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Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Location: Fourth Memorial Church 2000 N. Standard St. Spokane WA 99203

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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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    Joseph Shane Bennett

    Healing Nations , Rye CO

    Shane helps Christians love Muslims and Muslims love Jesus. He has served in missions mobilization since 1987, recruiting, training, and sending short term research teams. He's been on teams in Bangkok, Bombay, and Turkey and he's lived among Muslim migrants in Europe. Shane writes a weekly email called Muslim Connect that helps Christians think about Muslims the way God does and love them like Jesus does. He works with Healing Nations and he and his family live in southern Colorado.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Gerry Breshears

    Western Seminary, Portland OR

    Gerry Breshears has been professor of theology at Western Seminary since 1980. He served three years with WorldVenture in the Philippines, teaching at Faith Academy and helping start Calvary Baptist Church. He received the Ph.D. from Fuller Seminary. He now teaches overseas about one month per year. In addition to teaching and lecturing at a number of colleges and seminaries around the world, he speaks in many churches. He is co-author of Vintage Jesus, Death by Love, and Vintage Church with Mark Driscoll, in the Relit series from Crossway. Gerry and his wife, Sherry, have two sons, Donn and David, and a daughter, Cyndee, and three wonderful grandgirls. He is an elder and a member of the preaching team at Grace Community Church of Gresham, Oregon.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Doug Wieber

    Post Falls ID

    
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    John Underhill

    South Hill Bible Church, Spokane Valley WA

    Education: A.A Spokane Falls Community College; B.A. Eastern Washington University; M.A. Dallas Theological Seminary Work experience: Pastor, Springhill Community Bible Church 1984-1990; Associate Pastor, Valley 4th Memorial Church 1990-1996; Senior Pastor, Valley 4th Memorial Church 1996-2011 Pastor, South Hill Bible Church, 2011 - present
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Joe Pursch

    Spokane Valley WA

    Joe Pursch has spent over twenty years as a Teaching Pastor, Broadcaster and Leadership Trainer in various ministry roles in the Western U.S.. He presently serves as Senior Pastor of Valley Fourth Church in Spokane Valley Washington. His experience in World Missions ranges from directing the Global Outreach efforts of a large urban church to ministering to persecuted Evangelical Pastors in Nigeria West Africa.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Jonathan Armstrong

    Spokane WA

    Jonathan J. Armstrong is a graduate of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in the Chicago area (M.A., 2001) and Fordham University in New York City (Ph.D., 2006). He has served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany and has lectured at Wycliffe Hall as a full member of the theology faculty of the University of Oxford. Jonathan now serves as Assistant Professor of Bible and Theology at Moody Bible Institute - Spokane. Jonathan’s passion is to serve the church by providing seminars for pastors and laypeople throughout the global evangelical community.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Craig Campbell

    Wycliffe Bible Translators, Cle Elum WA

    After growing up in Australia and the USA, Craig attended University of Washington, spent 5 years active duty in the Navy, then 20 years working as a civil engineer. In 2000 he quit his job to join Wycliffe Bible Translators and relocated wife (a nurse) and children to work in Papua New Guinea. In 2007 they returned, spent 8 years in mobilization and 5 years working as a field coordinator with The Seed Company and Wycliffe Global Partnerships with projects in Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea. In 2020 Craig retired to become a full-time caregiver to his wife. He now resides in Cle Elum, WA.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2016

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Roger Mohrlang

    Whitworth University, Spokane WA

    Professor of Biblical Studies at Whitworth University, where he teaches New Testament, Old Testament, Paul's Letters, New Testament Greek and Introduction to the Global Christian Movement. He has also taught in Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya, England, the Philippines, Japan, India, Nepal, and China. Roger and his wife Dottie have a real heart to reach the world with the good news of Jesus Christ. From 1967-74 he served with the Wycliffe Bible Translations in Nigeria, working on the translation of the New Testament into the Kamwe (Higi) language. From 1993-97 he coordinated the revision of this translation. Roger was also a member of the translation team for the New Living Translation. He is currently serving as consultant for the team translating the Kamwe Old Testament. Roger and Dottie are active members of Northview Bible Church on Spokane's north side.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Steve Allen

    Valley Real Life Church, Spokane Valley WA

    Steve Allen is the current Director of Outreach at Valley Real Life Church, The President of the board of the Arab World Evangelical Minister's Association based in Egypt, and the Executive Director of Pacific Rim Exchange Services in Spokane, Washington. He is a passionate mobilizer and loves to help people pursue the calling that God has placed on their lives. Steve has a deep burden for China as evidenced through the adoption of three of his kids and his leading of teams into China each year.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    David Beine

    Great Northern University, Spokane WA

    Dave is Emeritus Professor of Intercultural Studies. He served with Wycliffe Bible Translators for 28 years (1988-2016) in a variety of capacities including language surveyor, literacy and scripture-use project facilitator, anthropology consultant and linguistic institute director. He holds a B.A. in communication studies (Cal State, Sacramento), a M.A. in linguistic anthropology (San Diego State University) and a Ph.D. in medical anthropology (Washington State University). He is the author of Ensnared By AIDS: Cultural Contexts of HIV and AIDS in Nepal (2014), Whodunit: The Continuing Case of Spokane Garry (2021), and has published extensively in several missiological contexts as well.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Marc Canner

    Spokane WA

    Marc is Professor of Intercultural Studies at Moody Bible Institute-Spokane. He is also Director of the Institute of Strategic Languages & Cultures, a non-profit missionary training institute located here in Spokane.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Karen Stoufer

    Christian Veterinary Mission, Wormleysburg PA

    Dr. Karen Stoufer served with her family in Nepal for 13 years in rural community development, animal health training and women's empowerment with the United Mission to Nepal and World Concern/CVM. She returned to serve as Director of Training and Asia programs for Christian Veterinary Mission (CVM) based in Seattle WA. She has a special interest in Missionary Kids (TCKs) and fostering of refugee teens.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    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.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Mark Kadel

    formerly with World Relief, Ferndale WA

    Mark is a former missionary to Albania, Kosovo and Greece as well as serving in refugee resettlement in the U.S. for over 20 years. His experience with introducing the Gospel in a former Atheistic culture in Albania was truly a pioneering church planting experience.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Tom Steffen

    Biola University, Coeur D'Alene ID

    Dr. Tom Steffen is emeritus professor of intercultural studies at the Cook School of Intercultural Studies, Biola University. He specializes in church multiplication, orality, honor and shame, and business as mission. He and his family spent 15 years in the Philippines in church planting and consulting. Semi-retired, he continues to teach courses, advise dissertations, and write. Some of his books include, Passing the Baton, Reconnecting God’s Story to Ministry, Great Commission Companies (with Steve Rundle), Encountering Missionary Life and Service (with Lois McKinney-Douglas), and The Facilitative Era.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

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