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Date: Thursday, January 7, 2016

Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: Five Oaks Community Church 4416 Radio Drive Woodbury MN 55129

Contact: Julie Hoffner

• • Registration & Orientation

    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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  • Date: Thursday, January 7, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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    Henry Williams

    Woodbury MN

    Henry Williams is Senior Pastor of Five Oaks Community Church in Woodbury, MN. He is the author The Story of God: A 40-Day Guided Journey through the Bible. Henry is a graduate of Northwestern U (St. Paul), Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Boston U (D.Min.). He's married to Lois and has two grown sons, Henry Michael and Aaron.
    
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    Date: Thursday, January 14, 2016

    Time: 6:30 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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    Dave Rofkahr

    Center for Mission Mobilization, Springdale AR

    Dave Rofkahr has a tremendous background in grass roots campus ministry, in cross-cultural church planting (in Asia for thirteen years), and Business As Mission. He served as the International Director for all of Asia for EFCA ReachGlobal, its US Director of Recruiting/mobilization and now serves as the Executive Director of the Center for Mission Mobilization (www.mobilization.org). He is married with three children and now makes his home in Woodbury, Minnesota. He hopes to bring glory to God by using the talents and opportunities God has entrusted to him to strategically multiply healthy leaders and churches among all people.
    
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    Date: Thursday, January 21, 2016

    Time: 6:30 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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    Don

    World Team, Orlando FL

    Canadian-born, Don received Christ at a YFC rally in 1952 and later graduated from Prairie Bible Institute and Wycliffe's SIL course. From 1962-1977 Don and his late wife, Carol Joy [Soderstrom], an RN, served in Irian Jaya (now Papua, Indonesia) among the Sawi, a Stone-Age cannibal-headhunter tribe. After Don designed a Sawi alphabet, he and Carol taught literacy, planted churches, healed the sick and translated the New Testament. More than half the tribe came to Christ. Author of six books, including "Peace Child" and "Eternity in Their Hearts," Don holds an honorary doctorate from Biola University. He represents World Team at missions conferences and in churches, teaches seminars, and lectures for Perspectives on the World Christian Movement. 17 months after his late wife's passing, Don wed Carol Joyce Abraham, who now serves with him in ministry by speaking to women's groups, singing solos, mentoring, and providing hospitality.
    
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    Date: Thursday, January 28, 2016

    Time: 6:30 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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    Todd Ahrend

    The Traveling Team, Fayetteville AR

    Todd Ahrend graduated from Northeastern State University, has a Masters from Dallas Theological Seminary and a Doctorate from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is the founder and international Director of The Traveling Team, a national missions mobilization movement. He and his wife, Jessica, have spent almost two decades traveling both nation-wide and abroad, speaking to thousands of people about involvement in world evangelization. Todd has exposure in over sixty countries and has lived in the Middle East. He is the author of The Abrahamic Revolution and In This Generation. Todd and Jessica have six children: Camden, Brody, Axel, Noble, Quincy and Cruz!
    
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    Date: Thursday, February 4, 2016

    Time: 6:30 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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    Garry Morgan

    Retired, University of Northwestern-St. Paul, Spokane WA

    Garry Morgan is Professor Emeritus of Intercultural Studies and former Director of Global Initiatives at the University of Northwestern- St. Paul, where he taught from 1999-2016. Prior to that, he spent 18 years in Kenya, serving in a variety of ministry settings. He is the author of Understanding World Religions in Fifteen Minutes a Day, published by Baker. He has been married to Connie since 1981, and they have a married daughter and two grandchildren.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, February 11, 2016

    Time: 6:30 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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    Charles Lindquist

    World Mission Prayer League, Minneapolis MN

    Pr. Charles Lindquist Chuck Lindquist has served with the World Mission Prayer League since 1976, together with his wife, Cindy, and their three children. The Lindquists have served in Ecuador and in the Prayer League's Home Office in Minneapolis. In Ecuador, the Lindquists were assigned to church planting in the southern highlands. Chuck served as well as Director of a national Bible School. In 1986 Chuck became the Prayer League's Personnel Director in Minneapolis, and in 1997 he was installed as General Director. Chuck has attended Augsburg College (1974), Luther Seminary (1979), and Fuller Seminary (1991). The World Mission Prayer League is a Lutheran missionary society, fielding some 120 missionaries in nineteen countries around the world.
    
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    Date: Thursday, February 18, 2016

    Time: 6:30 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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    David Livingston

    Bethlehem Baptist Church, Burnsville MN

    In 2009 my wife and I completed a sabbatical journey to South Africa & the British Isles to study the famous lives of John Bunyan, William Carey, & David Livingstone . . . seeing all sorts of places from Capetown to Hadrian's Wall! This year we will have completed 25 years of service at our current church and 41 years altogether. And we are the delighted grandparents of 8 grandchildren, ranging in age from 10 years to 6 months.
    
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    Date: Thursday, February 25, 2016

    Time: 6:30 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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    Paul Van Der Werf

    GoCorps, Minneapolis MN

    Paul Van Der Werf caught a vision for the least reached peoples globally after going on a short term mission trip in college. Since then he’s lived and ministered in the Red Light District of Amsterdam and in a border town in Mexico and has traveled to over 40 countries. He’s passionate about college students going after their dreams and finding the place where their passions intersect with God’s global dream. He is the founder and executive director of GoCorps [www.GoCorps.org] – an on-ramp for recent grads to serve globally for two years. He and his wife Julia are based in Minneapolis where you can most often find him biking or playing a pickup game of Ultimate.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, March 3, 2016

    Time: 6:30 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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    Bob Oehrig

    Arrive Ministries, Eden Prairie MN

    Bob Oehrig, was the Missions Pastor at Grace Church Roseville from 2001-2011, and the Executive Director of Arrive Ministries (formerly World Relief Minnesota) from 2011-2020 resettling and serving refugees in the Twin Cities. Bob has two MA degrees in Cross-Cultural Communications (Wheaton College) and Missiology (Fuller Theological Seminary). Bob served on the faculty and administration at Daystar University, Nairobi, Kenya for 24 years teaching in the areas of Intercultural Studies, Islamics and Cross-Cultural Communications. He has traveled to more than 55 countries and has led church teams to Macedonia, Ukraine, Guatemala, Mexico, Bolivia, Kenya and India. Bob is married to Donna, the daughter of missionaries to Liberia. They have 5 children, including two adopted sons.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, March 10, 2016

    Time: 6:30 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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    Jim Raymo

    Aberdeen SD

    I was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania (Go Steelers!) in a non-Christian home. Following high school I joined the Army and while in Germany became a Christian through the Navigators. After attending Officers Candidate School I spent a year in Vietnam where I met missionaries from the Christian and Missionary Alliance and God birthed missions in my heart. Later I attended college graduating from Bethel College followed by work in a local Minneapolis church (assistant pastor). I spent 5 years oversees in Europe as coordinator of street ministry teams located in London, Amsterdam and Frankfurt. In 1987 we joined WEC International a church planting mission. I have taught in WEC's missionary training college in Tasmania Australia, and spent 7 years as the US Director for WEC most recently based out of Philadelphia. Currently I remain with WEC and I teach at University of Northwestern-St. Paul and Bethany College of Missions. My wife Judy and I have 7 children-3 older biological children who are married/working and 4 younger adopted African-American boys. I love fitness events (marathons, obstacle races) and doing activities with the boys.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, March 17, 2016

    Time: 6:30 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 Mayer

    , Burnsville MN

    Rev. Dr. John A. Mayer serves as the Executive Director of the non-profit Christian ministry, City Vision headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. John serves in leadership on several ministry boards and is also a well known seminar/conference speaker and researcher. He was on the planning team for the 4th North American Refugee Round Table held in 2012. John served as the Co-Chair for COMMA VII National Consultation (Coalition of Muslim Ministries in (North) America) in 2011. He also served as the Co-Chair for the Annual Ethnic America National Summit in 2003; conceived of and planned the citywide Post-9/11 Metrodome Prayer Event; and founded the Somali, Tibetan, and Liberian Strategic Partnerships in 1999, 2003, and 2006, (with the Somali Partnership starting the first Somali church in America in 2002. John also worked with Indonesian students through the Indonesian Christian Fellowship-Minnesota. In addition, he has served on the leadership and planning teams and helped organize the following citywide events and conferences: Discover Your City Conference in 1995; Convoy of Hope in 1998; Somali Partnership Consultations in 2000 and 2001; Tibetan Partnership Consultation in 2004 (the largest gathering ever for Christian workers seeking to reach out to Tibetans)and another Tibetan Conference in 2012; Twin Cities Ethnic Evangelization Network Conference in 1998; Twin Cities Leadership Consultations in 1997, 1998, 2000; the Invitation Metrodome Prayer Event in 2002; Midwest Gathering of Nations Native American Conference in 2005, and the 2006 Unity Conference and Celebration. Through his ministry work, John has worked with over 1,200 churches/ministries from 61 denominations, including over 100 new church plants.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, March 24, 2016

    Time: 6:30 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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    T. Cher Moua

    Cru, Maplewood MN

    Sinner. Saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Called by Christ to serve the Church of Christ to share the gospel of the kingdom of Christ with the world by connecting with, developing, and empowering the follower of Christ to live out God's heart for the world so that all can grow in Christ and spiritually multiply. One person at a time.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, March 31, 2016

    Time: 6:30 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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    Richard Kronk

    Gainesville GA

    Rick and his wife, Denise, spent 17 years in Europe as church planters with Christar in France among North African Muslim immigrants. They served on church planting teams in Lyon, Grenoble, and Mulhouse, France. In addition, Rick has been involved in the training of potential workers among Muslims and contributes to the development of pastoral leadership of the emerging North African church. Rick is Associate Professor of Global Ministries at Toccoa Falls College.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, April 7, 2016

    Time: 6:30 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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    Stephen Lonetti

    Beacon of Hope / LifeGate Worldwide, Stillwater MN

    For the past thirty-five years, Stephen has committed his life to serve Christ by spreading the gospel and equipping His church. His ministry began with New Tribes Mission Indonesia in 1979 where he served as a pioneer church planter for seventeen years. He and Mary moved to a remote Molucaan island to complete a thirteen-year evangelistic and teaching ministry among the Taliabo tribal people. The Taliabo work has been documented in two videos, The Taliabo Story and Delivered from the Power of Darkness (1995). Upon returning to the States, Stephen joined the pastoral team at Grace Community Church (1996-2001), where he eventually became the pastor for international ministries. Currently, Stephen serves as the founding pastor of Beacon of Hope Church in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is also the founding director of LifeGate Worldwide, an organization dedicated to the advance of the Gospel by supporting and equipping national pastors to plant churches. Mary loves serving the women and children at Beacon and working around the edges of Stephen’s ministry. The Lonettis have been blessed with two children, Joseph and Amanda Clare. Stephen graduated from Bethel University with a degree in Organizational Leadership. He completed Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees from The Master’s Seminary (2001, 2016).
    
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    Date: Thursday, April 14, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM

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    Date: Thursday, April 28, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM

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