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Arlington, WA
Spring 2017
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Welcome to Perspectives
Why take Perspectives? What is this course?
Perspectives on the World Christian Movement
is a
15 week discipleship course designed to challenge your current view of
the world around you.
Because it is often hard to sense the accelerating pace of God's work in history,
Perspectives will open your eyes to the heart and purpose
of God, and how you can find your place in His work all over the world, from
right where you are now or to distant nations. This unique experience will give
you a new and deeper understanding of God's story and His desire for you to be
a part of it!
(Video link 1)
Who should take Perspectives?
Anyone
and everyone who wants to better know the heart of God and His work in His
world! Whether you are single, married, a student, a homemaker, a minister, a
professional or a retired person, you will explore God's heart to restore His Glory among All
Nations, ransoming His people from every tribe, language and culture! (Rev 5:9) Whatever your current involvement in the church or
its ministries, this class is for you! (It is recommended for high school seniors and up).
What will I learn? You will be challenged to see the
world through God's eyes in 4 different perspectives:
- Biblical-
God's plan and purpose revealed in Scripture
- Historical
- How God has revealed himself from the beginning
- Cultural
- Overcome cultural barriers to introduce Jesus
- Strategic
- Your gifts & passions can be used to fulfill God's plan
Who are the instructors?We
will have 15 different, dynamic and diverse instructors sharing from their
knowledge and experience each week. (Ministry founders, pastors, lay leaders,
missionaries, equippers, senders & go-ers).
What is the time investment? Our
class meets for 3 hours, one night per week - on Wednesdays. And, you can attend lessons one and two - FOR FREE!
(Just register for this so we can reserve a place for you)
The Perspectives course offers 3
levels:
Key Reading Level: This level requires about 1 to 2 hours of reading per week
with no written homework. There are five "Personal Reflections"
assigned during the course which would require approximately an hour each to
complete.
Certificate Level: This level is recommended for those who seek to gain a
deeper understanding of the topics. It involves weekly homework assignments,
five "Personal Reflections", and one research project due at the end
of the course. This level requires about 4 hours of work per week.
Credit Level: This level can be taken for undergraduate or post graduate
credit. This involves a mid-term and final exam plus an integrative project in
addition to regular weekly assignments. This level requires about 6-8 hours of
work per week. The credit will come through
Trinity International University unless other arrangements are made. *An
orientation/registration session will be held on Wednesday January 11,
from 6-8pm to introduce you to Perspectives on the World Christian
Movement,
examine class dynamics and expectations, distribute textbooks, and
prepare you
for the life-changing journey ahead! This is not required to take the
class.
Study Materials:
The study materials (both the Reader and the Study Guide) are included in the tuition cost. They are also available from Amazon in the Kindle format. If you would prefer to use the Kindle version instead of the paper volumes, you may take the Kindle discount during registration of $30.00 and you will need to buy the e-books from Amazon on your own (there is the link for doing so on the discount pages under registration).
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Registration & Orientation
Registration & Orientation
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Instructor
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Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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Instructor
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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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Daniel Douglas
English Teacher, Arlington WA
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Instructor
Darrell Dorr
Frontier Ventures, Lynnwood WA
Darrell Dorr was Perspectives Director 1980-1982 and an associate editor of the first edition of the Perspectives Reader. He has been a missionary with Frontier Ventures since 1980, specializing in communications, and has been on assignment with various other organizations and projects, including Frontiers, Operation World, the Adopt-a-People Clearinghouse, and the Center for the Study of Global Christianity. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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C.C.
Portland OR
Our speaker was born and raised in Oregon and currently serves as one of the pastors of a church in Portland. Before pastoring, he served with a non-profit in the US, London, and North Africa. He has been married for 24 years, and has two daughters and one son. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Instructor
Chuck Lindley
OneBand, Tacoma WA
Chuck and his wife, Janis, served with Frontier Ventures (FV) from 2004 to 2019, and are currently members of OneBand. Chuck served as South Sound Area Mobilizer for Perspectives from 2015-2018. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Instructor
Glen Basey
Los Gatos Christian Church, Edmonds WA
I served Puget Sound Christian College as faculty member and president for a total of 24 years. I served Pioneer Bible Translators as board member and chair of the board for 10 years. I served as Chair of the Education department of William Jessup University/San Jose Christian College for 6 years. I served the Christians Haven ministry to street children and orphans in the Philippines for two years.
I have been involved in serving local congregations for the past seven years. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Craig Campbell
Wycliffe Bible Translators, Cle Elum WA
After growing up in Australia and the USA, Craig attended University of Washington, spent 5 years active duty in the Navy, then 20 years working as a civil engineer. In 2000 he quit his job to join Wycliffe Bible Translators and relocated wife (a nurse) and children to work in Papua New Guinea. In 2007 they returned, spent 8 years in mobilization and 5 years working as a field coordinator with The Seed Company and Wycliffe Global Partnerships with projects in Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea. In 2020 Craig retired to become a full-time caregiver to his wife. He now resides in Cle Elum, WA. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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John Ruhlman Sr.
Mount Vernon WA
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Darrell Dorr
Frontier Ventures, Lynnwood WA
Darrell Dorr was Perspectives Director 1980-1982 and an associate editor of the first edition of the Perspectives Reader. He has been a missionary with Frontier Ventures since 1980, specializing in communications, and has been on assignment with various other organizations and projects, including Frontiers, Operation World, the Adopt-a-People Clearinghouse, and the Center for the Study of Global Christianity. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Instructor
J.W. Matt Hennessee
Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church, Portland, OR, Portland OR
Bio of:
J.W. Matt Hennessee
Senior Pastor, Vancouver Ave. First Baptist Church
3138 No. Vancouver Ave., Portland, Oregon
Pastor Hennessee was elected as the fourth Senior Pastor of Vancouver Ave. First Baptist Church on December 29, 2004. He began his pastorate on Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday, January 15, 2005 and was formally installed on May 29, 2005. Prior to his installation at Vancouver Ave. 1st Baptist he served as Associate Pastor at Portland’s St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church from January 15, 1989 to January 15, 2005.
He is a native of Columbus, OH; lived in Michigan and moved to Oregon in 1988. He had a very distinguished career in senior leadership roles in city and state government in Ohio, Michigan, and Oregon. He then entered the private sector as an executive in a variety of positions at Nike, Inc., CEO of a small private financial/technology business; Vice President of Streamlined Solutions, a division of the Rentrak Corporation; (presently) Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Energy Film, a division of Artscape Inc., all located in Portland, OR.
He has also served in a variety of volunteer roles in the non-profit world locally, nationally, and internationally for many years including medical boards, alternative education boards, higher education boards, and a number of commissions whose mission was superior service in education and economic development.
Pastor Hennessee has traveled nationally and internationally for business and speaking engagements. He has spoken on a variety of subjects including: economic empowerment, diversity, the importance of pre-school education, and organizational and financial development.
He earned his B.A. at Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH in Religion, Sociology, and Anthropology; the Masters of Divinity from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in Mill Valley, CA; and is presently enrolled at Portland Seminary a part of the George Fox University Campus earning the Doctorate of Ministry degree (EDG: Spring of 2018). He is very active working in the Portland community across denominations to engage and create an active model for peace. He leads several initiatives to bring faith, community, and law enforcement together in all dimensions.
He is passionate about building on the success of the past, loves history, loyal to the importance of honoring those who came before us, making the path for the next generation, generating funds for continuing education for all who wish to pursue it, determined to do everything he can to help everyone succeed, and enjoys bringing people of diverse races, cultures, and backgrounds together.
He has one son Matt Jr. (Lisa); they have three children and reside in the Cleveland, Ohio area.
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Betty Sue Brewster
Fuller Seminary (Retired), Vancouver WA
Retired: Senior Associate Professor of Language and Culture Learning, School of Intercultural Studies.
Currently: Language and culture learning consultant
Betty Sue has traveled in over 100 countries, teaching and consulting in the area of language and culture learning. Her teaching and writing focus on practical, hands-on learning through relationships. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Karen Stoufer
Christian Veterinary Mission, Wormleysburg PA
Dr. Karen Stoufer served with her family in Nepal for 13 years in rural community development, animal health training and women's empowerment with the United Mission to Nepal and World Concern/CVM. She returned to serve as Director of Training and Asia programs for Christian Veterinary Mission (CVM) based in Seattle WA. She has a special interest in Missionary Kids (TCKs) and fostering of refugee teens. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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N8 Scholz
Vision 5:9 Network, Stanwood WA
N8 spent his early 30s in Lebanon as an English teacher and Hope Broker from 1999 to 2006. He published the story of his experiences in Coffee & Orange Blossoms: 7 Years & 15 Days in Tyre, Lebanon.
Currently, N8 is actively engaged in helping form Jesus-following communities across North America to engage Muslims, and together learn how to obey the commands of Jesus. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Edward Aw
Tsunami Unleashed, Gilbert AZ
Ed and Rachel have two teenage sons and live in Arizona.
Their ministry, Tsunami Unleashed, focuses on helping bring clarity to believers on how to live purpose "full" lives for Jesus. In addition, they provide a simple path to exponential discipleship, leadership, and church reproduction.
Currently, the Lord has them building Tsunami Unleashed. The vision is to see 1 billion people across the global mobilized, equipped and impacted for Jesus. This will leverage the technological infrastructure that exists (everything internet) in an effective way that draws people from the cold medium of the web into hot relationship with believers (in-person) and Jesus.
It will require an open-handed approach to all interactions and resources. They don't care who gets credit as long as the work is done giving glory to God through loving obedience to Jesus Christ. They seek to partner with any believer or organization who desires to do "something" for the Lord, not matter how small. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Carlos Calderón
Partners, Spokane WA
Born in Central America, grew up during a civil war time, came to faith in Jesus with some other 30 friends in the neighborhood, and became active in evangelism, eventually joined a church and was impacted by the missionary call while at the university. Came to the USA for post-grad education and moved to a Muslim country. Now cooperates with indigenous movement work in some 60 countries in the Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist world, consistently resulting in thousands of decisions for Christ, and national indigenous church planting movements. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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