Randolph, NJ
Fall 2016
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..15 weeks. 15 Instructors. One Epic Story.
Biblical. Historical. Cultural.
Strategic.
Get threaded into God's story as you experience
His heart for every tribe, tongue,
people and nation and encounter the momentum of the World Christian Movement.
Certificate and Key Reading Tuition: $295
Undergrad credit via Trinity International
University: $650
Grad credit via Trinity International
University: $750
Association of Christian Schools
International offers 7 CEUs to ACSI teachers.
Contact coordinators for an application.
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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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Bruce Heckman
Brownstown PA
Bruce and Joyce Heckman met while serving the Lord in the Middle East. Their nearly twenty years of service in that region equipped them to prepare others for ministry among the world’s unreached peoples. They have given their lives to bring the message of salvation through Jesus Christ to those who have never heard. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 12, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Shirley Innis
International Students, Inc., Stillwater OK
Shirley grew up in a Christian home and at the age of 12 dedicated her life for missionary service. After graduating from Cairn University (Philadelphia College of Bible). She and her husband served as directors with Word of Life Ministries in Ecuador for 17 years and have 3 grown children and 4 grandchildren. She has recently been certified to teach Dog and Cat Theology material for lessons 1 and 2 and share lesson 2 with her husband. She is on full-time staff with International Students, Inc. as a City Director. She teaches in English or Spanish.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 19, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Dave Shive
Frontier Ventures (formerly US Center for World Mission), Catonsville MD
Dave Shive is a 1968 graduate of the Washington Bible College, a 1972 graduate of Capital Bible Seminary with a Th.M. in New Testament Studies, and a 1994 graduate of Baltimore Hebrew University with an M.A. in Biblical Literature. Dave has spent the past 47 years in full time ministry as a pastor, Christian school director, and college professor. He currently serves with Frontier Ventures (formerly the US Center for World Mission) as a missions mobilizer for the northeast region of the United States. Dave lives in Catonsville, MD, with Kathy, his wife of 52 years. Dave and Kathy have three married children, Dan, Mike, and Becky. They are also the proud grandparents of 9 grandsons and 2 granddaughters. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 26, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Victoria Kowarick
Walnut Hill Community Church, Natal Not in USA
Vicky combines a passion for evangelism, a concern to reach out to the local community and a commitment to the worldwide Church. As Pastor at Walnut Hill Community Church she gets to encourage all three!
Vicky studied Theology at Durham University, a secular college in her home country of England. She later did her Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies (majoring in Theology and Missions & Intercultural Studies) at Wheaton College, IL.
With a breadth of cross-cultural experience in international development, Vicky has worked among the poor in India, and with those living with HIV and AIDS in Kenya, Rwanda and the UK. She has so far lived in four continents.
She is also author of 'Illusions of Grandeur,' speaker and loves hiking. Having moved to Connecticut in 2007, she is enjoying discovering parts of New England that she didn't know existed! b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 3, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Kevin Fisher
Ark Discovery International, Inc., Sparta TN
Since 1984, Kevin Fisher has investigated several important biblical sites which confirm the word of God. He has participated in documenting Noah's Ark in Turkey, Sodom and Gomorrah in Israel, the Red Sea crossing site in Egypt, and at Mount Sinai in Saudi Arabia, all found by the late Ron Wyatt. In addition
Kevin is president of Ark Discovery International and hosts the website www.arkdiscovery.com, and speaks frequently on the compelling evidence for God's mighty acts in history which can be clearly seen in the archaeological record. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 10, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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 Marshall
Fall City WA
Dr. David Marshall worked for 13 years in East Asia as a missionary and educator. He endevoured to awaken the Asian church to the needs of young women caught in the sex industry, researched Chinese culture, and studied theology at China Evangelical Seminar. He taught at Siebold University and Nagasaki University and other colleges in Nagasaki, Japan, his wife's hometown, for six years. Dr. Marshall is author of five books, on China and Christianity, world religions, the Gospels, and the New Atheism, as well of articles for Christianity Today, Books and Culture, Touchstone, and other magazines. He is also editor of the new Faith Seeking Understanding, which includes contributions from some of the world's most insightful Christian thinkers, in tribute to Dr. Paul Brand, the missions doctor, and Ralph Winter, founder of Perspectives and the US Center for World missions. David has a doctorate from Oxford Centre for Missions Studies, and MA and BA degrees in China-related topics from the University of Washington in Seattle. He lives with his wife and two sons in the mossy foothills of the Cascade Mountains.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 17, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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 Henry
Youth With A Mission, Ocean City NJ
John is director of Youth With A Mission in Ocean City, NJ. He is the founder and former international director of the University of the Nations Student Mobilization Centre. John has mobilized over 75 student internship teams to serve mission projects in 35 nations. He and his team developed a 12-week university missions training course and have trained YWAM staff working in university communities in 40 countries.
He has developed a new YWAM initiative for internship placement, online training, and fundraising called Converge. See ywamconverge.org
John and his wife, Mary, and daughter, Rebecca, live in Ocean City, NJ. Rebecca and their two sons, Justin & Nathan, have completed YWAM's Discipleship Training School. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 24, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Rod Innis
ISI, Stillwater OK
High School Bible Teacher at Hawthorne Christian Academy for 25 years and Coordinator of Bible Dept. for middle & upper school. I have been a teacher at Monday Evening Bible School for adults at Hawthorne Gospel Church for over 15 years and was a member of church's Missions Committee. Missionary with Word of Life for 15 years and director in Ecuador for most of those years. Pastor of a Spanish ministry at Manhattan Bible Church in New York City for 2 years.Taught Bible and Spanish at at HCA in New Jersey for 25 years. Presently working with ISI in Stillwater, Oklahoma. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 31, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Don Perry
Equipping You!, Plantation FL
Don Perry has spent years equipping and training church planters in South Asia, East Africa and the Middle East, working in Hindu and Muslim contexts. Here in the States, he works as a writer, trainer and consultant, helping ministries and churches with creative outreaches.
Don says, “I love teaching Perspectives - our class will be informal, interactive and will stretch all of us together.
Bring your hardest questions, and come prepared to challenge assumptions, look afresh at the Scriptures and the Kingdom of God, and to look as a group honestly and deeply within ourselves.
We will dialogue and pray together; sometimes we will laugh, sometimes we will repent. I am excited to come and spend time together with you.”
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 7, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Suzanne Rumbaugh
Frontiers, Grove City PA
Suzanne and her family served 7 years in Honduras, equipping latinos to go to unreached Africa. A home educator for 25 years, Suzanne launched the MATCH program, "Missions and Academic Training Center in Honduras," hosting and training college interns, as well as teaching MKs. Now back in PA, Suzanne volunteers with Frontiers, encouraging churches and workers to go to the least reached peoples, and mentors future goers through the local church. Suzanne enjoys discipling students at Grove City College, being Grandma to 11, biking with Don, and once jogged with a scorpion in her shoe. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 14, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Susan Patt
Frontier Ventures, Exton PA
Sue Patt has worked as a mobilizer for more than 40 years (since 1982) with Frontier Ventures, formerly the US Center for World Mission. She has served as a Perspectives Regional Director (13 years) and as the Perspectives National Program Director (7 years). Her current assignment is Chief Strategy Officer with FV. She has been developing deliberate friendships with Muslims since 1980, and Hindus since 2005. She is married to Fran Patt since 1986. They have 3 adult children and live in Exton, PA in the Philadelphia suburbs. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 21, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Doug Anderson
Somerville NJ
Doug Anderson is the Director of Dual Enrollment Education at Pillar College and Community Outreach Pastor at The Loft Wesleyan Church in Hillsborough, NJ. He is also the Co-founder and Director of Global Partnerships at Garden of Hope Foundation, a non-profit based in Nairobi, Kenya, that works to restore hope in marginalized communities through leadership and entrepreneur skills development and empowering girls by providing pads so they can stay in school. Doug's background is in holistic community development, which has taken him to various parts of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the United States. He holds a M.A. in Transformational Urban Leadership from Azusa Pacific University and a B.A. in Biblical Studies from Pillar College. He enjoys traveling, trying different kinds of food, and lots of laughter. Doug lives with his wife and two children in Somerville, NJ. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 28, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Orlando Rivera
Orlando FL
Dr. Orlando Rivera is the Community Development Officer at Paterson Habitat for Humanity My job is to engage our homeowners with businesses, church, nonprofit, and government entities in improving the quality of life in Paterson, NJ. I accomplish this through working with local strategic partners in the areas of youth and young adult programs, quality of life initiatives, and economic development activities.
Dr. Rivera also directs faith-based co-working office that focuses on Urban Entrepreneurship. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, December 5, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Joseph Suozzo
Pastor Joe, Freehold NJ
Joe Suozzo currently serves with Immanuel Bible Church as the Senior Pastor. From 1989-1999, he and his wife were involved in church planting in India. During that time God used Joe and a Christar team to establish a network of house churches among the Chamar people of North India which has now grown to over 50 groups. Joe has been married to Dianne for 25 years and has two daughters, Anna Marie (23) and Danielle (21). b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, December 12, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Donald Rumbaugh
Grove City PA
Dr. Don Rumbaugh is a Family Practice MD, C&MA pastor, and Medical Mobilizer for Frontiers. He served in the USAF for 13 years as a flight surgeon through Desert Storm, and then went into private practice. He started Team Healthcare, a short term missions organization serving in various countries. Ordained in the C&MA and With a heart for global medicine, Dr. Rumbaugh and his family moved to Honduras to serve at Hospital Loma de Luz between 2003-11. Pursuing his passion for cross cultural medical work, Dr. Rumbaugh has partnered with other like-minded physicians and started VillageDoc.net, a non-profit dedicated to serving the global poor. Currently, Dr. Rumbaugh works in a Family Practice clinic, mentors students, and preaches as needed in western PA. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, December 19, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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