Class Info

Date: Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Location: Perspectives Pensacola 8590 West Hwy 98 Pensacola FL 32506

Contact: Danny Armstrong

(803) 221-9609

• • Registration & Orientation

    Registration & Orientation

  • Instructor

    

    Danny Armstrong

    Globe International, Trenton SC

    Danny and Judy Armstrong ministered overseas first in Indonesia helping launch a Bible Institute that grew to 500+ students. Then while living in Penang, they partnered with others to start the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, training, mobilizing, and facilitating a church planting team focused in S. Thailand, while directing Field Training for Bethany Int’l University. In 2004, Danny and Judy launched Perspectives in Augusta, GA. Danny and Judy now coordinate Interns and Training as part of the Leadership Team with Globe International in Pensacola, FL.

    
    

  • Date: Tuesday, January 9, 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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    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, January 16, 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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    Marco Murillo

    The Heights en Español, Richardson TX

    Marco was born and raised in Mexico City. He lived and studied in Argentina for 3 years. Upon returning to CDMX they met Aubrey Murillo and served together as youth pastors, church planters and in Christian education. In 2010 they moved to Texas with their three children, where they were taught and later taught at the Rio Grande Biblical Seminary. In 2014 they moved to Atlanta, GA and planted a church with the North American Mission Board. Subsequently, Marco directed the new Perspectives program in the United States and collaborated in the leadership of Latin America for 6 years. Marco and his family currently live in Dallas, TX where he pastors a Hispanic congregation and seeks to complete his doctoral studies.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, January 23, 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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    Robert Sugg

    First Baptist Church, Oldsmar FL

    Missions has been the driving force of my life for many years. After serving as Baptist Student Union Director on the campus of Blue Mountain College for six years and pastor of a small church for two years, my life long dream was realized when my wife, Nan and I were appointed as missionaries to Taiwan in August, 1977. We served there as church developers and church planters for 21 years and were very surprised when God directed us to First Baptist Church in Jackson, MS to work on the mission staff. We are honored God has used us as missionaries and as equippers of missionaries.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, January 30, 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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    Ken Wheeler

    Christians United Ministries Inc., Foley AL

    
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 6, 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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    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, February 13, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Danny Armstrong

    Globe International, Trenton SC

    Danny and Judy Armstrong ministered overseas first in Indonesia helping launch a Bible Institute that grew to 500+ students. Then while living in Penang, they partnered with others to start the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, training, mobilizing, and facilitating a church planting team focused in S. Thailand, while directing Field Training for Bethany Int’l University. In 2004, Danny and Judy launched Perspectives in Augusta, GA. Danny and Judy now coordinate Interns and Training as part of the Leadership Team with Globe International in Pensacola, FL.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 20, 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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    Elise Dockery

    Tampa FL

    Elise Dockery currently works as a Corporate Trainer residing in sunny Tampa, FL. Missions is her primary passion in the Kingdom taking her to urban areas of the US, Mexico, China, and Africa. Although she has served in multiple areas of the local church for many years, she greatly anticipates this next chapter of service. Her goal and desire is to continue to make a Kingdom impact on those she meets through Perspectives and the marketplace at large!
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Mike Hoppe

    Stillwater Church, Saraland AL

    Dr. Mike Hoppe has served as Lead Pastor of Stillwater Church in Saraland, Alabama since 2013. Mike has a Doctorate (DMin) in Missional Leadership from Asbury Theological Seminary and a MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary. As a Pastor with several years of overseas missions experience, Mike believes that the local church is God's Plan A for world evangelism.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 6, 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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    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 13, 2018

    Time: 6:30 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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    Danny Armstrong

    Globe International, Trenton SC

    Danny and Judy Armstrong ministered overseas first in Indonesia helping launch a Bible Institute that grew to 500+ students. Then while living in Penang, they partnered with others to start the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, training, mobilizing, and facilitating a church planting team focused in S. Thailand, while directing Field Training for Bethany Int’l University. In 2004, Danny and Judy launched Perspectives in Augusta, GA. Danny and Judy now coordinate Interns and Training as part of the Leadership Team with Globe International in Pensacola, FL.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 20, 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.

  • Instructor

    

    Paul Koehler

    Biblical Storytelling, Lillian AL

    25 fruitful years in Latin America, establishing training schools, led Paul to seek even more effective methods of Bible teaching. The Koehler’s took Perspectives in San Antonio, in 1993. Paul says "Perspectives provoked a big shift in our ministry, changing the course of our lives!" He went on to earn a M.A. from Fuller Sem, and a doctorate in Biblical Storytelling from United Theological Seminary. The result of his investigation led to development of a storytelling method, The Oral Bible. Primitive tribal peoples as well as modern urban people understand the Bible deeply by learning it as a story. Consequently, families find salvation, physical healing, liberation from demonic forces, many childless couples conceive, and hundreds of new congregations are planted.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    William Waters

    IMB, Milton FL

    I began my ministry working with skate boarders, developing ciriculum and leaders. Then I began working with surfers nationally and golbally raising leaders for an international mission movement. I currently serve as a church planter and evangelist in Portugal reaching and raising up leaders to develop disciples in Portugal and the Iberian Peninsula
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Gregory Nemer

    Mision Global, Robertsdale AL

    Greg is director of Globe Mexico which sends out Mexican missionaries to the World. As a Christ follower Greg lives to make disciples who multiply disciples. His passion is to transform communities among the least reached peoples by planting biblical churches. Greg has been a missionary with Globe International for over 27 years. He serves as director of Globe´s church planting ministries (CPM/DMM)
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Erika Parks

    Beyond (formerly "Act Beyond" & Mission to Unreached Peoples), Plano TX

    Erika is the Director of Training for Beyond (formerly Mission to Unreached Peoples) -- an organization which catalyzes Disciple-Making Movements among Unreached Peoples. Erika and her husband, Kent (now CEO of Beyond) served 20 years as missionaries to unreached peoples in a number of countries including Indonesia and Malaysia. She has led Church Planting Movement training around the globe. Erika's specialty is communicating the gospel through the telling of stories and reproducible discovery group process in disciplemaking.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Mike Megginson

    Fairhope AL

    Mike currently serves as an Associate Pastor at 3Circle Church in Fairhope, Alabama. He and his wife, Sally, recently completed two years of missionary service in Costa Rica helping with leadership development and discipleship. Mike is passionate about seeing God's people live out their "sentness" whether it's across the street or across an ocean.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

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