Overland Park
Spring 2016
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to experience God's heart for all peoples and encounter the momentum of the
World Christian Movement. Perspectives will open the eyes of your heart with
fresh knowledge and understanding of God's unchanging purposes and why they're
relevant to your life.
Perspectives allows you to hear from 15 different instructors over the course
of 15 weeks. Perspectives is for believers from all walks of life. Hear how God
has been and continues to work throughout the world. Learn more about God's kingdom and His
glory. Find out what your part is in this exciting movement to make Jesus'
disciples from all nations.
No matter
who you are or what you do, Perspectives will help you learn how to live for
God's Kingdom.
When: Tuesdays
6:30pm-9:00pm, January 12 through May 9, 2016
Where: Westbrooke
Church of Overland Park, KS 9777 Antioch Rd Overland Park, KS 66212
Cost: $250, includes Reader & Study
Guide;
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Course Outline:
Biblical Lessons (1-5): The
Word of God is revealed with striking clarity as Perspectives illuminates God's
unchanging promises as they unfold from Genesis to Revelation.
Historical Lessons (6-9): Discover
your spiritual lineage as you learn Christian history is wrought with the
immeasurable power of God as He makes His name known among the nations.
Cultural Lessons (10-11): The
peoples of the world come alive as we eventually see, through Christ Jesus, the
expressions of the New Testament church thriving among every nation, tribe,
people and language.
Strategic Lessons (12-15): Find
your place in God's story as there are endless opportunities to help complete
the Great Commission.
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Registration & Orientation
Registration & Orientation
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Instructor
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Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
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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
Steve Shadrach
The Center for Mission Mobilization , Fayetteville AR
Steve has a passion for developing laborers for Christ to finish the Great Commission. He is the founder of Student Mobilization, The BodyBuilders, NVision, and The Traveling Team. Formerly the Director of Mobilization for the US Center for World Mission, he is now the Executive Director for The Center for Mission Mobilization, headquartered in Fayetteville, Arkansas. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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Instructor
John Zumwalt
Outrageous Love, Choctaw OK
John Zumwalt is the Cross Cultural Coach for the innovative organization, Outrageous Love. After serving as a missionary among the unreached Minnan he returned to America and for over 22 years served as the founder and Director of the Missionary Training Institute, Beautiful Feet Boot Camp. He has trained over 300 Career Missionaries. He has a Doctorate of Divinity from International University for Graduate Studies. John has authored the book, Passion for the Heart of God and travels widely, preaching and holding seminars, raising up activist to go to the ends of the earth. John and his wife, Jamie, also pastor a church in a “red light district” of Oklahoma City. They have five children, Jessica, Josiah, Jael, Jewel and James. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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
Eric Zander
the Belgian Evangelical Mission, Grand-Leez AK
Born and raised Belgian, in a post-Catholic secularized country, Eric was first trained as an Elementary school teacher, than at the Belgian Bible Institute and lately got his MTh at Spurgeon's College, London.
Eric and his wife Anne are committed to developing Christian Communities within their contemporary culture. Today, Eric leads several alternative expressions of church, in a local social network, among bikers, … Eric loves reflecting on contemporary culture and acting to impact it. He also loves motorcycle riding, rock music, hiking and good food. Eric and Anne have 3 children, Samuel (23), Déborah (21) and Axelle (16). They live in Gembloux, Belgium.
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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Sam Masters
Oak Grove MO
I am a missionary kid from Argentina. My wife and I have been missionaries in Cordoba, Argentina since 1992. Our main focus has been church planting, but we are transitioning to training Latin Americans for world missions. I am working on a PhD. My research topic is the ministry and methodology of William Carey. I am the Rector of Seminario Biblico William Carey. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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Instructor
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. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Instructor
Stan Yoder
World Partners, Maquoketa IA
Stan and his wife, Valli, served full-time with World Partners since 1978. Valli passed away in November 2021 after a long battle with M.S. Their experience includes 10 years of church planting and curative medical work in Sierra Leone, West Africa among the Yalunka People; 3 years at the US Center as Administrative Director for the Adopt-a-People Clearinghouse; 3 years mobilizing churches to adopt unreached people groups; 2 years training students at Bethel College, Mishawaka, IN; 4 years coaching workers in Africa and the Middle East; and 16 years reaching out to Middle Wast refugees in Kansas City, Missouri. They moved to Maquoketa, Iowa in October 2018 and will begin a new ministry to Middle East students.
Stan will continue to serve with World Partners as a traveling evangelist among Muslims and instructor for Perspectives. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Instructor
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.” b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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Instructor
Amy Law
Cody WY
Amy has a passion to mobilize young people and churches to pray, give and go to foster disciple making movements among unreached people groups. She has served with Youth with a Mission (YWAM), Caleb Project, Teen Mania, La Canada Presbyterian church and supervised over 40 Perspectives courses. Leading youth teams to Yemen, India, Turkey, Malaysia, China and Thailand has helped her training remain practical and reproducible, as she continues to train young people in YWAM and churches in Perspectives. Amy and her husband raise cattle in Wyoming and home educate one son, while their other son attends high school.
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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Jeff Adams
Missional Impact/Graceway, Kansas City MO
Jeff was Graceway’s lead pastor for 33 years, having spent the previous ten years pastoring in Latin America with his wife Cheryl and daughters Sarah and Rebekah. He continues on Graceway's team as Teaching Pastor. He shares his passion for the Word of God in English and Spanish at Graceway and as an international conference speaker. He holds a Ph.D from Trinity Theological Seminary. He enjoys the cultural and dining diversity of Kansas City and is an active supporter of Kansas City's active arts scene. Having traveled and ministered in approximately 70 countries he is an avid student of culture. He trains leaders in cultural competency through cultural immersion experiences in Paris and Amsterdam and is also a certified Paterson LifePlan facilitator, a powerful tool that he uses in equipping and coaching leaders b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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Instructor
Tim Garrett
Frontiers, Gardner KS
Tim is the Strategic Coordinator for new initiatives to Africa with Frontiers.
His passion is encouraging and resourcing African disciple makers and mobilizing others to join in this task. Tim is a farm boy from Nebraska who has a Bible college degree and a Masters in College Student Affairs from Azusa Pacific University. He has ministry experience in North America, Europe and several African countries. When he’s not hanging out with his African brothers and sisters he can be found in junk shops and antiquing. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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Jamie Zumwalt
Outrageous Love, Oklahoma City OK
Jamie Zumwalt is the Founder and President of Outrageous Love, an organization that starts Communities of Hope among marginalized peoples. Jamie and her husband, John, served as missionaries in Taiwan among the Hakka and Taiwanese. For 22 years, John and Jamie have been training and sending missionaries out to plant the church among the unreached. She now pastors and a leads a coffee house, church community called Joe's Addiction in a "red light" district of Oklahoma City, doing life together with the poor. She has authored two books: Simple Obsession: Enjoying the Tender Heart of God and Beloved Chaos: moving from religion to Love in a red light district. Jamie travels widely, teaching and inviting more people to plant Communities of Hope. She and John have five children and one grand daughter. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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Instructor
Roy Moran
Shoal Creek, Liberty MO
Roy is on the board of directors of Beyond and Cityteam, he is founder of Shoal Creek Community Church, DiscipleKC and the DMM Collaborative. Thomas Nelson published Roy's first book Spent Matches where he describes the integration of disciple making movements into the heart of a western church. He was born in Tokyo, Japan and graduated from high school in Honolulu Hawaii. That
vagabond lifestyle can be blamed on the United States Air Force which Roy’s dad Ed
served for 30 years.
Roy is a graduate of Baylor University and Dallas Theological Seminary.
In 1988 Roy moved to KC and worked in the HQ of FCA for four years. Leaving FCA
Roy his wife Candy and a group of 4 others started Shoal Creek Community Church
where Roy currently serves as the directional leader and spiritual literacy advocate.
Roy is madly in love with Candy his wife of 39 years and golf, in that order!
He has 4 grown and married children and ten beautiful grand children all living in the KC
area and vitally connected to Jesus.
The theme of Roy’s life can be described as an addiction to creating disciple making
movements (DMM). Over the past 10 years he has traveled to world studying the great
movements of the gospel in Indonesia, India, Africa, South America and Europe. These
travels have lead to the development of a Hybrid Strategy at Shoal Creek and the
dedication to see movements of disciple making in the US begin out of Kansas City. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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John Berger
Crossworld, Kansas City MO
John is Vice President of Global Operations & Strategy at Crossworld. He earned a B.S. from Oklahoma State, and then worked as a civil engineer for several years in Oklahoma and Texas. His “next life” began with studies at Dallas Theological Seminary, after which he invested nearly 17 years with Crossworld in Haiti at the Séminaire de Théologie Evangélique de Port-au-Prince (STEP). During that time he enjoyed connecting with and learning from leaders of global theological education via the Caribbean Evangelical Theological Association, the International Council for Evangelical Theological Education, and the Overseas Council. He has served as VP at Crossworld since December 2008. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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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. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
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