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Date: Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Location: Two Twenty 2201 Duncan Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15101

Contact: Kathleen Klein

412-848-1460

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  • Date: Tuesday, January 16, 2018

    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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    Joseph Shane Bennett

    Healing Nations , Rye CO

    Shane helps Christians love Muslims and Muslims love Jesus. He has served in missions mobilization since 1987, recruiting, training, and sending short term research teams. He's been on teams in Bangkok, Bombay, and Turkey and he's lived among Muslim migrants in Europe. Shane writes a weekly email called Muslim Connect that helps Christians think about Muslims the way God does and love them like Jesus does. He works with Healing Nations and he and his family live in southern Colorado.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, January 23, 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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    Javier Amilcar Cabrera

    Global Hope Today, Inc, Oakmont PA

    
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, January 30, 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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    Lance Stoddart

    Leadership Training International, Mars PA

    I left a career in the US Coast Guard in 1994 to respond to the call to missionary service. Since that time, each transition has taken me into another role in missions mobilization. I've served four churches and four mission organizations. My prayer has been, "God, let me touch more nations and reach more unreached peoples through those I mobilize, train and send than I ever could have had I gone myself." Today, God is allowing me to fulfill that prayer as through Leadership Training International, as we mobilize and train leaders worldwide.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, February 6, 2018

    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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    De J

    International Ministries of the C&MA, Cleveland OH

    Raised internationally, Dr J navigates place and cultures intuitively without changing who he is. He has lived, worked, & served the church in multicultural settings for over 25 years. After almost 20 years of focusing on contributing to multiplying leaders and faith communities all over urban Cleveland, the Ammaris recently relocated to work with New Europeans in Germany by applying multi-cultural principles to equip urban Europeans to minister to one another and with one another.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 13, 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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    Fernando DeCarvalho

    Atlanta GA

    Fernando was born in Brazil. He came to the United States as a teenager to pursue the American dream. He faced many trials including homelessness. He became a businessman and in that journey was radically changed by Jesus Christ. Today he is the Executive Director for SOS, a christian mission movement reaching people with the Gospel in Africa and unreached peoples in Asia.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 6:30 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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    James Hobby

    House of Gladness, Thomasville GA

    From the time I took Perspectives in 1976 (Summer Institute of International Studies back then), I have been involved in global mission. My wife and I have served as mobilizers and senders within the context of various local churches and mission agencies. Part of that has been my involvement with Perspectives as an instructor for over 20 years.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 6, 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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    Richard Haney

    Frontier Fellowship, North Chesterfield VA

    Ordained Presbyterian minister, married and father of three grown daughters. Led mission trips since 1982 in Latin America, Europe, Africa. Teaching trips to Central and East Asia. PhD from the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. Teaches DMin students at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Chairman of the Board of the World Christian Research NGO.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 8:00 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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    Richard Haney

    Frontier Fellowship, North Chesterfield VA

    Ordained Presbyterian minister, married and father of three grown daughters. Led mission trips since 1982 in Latin America, Europe, Africa. Teaching trips to Central and East Asia. PhD from the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. Teaches DMin students at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Chairman of the Board of the World Christian Research NGO.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2018

    Time: 8:00 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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    Lance Stoddart

    Leadership Training International, Mars PA

    I left a career in the US Coast Guard in 1994 to respond to the call to missionary service. Since that time, each transition has taken me into another role in missions mobilization. I've served four churches and four mission organizations. My prayer has been, "God, let me touch more nations and reach more unreached peoples through those I mobilize, train and send than I ever could have had I gone myself." Today, God is allowing me to fulfill that prayer as through Leadership Training International, as we mobilize and train leaders worldwide.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 20, 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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    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.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 27, 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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    Scott Boyd

    Pittsburgh Region International Student Ministries, Pittsburgh PA

    Rev. Scott Boyd and his family served nine years as church planters in Slovenia. He is currently Director of the Pittsburgh Regional International Students Ministry. P.R.I.S.M. is a dynamic network of cross-cultural programs and ministries to international students and visiting scholars in the Pittsburgh area. We include Scott in every Perspectives class as his ministry is so important to our area.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2018

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Matthew Geppert

    Oakmont PA

    
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2018

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Nathan J'Diim

    TOAG/Launch Internship and Frontiers, Chandler AZ

    Nathan J'Diim (pen name) is the Founder of TOAG and (semi-retired) Consultant, Instructor and Coach for Frontiers (www.FrontiersUSA.org). Launch (www.LaunchGlobal.org) has since replaced TOAG but carries the same DNA: a year long after-hours internship preparing beautiful feet to serve in the Unreached World. Offered in cities across the US, TOAG/Launch has apprenticed hundreds of interns, many who serve or will soon serve the least reached world wide.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2018

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Derek

    KRIN , Allison Park PA

    Derek is the Executive Director of a network for an unreached people group in East Asia. He was formerly the East Asia Director for Beyond, overseeing missionary strategy for starting discipleship / church planting movements among unengaged / unreached people groups of East Asia. He lived in Asia for 12 years. Derek has taught extensively on church planting movements and pioneer church planting to locals in numerous Asian countries. Author of "Innovation in World Mission" through William Carey Library. He started several companies for business as mission. Holds a Master's degree in Organizational Leadership and Foresight from Regent University.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2018

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Micah

    Frontiers, Pittsburgh PA

    Micah started meeting Muslims at his university on the West Coast in 2009 and found that apparently God had a thing about really wanting them to know Him. He had wanted to go overseas for years, but finally realized the urgency involved with unreached and unengaged peoples. This eventually led him to a team in North Africa where he met his wife. They had to return earlier than expected, but are committed to continue to work to see God receive the glory He is due from all Muslim peoples (and other unreached peoples). Right now that means working with international students in the Pittsburgh area through PRISM and bugging any Jesus follower who will listen about the possibilities that are out there for sharing the Gospel with Muslims.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2018

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

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