Lincoln NE
Spring 2016
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Lincoln Area Perspectives Course - Spring 2016
You have an epic role to play. You're about 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.
Whether you are single, married, student, homemaker, professional or retired, and whatever your current engagement in the church or its ministries, you will be drawn into exploring God's heart to restore His Glory among All Nations, ransoming His people from every tribe, language and culture! (Rev 5:9)
Perspectives allows you to hear from 15 different instructors over the course of 15 weeks. All of them excellent and all of them passionate about this course. Some rank among the most highly-regarded church leaders in the world and many will travel great distances to join us. They will challenge and inspire you with their wisdom and experience, opening your eyes to a new vision of God's mercy, greatness and love.
No matter who you are or what you do, Perspectives will help you learn how to live for God's Kingdom. Dates Tuesdays January 19th-May 10th, 2016 Please pre-register online.
TimeTuesday evenings from 6:30-9:30 pm
Location Faith Bible Church6201 S. 84th Street Lincoln, NE 68516
Cost (price includes the Reader & Study Guide Books) New Students: $240 for Key or Certificate levels $550 for Credit (undergraduate or graduate) level
Alumni: FREE for Key level $40 to upgrade to Certificate level $350 to upgrade to Credit (undergraduate or graduate) level
Discounts Available
** You can buy the eBook Reader & Study Guides as an alternative to the hard copies. You can then take the $30 textbook discount. You may also share books with someone for this discount (one person must buy the books in order to share).
** Family members who have one member pay full price, all subsequent members may take $25 discount.
Contact
Sarah Economides, Class Administrator (630)341-0733
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Mikki Sandin, Class Coordinator
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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
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, January 19, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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Yvonne Huneycutt
Perspectives Global, Round Rock TX
Yvonne from Austin, Texas loves mobilizing Christians and entire churches to find and engage their God-designed role for participation in the completion of the Great Commission. Currently on staff with Perspectives Global, Yvonne's varied career experience includes the corporate world, local church ministry, mission ministry, and managing a non-profit organization. She has worked with the Perspectives movement for over 25 years both nationally and internationally. Her overseas field experience includes one year in Russia and travel in 40 nations. She holds a Doctor of Ministry in Missions and Cross-Cultural Studies from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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
Bill Clark
Lynnwood WA
Bill Clark is currently the NW Director of Peace Catalyst International and an affiliate professor at Trinity Lutheran College. He and his wife Julie started their journey in mission in China where they lived 10 years mostly in the Muslim Northwest. He loves to listen to people’s stories, and wrote his dissertation on Uighur family change. Later they moved to the former Soviet Union and had a first hand view on the emerging church planting movements of the post-Soviet era. Since moving back to the USA in 2009 they have been active in church leadership, and peacemaking with the Muslim peoples of the Puget Sound region of Washington. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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Jim Settle
Calvary Assembly of God, Alliance NE
Jim Settle is a mission mobilizer whose passion is provoking others to risk serving the Lord beyond their comfort zone.
Jim and wife Brook began missionary service in 1996 by leading teams to Mexico’s Baja Peninsula. They also traveled to Romania over a six year period encouraging and equipping leaders. Jim attended Bethany Bible College and Fuller Seminary. He currently pastors Calvary Assembly in Alliance, NE, and instructs for Perspectives. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Mike D Schmidt
Global Friends Omaha, Omaha NE
Mike is the director of Operations for Global Friends Omaha, an evangelistic ministry reaching out to international students in Omaha. From 2012 to 2018 he served as an associate professor and director of the Intercultural Studies department at Grace University. Before coming to Grace, Mike served with his family in Niger for 18 years with SIM. His ministry experience includes church planting among different Muslim groups, overseeing food security ministries, giving leadership to a large mission hospital and discipling Nigerien church leaders. He did his undergraduate studies at Grace University, a ThM at Dallas Theological Seminary and a D. of Missiology at Biola University. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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Andrew Wood
Papillion NE
Dr. Andrew Wood is an Associate Professor and Director of the World Missions program at Nebraska Christian College. He previously served 3 years as a missionary in Ukraine and taught missions at Cincinnati Christian University for 11 years. He has a special interest in world religions and contextualization. He is married and has three children. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Darrell Racey
Christar, Lincoln NE
Darrell and Ruth worked in the Middle East for 26 years, witnessing and gathering believers into fellowship groups. They now work with Arabic speaking refugees in Lincoln, NE, from Muslim, Yazidi, Christian and Sabean (followers of John the Baptist) backgrounds. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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
Andrew Herbek
Perspectives, Omaha NE
God took this farm boy from the middle of nowhere in Nebraska and sent him to serve among an unreached people group in East Asia doing ethnographic research. God used this experience to shape Andrew into a mobilizer and sent him back to North America to equip the body of Christ back home to engage and participate with God in His global purpose. Andrew is a member of Perspectives and serves on the Curriculum Revision Team. He has a Masters of Divinity and a MA in Intercultural Studies, and has field experience in thirteen countries. His heart is that of an educator and discipler, and he desires is to see Christ named and known by all the peoples of the earth, so that Christ can be loved and obeyed within all the peoples of the earth. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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Instructor
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. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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Gene Daniels
Fruitful Practice Research, Jacksonville AR
Gene Daniels has a passion to spread the fame of Jesus in the Muslim world, something he and his family have been involved in since 1997, first as church planters in Central Asia and now as a mission researcher. Daniels has his doctorate in Religious Studies from the University of South Africa. He is also the author of several books and dozens of articles on mission. (Gene Daniels is a pseudonym) b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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Instructor
Al Fadi
CIRA International, Queen Creek AZ
Brother Elijah
*** Lessons taught: 4 & 11 ***
* Missionary to Muslims
* Islamist – Researcher, Writer, and Blogger
* Co-Editor/Co-author/Translator
* Guest Lecturer/Speaker on Islamic Studies & Apologetics
* Adjunct Professor of Islamic Studies at numerous Bible colleges and Seminaries
* Invited guest speaker and trainer at churches and mission agencies
* Invited Guest Analyst on the topics of the Middle East & Radical Islam
* Host of the faith talk radio show, "Let Us Reason. A Christian-Muslim Dialogue with Al Fadi" on KPXQ 1360 AM [ http://soundcloud.com/let-us-reason ]
Elijah is a former Wahabbi Muslim from Saudi Arabia. He is a researcher, editor, writer, and
translator for numerous ministries, including "Answering Islam", “Desiring God”, “The Gospel
Coalition”, and “Jesus On Line”.
Elijah is the founder & director of an outreach training & equipping Ministry (The Center for
Islamic Research & Awareness – CIRA) which focuses on bringing awareness about Islam,
building bridges with Muslims, training on outreach and evangelism to Muslims (i.e.
immigrants, refugees, & international students), and to provide expert opinion and
consultations on issues related to Muslim evangelism, Academic training, Political Islam, &
Sharia Law.
From 2008 – 2013, Elijah was also involved as a co-editor, co-author and contributor of "The
Qur'an Dilemma" (English Book – Vol. 1) - a critical analysis book of the Qur'an. His
responsibilities included overseeing and managing TheQuran.com blog & social media.
Elijah holds a Masters in Engineering and an M.Div. in
Biblical Communications.
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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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, April 19, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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Jim Capaldo
Converge Heartland, Sioux Falls SD
Jim Capaldo and his family spent 11 years serving in a pioneering church planting movement among the Tuvan tribe of Siberian Russia, a land where Shamanism and Buddhism have the prominent religions for centuries. Jim took a holistic approach to church planting that involved both the spiritual elements of evangelism and discipleship as well as addressing the the physical elements through community development and business as mission. Following his missionary career, Jim has served as as the Outreach and Teaching Pastors at ChangePoint Church in Anchorage, AK and Central Baptist Church in Sioux Falls, SD. He currently serves as the District Executive Minister of the Converge Heartland District (formerly known as Baptist General Conference) working to see a gospel-centered church bringing transformation to every Heartland community. The Converge Heartland District spans from ND to KS, Jim and his family are based in Sioux Falls, SD. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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Dave Percy
Ethnos 360, Roach MO
I Served on the field of Thailand for 14 years. God allowed me to be involved in many facets of ministry. I see myself as an ORDINARY MAN SERVING AN
EXTRAORDINARY GOD!
I am a firsthand witness of a God who moves in incredible ways. God has given me a passion for his people, a love for his word and a desire to encourage and strengthen the church in this task of seeing a church birthed and matured among the unreached people of this world.
My wife and I are presently located at the Missionary Training Center (MTC) located in central MO. I serve as a Teacher/ Trainer and Speaker for the MTC and we also serve together as advisors to students as they train for serving overseas.
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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