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Date: Sunday, January 21, 2018

Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Location: City Church 4909 E Buckeye Rd Madison WI 53716

Contact: Lee Wanak

608-807-2275

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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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    Kevin Chau

    Middleton WI

    Kevin Chau (PhD in Hebrew and Semitics) teaches BA Honours students in Hebrew at the University of Free State (South Africa). He trains students preparing for the pastorate, bible translation, or MA and PhD studies.
    
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    Date: Sunday, January 21, 2018

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Ruth Hubbard

    InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (USA), Madison WI

    Ruth serves as the Director of Urbana with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. One of the largest student missions conferences in the world, Urbana is a catalytic event bringing together a diverse mix of college and graduate students, faculty, recent grads, pastors, church and ministry leaders, missions organizations and schools. God has used Urbana to challenge nearly 300,000 participants with their responsibility and privilege in global missions. In August 2016, Ruth transitioned to this from her role as an executive leader with Wycliffe Bible Translators with whom she served for 14+ years.
    
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    Date: Sunday, January 28, 2018

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Matthew Malone

    Elmbrook, Brookfield WI

    Matthew is a church planter, pastor, mobilizer and trainer. Currently he serves as the pastor of Mission for Elmbrook Church, a role where he is responsible for almost 80 field workers spread across the globe. Before that he and his family lived in Siberia for almost a decade helping start churches and encourage leaders. They returned to the states in 2004 and planted a multi-site church in Washington County, Wisconsin. He also currently serves as the Wisconsin area mobilizer for Perspectives and loves seeing people take steps of involvement in God’s mission. Matthew and Kari were married in 1994 and have four children. Matthew is a hack triathlete, which means he enjoys biking and swimming, and endures running.
    
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    Date: Sunday, February 4, 2018

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Manohar James

    , Verona WI

    Dr. Manohar James holds a Ph.D. in Intercultural Studies from Asbury Theological Seminary, USA. He is currently serving as a Minister of Intercultural Ministry at High Point Church, Madison, WI. As an adjunct professor, he teaches at Alliance Theological Seminary (NY, USA), The Alliance Institute for Mission (Sydney, Australia), Mission India Theological Seminary (Nagpur, India), and Christian Life College (Madison, WI). Before coming to the US for higher education, he served in India for 15 years as an evangelist, church planter, and seminary professor. While church planting in Himachal Pradesh (India) he suffered severe beatings twice for the sake of preaching the gospel and bringing people to Christ. He is the founder of Serving Alongside International (www.ServingAlongside.org), a non-profit Christian organization in the USA which annually trains about 1200 indigenous pastors in India. He often travels to India to train pastors. Dr. James and his wife Jasmine live in Madison, WI, along with their sons Jason (7 years) and Jonathan (2 years).
    
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    Date: Sunday, February 11, 2018

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Scott Bessenecker

    InterVarsity, Madison WI

    Scott Bessenecker is Director Global Engagement and Justice for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. He is author of The New Friars: The Emerging Movement Serving the World’s Poor, among other books. He frequently speaks and writes about issues of poverty, justice and global missions and sends more than 2,000 students each year on short term mission experiences through InterVarsity. Scott blogs at overturningtables.com
    
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    Date: Sunday, February 18, 2018

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Bob Grahmann

    Madison WI

    
    
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    Date: Sunday, February 25, 2018

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Lee Wanak

    Asian Theological Seminary/Asia Graduate School of Theology, Madison WI

    As a career missionary, Lee is passionate about holistic Christian nurture and discipleship in developing biblical values and skills for cross-cultural ministry. During his early years in Mindanao, Philippines he served as Director of Training and Church Planting among tribal minorities. In his later years he served as Dean and Professor of Education, Urban Ministry, and Intercultural Studies at Asian Theological Seminary and Asia Graduate School of Theology in Manila. His interests and activities include holistic urban ministry, unreached peoples, ministry training, worldview perspectives, intercultural communication, cultural anthropology, sociology, and world religions. His writings focus on contextual theological education and pastoral training. He currently serves as V.P. for Educational Development at iTEE Global a pastoral training organization in the Asia, Africa and Latin America.
    
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    Date: Sunday, March 4, 2018

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Robert Nordstrom

    OMF, Wheaton IL

    Robert works in partnership with local churches and campus ministry organizations in Chicago to reach and disciple international students (with a focus on East Asian students). This involves evangelism and discipling, preparing returnees, and developing training.
    
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    Date: Sunday, March 11, 2018

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Robert Nordstrom

    OMF, Wheaton IL

    Robert works in partnership with local churches and campus ministry organizations in Chicago to reach and disciple international students (with a focus on East Asian students). This involves evangelism and discipling, preparing returnees, and developing training.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, March 11, 2018

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    David Fogleboch

    Intercultural Effectivenss, Williams Bay WI

    
    
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    Date: Sunday, March 18, 2018

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Christine Jeske

    Madison WI

    Christine Jeske has worked in microfinance, refugee resettlement, community development, and teaching while living in Nicaragua, China, and South Africa. She and her husband Adam and their two children live in Madison, WI, where works on a PhD in cultural anthropology. Her most recent book, This Ordinary Adventure, co-authoered with Adam, wrestles with how to apply lessons learned overseas to "ordinary" life in the U.S. She also teaches for Eastern University and writes for publications including Relevant Magazine. Her first book, Into the Mud, shares stories of lives in South Africa being changed into something new, something holy, right in the midst of the muck of life.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, March 25, 2018

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    David Lippiatt

    WE International, Madison WI

    David Lippiatt is a native New Yorker, who resides in Madison Wisconsin, with his wife Tina and their four children. He is the founder and director of WE International Inc a global Human Rights and Development NGO that raises awareness of poverty and injustice issues in the less developed world while providing developmental solutions to address these issues.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, April 8, 2018

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Lee Wanak

    Asian Theological Seminary/Asia Graduate School of Theology, Madison WI

    As a career missionary, Lee is passionate about holistic Christian nurture and discipleship in developing biblical values and skills for cross-cultural ministry. During his early years in Mindanao, Philippines he served as Director of Training and Church Planting among tribal minorities. In his later years he served as Dean and Professor of Education, Urban Ministry, and Intercultural Studies at Asian Theological Seminary and Asia Graduate School of Theology in Manila. His interests and activities include holistic urban ministry, unreached peoples, ministry training, worldview perspectives, intercultural communication, cultural anthropology, sociology, and world religions. His writings focus on contextual theological education and pastoral training. He currently serves as V.P. for Educational Development at iTEE Global a pastoral training organization in the Asia, Africa and Latin America.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, April 15, 2018

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Tom Lin

    InterVarsity Christian Fellowship / Lausanne, Madison WI

    Tom Lin became InterVarsity’s eighth president in 2016. He served as an InterVarsity campus minister at Harvard University and Boston University before helping to establish an International Fellowship of Evangelical Students movement in Mongolia, where he served as the Country Director. He then became Regional Director of InterVarsity’s Central Region and served as Vice President of Missions and Director of the Urbana Student Missions Conference. He has also served as a trustee on the boards of Wycliffe Bible Translators, Missio Nexus, and the Leadership & Legacy Foundation. He currently serves on the boards of Fuller Theological Seminary, The Crowell Trust, and the Lausanne Movement. Tom is the author of Pursuing God’s Call (2012) and Losing Face & Finding Grace (1996), a coeditor of the Urbana Onward book series (2012), and a contributor to Still Evangelical? (2018)—all published by InterVarsity Press. He is also a contributor to Uncommon Ground (2020), published by Thomas Nelson. Tom and his wife, Nancy, have two daughters. He has a B.A. in economics from Harvard University and holds an M.A. in global leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, April 22, 2018

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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 Wanak

    Asian Theological Seminary/Asia Graduate School of Theology, Madison WI

    As a career missionary, Lee is passionate about holistic Christian nurture and discipleship in developing biblical values and skills for cross-cultural ministry. During his early years in Mindanao, Philippines he served as Director of Training and Church Planting among tribal minorities. In his later years he served as Dean and Professor of Education, Urban Ministry, and Intercultural Studies at Asian Theological Seminary and Asia Graduate School of Theology in Manila. His interests and activities include holistic urban ministry, unreached peoples, ministry training, worldview perspectives, intercultural communication, cultural anthropology, sociology, and world religions. His writings focus on contextual theological education and pastoral training. He currently serves as V.P. for Educational Development at iTEE Global a pastoral training organization in the Asia, Africa and Latin America.
    
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    Date: Sunday, April 29, 2018

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

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