Class Info

Date: Sunday, January 22, 2017

Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Location: First Baptist Church of Rio Rancho 3906 19th Ave SE Rio Rancho NM 87124

Contact: Kristean Alcocer

(505) 220-8117

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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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    Matthew Ellison

    Sixteen:Fifteen, Albuquerque NM

    Matthew was rescued by Jesus when he was twenty-three. Shortly after, he found himself in Ghana, West Africa on the first of what would be many ventures to the mission field. That first trip, Matthew says, "ruined me for anything less than a life lived for God's global purpose." In 1993 he began serving at Calvary of Albuquerque, in New Mexico, where he attended and graduated from their School of Ministry. He worked as the missions pastor at Calvary for nine years, developing and launching a strategic church-wide missions ministry. There he founded LifeLine Missions, an international short-term mission ministry that gave thousands across the country the opportunity to experience the mission field firsthand. Through these ministry opportunities he became extensively involved in short and long-term mission endeavors in countries around the world. Now, he devotes his time to serving local churches across the country by coaching them in strategically focused missions and helping them to discover and use their unique gifts in partnership with others to make Christ known among all nations. Matthew is the President and co-founder of Sixteen:Fifteen, and currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wife, Renee, and their three children, Matthew, Caleigh, and Landin.
    
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    Date: Sunday, January 22, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Jerrid Stelter

    Faith Comes By Hearing, Rio Rancho NM

    Jerrid has been involved in world missions for 20+ years in various capacities - missionary, mobilizer, trainer, advisor, and fund-raiser. He currently lives in New Mexico, where he works for Faith Comes By Hearing.
    
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    Date: Sunday, January 29, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Fran Blomberg

    Scum of the Earth Church, Denver, Centennial CO

    Fran Blomberg has retired from the position of co-lead pastor at Scum of the Earth Church in Denver. her work there included pastoral oversight to their morning congregation and overseeing missions and recovery ministries. She has been involved in training and mentoring at Denver Seminary and formerly taught Intercultural Ministries there. She has her PhD in missions from the International Baptist Theological Study Centre in Amsterdam, having studied "how living in a consumer society affects young adults' ability to form Christian community." Fran and Craig were married in 1979, and have two grown daughters.
    
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    Date: Sunday, February 5, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Louis Rose

    Wycliffe Bible Translators, Albuquerque NM

    Louis and his wife, Karen, attended Perspectives in 1990 while working in Albuquerque, NM. They married in 1991, attended Bible school in Canada from 1992-1994, and then served with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Malaysia from 2001-2011. They now live in Albuquerque with their 4 sons and Louis partners with Faith Comes By Hearing to record Scripture into audio for languages all over the globe.
    
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    Date: Sunday, February 12, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Chris Olson

    Wycliffe Bible Translators, Los Ranchos NM

    Chris Olson left a career as a research project manager to join Wycliffe Bible Translators. For Wycliffe, Chris develops and coordinates partnerships for the benefit of Bibleless people groups. In this work he has assisted churches into partnerships on four continents. Chris and his wife, Margaret, have been Perspectives coordinators since 1993. Chris has taught the entire Perspectives curriculum at the Calvary School of Ministry in Albuquerque.
    
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    Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Rod Pauls

    InterVarsity Christian Fell., Albuquerque NM

    I am the Assistant Regional Director for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the Rocky Mountain Region. I have been loving and serving college students for more than 32 years. My passion is to see college students becoming missionaries to the college campus and to the world beyond. I have been married to Andrea for fifteen wonderful years and we have a lovely 7 1/2 year old daughter named Mattea.
    
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    Date: Sunday, February 26, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    David McConkey

    Albuquerque NM

    
    
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    Date: Sunday, March 5, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    James Mason

    Frontier Ventures, Perspectives Study Program, Albuquerque NM

    James served as a pastor for 12 years before responding to a growing passion to see God's glory established among all peoples on earth. He is now on staff with Frontier Ventures in Pasadena, CA where he serves as the US Director for the Perspectives Study Program. James has been married to his wife Kelly for 29 years and they have 3 precious children. Their passion is to help every person, every church, every denomination, and every missions organization find their most strategic place in the completion of the Great Commission.
    
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    Date: Sunday, March 12, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Rex Schaffner

    Ethnos360 , Albuquerque NM

    Rex discovered the grace of God in Christ Jesus at age 25, listening to Christian radio. It sunk in immediately that he had escaped eternity in hell no less than 4 times during his teen years. Within a year, his best friend from high school and now wife Shirley trusted Christ as well and they were fortunate to get plugged into a Bible teaching church. After 15 years in the franchising industry, where Rex was president of a $35 million company, and two years in commercial real estate, God took Rex, Shirley and their 3 children from FL to MI to study the Bible full time. They discovered God’s heartbeat for the world, along with the fact that there were in 1995 about 4,700 people groups without the Bible in their language. They joined New Tribes Mission in 1996 and since then, have served at New Tribes Bible Institute in Jackson, MI in many roles, Rex most recently as President. Over the years, they have spent time in Paraguay and Papua New Guinea, taking teams of young people to experience cross cultural church planting first hand. In 2015, God moved the Schaffners to Albuquerque, where Rex is now a full time representative and missions mobilizer for NTM. Much progress has been made since Rex and Shirley joined NTM. Today, the number of language groups without the Bible is estimated to be about 2,000. Almost 3,000 missionaries serve in NTM throughout more than 30 countries. A new church is planted by teams of missionaries about every 45 days. Discipleship and translation work follow until the missionaries can phase out, leaving a translation for the people and responsibility for the church to elders that God raises up from within the people group…thus accomplishing NTM’s current tag line…“A thriving church for every people.” Rex can be contacted at rex_schaffner@ntm.org.
    
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    Date: Sunday, March 26, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Brian Hogan

    Disciple Making Mentors, Fayetteville AR

    Brian and Louise Hogan have served in mission since 1987. From the Navajo Tribe to Outer Mongolia, their passion has been to see Jesus glorified and lifted up among those who have never known Him. From 1993-1996 their team pioneered a church planting movement in Erdenet (AIR-DUH-NET), Mongolia that continues to grow under fully indigenous leadership to this day. Their Mongolian disciples are now training and sending out their own missionaries to other unreached people groups. The story of the work in Erdenet can be read in Brian’s book: There’s a Sheep in my Bathtub (Asteroidea Books), and in the case study article – “Distant Thunder: Mongols Follow the Khan of Khans” – on page 695 of your Perspectives Reader.
    
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    Date: Sunday, April 2, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Lindsey Sprague

    TMS-Global, Norcross GA

    Lindsey received her degree in Anthropology where she gained knowledge and love for peoples and culture. She served in the Middle East a few years after college where she gained more insight on culture and passion for God's mission. Lindsey, also served with Perspectives Global as the Associate Director serving the Perspectives movement in over 30 countries. She currently works with TMS-Global as the Director of Mobilization and Candidacy where she is able to journey with people as they explore leveraging their gifts, talents, and skills to come alongside God and His mission.
    
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    Date: Sunday, April 9, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Ted With

    Rio Rancho NM

    
    
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    Date: Sunday, April 23, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Kristean Alcocer

    Rio Rancho NM

    Spanish Ministries Coordinator at First Baptist Church of Rio Rancho. After serving in the Navy for 4 years he moved to Belize Central America to start a Bible School. In 2001 he traveled to Morocco North Africa to pray for Morocco at the request of King Hassan II. He is part of a ministry team that travels to Casa de Fe Orphanage in Ecuador. He travels to Mexico every year to minister in churches throughout the Yucatan. He holds a degree in Political Science from the University of New Mexico. Kristean and his wife Raquel live in Rio Rancho and they have three children.
    
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    Date: Sunday, April 30, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Jon Hardin

    Frontiers, Highlands Ranch CO

    Dr. Jon Hardin is the National Communications Specialist for Frontiers. He has served in full-time missions work for over 25 years. Jon regularly speaks and teaches in churches, conferences, and various training events around the world--he has taught over 35,000 Perspectives students. Jon has a passion for seeing local churches and ordinary Christians step into strategic roles in the global missions enterprise. Jon is an ordained minister, holds a PhD from the VU University in Amsterdam, and did post-graduate studies at the International Baptist Theological Seminary in Prague. He is also a graduate of Denver Seminary. Jon is a CPA and prior to going into full-time ministry he worked for IBM Corporation for nine years.
    
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    Date: Sunday, May 7, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    David Hilliard

    Albuquerque NM

    
    
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    Date: Sunday, May 14, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

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    Date: Sunday, May 21, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

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