Class Info

Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Location: BridgePoint Bible Church 13277 Katy Freeway Houston TX 77079

Contact: Sylvia Savage

281-687-0228

• • Registration & Orientation

    Registration & Orientation

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  • Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Jerrell Altic

    Houston's First Baptist Church, Houston TX

    
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, January 19, 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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    Ashley Bendickson

    Houston TX

    Ashley is the Student Ministry Pastor at Grace Fellowship. She also holds her Masters in Counseling and is an LPC-I in the state of Texas. Ashley is passionate about journeying with people through restoration and mobilization. Ashley finds great joy in leading students to God's heart and launching them with God's heart into the World. God has been cultivating a heart for the Nations in Ashley for many years. After taking the Perspectives of The World Christian Movement course and spending time in the 10/40 window, that journey became clearly focused. For the past eight years, she has been mobilizing students in joining God to reach the Unreached through globally minded missions and ministry.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, January 26, 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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    Colleen Wong

    Deoworks , West Hills CA

    Colleen is currently on staff with Deoworks as the Director of Strategic Partnerships and Platforms, with a focus on national leadership development. Deoworks is a Gospel-centered consulting non-profit company connecting the body of Christ and accelerating the ministry of the Kingdom of God, seeking to incubate ideas to contribute the furthering of the Kingdom.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 2, 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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    Phil Luckett

    Coppell TX

    Most conversations with Phil at some point get around to football. That's because he is a recently retired referee for the National Football League. The NFL hired him in 1991 and in that capacity, he has officiated games from Tokyo to Europe. In 1997 he worked both the Super Bowl in New Orleans (Green Bay vs. New England) and the World Bowl in Barcelona, Spain (Barcelona vs. Frankfort). He brings this unique perspective to telling the world the story of God's Glory. He is a certified, national & international instructor with UnveilinGLORY, speaking on the Glory of God (by means of light-hearted yet revealing 'Cat and Dog Theology') and on God's heart for all nations. He shares in settings as small as Sunday school, in large church-wide seminars, or in just-right sized Perspectives classes. Overseas ministry has been primarily in and around 7 major cities in Russia with the UnveilinGLORY material and conducting summer English camps.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 9, 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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    Saleim Kahleh

    SK ministries, Houston TX

    Saleim Kahleh ministers globally as an ordained minister through Lakewood Church [Houston, Texas]. He empowers youth to share their own faith through Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Campus Crusade for Christ, YWAM, Young Life and the Navigators. In addition, he shares his faith to college students on campuses such as Houston Baptist University, Penn State, Southern Illinois, Kansas State, Rice, Texas A&M and the University of Houston. He also leads chapel services for professional sports teams such as the Houston Rockets and the former Oilers. As a recognized speaker, he has spoken at Baptist State Evangelism Conferences in Alaska, North Carolina and Tennessee.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, February 16, 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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    David Swanson

    College Station TX

    David is an avid storyteller. As a missions mobilizer he uses story to help people understand God’s global purpose and discover their place in that plan. David grew up as a missionary kid in Panama. A graduate of Texas A&M University, David currently works for his alma mater. He also serves as a volunteer with a campus ministry. He has helped lead short-term student ministry trips and has worked with churches and church-planting ministries in several countries around the world.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 23, 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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    John Doe

    San Antonio TX

    
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Keelan Cook

    Imago Dei Church, Wake Forest NC

    Keelan Cook is the Urban Resource Coordinator in the Center for Great Commission Studies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is working on a PhD in Missiology at Southeastern. He spent time as a church planter in West Africa and doing ethno-graphic research in Washington, DC. Keelan is also one of the pastors at Imago Dei Church in Raleigh, NC.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 8, 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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    Richard Gunasekera

    Online Perspectives Programs/Courses, La Mirada CA

    Richard is assoc dean and professor at Biola University CA and Faculty at Rice University, Houston, TX. Richard grew up in a Christian family in old Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). He earned his undergraduate degree and a doctorate in biochemical genetics at the Baylor University- Medical Center in Dallas. Richard has served Perspectives Since early 1990s as an instructor, Coordinator, the founding Director of Online PSP Programs and POR. He lives in the Houston, Texas area with his family; wife is an Anesthesiologist and they have two grown children.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 22, 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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    Brian

    Frankston TX

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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 29, 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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    Robin Harris

    International Council of Ethnodoxologists (ICE), Dallas TX

    Dr. Robin Harris is the director of Dallas International University's Center for Excellence in World Arts (www.diu.edu/arts) and also serves as the president of the International Council of Ethnodoxologists (ICE). She co-edited "Worship and Mission for the Global Church: An Ethnodoxology Handbook" (William Carey Library, 2013) and speaks widely on the topic of arts and cross-cultural service.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 5, 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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    Jimmy Dorrell

    Texas Christian Community Development Network, Waco TX

    Jimmy & Janet Dorrell moved into an low-income neighborhood in Waco, TX, in 1978, and founded and is now president emeritus of Mission Waco, a large urban Christian community development organization with 16 programs and 80 staff, with work among the addicted, unemployed, homeless, sick, illiterate and unchurched. In 1992, The Dorrells planted Church Under the Bridge in 1992 as an outdoor church meeting under the Interstate 35 and S. 4th Street underpass (currently meeting at the Magnolia Silos until Summer 2022). As pastor, the church now has 275 very diverse attendees. Dorrell also founded the statewide Texas Christian Community Development Network. As an adjunct professor at Truett Theological Seminary and Baylor, he teaches Christian community development, missions, and community engagement classes. Dorrell has written four books, including "Commonwealth: Transformation through Christian Community Development;" "Dead Church Walking," "Trolls and Truth" and "Plunge2Poverty." The couple, married 43 years, also continue to work in Haiti, India, and MxCity. They have four children (one deceased) and 10 grandchildren.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 12, 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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    Guy M Caskey

    M4 Network, Cypress TX

    Guy is the founder of the M4 Network (see Mark 4:13) which is committed to a disciple making movement among unreached people groups and existing churches both locally and globally. Guy is the Movements Pastor at Woodsedge Community Church. Guy Caskey is married to his wife Kelli and has three children: Rachel, Candace and Besufekad. Guy is a catalyst, a church planter, and an equipper.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 19, 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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    Jerry Squyres

    Innovative Mission Opportunities, Pearland TX

    Four years working with university students in Taiwan, Twenty plus years on church staff with emphasis on missions, Nineteen and a half years mobilizing short-term mission teams...last sixsteen years plus to closed countries/unreached people groups. Founded Innovative Mission Opportunities (www.imoi.org) in 1998. Founded Innovative Humanitarian Solutions (www.innovativehs.net) in 2002.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 26, 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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    David Jackett

    Sixteen:Fifteen, Lewisville TX

    After spending 10 years as a professional firefighter/EMT / Fire Marshal in Fort Worth, TX, David left the fire service for full-time vocational ministry. He currently serves as the Director of Mobilization & Operations at Sixteen:Fifteen. David has led more than a dozen trips to Central America doing evangelism, medical and orphan care, firefighter training and church planting. He has helped his church and others develop missionary training and equipping programs and he has spoken to thousands of students and adults across the US and Central America about God’s global mission with a great passion to mobilize the body of Christ to strategic engagement in God’s global purpose.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

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