Class Info

Date: Thursday, August 18, 2016

Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: Sierra Bible Church 3195 Everett Drive Reno NV 89503

Contact: Dana & Jon Minassian

775-527-2055

• • Registration & Orientation

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  • Date: Thursday, August 18, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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: Thursday, August 25, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    John

    Pastor at Large - Frontiers, Sacramento CA

    20 + yrs. in outreach to Muslim World. Pastoral care of workers, mentoring national leaders, recruiting and fund-raising for children's relief. Ministered in 90 nations. Leadership development/mentoring. Church planter in USA prior to involvement internationally.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, September 1, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Tom Anderson

    Sparks NV

    Pastors Tom and Linda Anderson founded Horizon Christian Church in 2005.They have been married for over 35 years, have two married children, and four incredible grandchildren. Tom graduated from California State University, Sacramento and after leaving the corporate world, has ministered as senior pastor at churches in Arizona, Oregon, California and currently in Nevada. Tom completed his doctorate in 2009. Linda is the founder and teacher of His Way Ministries. A gifted speaker she ministers with power at conferences and retreats and has authored multiple books including, “Freedom from Fear” and her new powerful book, “Where Miracles Begin.” Together, Tom and Linda speak at Pastor's Conferences, Marriage Retreats, Ministry Schools and travel internationally to speak and teach.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, September 8, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Jon Minassian

    International Student/Immigrant Ministry, Reno NV

    In 2009, God opened my heart to His love for all the nations through the Perspectives class. In 2010, my wife and I went to North Africa for a short-term trip with the Jesus Film Project. In 2011, we felt that God was calling us to go to the nations, and in 2012 we followed His call and went to the University of the Nations for training. We spent 3 months in Nepal working with a church-planting team of local Nepalis. Now serves with international students and immigrants in Reno, NV, serving with MissionStream and partnering with International Students Inc. (ISI).
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, September 15, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    John Dupree

    Missions Consultant, Blanchard ID

    Rev. John Dupree serves as a Church Mobilization Minister Consultant: retired PERSPECTIVES Pacific Regional Director, former William Jessup University Adjunct Professor, Inter-Cultural Studies Dept., John is an ordained minister who has served as a Church Planter, Missions Pastor, Elder, ACMC Regional Director, Mission Networks creator (13 in Pacific region), organized 70 National and Regional Conferences, plus preaching and teaching at churches, seminaries, conferences in Eastern Europe, Asia and America.
    
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    Date: Thursday, September 22, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, September 29, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Michael D Davis

    , Reno NV

    Mike Davis, PhD, is an evangelical Christian with a heart for sharing the gospel with Muslims. He completed multiple military assignments as an aviator, Pentagon staff officer, and attaché in the Middle East; and lived in the region for three years with his lovely wife, Karen (a career nurse), and their two sons. He is now retired from active duty, but teaches university and graduate-level history and military history courses online. His academic specialization includes Middle East and diplomatic history. He reads, writes and has some speaking proficiency in Arabic. In early 2016, Mike developed and taught a six-lesson course for his local church about “Christian Perspectives on Islam.”
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, October 6, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Alvern Vomsteeg

    International Leadership Institute, Diamond Springs CA

    Al served 24 years as a pastor in USA, 7 years missionary pastor in Brazil, and 7 years leading The Mission Society, and retired after 16 years serving with the Int'l Leadership Institute (ILI) training but still active. Christian leaders worldwide. Retired 12/2018
    
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    Date: Thursday, October 13, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Kaben Kramer

    Auburn CA

    Kaben works as the Director of International Operations at Global Fellowship - a family of church-planters laser focused on establishing Gospel multiplying communities in geographies where no work is happening - no church, no missionary, no Gospel witness. For over 25 years Global Fellowship has partnered with local evangelists and church-planters to see culturally relevant church-planting movements explode across more than a dozen countries. Kaben's passion is to see the people of God become the Family of God engaged in the Mission of God in their literal geography.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, October 20, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Michael Cutler

    International Friends of Reno, Reno NV

    Michael Cutler has a passion for developing pioneering missions with international students and immigrants in the Reno, Nevada area. He has special interest in creating discipleship experiences that equip local American church members to share their faith cross-culturally with internationals in their community. Additional interest and experience lies in: developing student-based leadership, Muslim and Hindu outreach, Chinese and East Asian cultures. Currently serves as team leader for International Friends of Reno.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, October 27, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Ariel Wai

    Reno NV

    A son of missionary parents, Ariel was born in Jakarta, Indonesia. Though he grew up most of his life in Oregon he spent two and a half years as a young boy living in Irian Jaya, now known as West Papua. His global worldview was strongly influenced by these years as well as foreign exchange students staying at their home, bible studies with international university students, and his own personal travels. Though he works full time as a flight paramedic, Ariel and his wife are stewards of an international college women's house here in Reno. They create relationships with students through daily living and interactions with the intent of evangelization.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, November 3, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Bradley Buser

    Founder Radius International, San Diego CA

    Brad came to faith in Christ at 17 and soon after was challenged with the need of unreached people groups. He began training for this directly after High School. Beth is from St. Johns MI., her Mom and Dad love the Lord Jesus and raised her with a heart for the world. They met, had two boys and left for Papua New Guinea in January of 1979. Soon after arriving they moved in among the Iteri people who live in the headwaters of the Sepik River Basin. After 4 years of studying the language and culture of the Iteri people they were fluent and began to share Christ with them for the first time. The baby church was discipled and in a few years leaders were ordained. The Busers worked on the New Testament translation and by 1999, after 20 years in the village, with the translation done, the church up and thriving, their need to be among the Iteris was over. Upon returning from PNG he and other men saw the need for appropriate training for missionaries who would be sent to Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists. In 2010 he helped found Radius International as a ministry to do such training. Radius is currently the largest training program for those going into Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and Tribal peoples. For those who desire to do church planting among the least reached it is the premier training available.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, November 10, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Lesson 11 Video Instruction

    West Hills CA

    Colleen Wong
    
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    Date: Thursday, November 17, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, December 1, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Lee Bridges

    Jonathan Project, Yuba City CA

    International Coordinator for the Jonathan Project ministry. Instructor has 40 years experience in Church Planting ministry with extensive experience doing evangelism and church planting particularly in restricted access contexts. He also trains others to do the same.
    
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    Date: Thursday, December 8, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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