Lodi, CA F17
Fall 2017
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Welcome to the Fall 2017 Lodi Area Perspectives Class!
Perspectives on the World Christian Movement is an adventure of a lifetime that will give you a new and deeper understanding of God's story and His desire for your participation. Perspectives is a unique, advanced discipleship course which will change the way you view the world. We will hear 15 outstanding speakers as they share from their experiences and teach on the Biblical, Historical, Cultural & Strategic perspectives of God's plan for the nations. Hear how God has been and continues to work throughout the world. Learn more about God's kingdom and His glory. Find out what your part is in this exciting movement to make Jesus' disciples from all nations.
When: Sundays, 5 - 8 PM (August 13 to December 3, 2017)
Where: First 7 sessions (8/6 to 10/1) - First Baptist Church, 267 North Mills Ave., Lodi Thereafter (10/8 to 12/3) - Temple Baptist Church, 801 S. Lower Sacramento, Lodi. Cost: $260 includes the Reader and Study Guide$25 Early Bird Discount available prior 8/7. Additional Family Members taking class together receive $25 off each!
Alumni Pricing: No charge, but former Key Reading alumni can upgrade to Certificate Level for only $40 grader fee. Information Session: Orientation & Pre-Registered: Sunday, August 6th at 5 PM Visit first class session on August 13th at no charge.
Coordinator: Isaac Wong - 209- 356-5449
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Registration & Orientation
Registration
Registration & Orientation
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Instructor
John Dupree
Missions Consultant, Blanchard ID
Rev. John Dupree serves as a Church Mobilization Minister Consultant:
retired PERSPECTIVES Pacific Regional Director, former William Jessup University Adjunct Professor, Inter-Cultural Studies Dept., John is an ordained minister who has served as a Church Planter, Missions Pastor, Elder, ACMC Regional Director, Mission Networks creator (13 in Pacific region), organized 70 National and Regional Conferences, plus preaching and teaching at churches, seminaries, conferences in Eastern Europe, Asia and America.
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Date: Sunday, August 6, 2017
Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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
Markos Zemede
Horn of Africa Evangelical Mission, Fresno CA
I was born and raised in Ethiopia. I immigrated to the USA as a refugee in 1984. When I took the Perspectives class in 1999, it ruined me for the ordinary. In addition to my busy medical practice, I now serve in many missions organizations, a few of which were birthed out of the Perspectives class, including Horn of Africa Mission (www.hornofafrica.org). b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, August 13, 2017
Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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Instructor
Michael Boyland
Irvington Presbyterian Church, Hayward CA
Michael came to faith in Christ in 1972 after having been an atheist and then interested in Hinduism. He has degrees from Oxford, England, UC Berkeley, and Fuller seminary. While serving as Associate Pastor at First Pres. Bakersfield he worked with church plants among Chinese, Cambodians and Latinos. From 1996 through 2003 he served as Director of the Presbyterian Center for Mission Studies at the US Center for World Mission in Pasadena, which is where he got involved with Perspectives. Michael is now retired and lives with his family on a farm in the East Bay Area hills. He is very active with the FAT Sheep Family of China Outreach Ministries, doing evangelism with Chinese professors who are spending a year at UC Berkeley. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, August 20, 2017
Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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
Larry Walker
WEC International, San Marcos CA
Larry Walker grew up in Central California. He has a BA in History and a ThM in Practical Theology. He was a missionary in a Mayan Village in Guatemala in the 70's, a missions pastor in Dallas in the 80's and since '87 has been a missions coach with ACMC, Pioneers and WEC International. He is married to Kathleen, has four married daughters and ten grandchildren and lives in San Diego. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, August 27, 2017
Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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
Karen Schagunn
Indestructible Daughters; Horn of Africa Evangelical Mission, Panama City Beach FL
An international speaker and author, Karen Schagunn is the founder of Indestructible Daughters (indestructibledaughters.com), a ministry to equip and empower women across the globe. She is a board member and trainer with Horn of Africa Mission, mobilizing believers to reach unengaged and unreached people groups throughout Africa, Europe and the Middle East. She and her husband train missionaries and teach classes on overcoming trauma. Karen served for years as a woman's director in a diverse cultural church. She is also the author of "Indestructible Daughters”. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, September 10, 2017
Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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John
Pastor at Large - Frontiers, Sacramento CA
20 + yrs. in outreach to Muslim World. Pastoral care
of workers, mentoring national leaders, recruiting and
fund-raising for children's relief. Ministered in 90
nations. Leadership development/mentoring. Church
planter in USA prior to involvement internationally. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, September 17, 2017
Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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Instructor
Robert Blincoe
Frontiers, Mesa AZ
Bob led a Frontiers team into northern Iraq following the first Gulf War in 1991. He is president emeritus of Frontiers USA, living in Phoenix. He has a Ph.D. in History from William Carey International University in Pasadena. He has twice lost on television game shows. He blogs at robertblincoe.blog. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, September 24, 2017
Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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Larry Stucky
WorldVenture, Clovis CA
Larry and his wife Dana served from 1983 to 1993 as church planters in Northeast Brazil. They also helped start a theological seminary for training Brazilian church planters in 1986, with Larry later serving as its director.
In 1993 he and his family moved to Albania for hands-on involvement in a country that had been known as one of the top unreached geopolitical areas of the world. This post-communist, atheistic nation provided a context of nominalism spanning three religious traditions. Ironically all three included a hefty dose of atheism.
The particular movement of churches that Larry and Dana served now includes several congregations in the southeast of the country.
Since 2011 Larry has concentrated on mobilizing the church to become involved with diaspora people groups from his base in California. He has a passion for UPGs (unreached people groups) and UUPGs (unengaged UPGs) throughout the world.
His wife Dana passed away in the fall of 2018. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, October 1, 2017
Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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
Sam Earp
Church Resource Ministry, San Jose CA
I have an extensive background in every facet of church missions. Currently consult with several Bay Area California churches. I founded the National Association of Mission Pastors and currenlty seve as a network consultant for the Bay Area Mission Network. Consultant for the Californai Assoiciation of Mission Pastors
Preach, teach and consult in mission related fields. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, October 8, 2017
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Don Fisher
Vision 5:9, Fresno CA
Don became a Christian in Indonesia through the witness of a local believer, whom he later married.
They were missionaries in Indonesia from 1979 to 1993. They taught at the Institut Injil Indonesia.
Don has taught in both public and private schools in Malaysia, Indonesia, Mexico, and the United States. He has traveled and given seminars in Indonesia, the Philippines, China, India, the USA, and Zambia.
They currently work with Punjabis and other immigrant groups in the San Joaquin Valley. They have two friendship centers which offer help to immigrants along with English & U.S. citizenship classes.Don is also a member of the Fruitful Practices task force of Vision 5:9.
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, October 15, 2017
Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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
Viji Cammauf
Little Flock, Oakland CA
Viji Nakka- Cammauf is the President of Little Flock Children’s Homes a ministry to orphans and widows
.She is on Faculty at a Christian school in India called the Sam Higginbothams University of Science , Agriculture and Technology in the School of Theology. She teaches doctoral students in the filed of Christian Studies.
She is a lecturer and Professor of record for the Perspectives Study Program in Northern California.
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, October 22, 2017
Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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Alex Schweng
Missio Dei Oakland, Oakland CA
Alex Schweng is the Lead Pastor of Missio Dei Oakland, an Urban House Church Network in Oakland, CA. He was born in Oakland, grew up in the East Bay, and graduated from UCLA and Talbot School of Theology (M.Div.) He is a Perspectives Coordinator, Grader, and Instructor, and was on Staff with the Navigators at UCLA, and has 25 years of ministry experience. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, October 29, 2017
Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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James Ardill
SIM USA, Macon GA
Jim was born and raised in Nigeria; has served with SIM in Liberia and Ethiopia as SIM Development Administrator, and Sudanese Ministries Manager. From 2003 to 2020, Jim has been recruiting believers, mobilizing churches and speaking in the SW region and in Bolivia Perspectives. From 2020 to
Spring 2023, Jim worked with refugees from the Middle East, particularly with sports outreach to refugee children and their families in Sacramento. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, November 5, 2017
Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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
Hermie Smit
CityTeam in the Neighborhood, San Jose CA
Hermie grew up in South Africa, moved to the US in Nov. 1999 and started working for CityTeam Ministries in 2001. He got exposed to the Disciple Making Movements (DMM) principles in 2006 and since then has dedicated his life to seeing disciple making movements take root in the greater San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. By the grace of God, his team has seen significant multiplication over the past years, with thousands of new discovery groups/churches that have consistently multiply in multiple generations as God uses ordinary people in extraordinary ways. The movement has spread far, not only in the San Francisco Bay Area, but also to Central California, the Los Angeles area, Missouri, Texas, as well as cities in Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Argentina and Cuba. He’s married to Linda, a Bay Area native, for more than 19 years and has a son Daniel who is 6 years old.
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, November 12, 2017
Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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Jenny K
Redondo Beach CA
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, November 19, 2017
Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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Instructor
John Dupree
Missions Consultant, Blanchard ID
Rev. John Dupree serves as a Church Mobilization Minister Consultant:
retired PERSPECTIVES Pacific Regional Director, former William Jessup University Adjunct Professor, Inter-Cultural Studies Dept., John is an ordained minister who has served as a Church Planter, Missions Pastor, Elder, ACMC Regional Director, Mission Networks creator (13 in Pacific region), organized 70 National and Regional Conferences, plus preaching and teaching at churches, seminaries, conferences in Eastern Europe, Asia and America. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, December 3, 2017
Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
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