Perspectives on the World Christian Movement

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Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: Menomonie Alliance Church 502 21st St N Menomonie WI 54751

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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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    Doug Stolhand

    Menomonie WI

    The journey from my roots on the west coast of southern California to the Midwest has been a great adventure that sums up my life so far. It started with my own response as a little punk to the plea of a young pastor who said, "If you don't want to go to hell raise your hand!" 40 years later, after coming to know Christ, having served for 20 years in 2 different churches, then 9 more in Short Term Missions with ReachGlobal, God has led us "full circle" back into local church ministry here in WI at Menomonie Alliance Church. A graduate of BIOLA University and Talbot Seminary, my love for scripture and passion to communicate God's Word has fueled all of the ministries that we have served in. In addition to the many hats I have worn in "vocational ministry," I have been blessed to have spent a significant span of time working internationally with brothers and sisters in Christ from a wide variety of ethnic heritages. Each time I travel internationally 3 things change in my noggin; my view of scripture, my view of the church and my view of God. Not because they change, but because God changes me.
    
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    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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    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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    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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    Jerry Cellan

    The Bridge Church, Eau Claire WI

    Jerry grew up in Indianola, IA where he thought sports were the most important thing in the world--until he met Sue, a cheerleader. They were married right out of high school and it's amazing their marriage survived for the next 7 years because in college Jerry majored in philosophy and became an atheist. His life was radically changed at the age of 25 when he became a committed follower of Jesus Christ. Jerry received a B.A. at Simpson College, IA, a Th.M. at Dallas Theological Seminary and completed doctoral work toward a D.Min. at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has served over 33 years in pastoral ministry, including the past 7 years as Lead Pastor of The Bridge Church in Eau Claire, WI. Jerry and Sue have 3 children and 4 grandchildren.
    
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    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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    D. Stimmel

    Kiel WI

    Seeing the Lord Jesus at work around the world has been one of the greatest joys of D. Stimmel’s life. She and her husband have served in the Republic of Korea and in North and Central Asia. After serving a term in Korea and unable to return due to visa difficulties, they remained in the USA, serving in the missions department of a Christian college and pastoring in a missions-focused local church. In 2010 the Lord unexpectedly called them back overseas to be the lead couple to prepare the way to open a new field for their organization and to pastor an international fellowship in their host country. After more than three years, with a good foundation laid, they returned to life in the States. J & D have two wonderful sons, a delightful daughter-in-law and two amazing grandchildren.
    
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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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    Chris Clayman

    Global Gates, Bronx NY

    Chris Clayman is the Co-Founder and an Associate Director of Global Gates (www.globalgates.info), a mission organization focused on reaching the ends of the earth through global gateway cities. He has been involved in pioneer mission work in urban and rural West Africa and New York City among unreached Muslim peoples. Chris is also the author of Superplan: a journey into God’s story (thesuperplan.com) and ethNYcity: The Nations, Tongues, and Faiths of Metropolitan New York (unreachednewyork.com). He has initiated and helped develop numerous mobilization and outreach efforts focused on unreached peoples, including Heart for Muslims (heartformuslims.com), Welcome Africans (welcomeafricans.com), and UPG North America (upgnorthamerica.com). Chris lives with his wife Nichole and three children in New York City.
    
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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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    Terry Riley

    Harvest Project, Lino Lakes MN

    Terry along with his wife, Bev, served with Frontier Ventures (USCWM), Adopt-A-People Clearinghouse, ReachGlobal, and ReachNational. Terry developed the first database of unreached peoples while working with the AAP Clearinghouse. This research was published in 1993 in a book entitled, "A Church for Every People", and was the platform for the Joshua Project database. He served in the Dakotas for 8 years ministering to various Native American tribes engaging in evangelism, discipleship and community development. Also, he served as a youth/family pastor of an urban core African-American church. Additionally, he's been engaged in ministry to various people groups from the Middle East and in India. Currently, Terry is a licensed marriage and family therapist, mission mobilizer.
    
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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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    Jeremy Adelman

    First Baptist Church - Minneapolis, Minneapolis MN

    Jeremy Adelman is passionate about seeing men and women treasure Jesus and grow as disciples of Christ. Jeremy has been involved in higher education, campus ministry, church planting and missions. He currently serves as the Adult Ministries Pastor at First Baptist Church in downtown Minneapolis. Jeremy also blogs weekly at www.jeremyadelman.net He grew up in Central Minnesota, spent time in Fargo and now lives in the Twin Cities. He is a graduate of North Dakota State University (BS in Speech Communication) and also Bethel Seminary (MA in Theological Studies). It was during his time in Fargo that he first took the Perspectives course, and it completely changed the way he sees God's mission in the world. During his time at North Dakota State, Jeremy met his amazing wife Megan and they now have three wonderful children: Liam, Emma and Jack. He and his wife enjoy time with their kids, riding their bikes, being active and playing board games. Beyond family and ministry, he uses his extra time to work on DIY projects or read books. Jeremy considers it a joy and privilege to serve God at First Baptist Church and is thrilled to see disciples of Jesus formed and multiplied throughout the Twin Cities and around the world.
    
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    Dan Venberg

    Lutheran Brethren International Mission, Fergus Falls MN

    Dan is a missionary kid who grew up in Cameroon and Chad. He has served vocationally as a missionary in Chad with his family for ten years, among an unreached people group. Currently, Dan serves as international director of Lutheran Brethren International Mission. His hobbies include hiking, camping, traveling and wildlife photograph.
    
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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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    Andy Krause

    EFCA ReachGlobal, MInneapolis MN

    Andy currently serves with EFCA ReachGlobal as Leader of Partnership Development for their ministry in Asia. He has served as pastor in the USA, church planter in a Muslim context in Asia, and church mobilizer.
    
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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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    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: Tuesday, April 12, 2016

    Time: 6:00 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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    Eugene Bunkowske

    Dr. Eugene Bunkowske, Maplewood MN

    For Dr. Bunkowske, Christian Outreach is the "beating heart" at the center of ministry in the US and globally. For the past 25 years Dr. Bunkowske has taught and lived Christian outreach, missiology and cross cultural ministry while serving as a professor at Concordia Theological Seminary in Ft. Wayne and Concordia University in St. Paul. He is currently serving as the Fiechtner Chair Professor of Christian Outreach in St. Paul. For the 22 years prior to this, Dr. Bunkowske and his family served as missionaries in Nigeria, Africa. He served as an evangelistic missionary, school manager, built a hospital, and assisted in Bible translation.
    
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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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    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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  • 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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    Rick

    Minneapolis MN

    Rick planted churches among refugees in the US for over 20 years before moving to SE Asia to serve on a church planting team. During his time in Asia he was involved in developing an English vocational center as well as seeing a church planted among an UPG in that country. He now devotes his time living out his God given vision through a ministry called Engage Global. Engage Global exists to be a catalyst for the long term engagement of unreached peoples around the world by providing intensive World Christian training among unreached people groups living in the Twin Cities. He serves with a fantastic team along with his wife, Nicky and their two daughters Lilly and Liana.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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