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Date: Sunday, August 7, 2016

Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM

Location: East Bay Free Methodist Church 5395 Potrero Ave El Cerrito CA 94530

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• • Registration & Orientation

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  • Date: Sunday, August 7, 2016

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Markos Zemede

    Horn of Africa Evangelical Mission, Fresno CA

    I was born and raised in Ethiopia. I immigrated to the USA as a refugee in 1984. When I took the Perspectives class in 1999, it ruined me for the ordinary. In addition to my busy medical practice, I now serve in many missions organizations, a few of which were birthed out of the Perspectives class, including Horn of Africa Mission (www.hornofafrica.org).
    
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    Date: Sunday, August 21, 2016

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Ziad Srouji

    San Mateo CA

    Pastor Z. Samuel Srouji came out of war torn Lebanon in the ‘70s and encountered Jesus at the age of 16 through the truth that “the grave is empty and Jesus is alive.” Since then he has been captured with the Father’s heart of love for the nations, and miracles have followed his ministry of worship and preaching around the world. For twenty five years he has pastored on the peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area.
    
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    Date: Sunday, August 28, 2016

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Lesson 3 Video Instruction

    Redlands CA

    Jeff Lewis
    
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    Date: Sunday, September 11, 2016

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Samuel Nandakumar

    SAIACS, Bangalore, India, Elk Grove CA

    Samuel Nandakumar (a.k.a. Nanda) was born in Tamilnadu, South India and received both a B.S. and a B.Ed. from Indian universities before completing a B.S. from San Jose Bible College, a Master's in Divinity from Western Conservative Baptist Seminary, and a Ph.D. from Trinity Theological Seminary in Newburgh, Indiana. September 1998 saw the beginning of a new venture for Nanda at Crossroads Bible Church when he began to lead and mentor Global Outreach and Life Groups. After having served as CBC's Interim Lead Pastor for several months, Pastor Nanda was confirmed as Lead Pastor in the spring of 2009. His most identifiable trait is his quick wit and ready smile. His passion for ministry is to see CBC truly become a multi-cultural body of believers. After his retirement from the pastoral role, Nanda has joined as a consultant, Global Leadership Development,for SAIACS (South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies), Bangalore, India. He has been a dedicated Perspectives teacher for many years and is looking forward to sharing his passion for the Gospel with you.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, September 18, 2016

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Len Bartlotti

    Frontiers, Springfield MO

    Leonard N. (Len) Bartlotti, Ph.D. is a well-known speaker, author, mobilizer, educator and strategy consultant to faith-based organizations in the Middle East/Asia. He and his wife Debi served 14 years among one of the world's largest Muslim people groups. Dr. Len is a passionate communicator who combines a love for students with deep empathy and understanding of other cultures. He and his wife Debi, a nurse midwife and licensed Spiritual Director, have been married for over 45 years, and have three married adult children, and six grandsons, and live in Springfield, Missouri.
    
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    Date: Sunday, September 25, 2016

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Yvonne Huneycutt Video Instruction

    Austin 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. She has been active in this ministry since 1991 first as founder and director of the Nashville Office of the US Center for World Mission. During the 1990's, Yvonne helped raise up and equip well over 100 new missionaries from Nashville. Yvonne's overseas field experience includes one year in Russia and numerous short-term trips into over 30 nations. She holds a Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry in Missions and Cross-Cultural Studies from Gordon-Conwell. Yvonne is now in the Austin, TX area, working with the Global Extension of the Perspectives course, presently spearheading the adaptation of the Perspectives Class into the Spanish language.
    
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    Date: Sunday, October 2, 2016

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Linda Carlson

    San Francisco CA

    Growing up in a Christian family in San Francisco, Linda fully committed her life to Jesus during college. Her new sense of identity and purpose as a loved and forgiven child of the Good Shepherd revealed to her an interest in other cultures. Impressed with a desire and need to bring the message of grace and faith to people beyond her immediate family and community, she first served inter-racially with Cru in the deep south of the U.S., and later cross-culturally in Sweden. Most recently she completed five years as a missionary with Covenant World Mission where she served with the Mosaics Project in Marseille, France, among a disadvantaged and marginalized Muslim immigrant community, a ministry that emerged as a direct result of her Perspectives study on the Comorian people group. She has also served in Haiti, Kenya and the Comoros Islands. Sandwiched between Sweden and France, a career in the business world while serving parachurch ministries led Linda to procure an M.Div and serve in pastoral ministry with a focus on unreached people groups.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 9, 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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    Mike Latsko

    Global Muslim Ministries Network/Frontiers, Mesa AZ

    “Mike was a pastor for 20 years before crossing the aisle to the missions’ world 11 years ago. He’s especially interested in how significant changes in the world over the last decade impact global sending and going. He’s hoping to help especially traditionally-based churches and agencies in North America make the transition into this new world, and he’s very optimistic at the prospect.”
    
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    Date: Sunday, October 16, 2016

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    John Becker

    AIM/3P Ministries/Activate Global, Redwood City CA

    John serves as Global Strategy Director for AIM and the Vice President for Global Networking and Partnerships for GACX. Currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area, John Becker has lived and ministered in Africa and the United Kingdom with his wife and four children. John and his family love to live in community, practice hospitality and practically display God’s love in the community, especially to those displaced by war and violence. John has been a contributing author of several books, two of which are: From Seed to Fruit: Global Trends, Fruitful Practices and Emerging Issues Relating to Muslims and Where There Was No Church: Postcards From Followers of Christ in the Muslim World. John has a heart for Kingdom collaboration and has co-founded a dozen global networks and regional partnerships to serve the least reached communities of the world.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 23, 2016

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    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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    Date: Sunday, October 30, 2016

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Tim Svoboda

    Youth With A Mission, San Francisco CA

    Timothy Svoboda is currently the International Urban missions Director for Youth With A Mission and also serves as the City Coordinator for YWAM San Francisco and the Bay Area. Tim, his wife and children have served in India from 1983 to 2007. Tim was the National Director for YWAM India, the South Asia Urban Ministry Coordinator and the Chennai City Coordinator. YWAM Chennai has developed into a decentralized movement of 17 focused teams that are living incarnationally and reaching out to leprosy patients, slum dwellers, university students, urban middle class people, Muslims, and into other sectors of society. Tim also was one of the founders for Chennai Transformation Network which is a movement that unites the Christians of the city for transformational ministry. Tim and his family currently live in San Francisco giving leadership to the ministry of YWAM there and around the world in cities. Tim also serves on the Global Leadership Team for YWAM international, the Global Urban Missions Network which is a broad consortium of City Missional leaders from various organizations around the world and locally Tim serves on several San Francisco faith initiatives. Tim earned his Doctorate in Ministry from the Bakke Graduate University in 2007 and is an adjunct professor for BGU for their courses in San Francisco and India.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, November 6, 2016

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    John Payne

    Medical Ambassadors Intl., Salida CA

    A physician, John spent nineteen years as the director of a Family Practice Residency in California. Madelle was a hospice nurse. In 2005, after taking early retirement, they became second career missionaries in East Africa. There they worked with national leaders who taught their own people a seamless combination of community development, disease prevention, and evangelism and discipleship. In 2009, John became the president of the mission. In 2017, he retired and continued to Represent MAI as President Emeritus.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, November 13, 2016

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Lesson 14 Video Instruction

    Fayetteville AR

    Brian Hogan (pictured) and Nathan J’Diim
    
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    Date: Sunday, November 20, 2016

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    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)
    
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    Date: Sunday, December 4, 2016

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Keivan Tehrani

    Compassion Bridges, Campbell CA

    Born into a Muslim family in Iran, Keivan was powerfully moved to follow Jesus in 1992. Since then he has had the honor to preach the Good news of Jesus and share his testimony in dozens of countries over 25 years of ministry. After graduating from UC Davis with degrees in Psychology and Religious studies he served as the Youth and English pastor at the Iranian Christian Church for 10 years and since 2010 has been the Global Compassion pastor at WestGate Church. He also the co-founder and Executive Director of Compassion Bridges. He received a Masters in Theology from Fuller Seminary in 2008 and currently living in California with his wife and three beautiful children.
    
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    Date: Sunday, December 11, 2016

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM

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    Date: Sunday, December 18, 2016

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM

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