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Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 PM

Location: Grace Church 1311 W Hovey Av Normal IL 61761

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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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    Ken Cuffey

    Urbana Theological Seminary, Champaign IL

    Professor of Biblical Studies, President at Urbana (IL) Theological Seminary. Pastoral experience in IN and NJ.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Chuck Sackett

    Lincoln Christian University, TCMI,Inc, Quincy IL

    I have the privilege of living in the worlds of a local church, ministerial education and missions. I’ve preached in local churches for 48 years (@25 years full time). I’ve taught in Christian College and Seminary for 38 years (25 full time). I’ve been visiting/teaching on mission fields since 1995 (Asia, Australia, Africa and Eastern/Western Europe). I’ve been married 50 years, have 3 married daughters and a grandson. I ran a dozen marathons (including three Boston’s) before my knees gave out.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Andy Huette

    , Normal IL

    
    
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    Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2016

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Dave Brunn

    International Translation Consultant, Camdenton MO

    Dave Brunn is an international translation consultant for New Tribes Mission (NTM). A missionary, translator and educator, Brunn spent over twenty years in Papua New Guinea where he served the Lamogai people through church planting, literacy training and Bible translation and consultation. He facilitated the translation of the New Testament into the Lamogai language. Dave is the author of "One Bible, Many Versions: Are All Translations Created Equal?" (InterVarsity Press 2013)
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Robert Blincoe

    Frontiers, Mesa AZ

    Bob led a Frontiers team into northern Iraq following the first Gulf War in 1991. He is president emeritus of Frontiers USA, living in Phoenix. He has a Ph.D. in History from William Carey International University in Pasadena. He has twice lost on television game shows. He blogs at robertblincoe.blog.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Wesley Ooms

    Hot Springs Village AR

    Wes served for more than 30 years as the Lead Pastor of Community Bible Fellowship in El Paso, Illinois, a church he planted in 1990. He holds a Master's Degree in Biblical Studies from Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas. Wes is an adjunct professor, having taught Homiletics as well as Church History at the New Life Bible College in Moscow, Russia. He has trained missionaries and pastors in Russia, Estonia, Tunisia and Kenya. He has been a Perspectives instructor since 2006. Wes and his wife Norma have been married for 46 years, and have 3 grown children and 6 grandchildren. In his spare time, Wes enjoys camping and collecting vintage fishing lures.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Ed Scearce

    Florence SC

    
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Joe Gerber

    Loving Shepherd Ministries, Mahomet IL

    I am honored to be a servant of Jesus Christ. My wife and I have 5 children. God has blessed us with a number of experiences that have given us a deep appreciation for the work of God around the world. It is our joy to play a small part in making His glory known locally and abroad. It's all about Him!
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Marvin Newell

    Niles MI

    Dr. Marvin J. Newell is Executive Director Emeritus of Alliance for the Unreached, and Ambassador at Large of Missio Nexus. Previously he served as a missionary in Papua, Indonesia, a mission administrator, and a professor of missions. He is the author of five mission related books. Marv and his wife Peggy have been involved in missions for over 44 years.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Andy

    This instructor's personal information is not shared due to the sensitive nature of his ministry., Chicago IL

    
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Ginny Feldmann

    Outreach/Mentoring, Elgin IL

    Ginny Feldmann is a graduate of Moody Bible Institute and Illinois State University, earning her B.S.ed (elementary education) in 1980. She earned her M.A. in Intercultural Studies from Wheaton Graduate School in 1995. She was raised by missionary parents in Pakistan and returned to serve with SIM (Serving In Mission) for 18 years, mentoring young girls in Bible teaching and evangelism to nomads. She also conducted Bible studies with believing women, neighborhood visitation and children’s evangelistic Bible classes, often using “Javed”, her ventriloquist dummy. She served on SIM’s Pakistan Area Council for several years. Since 2003 she has been reaching out to South Asians in the Chicago area while mentoring local believers to do so, as part of SIM’s Chicago Culture ConneXions team.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Andrew Minch

    Wycliffe Bible Translators, Dixon IL

    Andy Minch is an Associate editor for the Perspective's Reader 5th edition and a 5 star instructor. He has instructed well over 100 Perspectives lessons over the past 30 years. He has spent 20 years working as a Bible translator in Papua New Guinea with Wycliffe Bible Translators. For eleven years he was an international administrator helping oversee about 20% of the world's remaining translation needs. Presently he is part of Wycliffe’s National Speaker’s bureau speaking on college campuses and other venues. He is author of the book 'Words Can Not Express'.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Ralph Maurer

    His Harvest Ministries, Bloomington IL

    Focus on worker care, community development and mobilization of workers to the field.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Cody Lorance

    Endiro Coffee, Aurora IL

    Cody Lorance is a Co-CEO, Brand Manager, and Corporate Executive Chef for Endiro Coffee; CEO and Master Roaster for Endiro Community Harvesters; Supervisor of Agricultural Innovation and Ecological Stewardship for Endiro Growers Uganda; and the President and CEO of Borderless. He and his wife, Katherine, have three children and live in Chicagoland.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    JR

    TEAM (The Evangelical Alliance Mission), Wheaton IL

    Jim was born and raised as an MK in Korea and participated in numerous short-term trips since college. He spent 13 years in Venezuela working primarily in MK ministry and continues to serve with TEAM, a mission agency which helps churches send missionaries to establish reproducing churches. Currently he is the Director of Northeast Asia, partnering with Korean churches and others to engage the region. Jim met his wife, Kimberly, at Dallas Theological Seminary. When he took Perspectives in 2011, he did his integrated project on the "Bell" unreached minority people group of East Asia. Since then he has been blessed to speak at Perspectives classes in Illinois, Michigan and Tennessee. Jim loves teaching Lesson #15 since, as the "closer" for the course, he guides the class in considering the "now what?" aspect of applying the course along with others from their own church and takes a closer look at what it really means for a church to "send." He and Kimberly are enjoying life with two children at home and one in college. Jim likes to play the sax and travel internationally to see more of God's world first-hand!
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 PM

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    Time: 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

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