Class Info

Date: Monday, January 15, 2018

Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Location: Marietta, GA Johnson Ferry Baptist Church 955 Johnson Ferry Road Marietta GA 30068

Contact: Judy Taylor

404-731-3128

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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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    Steve Moore

    Nexleader, Lawrenceville GA

    Steve Moore is the president of nexleader and Growing Leaders. At Growing Leaders Steve works with the leadership team to develop and implement the strategy to empower emerging generations with skills to lead in real life. At nexleader he gives leadership to a growing network of coaches who use the Identity Profile Self-Awareness Tool (IPSAT) to help people discover, optimize and unleash their potential. Steve is the author of six books, including The Top 10 Leadership Conversations in the Bible: Practical Insights from Extensive Research on over 1,000 Biblical Leaders, and Grow Toward Your Dreams: Practical Steps to Discover, Optimize and Unleash Your Potential. Steve and his wife Sherry have four adult children and live near Atlanta, Georgia.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 15, 2018

    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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    Chris Moerman

    Grace Capital City, Washington DC

    Chris serves as the Lead and Founding Pastor of Grace Capital City in Washington DC, and previously served as Associate Pastor of Grace Midtown in Atlanta, GA. Chris was born and raised in Australia and began ministry as a worship leader before discovering his passion for teaching, leading and pastoring. His wife Jessica is a Climate Scientist and serves as the Policy Director for the Evangelical Environmental Network, and together they're doing their very best to raise their two beautiful boys Liam and Josiah. In his spare Chris loves Australian Rules Football, Crossfit, going to concerts and has more recently discovered a surprising enjoyment in puzzles!!
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 22, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 6:30 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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    Brian Fox

    Global Ministries, Johnson Ferry BC, Marietta GA

    Brian enjoys discovering new cultures and lands, loving family and friends, and igniting hearts for God and his Word. Brian’s position has given him considerable exposure to overwhelming human need, vast lostness, and the power of long-term and strategic engagement in the name and ways of Jesus. The Fox family enjoy sharing their home to internationals from around the world.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 29, 2018

    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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    Mark Nysewander

    Riverstone Church, Marietta GA

    Mark Nysewander is Teaching Pastor at RiverStone Church in Kennesaw, GA. He has been a pastor, church planter, missionary and evangelist. He has authored a half dozen books on spiritual formation and discipleship. Mark also directs Transformation Network, a church planting ministry. He and Kathy enjoy their 3 children, and growing brood of grandchildren.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 5, 2018

    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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    James Ramsay

    TMS Global, Lilburn GA

    Jim served in northern Kazakhstan for 10 years with his wife and four children. In 2006 they returned to Atlanta where Jim now serves as chief of global operations for TMS Global. He oversees the mission operation of the 200 missionaries serving world-wide, including training & formation, field oversight, and member care. Jim works closely with global church leaders toward effective kingdom partnerships, recognizing the truly global nature of God's church and God's mission.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 12, 2018

    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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    Christopher White

    Roswell GA

    Chris White has a passion for seeing all people groups in all the nations reached with the Gospel! Chris received his Master of Divinity with a specialization in Christian Apologetics from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in 2017 and is currently a ministry associate on staff in Global Ministries at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, Georgia. Chris has traveled throughout the world teaching, training, and mobilizing others to take their part in the Great Commission. Chris lives in Roswell Georgia with his wife and three kids.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 19, 2018

    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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    Scott Miller

    Salem Church, McDonough GA

    Scott and his wife, Chris, have been married 40 years and are blessed with two grown children and one grandson. Scott completed a BSBA from Mars Hill University (NC), a Master of Divinity from Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY., and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Fuller Seminary in 1995 in Evangelism and Church Growth. After serving as a Lead Pastor for 34 years he has now made the transition to invest 100% of his ministry in Missions as the Pastor of Global Missions at Salem Church in McDonough, Georgia. He is personally involved in mission partnerships on four continents and serves as the Co- Director for Mustard Seed International. He has led 69 short-term mission trips to Asia, Africa, Europe, and Central America. Scott also teaches 6 Perspectives on the World Christian Movement lessons and seeks to weave stories and experiences from the front lines into the time-tested practical principles of the world of missions. He loves helping to mobilize churches and individuals to catch God's vision for the world and to develop ongoing mission partnerships between local churches and believers here with indigenous partners in unreached areas. He loves to teach God's Word in its simplicity and power and has a passion to reach the unreached and to see believers grow in Christ and become pioneers of Kingdom growth.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 26, 2018

    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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    Marco Murillo

    The Heights en Español, Richardson TX

    Marco was born and raised in Mexico City. He lived and studied in Argentina for 3 years. Upon returning to CDMX they met Aubrey Murillo and served together as youth pastors, church planters and in Christian education. In 2010 they moved to Texas with their three children, where they were taught and later taught at the Rio Grande Biblical Seminary. In 2014 they moved to Atlanta, GA and planted a church with the North American Mission Board. Subsequently, Marco directed the new Perspectives program in the United States and collaborated in the leadership of Latin America for 6 years. Marco and his family currently live in Dallas, TX where he pastors a Hispanic congregation and seeks to complete his doctoral studies.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 5, 2018

    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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    Nicole Parks

    Cafe 1040, Cumming GA

    God has been calling Nicole to missions since before she was walking with Him. She graduated from the University of Georgia with a BBA in International Business and Risk Management. Through studying abroad twice in college, God began to open her eyes to her love of other cultures, languages, and travel. After graduation, she worked in financial services for a few years before God called her into ministry. While working for North Point Ministries, she went on her first short-term missions trip. Through 2 trips to the 10/40 window, God called her into vocational missions. In 2014, she joined the staff of Cafe 1040 first as a mobilizer and then as a team lead. She now serves on their board of directors. She is also the Missions Director at Restoration Church in Alpharetta. She is passionate about the unreached, mobilization, and God's heart for the nations.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 12, 2018

    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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    Larry Ragan

    CULTURELink Inc., Marietta GA

    Larry brings experience from 50+ countries, leading prayer teams, exchanges, school outreaches, disaster relief teams. Through his ministry, many are now globally engaged. Larry served as teaching pastor for 11 years. He now leads CULTURELink, training short term mission team leaders. He and Karen, and their 2 children live in Marietta.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 19, 2018

    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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    Darrell Whiteman

    Asbury Theological Seminary 1984-2005; The Mission Society 2005-2014; Interim Executive Director, Overseas Ministries Study Center 2015-2016; Global Development 2017-present; , Gig Harbor WA

    Darrell Whiteman is a missiological anthropologist now semi-retired but continues to teach and train cross-cultural workers around the globe. He retired as VP and Resident Missiologist at The Mission Society, now TMS-Global. Darrell served in cross-cultural ministry for nine years in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Central Africa, then was one of the founding professors of Asbury Theological Seminary's School of World Mission and Evangelism, where he taught for 21 years and served as dean in the later years. He’s given leadership to many professional missiological societies researching the intersection of cultures and biblical values. Darrell annually equips hundreds of cross-cultural witnesses to understand God's mission around the globe and to help them to better connect the gospel to the deepest part of their worldview.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 26, 2018

    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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    Brian Hogan

    Disciple Making Mentors, Fayetteville AR

    Brian and Louise Hogan have served in mission since 1987. From the Navajo Tribe to Outer Mongolia, their passion has been to see Jesus glorified and lifted up among those who have never known Him. From 1993-1996 their team pioneered a church planting movement in Erdenet (AIR-DUH-NET), Mongolia that continues to grow under fully indigenous leadership to this day. Their Mongolian disciples are now training and sending out their own missionaries to other unreached people groups. The story of the work in Erdenet can be read in Brian’s book: There’s a Sheep in my Bathtub (Asteroidea Books), and in the case study article – “Distant Thunder: Mongols Follow the Khan of Khans” – on page 695 of your Perspectives Reader.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 9, 2018

    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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    Leroy Lamar

    Atlanta GA

    Leroy is a husband, father and educator-turned-activist who has lived among sex workers in Southwest Atlanta for the past seven years. He previously graduated with a B.A. in Bible with a concentration in Youth Ministries, and has completed Master’s degree in Christian Apologetics and working on one in philosophy. When he isn’t hanging out in the neighborhood, he is either reading obscure philosophy books or watching (or re-watching) Disney movies. Go figure.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 16, 2018

    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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    Jean Johnson

    Five Stones Global, St. Paul MN

    Jean Johnson serves primarily as a missionary and coach, while fulfilling the role of Executive Director for Five Stones Global. Jean brings 30 years of cross-cultural mission experience, the majority of those years in Cambodia. Her ultimate desire is to inspire a movement of disciple-makers who make disciples of Jesus by using methods that lead to local-sustainability and spontaneous multiplication in global missions.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 23, 2018

    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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    Grant Haynes

    Global Frontier Missions, Lilburn GA

    Grant Haynes founded Global Frontier Missions in 2000 while church planting among indigenous groups in southern Mexico. His passion is to see as many individuals and churches as possible praying, giving, welcoming, and going to the least reached people groups of the earth. Grant spent 14 years serving in Oaxaca, Mexico with his wife and three children church planting, hosting short-term mission groups, running an indigenous Bible school, and starting a missionary training school for North Americans. Grant now serves in Clarkston, GA, known as the most diverse square mile in America, reaching refugees from Iraq, Burma, Bhutan, Nepal, Somalia, Ethiopia, and many other nations.
    
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    Date: Monday, April 30, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

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    Date: Monday, May 7, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

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