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Greenwood, SC F17
Fall 2017
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Welcome to the Fall 2017 Greenwood Perspectives Class Register Online Today! FIRST TWO NIGHTS FREE! Mondays 6:30-9:15 PM, August 28- December 4 For questions contact:
You were made for more. More than the next promotion. More than the American Dream. More than the limits that seem to be placed upon you. God is on a mission to bless the world and He invites you to be part of it. Perspectives is here to help you on your journey to discover what part of that mission He has for you. He wants to use what's in you to bless the world around you. Perspectives is a dynamic 15 week course that engages and empowers believers to partner with God strategically in his timeless missional purpose around the globe. Generally, every class schedules a lineup of Biblical scholars, missionaries, pastors, professors, and mobilizers who bring a wealth of experience and passion to each lesson. Our class vision is to impact the culture of the Church at large in Greenwood to create a global gospel movement from Greenwood to the nations by continuing pioneering efforts within churches already involved with Perspectives and by partnering with other local churches in offering Perspectives. Come join 250,000 Perspectives alumni over the last 40 years as you dive deep into the heart of God for all peoples.
Enrollment Options: First Night Free: If you are curious about Perspectives, you can enroll and attend the first two nights of class for free. 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: A more in-depth study with 3 semester credit hours. More information and Course syllabus available upon request. Cost: Key Reading and Certificate Level - $295.00 Undergraduate/Graduate Level at Excelsior College or Trinity International University (3 units) - $550 $25 discount if you register by July 31st, 2017 To register for this class, click the "Registration" page link on the right side of this page. Fees include cost of Study Guide and Reader. Location Greenwood Presbyterian Church
1414 Calhoun Road
Greenwood, SC 29649 Follow the class on Facebook here and on Instagram @perspectivesgwd.
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Registration & Orientation
Registration & Orientation
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Instructor
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Date: Monday, August 21, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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
Phillip Nelson
SIM, Charlotte NC
Rev. Dr. Phillip Nelson pastored for over thirty years. He has served as a mission mobilizer for over ten years and, in addition, began teaching Perspective classes 25 years ago.
He is the husband of one wife and father of five saved adult children. He is a preacher and teacher of the Gospel for 45+ years. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, August 28, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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Richard O Coleman
TMS Global, Decatur GA
For 10 years Richard served as the director of mobilization and candidacy for TMS Global, a sending agency in Peachtree Corners, GA. He left this role in June 2017 in order to pursue an opportunity In Ethiopia through TMS Global. Richard's ministry passions are networking, teaching, evangelism, and helping people to discern their calling.
In addition to his responsibilities with TMS Global, Richard participates in several national and international networks, including the Lausanne Movement. He had the privilege of serving as the global selection chair for the 2016 Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering, which brought together younger leaders and mentors from over 140 countries.
A person who loves diversity, Richard has a variety of friendships all of which have made him who he is today. He and his wife Amanda have 4 young children, who they enjoy raising as World Christians. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 4, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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
Grant Haynes
Global Frontier Missions, Lilburn GA
Grant Haynes founded Global Frontier Missions in 2000 while church planting among indigenous groups in southern Mexico. His passion is to see as many individuals and churches as possible praying, giving, welcoming, and going to the least reached people groups of the earth. Grant spent 14 years serving in Oaxaca, Mexico with his wife and three children church planting, hosting short-term mission groups, running an indigenous Bible school, and starting a missionary training school for North Americans. Grant now serves in Clarkston, GA, known as the most diverse square mile in America, reaching refugees from Iraq, Burma, Bhutan, Nepal, Somalia, Ethiopia, and many other nations. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 11, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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
David Tolan
Six Mile SC
“My parents were missionaries when I was young boy in Bolivia, South America. I graduated from High School in a small community just outside of Flint Michigan. I attended Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Ind., and graduated with a double major in Christian Ministry and Biblical Literature. While at IWU, I played on the soccer team and was involved with student leadership. My wife also graduated as a nurse from IWU. After graduation I served for several years as youth pastor at College Wesleyan Church and then I went on to Asbury Theological Seminary. After seminary I was the pastor of a Wesleyan church in the suburbs of Milwaukee for five years before we left for 10 years of mission work in Zambia, Africa. We have four sons, two born in Wisconsin and two in Zambia. Three have graduated from SWU – one is a doctor and two are ministers, while the fourth son is a current student at SWU. I am the missions mobilizer at SWU and I've planned and lead missions trips for students to over 20 different countries.” b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 18, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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
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. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 25, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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Adam Hoffman
Perspectives, Garner NC
Adam was transformed by Perspectives in 2005. More than a missions course, this class was discipleship into God's Kingdom purposes - and the best premarital counseling they had. Adam and his wife Melissa were married that summer and joined with Frontier Ventures (from the legacy of the US Center for World Mission), where they have been on staff since. He currently co-directs the Southeast region of Perspectives with Melissa.
Adam and Melissa are passionate about people understanding and living out God's global purposes.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 2, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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David Cashin
Columbia Int'l University, Columbia SC
Dr. Cashin is professor of intercultural studies at Columbia Int'l University. He is fluent in Bengali and Swedish. The 1st due to investing 9 years with Bengali speakers (the 6th largest living language). The 2nd, thru marriage to Margareta, pastoring churches and earning his PhD in Indiology at Stockholm University. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 9, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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
Chip Atkinson
Crossover Global, Columbia SC
Chip Atkinson began serving with Crossover while attending Columbia International University. Upon completion of his course work, earning a Master of Arts degree in Leadership for Evangelism and Discipleship, Chip moved into full-time service with Crossover for four and a half years. For a time, the Lord led him into Pastoral ministry, so he was ordained and served as Associate Pastor at Fellowship Bible Church. Chip has also taught several Perspectives courses on missions and taught in a variety of churches.
Recognizing God’s call on his life to mobilize workers to missions, Chip returned to Crossover in 2009 to fulfill his passion to mobilize individuals to fill their role in helping complete the Great Commission. Today, Chip serves as Assistant US Director with Crossover Global. Having a passion for helping people discover how and where they fit in God’s plan of redeeming the world to Himself. Chip has led numerous teams on trips to Jamaica, Brazil, Bahamas, Canada, Colombia, Moldova, Turkey, Lebanon and Central Asia
His experience makes Chip an excellent selection to speak at a missions conference or fill the pulpit for a missions emphasis Sunday. He loves to bring scripture to life as it relates to missions and is comfortable speaking to any size or age group. Chip’s enthusiasm for mobilizing individuals is evident as he speaks on reaching the unreached for God’s global glory!
Chip is married to Tana and they live in Irmo, SC. In their “spare” time, you might find them enjoying walks on the beach, working out at the gym, or hanging out with friends.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 16, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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Marsha Woodard
Wycliffe Bible Translators, Greensboro NC
Marsha came to faith in Christ in 1979 on a hippie journey to Africa, searching for the meaning of life; three years later she began what would become a life-time career, engaging the globe for her Lord. Marsha has served in Latin America, Europe and North Africa, including the adventure of living in refugee camps in the Sahara Desert. In 2010 she joined Wycliffe Bible Translators, serving their partner Seed Company as Field Coordinator and Training Manager, and currently as Launch Coordinator for Wycliffe USA. Marsha's passion, training and mentoring new cross-cultural workers, led her to author “To Timbuktu and Beyond: A Guide to Getting Started in Missions”, published by William Carey Library, in 2009. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 23, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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Marti Wade
Pioneers, Hillsboro OR
Marti has been teaching Perspectives since the 1990’s and serving with Pioneers (Pioneers.org) since 2007, where she is the editorial director for the Marketing Team. Previously she was part of a ministry that sent teams to conduct ethnographic research to support strategic prayer and ministry efforts in unreached cities. She is the editor and publisher of the weekly Missions Catalyst newsletter (MissionsCatalyst.net) and serves on the board for MissionWorks (MissionWorks.global). b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 30, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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Darrell Whiteman
Asbury Theological Seminary 1984-2005; The Mission Society 2005-2014; Interim Executive Director, Overseas Ministries Study Center 2015-2016; Global Development 2017-present; , Gig Harbor WA
Darrell Whiteman is a missiological anthropologist now semi-retired but continues to teach and train cross-cultural workers around the globe. He retired as VP and Resident Missiologist at The Mission Society, now TMS-Global. Darrell served in cross-cultural ministry for nine years in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Central Africa, then was one of the founding professors of Asbury Theological Seminary's School of World Mission and Evangelism, where he taught for 21 years and served as dean in the later years. He’s given leadership to many professional missiological societies researching the intersection of cultures and biblical values. Darrell annually equips hundreds of cross-cultural witnesses to understand God's mission around the globe and to help them to better connect the gospel to the deepest part of their worldview. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 6, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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Dan
Global SEEDS, Knoxville TN
Dan has 30+ years experience working with Muslim peoples around the world. As an artist/educator, he provides creative strategies to promote community solutions to felt needs. Currently, he leads an intentional urban community in Tennessee, where he and his wife, Mary, and their co-laborers model ways to journey towards a more just world.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 13, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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Instructor
Edward Smither
Columbia International University, Irmo SC
Ed Smither is Professor of Intercultural Studies, History of Global Christianity and Dean of the College of Intercultural Studies at Columbia International University. Ed spent 14 years in intercultural ministry in France, North Africa, and the USA. He has authored, edited, or translated 11 books, including Christian Mission: A Concise Global History, Mission as Hospitality, and Mission in the Early Church. Ed is married to Shawn and they have 3 kids (Brennan, Emma, and Eve). Ed enjoys biking the backroads of Columbia, following Clemson football, and listening to modern rock and old hymns. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 20, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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Patrick Hansen
OMF International, Columbia SC
Came to know Christ as Savior and
Lord at the University of
South Carolina in 1971, and was discipled through the Navigators campus ministry. Earned an MDiv (Missions Track)at
Columbia International University (CIU)
in 1982 and my Doctorate of Ministry at
CIU in 2007. Served as a church planter
in Japan with OMF International from 1984-2008. Regional Director for the Southeast U.S. from 2008-2012. Director of Equipping for OMF Mobilization since 2012. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 27, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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David P Hemingway
Maxeys GA
David is married with four daughters and a son. He has served in campus ministry for 8 years followed by 13 years in several leadership roles for Cafe 1040 and Frontier Ventures. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, December 4, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM
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Celebration
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Instructor
David Cashin
Columbia Int'l University, Columbia SC
Dr. Cashin is professor of intercultural studies at Columbia Int'l University. He is fluent in Bengali and Swedish. The 1st due to investing 9 years with Bengali speakers (the 6th largest living language). The 2nd, thru marriage to Margareta, pastoring churches and earning his PhD in Indiology at Stockholm University.
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, May 15, 2016
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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