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Orlando, FL S17
Spring 2017
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Registration & Orientation
Course Overview
Registration & Orientation
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Instructor
Sundee Simmons
Perspectives, Winter Park FL
Sundee Simmons currently serves as Associate Director of Perspectives Global. Sundee has been serving the Perspectives program since 1991. She has served as a volunteer coordinator, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Director, East Coast Regional Administrator and the Director of Training for Perspectives USA before joining the Perspectives Global Team.
Sundee Simmons is a wife and mother of 3 children, Nathan (1996), Emily (1998) and Julianna (2005). Her husband, Scott, is a ordained PCA Pastor serving Third Millennium Ministries as the Director of Instructor Relations.
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Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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
Don
World Team, Orlando FL
Canadian-born, Don received Christ at a YFC rally in 1952 and later graduated from Prairie Bible Institute and Wycliffe's SIL course. From 1962-1977 Don and his late wife, Carol Joy [Soderstrom], an RN, served in Irian Jaya (now Papua, Indonesia) among the Sawi, a Stone-Age cannibal-headhunter tribe. After Don designed a Sawi alphabet, he and Carol taught literacy, planted churches, healed the sick and translated the New Testament. More than half the tribe came to Christ. Author of six books, including "Peace Child" and "Eternity in Their Hearts," Don holds an honorary doctorate from Biola University. He represents World Team at missions conferences and in churches, teaches seminars, and lectures for Perspectives on the World Christian Movement. 17 months after his late wife's passing, Don wed Carol Joyce Abraham, who now serves with him in ministry by speaking to women's groups, singing solos, mentoring, and providing hospitality. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 7, 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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Jon F
Reaching & Teaching , Louisville KY
Works alongside Arab brothers and sisters in the Middle East in order to make mature disciples, establish & strengthen healthy churches, and train local leaders to carry the gospel message to every tribe for the global glory of Jesus Christ and the joy of all peoples. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 14, 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
Gary Peterson
Wycliffe Bible Translators, Orlando FL
I love God and I love His Story. I love to inform and inspire His people get involved in His mission. I'm known as "The Storyteller". I love recounting what God has done, is doing and anticipating our Creator's exciting next steps.
I served as a youth pastor before joining Wycliffe Bible Translators. I love kids, youth, young adults, seniors - all ages. I've worked with them all.
Though I trained in linguistics, I have been a Mobilizer with Wycliffe in the US, Australia, New Zealand and Kenya, in support of Bible Translation initiatives and world missions. I have been to over 20 countries involved in various ministries.
Currently I'm network recruiter for Wycliffe, finding key people for key roles to keep the Bible translation movement going ahead. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 21, 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
Gabriel Forsyth
Mosaic Church, Winter Garden FL
I am the Mission Pastor at Mosaic, a muliti-site church in West Orlando, FL. My wife and and I are passionate about serving our city and changing our world. I earned my bachelors degree in creative writing with a minor in multicultural anthropology from the University of Central Florida. I’ve had the privilege of traveling to over 15 different countries so far. I’m a third culture kid having grown up in Guatemala where my parents were working as missionaries in the early 90’s. I'm passionate about mobilizing the Church for mission. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 28, 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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Instructor
Scott Simmons
Third Millennium Ministries, Winter Park FL
Scott Simmons is currently the Director of Professor Relations for Third Millennium Ministries, a ministry designed to provide theological education to church leaders around the world for free. Scott is in charge of adding video content from seminary professors and pastors around the world into our free, online curriculum.
Before this, Scott was the minister of missions and spiritual formation at Chapelgate Presbyterian Church, where he oversaw global church planting partnerships and local evangelism and mercy ministries.
Scott is the husband of one and father of three and he loves nature and wildlife photography, jazz and folk music, movies and a good book. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 7, 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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Instructor
Jennifer Webster
Tallahassee FL
Jennifer Webster is a native Floridian and recently moved to Tallahassee with her family after living in the UK since 2020. She is currently completing her PhD in Theology at the University of Cambridge, St. John’s College. She previously received her undergraduate degrees in Anthropology and Theatre from the University of Central Florida and her MA in Church History from the University of Nottingham. She has a passion for educating Christians and congregations in theology and church history, and sees quality education as fundamental for developing healthy and whole followers of Jesus Christ. Her days are currently filled with exploring her new hometown with her daughter and husband and hiding away at the FSU library to write her PhD thesis b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 14, 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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Instructor
Jillian Combs
Pioneers, West Des Moines IA
Jillian serves at the US office for Pioneers. One of her passions is meeting and building relationships with new people. She enjoys traveling the US to meet young people and families who are interested in reaching the unreached with the Gospel through going, praying and giving.
She and her husband Jared have a mutual love for college football and training for marathons! b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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
Jillian Combs
Pioneers, West Des Moines IA
Jillian serves at the US office for Pioneers. One of her passions is meeting and building relationships with new people. She enjoys traveling the US to meet young people and families who are interested in reaching the unreached with the Gospel through going, praying and giving.
She and her husband Jared have a mutual love for college football and training for marathons! b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 28, 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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Instructor
Mark Baxter
YWAM Jacksonville, Jacksonville FL
Mark Baxter is the visionary leader of Youth With A Mission Jacksonville, Florida. Mark and Janet started the base in January 2001 because they are passionate about taking the Gospel to places where it isn't. They have 3 children - Daniel, Kathleen, and Jennifer along with 8 grandchildren. Mark has ministered in over 130 nations and he, Janet, and their youngest child lived in Harbin, China teaching English and planted a church among unreached people in 2008/09. Mark is on YWAM's international frontier missions leadership team, is the missions pastor at Redeemer Church, and is part of the NoPLaceLeft network in Jacksonville. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 4, 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
Ted Esler
Missio Nexus, St. Cloud FL
Ted Esler is the President of Missio Nexus, an association of agencies and churches representing over 30,000 Great Commission workers worldwide.
A Minnesota native, Ted worked in the computer industry before becoming a church planter in Sarajevo, Bosnia, during the 1990’s. He is the author of the book, "Overwhelming Minority," about their family's ministry in Bosnia. In 2000, Ted became the Canadian director of Pioneers and three years later moved to Orlando to join Pioneers USA’s leadership team. He was appointed the President of Missio Nexus in 2015.
Ted has BS in Computer Science and Speech Communication (Mankato State University, 1985), an MTS in Theology (Heritage Seminary, 2002), and a PhD in Intercultural Studies (Fuller Theological Seminary, 2012).
Ted is married to Annette and they have five children. Ted loves sailing, Crossfit, bikes, plays bass, and enjoys eating ethnic foods from around the world. Ted is a part of a church planting network in Orlando called "The Living Room," and serves as a board member for a couple of ministry organizations. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 11, 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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JC
TEAM, Lancaster PA
JC was born to a Cuban immigrant family and grew up learning Spanish and English in a multi-cultural setting. He came to Christ as a teenager, quickly sensing God’s call to work among unreached peoples.
JC worked for 32 years in Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and Europe: focused on evangelism and church planting, first directing a language institute in Central Asia, later leading a cross-cultural training program in Spain, preparing Latino and Iberians for service among Muslims.
JC earned a MA in Islamic Studies from the University of Edinburgh and DMin from Columbia International University. He has written articles on Islamic literature, and history, ministry to Muslims, and has authored numerous discipleship curricula. He is an accomplished lecturer, teaching world-wide. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 25, 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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Instructor
KB
Montverde FL
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, May 2, 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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Instructor
Keith Seabourn
Cru, Orlando FL
Keith currently serves with Global Church Movements as the Director of Field Strategies, giving leadership to the training process, engaging digital and mobile technologies, and developing measurement systems and processes. Joining Campus Crusade for Christ 39 years ago, Keith first served in Nigeria teaching electronics and discipling students, then training churches and recording the Jesus film in West African languages. Returning to the US, he served with the ministry to university professors, especially developing websites presenting a biblical worldview by renowned scholars to help disciple students during their university years on secular campuses. Pursuing his passion for using technology in ministry, Keith served for 12 years as the Chief Technology Officer implementing digital strategies and developing technology leaders. Keith and his wife Kay reside in Orlando, Florida. They have 3 adult children and 5 grandchildren. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, May 9, 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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Instructor
Jana Price
Translator and Translation Consultant, Sanford FL
I joined New Tribes Missions and served for 6 years on the home staff of the New Tribes Language and Linguists School, teaching a number of Linguistic classes. In 1970 my husband and I went to Venezuela, where we worked with the Panare people. We worked with the Panares for 33 years, during which time we completed a translation of the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament, and saw a strong church develop. In 2005 we were evicted from working with the tribal people by the Venezuelan President, but have continued to work on translation projects. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, May 16, 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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Instructor
Marcel Sanchez
Imagine Mobile Learning, Miami Gardens FL
For more than twenty years, Marcel has served as an international conference speaker, corporate trainer, and business consultant. He has helped many private and public organizations create a culture focused on growing their people and growing their customers.
Marcel serves as an Executive Pastor, Conference Speaker and Corporate Trainer. His books include Life in the Vineyard, Vida en la Viña, Walking with Jesus, and Sales Catalyst. Marcel is passionate about helping people leverage their spiritual gifts, talents, and life experiences to make a significant impact for God's glory. He helps people connect the dots spiritually, professionally and relationally.
Marcel developed software to help businesses (www.ImagineMobileLearning.com) and churches (www.ImagineMobileChurch.com) connect, train, and grow their people online. Marcel and his wife Yami live in Miramar, Florida and have two children, Luke and Savanah.
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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