyst newsletter (MissionsCatalyst.net) and serves on the board for MissionWorks (MissionWorks.global).
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2016

    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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    Stephen Kovach

    Howard Payne University, Las Cruces NM

    Assistant Professor of Christian Studies and Criminal Justice, Howard Payne University - El Paso Center, 2010-Present Part Time Instructor of Philosophy, Dona Ana Community College, 2012-Present Serve as Interim and Supply Pastor Former Prosecutor and Psst Chair of Prosecutor Section, State Bar of New Mexico. Former Staff Judge Advocate, United States Air Force. Serve on Boards of Salvation Army and Pastor Care. Education - B.A. University of Michigan, J.D. Drake University Law School, M.Div. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ph.D. in Theological Studies, Systematic Theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2016

    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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    Warren Hoyt

    Jesus Chapel, El Paso TX

    Pastor Warren and wife Lynn served in YWAM for 5 1/2 years, working largely in evangelism and discipleship in Latin America. Warren speaks fluent Spanish, some Russian, has traveled in ministry to many countries. For 6 years he traveled constantly in ministry, and has pastored two Spanish-speaking and one English-speaking congregation. He has been pastor of his current church for ten years. Warren and his wife Lynn have four grown, married children and two grandchildren.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2016

    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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    Leonie Kent

    Shining Light International, Colorado Springs CO

    Leonie's great joy is gathering and sharing the stories of God's unstoppable plan advancing among all peoples, everywhere! When not sipping chai in far flung places, or with refugees nearby, Leonie calls Colorado home, where she serves Global Partnership Development for Shining Light International, a humanitarian organization providing hope through education, training and development for a brighter future for northern Pakistan and beyond.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2016

    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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    Pam Arlund

    All Nations, Kansas City MO

    Pam is currently the Co-Editor of Perspectives 5th Edition and a member of All Nations. She lived in Central Asia for ten years, where she planted churches among three people groups, two of whom are Muslim. She earned an MA and PhD in Linguistics (i.e. Bible Translation) from the University of Texas at Arlington. She has published numerous books and articles in missions. She is most well known as “The Stick Figure Lady” for her popular book “Stick Figures Save the World.”
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2016

    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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    John B

    Wichita KS

    JB has helped to train and mobilize university students to the 10/40 window for the past 25 years.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2016

    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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    Bradley Buser

    Founder Radius International, San Diego CA

    Brad came to faith in Christ at 17 and soon after was challenged with the need of unreached people groups. He began training for this directly after High School. Beth is from St. Johns MI., her Mom and Dad love the Lord Jesus and raised her with a heart for the world. They met, had two boys and left for Papua New Guinea in January of 1979. Soon after arriving they moved in among the Iteri people who live in the headwaters of the Sepik River Basin. After 4 years of studying the language and culture of the Iteri people they were fluent and began to share Christ with them for the first time. The baby church was discipled and in a few years leaders were ordained. The Busers worked on the New Testament translation and by 1999, after 20 years in the village, with the translation done, the church up and thriving, their need to be among the Iteris was over. Upon returning from PNG he and other men saw the need for appropriate training for missionaries who would be sent to Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists. In 2010 he helped found Radius International as a ministry to do such training. Radius is currently the largest training program for those going into Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and Tribal peoples. For those who desire to do church planting among the least reached it is the premier training available.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2016

    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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    Alex T

    OMF International, Las Cruces NM

    Dr. Alex Tee has served with OMF International since 1994 in Southeast Asia facilitating church planting among unreached Muslim people groups and the development of indigenous missions. His ministry included church planting (movement) training, strategic planning, field leadership, as well as teaching Water Resources Engineering as a tentmaker. He has seen house churches planted and indigenous missions take off.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2016

    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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    Mary Ho

    All Nations Family, Inc, Kansas City MO

    Dr. Mary Ho is the International Executive Leader of All Nations (http://allnations.international), a global Christian missions organization with workers making disciples and doing church planting in 44 countries. Dr. Ho is passionate about finishing the Great Commission in this generation by sharing the love of God among every people and in parts of the world where the name of Jesus Christ is little or not known. Dr. Ho received her Doctorate of Strategic Leadership from Regent University, VA, U.S.A. in 2016.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2016

    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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    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: Tuesday, May 3, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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