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Date: Sunday, August 28, 2016

Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: Perspectives Kennesaw 3206 Old Hwy 41 NW Kennesaw GA 30144

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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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    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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    Date: Sunday, August 28, 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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    Paul Sewell

    Seven Wells, Bentonville AR

    Paul helps people Enjoy Jesus More. He remembers when he had his dream job traveling the world and selling software, but was actually empty and unfulfilled. Once Jesus gave him the true satisfaction he was longing for, Paul began spreading this joy and peace to others. He founded Seven Wells in 2015 to help people Enjoy Jesus and spread his joy to the nations. Prior to Seven Wells, Paul has served an Executive Pastor, Mobilization Coach, and Director in several mission orgs. But Paul's true heart is simply making disciples that make disciples that impact nations. Coaching goers is a huge part of this work. Paul lives in Ozark Mountains of Bentonville, Arkansas with his wife and three kids. When not working, he is ripping his mountain bike down a trail or curled up with a coffee and a book.
    
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    Date: Sunday, September 4, 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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    Frank Decker

    TMS Global, Sugar Hill GA

    Frank began work with TMS-Global in 1986, serving with his wife Vicki as a missionary to Ghana until 1994. Upon returning to the United States, Frank joined the home office staff where he established and now directs the training department. BACKGROUND Prior to serving as a missionary, Frank served as the pastor of the Community United Methodist Church in Portsmouth, Virginia from 1980 to 1986. PUBLICATIONS Frank has written more than 60 articles on missions, is a regular columnist for Good News Magazine, and has written chapters for two books on missions.
    
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    Date: Sunday, September 11, 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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    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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    Date: Sunday, September 18, 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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    Elliot N.

    Alpharetta GA

    Elliot and his wife make disciples in Turkey and locally in the States. They serve with Pioneers.
    
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    Date: Sunday, September 25, 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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    Kathleen

    EastWest Ministries International , Atlanta GA

    Kathleen worked for four years mobilizing and training those who were planning to move to the unreached. All along her intention was to go herself and now her family is preparing to move to Southeast Asia to train and equip local believers in church planting movements. As they prepare to go they continue to engage with internationals in their diverse midtown Atlanta neighborhood, praying for a movement of the gospel right where they are.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 2, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Mike Stachura

    AlongSideAsia, Fayetteville GA

    Mike serves as the International Project Director for ALONGSIDEASIA, with our primary focus on South Asia (India, Nepal, Bhutan). He works with church planting teams, evangelists, and community development groups in this region. Mike worked for 22 years with OPERATION MOBILIZATION, 16 with their ship ministry aboard MV LOGOS & MV DOULOS. He and his wife Jorie raised their 3 children aboard the ships while ministering in 60+ nations/cultures. He served as Director of the floating Book Fair and, later, as the Managing Director of the ship DOULOS. He then served 6 years as the President/CEO of OM in the USA, based outside of Atlanta, GA. Recently retired, and returning to more direct global ministry, for 22+ years, Mike served as pastor/elder for Community and Global Ministries at Grace Evangelical Church in Fayetteville, GA, a church with a passion for global and community transformation through the life and power of Jesus Christ. Mike has earned two MA degrees: first, in International Comparative Politics (Univ. of Illinois-Urbana); later in Inter-cultural Communication (Wheaton Grad School). And he has taught at the graduate level at the University of Indonesia - Jakarta.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 9, 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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    Trent DeLoach

    Toccoa Falls College, Tucker GA

    Trent DeLoach serves as the lead pastor at Clarkston International Bible Church. He and his family live as missionaries to the international community in Clarkston, GA. Clarkston is known as the most ethnically diverse square mile in America due to extensive refugee resettlement. He has a passion for the nations and a love for all people. You can learn more about Clarkston and CIBC at www.cibcfamily.com
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 16, 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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    Richard O Coleman

    TMS Global, Decatur GA

    For 10 years Richard served as the director of mobilization and candidacy for TMS Global, a sending agency in Peachtree Corners, GA. He left this role in June 2017 in order to pursue an opportunity In Ethiopia through TMS Global. Richard's ministry passions are networking, teaching, evangelism, and helping people to discern their calling. In addition to his responsibilities with TMS Global, Richard participates in several national and international networks, including the Lausanne Movement. He had the privilege of serving as the global selection chair for the 2016 Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering, which brought together younger leaders and mentors from over 140 countries. A person who loves diversity, Richard has a variety of friendships all of which have made him who he is today. He and his wife Amanda have 4 young children, who they enjoy raising as World Christians.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 23, 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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    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: Sunday, October 30, 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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    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: Sunday, November 6, 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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    Gabriela Phillips

    Adventist Muslim Relations Coordinator for North America, Ooltewah TN

    Gabriela Phillips and her husband have served for over twenty years among Muslim in Central Asia, the Middle East and currently they are in North America, where they serve among refugees from the Middle East. Gabriela is currently pursuing doctoral studies in the area of Missiology and loves to share the many ways in which God is drawing Muslims to himself.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, November 13, 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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    Glenn Hatcher

    Globe International, Valdosta GA

    As a missional thinker and practitioner, Dr. Glenn Hatcher and his wife Phyllis have spent 35 years in inter-denominational faith ministry living in the US, East Africa and Mediterranean Basin teaching and training leaders. Glenn has discipled students on university campuses in the US, trained pastors to develop churches throughout East Africa and equipped emerging leaders in the underground Church in Islamic Africa. While still having a passion for cross-cultural ministry, the Hatchers returned to the US in 2006 to train new missionaries with Globe International, a mission agency in Pensacola. Glenn continues his ministry of people development as a certified leadership coach and founder of Eikon Associates. He is the author of "Why God Thinks He Can Use You." Glenn and Phyllis have two adult children, Zachary and Jane.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, November 20, 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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    Jason Winkle

    Memphis TN

    Jason and his family lived for nine years in China, training people to live and serve in cross cultural contexts. His family also cared for special needs orphans. Currently the Winkles live in Memphis, TN serving the immigrant community there.
    
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    Date: Sunday, November 27, 2016

    Time: 6:00 AM to 9:00 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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    Adam and Melissa Hoffman

    Perspectives, Garner NC

    Adam & Melissa have been "Team Hoffman" since 2005 - together in partnership for ministry, discipleship, mobilization, family and teaching. Perspectives was the best premarital counseling we received and forged the future of our lives into mobilization ministry. That same year we were married (2005) is when we joined Frontier Ventures. In 2014 we moved back to Raleigh, NC to become Perspectives Southeast Regional Directors. Currently Melissa serves on the training team and Adam is the Eastern Executive Mobilization Officer.
    
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    Date: Sunday, December 4, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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    Date: Sunday, December 11, 2016

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

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