Spokane, WA
Spring 2017
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SPOKANE PERSPECTIVES 2017
CAUTION:
Taking this class may RUIN you for the ordinary!!!
Welcome to the website of Perspectives on the World Christian Movement class for Spokane! The Perspectives course,
developed by the U.S. Center for World Missions, has been running in the Spokane area since 2004, helping to mobilize and
train every believer to fulfill their role in the Great Commission mandate. Listen to one of our local pastors…
“Even after attending Bible school and seminary, I didn’t have the “big picture” of God’s incredible work
until I took Perspectives. This course will challenge your thinking and will stir your heart. And it may set you on the path of the
greatest adventure of all time—partnering with the triune God and millions of His servants in furthering and fulfilling
His kingdom agenda.”
—Pastor John Underhill, South Hill Bible Church.
The course will feature 15 different top-level instructors, some of them local and others from outside our area. The class can be taken at
three levels: Key Readings, Certificate, or Credit (graduate or undergraduate). If you want to discover your strategic place of service,
this class is for you!
When:
Mondays 6:30-9:30 PM
Jan 16 - May 8, 2017 (no class April 10)
Where:
Faith Bible Church
600 W. Cora Ave, Spokane, WA 99205
Contact:
Downloads
Click here to go to our class downloads page for brochures, bulletin inserts, and other resources.
Class Sponsorship
The following are financial sponsors of Spokane Perspectives. Their sponsorship is a great help in bringing the class to Spokane each year!
- Faith Bible Church
- Spangle Community Church
- Dr. & Mrs. Blake McKinley
- Life Center Church, Spokane
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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: Monday, January 16, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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Floyd Schneider
Great Northern University, Spokane, WA, Nine Mile Falls WA
Husband (of one wife), Father (of two sons), Grandfather (of eight grandchildren), Missionary, Church planter, College professor. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 23, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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
Craig Langhans
Greenacres WA
Craig Langhans is the pastor of Mirabeau Chapel in Spokane Valley WA where he has
served since 1986. He has planted 2 other churches and pastored in the Northwest
since 1977. He has been a missionary on a short term basis numerous times. In
addition, he has sent and supported missionary individuals and teams many times over
the years. He and his wife, Cyndi, have 3 married sons and 9 grandchildren. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 30, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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Instructor
John Underhill
South Hill Bible Church, Spokane Valley WA
Education: A.A Spokane Falls Community College; B.A. Eastern Washington University; M.A. Dallas Theological Seminary
Work experience: Pastor, Springhill Community Bible Church 1984-1990; Associate Pastor, Valley 4th Memorial Church 1990-1996; Senior Pastor, Valley 4th Memorial Church 1996-2011
Pastor, South Hill Bible Church, 2011 - present
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 6, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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Ian Downs
International Students Inc., Pullman WA
Ian Downs serves as an Area Director with International Students Inc. In Pullman, WA. Before moving to Pullman, Ian and his wife served in Los Angeles, CA with ISI for 14 years. Previously, he served as an assistant editor with Mission Frontiers magazine. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 13, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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Jonathan Armstrong
Spokane WA
Jonathan J. Armstrong is a graduate of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in the Chicago area (M.A., 2001) and Fordham University in New York City (Ph.D., 2006). He has served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany and has lectured at Wycliffe Hall as a full member of the theology faculty of the University of Oxford. Jonathan now serves as Assistant Professor of Bible and Theology at Moody Bible Institute - Spokane. Jonathan’s passion is to serve the church by providing seminars for pastors and laypeople throughout the global evangelical community. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 20, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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Jeanette Sheeran
Wycliffe Bible Translators, Cheney WA
Jeanette has served with Wycliffe Bible Translators since 1986, first in Guatemala as an elementary teacher, and then at the JAARS Center in North Carolina. She and her husband Chris moved back to the NW in 2007 to serve in mobilization. They have 2 grown children and 1 grandchild. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 27, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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Instructor
Roger Mohrlang
Whitworth University, Spokane WA
Professor of Biblical Studies at Whitworth University, where he teaches New Testament, Old Testament, Paul's Letters, New Testament Greek and Introduction to the Global Christian Movement. He has also taught in Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya, England, the Philippines, Japan, India, Nepal, and China. Roger and his wife Dottie have a real heart to reach the world with the good news of Jesus Christ. From 1967-74 he served with the Wycliffe Bible Translations in Nigeria, working on the translation of the New Testament into the Kamwe (Higi) language. From 1993-97 he coordinated the revision of this translation. Roger was also a member of the translation team for the New Living Translation. He is currently serving as consultant for the team translating the Kamwe Old Testament. Roger and Dottie are active members of Northview Bible Church on Spokane's north side. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 6, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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Steve Allen
Valley Real Life Church, Spokane Valley WA
Steve Allen is the current Director of Outreach at Valley Real Life Church, The President of the board of the Arab World Evangelical Minister's Association based in Egypt, and the Executive Director of Pacific Rim Exchange Services in Spokane, Washington. He is a passionate mobilizer and loves to help people pursue the calling that God has placed on their lives. Steve has a deep burden for China as evidenced through the adoption of three of his kids and his leading of teams into China each year. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 13, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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
David Beine
Great Northern University, Spokane WA
Dave is Emeritus Professor of Intercultural Studies. He served with Wycliffe Bible Translators for 28 years (1988-2016) in a variety of capacities including language surveyor, literacy and scripture-use project facilitator, anthropology consultant and linguistic institute director. He holds a B.A. in communication studies (Cal State, Sacramento), a M.A. in linguistic anthropology (San Diego State University) and a Ph.D. in medical anthropology (Washington State University). He is the author of Ensnared By AIDS: Cultural Contexts of HIV and AIDS in Nepal (2014), Whodunit: The Continuing Case of Spokane Garry (2021), and has published extensively in several missiological contexts as well. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 20, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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: Monday, March 27, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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: Monday, April 3, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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Mary Ho
All Nations Family, Inc, Kansas City MO
Dr. Mary Ho is the International Executive Leader of All Nations (http://allnations.international), a global Christian missions organization with workers making disciples and doing church planting in 44 countries. Dr. Ho is passionate about finishing the Great Commission in this generation by sharing the love of God among every people and in parts of the world where the name of Jesus Christ is little or not known. Dr. Ho received her Doctorate of Strategic Leadership from Regent University, VA, U.S.A. in 2016. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 17, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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Mark Kadel
formerly with World Relief, Ferndale WA
Mark is a former missionary to Albania, Kosovo and Greece as well as serving in refugee resettlement in the U.S. for over 20 years. His experience with introducing the Gospel in a former Atheistic culture in Albania was truly a pioneering church planting experience. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 24, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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Tom Steffen
Biola University, Coeur D'Alene ID
Dr. Tom Steffen is emeritus professor of intercultural studies at the Cook School of Intercultural Studies, Biola University. He specializes in church multiplication, orality, honor and shame, and business as mission. He and his family spent 15 years in the Philippines in church planting and consulting. Semi-retired, he continues to teach courses, advise dissertations, and write. Some of his books include, Passing the Baton, Reconnecting God’s Story to Ministry, Great Commission Companies (with Steve Rundle), Encountering Missionary Life and Service (with Lois McKinney-Douglas), and The Facilitative Era. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, May 1, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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