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Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: Four Oaks Midtown 526 E 8th Ave Tallahassee FL 32301

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• • Registration & Orientation

    Registration & Orientation

  • Instructor

    

    Scott Stake

    Four Oaks Community Church, Tallahassee FL

    My name is Scott Stake, and I'm the Pastor of Groups & Missions at Four Oaks Community Church in Tallahassee. Go Seminoles! As a husband, father of 4, and pastor, I'm constantly reminded of my sin and need for Jesus and His wonderful grace. And my hope is that I can point others to Him, not through my perfections, but my brokenness and dependence on His amazing love! As pastor of missions, I seek to lead our church in identifying, training, mobilizing, sending, and caring for missionaries throughout the world. In teaching Perspectives, my hope is that students would see God's heart for the nations and serve the Lord wherever He calls them.

    
    

  • Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2017

    Time: 6:30 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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    David P Hemingway

    Maxeys GA

    David is married with four daughters and a son. He has served in campus ministry for 8 years followed by 13 years in several leadership roles for Cafe 1040 and Frontier Ventures.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2017

    Time: 6:30 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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    Jon F

    Reaching & Teaching , Louisville KY

    Works alongside Arab brothers and sisters in the Middle East in order to make mature disciples, establish & strengthen healthy churches, and train local leaders to carry the gospel message to every tribe for the global glory of Jesus Christ and the joy of all peoples.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2017

    Time: 6:30 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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    Nathaniel Sloan

    Sojourn Community Church, Louisville KY

    My wife and I served in Nepal for several years working with both Hindi and Buddhist background people seeking to train Christian leaders and plant new churches among unreached people groups. I now serve at the global missions pastor at Sojourn Community Church in Louisville, KY. My work includes training new missionaries through our School of Missions, working with our people on the field in both strategy and member care and developing a deeper heart for the nations at our four campuses in the Louisville area.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2017

    Time: 6:30 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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    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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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2017

    Time: 6:30 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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    Ted Esler

    Missio Nexus, St. Cloud FL

    Ted Esler is the President of Missio Nexus, an association of agencies and churches representing over 30,000 Great Commission workers worldwide. A Minnesota native, Ted worked in the computer industry before becoming a church planter in Sarajevo, Bosnia, during the 1990’s. He is the author of the book, "Overwhelming Minority," about their family's ministry in Bosnia. In 2000, Ted became the Canadian director of Pioneers and three years later moved to Orlando to join Pioneers USA’s leadership team. He was appointed the President of Missio Nexus in 2015. Ted has BS in Computer Science and Speech Communication (Mankato State University, 1985), an MTS in Theology (Heritage Seminary, 2002), and a PhD in Intercultural Studies (Fuller Theological Seminary, 2012). Ted is married to Annette and they have five children. Ted loves sailing, Crossfit, bikes, plays bass, and enjoys eating ethnic foods from around the world. Ted is a part of a church planting network in Orlando called "The Living Room," and serves as a board member for a couple of ministry organizations.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2017

    Time: 6:30 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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    Steven Masood

    Jesus to Muslims, Summerfield FL

    Steven Masood became a follower of Jesus in April 1973 in Karachi, Pakistan from a Muslim background. His testimony is chronicled in Into the Light. Steven earned a PhD from the London School of Theology thru Brunel University, London, on Islam and Christianity. He has spent 30+ years studying and working in Christian-Muslim relations and has taught Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim relations as a visiting lecturer in Christian institutions in Britain and the Far East. Steven also lectures in conferences and churches on varied subjects including the integrity of Christian and Muslim scriptures, and sharing the Gospel of Jesus. For further info: www.JesusToMuslims.org
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2017

    Time: 6:30 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.

  • Instructor

    

    Jim Govatos

    Deer Lake United Methodist Church, Venice FL

    After a radical encounter with Jesus Christ during his senior year at college, Jim experienced the saving love and power of Jesus Christ. In preparation for full-time ministry, Jim studied at Yale Divinity School under Henri Nouwen and Charles Foreman. Jim's pastoral service has included time in Australia and Michigan, as well as Florida. His current church, Deer Lake UMC, is deeply involved with mission efforts in Cuba, Haiti, and Guatemala. Jim is happily married to Susan and lives in Tallahassee, FL. Jesus is Lord!
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2017

    Time: 6:30 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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    Pam Arlund

    All Nations, Kansas City MO

    Pam is currently the Co-Editor of Perspectives 5th Edition and a member of All Nations. She lived in Central Asia for ten years, where she planted churches among three people groups, two of whom are Muslim. She earned an MA and PhD in Linguistics (i.e. Bible Translation) from the University of Texas at Arlington. She has published numerous books and articles in missions. She is most well known as “The Stick Figure Lady” for her popular book “Stick Figures Save the World.”
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 7, 2017

    Time: 6:30 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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    Kathleen Thomas

    Master's Mind Strategies, Tallahassee FL

    Teaching as a team, Dean and Kathy Thomas have a passion to encourage and empower leaders in their faith and work through the power of God as found in his Word. Over 20 years ago, they left their secular work, sold their home, and moved their family to answer God's call to serve with Wycliffe Bible Translators. From 1996 to 2002, they lived and worked among the Guji people of Ethiopia when they returned to the US. Dean continued to serve SIL Africa in leadership development and as teams coordinator and consultant. They retired from Wycliffe in 2016. Now, Dean and Kathy serve as consultants in leadership, organizational development, and biblically -inspired strategic planning helping organizational leaders transform their companies and communities through Godly leadership. They are excited to be a part of promoting Perspectives to those seeking God's purposes and plans and want to be a part of them.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2017

    Time: 6:30 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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    Dennis Cochrane

    Lexington SC

    Dennis and his wife Nancy served as linguists and Bible translators among the 20,000 Duna people of Papua New Guinea. After devising an alphabet for this previously unwritten language they produced primers and readers, teaching many to read their own language. They then translated the first portions of God's Word into the Duna language. Several thousand Duna came to faith in Christ and today there are many churches among these people.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2017

    Time: 6:30 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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    Don

    World Team, Orlando FL

    Canadian-born, Don received Christ at a YFC rally in 1952 and later graduated from Prairie Bible Institute and Wycliffe's SIL course. From 1962-1977 Don and his late wife, Carol Joy [Soderstrom], an RN, served in Irian Jaya (now Papua, Indonesia) among the Sawi, a Stone-Age cannibal-headhunter tribe. After Don designed a Sawi alphabet, he and Carol taught literacy, planted churches, healed the sick and translated the New Testament. More than half the tribe came to Christ. Author of six books, including "Peace Child" and "Eternity in Their Hearts," Don holds an honorary doctorate from Biola University. He represents World Team at missions conferences and in churches, teaches seminars, and lectures for Perspectives on the World Christian Movement. 17 months after his late wife's passing, Don wed Carol Joyce Abraham, who now serves with him in ministry by speaking to women's groups, singing solos, mentoring, and providing hospitality.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2017

    Time: 6:30 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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    Kate Schell

    SIL Philippines, Jacksonville FL

    Kate Schell is a member of Wycliffe Bible Translators and works on a team serving a people group in the southern Philippines who are culturally marginalized because of their Muslim faith, semi-nomadic lifestyle and lack of resources. The team is involved in Scripture engagement, Old Testament translation, community development projects and supporting formal and non-formal education in the languages of the people group. Kate is focused on teacher training, educational materials development and advocacy for greater inclusion of minority children in the multilingual formal education system. Kate earned her Bachelor's degree in English Literature and Spanish from Florida State University in 2008, an M.A. in Linguistics from Florida State University in 2011, and an M.A. in Literacy Programme Development from Redcliffe College, University of Gloucestershire in 2018. She lived in the Philippines from 2013-2015, but is now based in Jacksonville, Florida, where she lives with her husband, Chris. She continues to serve remotely with the team in the Philippines, traveling to the Philippines periodically.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2017

    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.

  • Instructor

    

    Doug Gehman

    Globe International, Pensacola FL

    Doug has been involved in full-time missions since 1978 ministering in over 50 nations. He founded a outreach and church planting ministry in Thailand and Sri Lanka. Doug and his team saw the ministry grow in Sri Lanka to a church planting movement of nearly 100 congregations and 35,000 members. Doug is the President/Director of Globe International which is headquartered in Pensacola, FL.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2017

    Time: 6:30 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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    Kathleen Peterson

    Aaron & Hur International Ministries, Titusville FL

    Kathleen is the founder and director of Aaron & Hur International Ministries: A ministry to strengthen, equip and restore church leaders and their families. She is the daughter and granddaughter of pioneer missionaries. Today she ministers in the USA, Latinamerica, and Europe.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2017

    Time: 6:30 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.

  • Instructor

    

    Scott Stake

    Four Oaks Community Church, Tallahassee FL

    My name is Scott Stake, and I'm the Pastor of Groups & Missions at Four Oaks Community Church in Tallahassee. Go Seminoles! As a husband, father of 4, and pastor, I'm constantly reminded of my sin and need for Jesus and His wonderful grace. And my hope is that I can point others to Him, not through my perfections, but my brokenness and dependence on His amazing love! As pastor of missions, I seek to lead our church in identifying, training, mobilizing, sending, and caring for missionaries throughout the world. In teaching Perspectives, my hope is that students would see God's heart for the nations and serve the Lord wherever He calls them.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, May 2, 2017

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM

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