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Date: Monday, January 16, 2017

Time: 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Location: First Baptist Church Bryan 3100 Cambridge Drive Bryan TX 77802

Contact: Jeremy Palmer

318 550 6907

• • Registration & Orientation

    Registration and Orientation

    Registration & Orientation

  • Instructor

    

    Hudson Smith

    The Traveling Team, Conway AR

    Hudson Smith is from the United States, and grew up in Arkansas, earning a degree in history from the University of Arkansas. For 10 years, he served as the Director of Operations for The Traveling Team. The Traveling Team is a mobilization organization that recruits college students from all major US universities toward Christ's global cause. During his time on staff, he traveled to 49 states and 3 countries and spoke to over 40,000 college students, sharing God's heart for the world. He also spoke extensively at Perspectives classes and missions conferences for churches. In 2021, he and his family moved to Dubai, UAE to serve as the Director of Operations for Redeemer Church of Dubai. He has Master of Arts in Theological Studies from Reformed Theological Seminary.

    
    

  • Date: Monday, January 16, 2017

    Time: 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

• • 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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    Andy Kampman

    Launch Global and Austin Stone Community Church, Austin TX

    Empowering this generation to bless all nations. Andy and Jamie Kampman did college ministry for 8 years. In 2006, they help start Launch Global and now also works with Austin Stone Community Church as Director of Mobilization. Their strong desire is to see young people engaged in the evangelization of the world! They have four children and live in Austin, TX.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 23, 2017

    Time: 7:00 PM to 10:00 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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    Steve Shadrach

    The Center for Mission Mobilization , Fayetteville AR

    Steve has a passion for developing laborers for Christ to finish the Great Commission. He is the founder of Student Mobilization, The BodyBuilders, NVision, and The Traveling Team. Formerly the Director of Mobilization for the US Center for World Mission, he is now the Executive Director for The Center for Mission Mobilization, headquartered in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 30, 2017

    Time: 7:00 PM to 10:00 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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    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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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 6, 2017

    Time: 7:00 PM to 10:00 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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    Bob McNabb

    Launch Global, Hoover AL

    Dr. Bob McNabb has been helping others multiply their lives on campus, in the marketplace, and through the church for more than thirty years. After the McNabb family served Christ cross-culturally for over a decade, the Lord called them back to train and send others. Bob currently serves as the Executive Director of Launch Global, a ministry which mobilizes disciple-makers to go to unreached peoples.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 13, 2017

    Time: 7:00 PM to 10:00 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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    Brian Zunigha

    California Baptist University, Riverside CA

    Brian graduated from the University of Oklahoma, where he was trained to make disciples. After graduation he joined staff with the campus ministry that trained him at OU, then traveled nationally for The Traveling Team, challenging students to embrace God's heart for the world. Brian earned a MDiv at Midwestern Seminary and is now Director of Campus Ministry at California Baptist University, in Riverside (CA). He is married to Jennifer.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 20, 2017

    Time: 7:00 PM to 10:00 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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    Kathleen

    EastWest Ministries International , Atlanta GA

    Kathleen worked for four years mobilizing and training those who were planning to move to the unreached. All along her intention was to go herself and now her family is preparing to move to Southeast Asia to train and equip local believers in church planting movements. As they prepare to go they continue to engage with internationals in their diverse midtown Atlanta neighborhood, praying for a movement of the gospel right where they are.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 27, 2017

    Time: 7:00 PM to 10:00 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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    Courtney Contos

    Cafe 1040, Inc., Cleburne TX

    Courtney Contos received a history degree from Texas Tech University, and then worked in a health club as a personal trainer before switching to full-time work in mobilization. From 2007-2010 she lived on the road with The Traveling Team, casting missions vision to college-age audiences around the U.S. That was followed by three years with Cafe 1040, an Atlanta-based group with intensive missional training bases in Africa and Southeast Asia. She currently resides in Cleburne, Tx with her husband where she spent most of her growing-up years.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 6, 2017

    Time: 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

• • Lesson 8

    Pioneers of the World Christian Movement

    THIS LESSON WILL BE COMBINED WITH LESSON 7 IN BCS! 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.

  • Instructor

    

    Courtney Contos

    Cafe 1040, Inc., Cleburne TX

    Courtney Contos received a history degree from Texas Tech University, and then worked in a health club as a personal trainer before switching to full-time work in mobilization. From 2007-2010 she lived on the road with The Traveling Team, casting missions vision to college-age audiences around the U.S. That was followed by three years with Cafe 1040, an Atlanta-based group with intensive missional training bases in Africa and Southeast Asia. She currently resides in Cleburne, Tx with her husband where she spent most of her growing-up years.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 6, 2017

    Time: 7:00 PM to 10:00 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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    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.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 20, 2017

    Time: 7:00 PM to 10:00 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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    Kent Parks

    Beyond. Formerly "Act Beyond" and "Mission to Unreached Peoples", Plano TX

    http://beyond.org/president/ Kent Parks is President and CEO of Beyond (formerly "Act Beyond" & "Mission to Unreached Peoples"). See beyond.org for a powerful video. This mission sending organization is focused on launching Disciple-Making Movements (also called Church Planting Movements) among the Unreached People Groups of the world. This 29% of the world does not have even access to witness of word or deed about Jesus in any kind within their culture. Act Beyond is focused on global collaboration to change this spiritual injustice. Kent and his wife Erika worked among Muslims in Asia for 20 years. They continue to lead regular Disciple-Making Movement trainings around the world. He continues to occasionally teach graduate courses in mission strategy. Previously, he coordinated outreach strategies for Unreached People Groups, and developed trans-national, trans-denominational networks at various levels. Kent also pastored in Texas for 7 years before going to the mission field. He has been a seminary professor, the academic dean of a seminary and has taught internationally in a graduate school. Kent is Co-Facilitator for the Ethne (a global network of UPG-focused leaders; is a part of the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission and is Senior Assoc. for Least Reached Peoples with the Lausanne Committee on World Evangelization.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 27, 2017

    Time: 7:00 PM to 10:00 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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    Charles R

    Partners in Holistic Development, Weaverville NC

    For almost 3 decades he has been leading a team which is serving an unreached tribe in East Africa. They describe their work as "holistic development" understood as planting the Goodnews of the Kingdom in such a way that contributes to the following results: * God's people multiply through multiplying faith communities * The society is changed to increasingly be in alignment with God's will. * They believe the Goodnews of the Kingdom calls everything to be subject to God's Kingdom. * Their team is seeing progress towards both these results.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 3, 2017

    Time: 7:00 PM to 10:00 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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    Nathan J'Diim

    TOAG/Launch Internship and Frontiers, Chandler AZ

    Nathan J'Diim (pen name) is the Founder of TOAG and (semi-retired) Consultant, Instructor and Coach for Frontiers (www.FrontiersUSA.org). Launch (www.LaunchGlobal.org) has since replaced TOAG but carries the same DNA: a year long after-hours internship preparing beautiful feet to serve in the Unreached World. Offered in cities across the US, TOAG/Launch has apprenticed hundreds of interns, many who serve or will soon serve the least reached world wide.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 10, 2017

    Time: 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM

• • 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 Palmer

    Missional Team Inc, Athens TX

    James (Jim) is a 42 yr veteran missionary with the Southern Baptist International Mission Board (30yrs) and Missional Team (12ys). He and his wife Viola have directed disaster relief and community development projects, church planting, and leadership training. Jim and Viola were part of a church planting movement that saw over 300 churches planted in 18 years among the Miskito people of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua and Honduras. Most recently Jim has facilitated a church planting effort in Ethiopia resulting in over 40 churches being planted among the Bacho Oromo people of Western Shewa.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 17, 2017

    Time: 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM

• • 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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    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.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 24, 2017

    Time: 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM

• • 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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    Chris McGuffey

    Grace Bible Church, College Station TX

    Chris and Amy spent 20+ involved in campus ministry in various locations both domestically and abroad. This included time spent in the Former Soviet Uniion, East Asia as well as Athens, Greece.
    
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    Date: Monday, May 1, 2017

    Time: 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

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