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Harrisonburg, VA S17
Spring 2017
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We are up and running and WELCOME visitors to come and get a taste of the class.
When:
Monday nights, through April 24, 7:00 - 9:45 PM
Where: Baptist Collegiate
Ministry Center, 711 S. Main StreetParking is located directly behind BCM, accessed from Walnut St via Grace
Harrisonburg Perspectives
The Harrisonburg
Coordinating team is thrilled to bring this Spring 2017
Perspectives on the World Christian Movement class to the valley!
· If you suspect that following Jesus is meant to
be a radical journey that entails something other than the pursuit of happiness
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· And if you sense that God might be inviting you
into a deeper partnership with His purposes …
· And if you want to look closely at both the
Biblical narrative and the historical record to understand some of the twists
and turns and complexities of the drama so that you can be prepared to do your
part …
Then JOIN
US and prepare to start MOVING with God in new ways!
Questions? …. contact Carol Tobin
540-435-9887
Kimberley Belez
540-830-4693
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Registration & Orientation
*Note: This is a week AFTER Lesson #1. See Lesson 1 tab for Jan 9th class plan.
Registration & Orientation
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Date: Monday, January 9, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM to 10:00 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
Jacob Lee
Harrisonburg VA
Jake Lee lives in the Harrisonburg, VA area where he is a pastor on staff at Harrisonburg Mennonite Church. He has been in ministry for 17 years with the Christian and Missionary Alliance, the United Methodist Church, and Mennonite Church USA. He received his Masters of Divinity from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. b
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Date: Monday, January 9, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM to 10:00 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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Mary Thiessen Nation
, Harrisonburg VA
Mary Thiessen Nation, a second-generation immigrant, grew up in a Mennonite Brethren community in rural Canada. Upon completing her teaching degree at Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas she moved into a violent Los Angeles neighborhood where she spent the next 18 years in ministry. Her PhD dissertation in the School of Inter Cultural Studies at Fuller Seminary is entitled “Realizing Hope in the Midst of Despair: Narratives of an Urban Mission Community.” Mary is passionate about training ministers and missionaries to embrace a robust, embodied Christian spirituality and to learn holistic biblical responses to crises, conflict and trauma. Mary and her husband Mark served with Mennonite Mission Network in London, England for six years prior to moving to Harrisonburg, VA. Mary is a speaker, teacher, preacher and mentor/counselor in her local church as well as in the broader Mennonite church.
Mary is passionate about the full story of Jesus, including the ongoing story and the culmination of the story. She teaches lesson #2, “The Story of God’s Glory" being convinced that God’s glory revealed in Christ serves both as foundation and motivation for our participation in God’s mission in the world. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 23, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:45 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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Greg Fletcher
Pioneers, Spotsylvania VA
A native of Virginia, Greg has done church planting work in Japan and missions mobilization from Australia. He now works with Pioneers, serving church mission leaders in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Regions as part of the Pioneers Church Partnerships Team. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 30, 2017
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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David Taylor
Christian Aid Mission, Charlottesville VA
David served for ten years as a missionary in the Philippines with the Frontier Mission Fellowship. He is the author of Eternal Vision and senior editor of the Global Mission Database. He serves as president of Christian Aid Mission and chairman of COSIM (Coalition on the Support of Indigenous Ministries) b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 13, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:45 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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Date: Monday, February 20, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:45 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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K.
Frontier Ventures, Columbia MD
Karen has been involved in coordinating and instructing in Perspectives for 36 years. She currently serves as an associate with Common Ground Consultants. Her focus is on mobilizing and training followers of Jesus to share Him with their Muslim friends. Her love for and appreciation of Muslims has taken her to Turkey 21 times. As a result, she has many Turkish friends both in Turkey and in the U.S. She is also known as the "fun captain" by her grandchildren and she loves spending time with them. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 27, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:45 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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Carol Tobin
, Harrisonburg VA
Carol has recently retired from the role of Asia Regional Director for VMMissions and serves as coordinator for the Harrisonburg Perspectives class. As a “family on mission,” Carol, her husband Skip and six daughters have simply tried to have their eyes open to what God is doing and make themselves available to participate according to the gifts given them. Initially, their focus was Kennett Square, Pa, where they saw church emerge as they involved themselves in prison ministry, radical hospitality and neighborhood evangelism. This was followed by a 20 year focus on seeing church emerge in rural Northeast Thailand. They returned to the US in 2009 to be close to aging parents and their young adult daughters. They continue to be advocates for God’s mission, carrying a particular passion to see the younger generation experience the kind of missional discipleship that will activate them for God’s purposes. They have much joy in watching each of their daughters discern their various spheres of influence. They have 11 grandchildren, 6 of whom are growing up in Bangladesh and Thailand. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 13, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:45 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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Joseph Steinitz
GraceXtensions / unmissions.net, Towson MD
After ministering in a Muslim context, Joe served as missions pastor at his church in Maryland for 8 years. Since 2001, he has been co-director of unmissions.net, a ministry that helps churches more effectively engage in world missions. He is also on staff at his local church helping to lead it’s local and international outreach efforts. Joe is married and has 6 children. For obvious reasons he has no hobbies. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 20, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:45 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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James Cha
Crescent Project, Leesburg VA
Rev. James Cha was born in Korea, but grew up here in the US. He studied electrical engineering at Cornell University, and worked ten years as an engineer. In 2000 he and his wife, Faith, took their 3 kids to Central Asia, where they served ten years as church planting missionaries with Pioneers. They are now back in the US reaching out to the Muslims in the Washington, DC area. James & Faith are Washington DC Area Coordinators for Crescent Project. They also direct ESL ministry in Leesburg, VA. They have three adult children and one grandchild. James recently published a book about their missions journey - Fear Not: Living a Life of No Regrets. Available on amazon. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 27, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:45 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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Carl S Stauffer
Harrisonburg VA
BA - Social Work & Biblical Studies,
MA - Conflict Transformation & Restorative Justice,
PhD - The Power of Narrative Discourse in Shaping the Conflict in Zimbabwe b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 3, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:45 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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David Taylor
Christian Aid Mission, Charlottesville VA
David served for ten years as a missionary in the Philippines with the Frontier Mission Fellowship. He is the author of Eternal Vision and senior editor of the Global Mission Database. He serves as president of Christian Aid Mission and chairman of COSIM (Coalition on the Support of Indigenous Ministries) b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 10, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:45 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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Skip Tobin
Virginia Mennonite Missions, Harrisonburg VA
For over 40 years, Skip has been energized to see church emerge in unlikely ways and places - inside prisons in SE PA, among immigrants in the town of Kennett Square, and later as he, his wife and six daughters served in Northeast Thailand among rural rice farmers. Most recently, Skip is serving as a ministry and church planting coach for Virginia Mennonite Missions. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 17, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:45 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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Aaron Kauffman
Virginia Mennonite Missions, Harrisonburg VA
Aaron gives overall leadership to the ministries of Virginia Mennonite Missions, based in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He loves to see people transformed and released into God’s reconciling work through the gospel of Jesus Christ. b
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Date: Monday, April 24, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:45 PM
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