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Date: Sunday, August 16, 2015

Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Location: Stockton Alliance Church 825 Highmoor Ave. Stockton CA 95210

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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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    Ziad Srouji

    San Mateo CA

    Pastor Z. Samuel Srouji came out of war torn Lebanon in the ‘70s and encountered Jesus at the age of 16 through the truth that “the grave is empty and Jesus is alive.” Since then he has been captured with the Father’s heart of love for the nations, and miracles have followed his ministry of worship and preaching around the world. For twenty five years he has pastored on the peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, August 16, 2015

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Michael Boyland

    Irvington Presbyterian Church, Hayward CA

    Michael came to faith in Christ in 1972 after having been an atheist and then interested in Hinduism. He has degrees from Oxford, England, UC Berkeley, and Fuller seminary. While serving as Associate Pastor at First Pres. Bakersfield he worked with church plants among Chinese, Cambodians and Latinos. From 1996 through 2003 he served as Director of the Presbyterian Center for Mission Studies at the US Center for World Mission in Pasadena, which is where he got involved with Perspectives. Michael is now retired and lives with his family on a farm in the East Bay Area hills. He is very active with the FAT Sheep Family of China Outreach Ministries, doing evangelism with Chinese professors who are spending a year at UC Berkeley.
    
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    Date: Sunday, August 23, 2015

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Mark Scandrette

    ReIMAGINE!, San Francisco CA

    Since 1998 Mark Scandrette has worked in the diverse cultures of the San Francisco Bay area in urban neighborhood engagement, church planting, cross-cultural contextualization, spiritual formation and the training of church and missionary leaders. He specializes in addressing the intersection of gospel and emerging post-Christian cultural contexts. Mark and his wife Lisa have raised three children in San Francisco's Mission District.
    
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    Date: Sunday, August 30, 2015

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Pastor Raed Awabdeh

    Rancho Cordova CA

    My name is Raed Awabdeh, Licensed and ordained Pastor with the Christian and Missionary Alliance. I was born in the coastal town Banyas in Syria; at the age of 18 I came to the States to continue my education. In 1998 my wife Manar and I began home Bible Study and God anointed the bible study, so it became Church plant. Our Church believes that God loves all people in the world, Christians, Jews, Muslims… and He is calling lost souls to believe in His Son Jesus Christ the One all the prophets testified …everyone who believes in Him will have their sins forgiven...' I just came back from Jordan where I have visited the Syrian Refugees in Jordan, and witnessed the wonderful work of the Church; ministering and reaching out to un-churched brokenhearted, weak, sick, hungry, thirsty and poor in spirit refugees. The Church is demonstrating the love of Jesus and obeying His command “Love your neighbor as yourself”.
    
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    Date: Sunday, September 6, 2015

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    DawnEllen Jacobs

    Hideaway TX

    DawnEllen Jacobs is a faculty mentor and academic consultant. Recently retired from 28 years at California Baptist University, she began serving on short term service teams in 1998 and has done over 20 projects to date. She has a passion for discipling others with a desire to share the gospel with the nations.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, September 13, 2015

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    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: Sunday, September 20, 2015

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Sabrina Chan

    InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Richmond VA

    Sabrina Chan serves college and university students as InterVarsity's National Director of Asian American Ministries. Before taking this national role she led staff and students in Northern California, Northern Nevada, Southern Oregon, and Hawai'i - helping to plant community college ministry and developing staff. But she calls herself a Texan because of her 15 years there - first as a student at Rice University, then as a computer engineer, and finally 9 years leading InterVarsity at the University of Texas. While there she also helped plant and lead a church community. In addition to ministry stateside - she has had the opportunity to learn and minister in short-term missions in Central Asia, China, Hong Kong, Pakistan, and the Philippines. She earned her MA in Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary and is licensed by the Evangelical Covenant Church. She lives with her husband and two children in Richmond, VA.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, September 27, 2015

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    John Dupree

    Missions Consultant, Blanchard ID

    Rev. John Dupree serves as a Church Mobilization Minister Consultant: retired PERSPECTIVES Pacific Regional Director, former William Jessup University Adjunct Professor, Inter-Cultural Studies Dept., John is an ordained minister who has served as a Church Planter, Missions Pastor, Elder, ACMC Regional Director, Mission Networks creator (13 in Pacific region), organized 70 National and Regional Conferences, plus preaching and teaching at churches, seminaries, conferences in Eastern Europe, Asia and America.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 4, 2015

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Larry Walker

    WEC International, San Marcos CA

    Larry Walker grew up in Central California. He has a BA in History and a ThM in Practical Theology. He was a missionary in a Mayan Village in Guatemala in the 70's, a missions pastor in Dallas in the 80's and since '87 has been a missions coach with ACMC, Pioneers and WEC International. He is married to Kathleen, has four married daughters and ten grandchildren and lives in San Diego.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 11, 2015

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Isaac Wong

    Sacramento CA

    
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 18, 2015

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Tim Svoboda

    Youth With A Mission, San Francisco CA

    Timothy Svoboda is currently the International Urban missions Director for Youth With A Mission and also serves as the City Coordinator for YWAM San Francisco and the Bay Area. Tim, his wife and children have served in India from 1983 to 2007. Tim was the National Director for YWAM India, the South Asia Urban Ministry Coordinator and the Chennai City Coordinator. YWAM Chennai has developed into a decentralized movement of 17 focused teams that are living incarnationally and reaching out to leprosy patients, slum dwellers, university students, urban middle class people, Muslims, and into other sectors of society. Tim also was one of the founders for Chennai Transformation Network which is a movement that unites the Christians of the city for transformational ministry. Tim and his family currently live in San Francisco giving leadership to the ministry of YWAM there and around the world in cities. Tim also serves on the Global Leadership Team for YWAM international, the Global Urban Missions Network which is a broad consortium of City Missional leaders from various organizations around the world and locally Tim serves on several San Francisco faith initiatives. Tim earned his Doctorate in Ministry from the Bakke Graduate University in 2007 and is an adjunct professor for BGU for their courses in San Francisco and India.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 25, 2015

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    James Ardill

    SIM USA, Macon GA

    Jim was born and raised in Nigeria; has served with SIM in Liberia and Ethiopia as SIM Development Administrator, and Sudanese Ministries Manager. From 2003 to 2020, Jim has been recruiting believers, mobilizing churches and speaking in the SW region and in Bolivia Perspectives. From 2020 to Spring 2023, Jim worked with refugees from the Middle East, particularly with sports outreach to refugee children and their families in Sacramento.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, November 1, 2015

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Lee Bridges

    Jonathan Project, Yuba City CA

    International Coordinator for the Jonathan Project ministry. Instructor has 40 years experience in Church Planting ministry with extensive experience doing evangelism and church planting particularly in restricted access contexts. He also trains others to do the same.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, November 8, 2015

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Brian Hogan

    Disciple Making Mentors, Fayetteville AR

    Brian and Louise Hogan have served in mission since 1987. From the Navajo Tribe to Outer Mongolia, their passion has been to see Jesus glorified and lifted up among those who have never known Him. From 1993-1996 their team pioneered a church planting movement in Erdenet (AIR-DUH-NET), Mongolia that continues to grow under fully indigenous leadership to this day. Their Mongolian disciples are now training and sending out their own missionaries to other unreached people groups. The story of the work in Erdenet can be read in Brian’s book: There’s a Sheep in my Bathtub (Asteroidea Books), and in the case study article – “Distant Thunder: Mongols Follow the Khan of Khans” – on page 695 of your Perspectives Reader.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, November 15, 2015

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Joni Brinkley

    OM - Operation Mobilization, Dickson TN

    Joni has been serving the Lord with Operation Mobilization for over 30 years. She and her husband Norm were involved in evangelism, discipleship, and church planting in the USA for a few years before moving overseas with 1st baby in 1978. Together they have ministered in over 30 nations, leading teams, founding and running a missionary base for N. Africa, and serving as country and field leaders in OM. With TOEFL certification, she also taught English as a Foreign Language in the Middle East while providing “Member Care” for workers there. She presently mobilizes and mentors university students in California to “get out there” into unreached nations. Speaking at universities, churches, and conferences, she loves to share from her heart about the work of missions, intercultural issues, the world of Islam, worldwide opportunities, and raising families. She currently lives with her husband in California and is developing ministry among local refugees from Muslim nations.
    
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    Date: Sunday, November 22, 2015

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

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