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Date: Monday, January 11, 2016

Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM

Location: Eastbrook Church 5353 N Green Bay Ave Milwaukee WI 53209

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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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    John Zumwalt

    Outrageous Love, Choctaw OK

    John Zumwalt is the Cross Cultural Coach for the innovative organization, Outrageous Love. After serving as a missionary among the unreached Minnan he returned to America and for over 22 years served as the founder and Director of the Missionary Training Institute, Beautiful Feet Boot Camp. He has trained over 300 Career Missionaries. He has a Doctorate of Divinity from International University for Graduate Studies. John has authored the book, Passion for the Heart of God and travels widely, preaching and holding seminars, raising up activist to go to the ends of the earth. John and his wife, Jamie, also pastor a church in a “red light district” of Oklahoma City. They have five children, Jessica, Josiah, Jael, Jewel and James.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 11, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    Hudson Smith

    The Traveling Team, Conway AR

    Hudson Smith is from the United States, and grew up in Arkansas, earning a degree in history from the University of Arkansas. For 10 years, he served as the Director of Operations for The Traveling Team. The Traveling Team is a mobilization organization that recruits college students from all major US universities toward Christ's global cause. During his time on staff, he traveled to 49 states and 3 countries and spoke to over 40,000 college students, sharing God's heart for the world. He also spoke extensively at Perspectives classes and missions conferences for churches. In 2021, he and his family moved to Dubai, UAE to serve as the Director of Operations for Redeemer Church of Dubai. He has Master of Arts in Theological Studies from Reformed Theological Seminary.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 18, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    Matthew Malone

    Elmbrook, Brookfield WI

    Matthew is a church planter, pastor, mobilizer and trainer. Currently he serves as the pastor of Mission for Elmbrook Church, a role where he is responsible for almost 80 field workers spread across the globe. Before that he and his family lived in Siberia for almost a decade helping start churches and encourage leaders. They returned to the states in 2004 and planted a multi-site church in Washington County, Wisconsin. He also currently serves as the Wisconsin area mobilizer for Perspectives and loves seeing people take steps of involvement in God’s mission. Matthew and Kari were married in 1994 and have four children. Matthew is a hack triathlete, which means he enjoys biking and swimming, and endures running.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 25, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    Troy Loether

    Kettlebrook , West Bend WI

    Troy Loether is the Site Pastor for Kettlebrook Church at the West Bend, Wisconsin location. He served as a Professor of Record for a handful of Perspectives courses and has served to equip and empower the local church to fulfill the global mandate of making disciples for over a decade. He has a passion for making disciples both locally and globally. Troy is married to Stephanie and is father to Tianna, Chloe, Isaac, and Ephraim and foster dad to Tiara. International partnerships have blessed him with the opportunity to spend time in Rwanda, Congo, Montenegro, Kosovo,Russia and Chad. Troy teaches on the Biblical theology of missions in the lesson "Mandate for the Nations."
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 1, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    Nathaniel Allen

    Global Outfitters, Fayetteville AR

    Nathan Allen is the Global Missions pastor at New Heights Church in Fayetteville, AR and the Director of Global Outfitters. He has a Bachelors of Arts in History and political Science from the University of Arkansas. He is currently pursuing a Masters in Theological Studies from Reformed Theological Seminary.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 8, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    Nabeel Jabbour

    Colorado Springs CO

    Dr. Nabeel T. Jabbour was born in Syria and grew up in Lebanon. He lived with his family in Egypt for 15 years before moving to Colorado Springs, his current home where he works with The Navigators. With a doctorate in Islamics, Dr. Jabbour is a professor and frequent lecturer at seminaries and churches around the world. He is the author of The Crescent Through The Eyes of The Cross, Unshackled and Growing, The Rumbling Volcano and The Unseen Reality. www.nabeeljabbour.com
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 15, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    Sean Cooper

    The Traveling Team, Fayetteville AR

    Sean and his wife Meredith have spent the last decade traveling the entire Continental U.S. casting mission vision with Traveling Team. They have a two year old daughter named Haven. Sean graduated from the University of Arkansas with a degree in Communication. He has short term exposure in India and Indonesia. Sean continues to travel nation wide speaking to students and churches. When not speaking he serves alongside The Traveling Team Leadership as the Director of Ministry Advancement. He is working on a Masters Degree from Reformed Theological Seminary.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 22, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    Bryan Thompson

    OMF International, Highlands Ranch CO

    Bryan served with OMF International in Japan for 23 years and has been involved with evangelism, discipleship, church planting, short-term missions, member care, missionary training, mobilization, field administration and mission leadership. He and his wife Janet are Wisconsin natives and have three adult children. They are currently serving in a mobilization role with OMF International based in Denver, CO.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 29, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    Lee Heyward

    BrookLink, Germantown WI

    Lee Heyward is the Founder and President of BrookLink Inc., a not-for-profit ministry whose purpose is to equip and empower national church leaders to lead and grow healthy reproducing churches. Prior to launching BrookLink, Lee served as a church planter and Senior Pastor of Northbrook Church in Richfield, Wisconsin. A graduate of Furman University, Lee also holds Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. Known for keenly unpacking Biblical truth in a practical and engaging style, Lee has traveled to more than 40 countries and is a frequent speaker at pastors conferences, college campuses and retreats. Lee and his wife Terry reside in Germantown, Wisconsin and have four adult children and three grandchildren.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 7, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    Tom Keppeler

    Milwaukee WI

    Tom grew up in the Milwaukee area and currently serves as Executive Director of PRISM Economic Development Corporation in the Sherman Park neighborhood of Milwaukee. Previous to his current role, he served for 13 years on the pastoral staff of Elmbrook Church in Brookfield, Wisconsin overseeing Elmbrook’s global and local mission outreach.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 14, 2016

    Time: 6:30 AM to 9:15 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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    Randy

    Common Ground Consultants, Minnetonka MN

    We've had the privilege of working and living among unreached peoples since 1989. Today we train many people in how to bring the good news of Jesus to the unreached and begin disciple-making movements among them. We opened and later directed the work for our organization in Central Asia.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 21, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    Paul Sinclair

    , Algoma WI

    Paul and Lisa Sinclair served with United World Mission for 15 years both in Mali, West Africa and in organizational leadership in North America. Lisa has both an M.A. in Missions and a Masters degree as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Paul has a MDiv in Missions and both have Doctor of Ministry degrees through Columbia International Seminary, Columbia, SC. Paul has also served as the Pastor for Urban and Prison Ministries, of Elmbrook Church, Brookfield, WI., and later Missions Pastor of Northbrook Church and Eastbrook Church, Milwaukee. Lisa has had clinical experience as a nurse practitioner in the USA, in addition to having had a private practice as a psychiatric practitioner. Other areas of the world where the Sinclairs have ministered include Senegal, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Congo-DRC, Congo-Brazzaville, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Turkey, and other countries in South Asia and the Horn of Africa Additionally, Paul and Lisa are engaged in prison ministry in Wisconsin. They have three adult children and six grandchildren. Lisa has recently published a book, Sexuality for Christian Leaders, that especially targets missionaries.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 4, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    Steven Steinhaus

    New Generations, Carol Stream IL

    Steven and his wife, Joy, lived as missionaries among Muslims in SE Asia for 21 years. In 2015, they returned to the US and reside in Carol Stream where they continue as DMM Practitioner-Trainers training and coaching church-planters globally while also engaging the Muslim population here in Chicagoland. Steven & Joy have four children. The serve with the organization New Generations and lead a city-wide partnership called Ephesus Catalytic Partnership-Chicago.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 11, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    Ron Lindsey

    Ethnos360, Waukesha WI

    Ron Lindsey, is the President of Ethnos360 Bible Institute and speaks with first hand experience regarding church planting among unreached people groups in remote environments. Ron and his family lived with a remote people in the jungles of Papua New Guinea for 18 years. Ron's experiences include jungle airstrip construction, language and culture acquisition, chronological approach to church planting and, Bible translation. Currently Ron serves as the President of Ethnos360 Bible Institute, in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Ron and Carrie's sons have completed missionary training with one serving in Prague, Czech Republic. Lessons of Competence:1,2, 14
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 18, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    Paul Borthwick

    Development Associates International, Lexington MA

    Paul Borthwick, along with his wife Christie, serves on the staff of Development Associates International (www.daintl.org) focusing on leadership development in the Majority World. As such, they spend two or more months every year in overseas ministry. In addition, Paul teaches missions at Gordon College (Wenham, MA), serves as an Urbana/Missions Associate with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and mobilizes others for cross-cultural missions. Rick Warren, author of Purpose-Driven Life cites his books A Mind for Missions and How to be a World-Class Christian as books that should be read by every Christian.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 25, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    Jill Briscoe

    Telling the Truth Ministries, Brookfield WI

    
    
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    Date: Monday, May 2, 2016

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM

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