Class Info

Date: Thursday, August 10, 2017

Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Location: Harvest Bble Chapel 14550 River Road Carmel IN 46033

Contact: Jason

(317) 900-7200

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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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    Todd Ahrend

    The Traveling Team, Fayetteville AR

    Todd Ahrend graduated from Northeastern State University, has a Masters from Dallas Theological Seminary and a Doctorate from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is the founder and international Director of The Traveling Team, a national missions mobilization movement. He and his wife, Jessica, have spent almost two decades traveling both nation-wide and abroad, speaking to thousands of people about involvement in world evangelization. Todd has exposure in over sixty countries and has lived in the Middle East. He is the author of The Abrahamic Revolution and In This Generation. Todd and Jessica have six children: Camden, Brody, Axel, Noble, Quincy and Cruz!
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, August 10, 2017

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Gerald Robison

    To All Nations, Madison AL

    Dr Robison presents Lessons #1 or #2 with a fast-paced, humor-filled interaction that leaves students in a state of joyful conviction, new understanding and primed with motivation. Gerald authored and co-authored 10 books: "Cat and Dog Theology" being the best-known. He has had an international ministry of teaching and training Bible teachers and pastors stretching over 40 years and over 24 countries, including Australia, Netherlands, the Middle East, parts of Africa, Europe and the former Soviet countries. He is the Founding President of "To All Nations", Vice-President for UnveilinGLORY, and often speaks at conferences around the nation and the world. He is also a strategist, coach and mentor to churches and pastors through "Issachar Initiative". Dr Robison has taught in over 24 countries and worked with "Walk Thru the Bible Ministries in many of those for the past 40 years.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, August 17, 2017

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Jason Kandel

    Global Outreach International, Mooreville MS

    For 10 years, my family and I lived in the Middle East working in church planting, community development, and business as missions. We have 4 boys, 2 of whom were born in our host country. We moved back to the USA in October 2016 in order to take a pastoral position there. After 4 years in that position, the Lord opened an opportunity to take a position with Global Outreach International as the Vice President of Operations. We are excited about mobilizing people at our church and organization to further engage in God's mission to recruit more worshippers while we remain involved in the work happening in the Middle East.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, August 24, 2017

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Samya Johnson

    Call of Love Ministries , Cincinnati OH

    Samya was born into a Christian family in Beirut, Lebanon. She accepted Christ at age six. Samya lived in three Middle Eastern countries serving among Muslims before coming to the US with her family in 1999. She and her husband Mike founded Call of Love Ministries in 2001. She hosts English TV and radio programs. She continues to author publications and teach seminars that equip believers to reach Muslims. Samya’s 25+ years of Islamic research, writing, teaching, and working among Muslims bring a fresh and enthusiastic outlook about evangelism to Muslims. Samya resides with her family in Ohio. www.calloflove.org | samya@calloflove.org | 832-220-4040
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, August 31, 2017

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Randy Spacht

    One Mission Society, Whiteland IN

    Randy Spacht served with One Mission Society for 17 years in Colombia, and for the past 19 years in several leadership roles with OMS in Greenwood, IN. Currently, Randy is the executive director of international ministries for OMS.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, September 7, 2017

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Kip Lines

    CMF International, Indianapolis IN

    Kip Lines served with CMF International in Turkana, Kenya for 9 years as a church planter, leadership developer and missionary team leader. He has taught Perspectives classes since 2004 in TN, KY, IN, and CA. Kip is currently Professor of Intercultural Studies at Hope International University in Fullerton, CA. He helped plant 7 churches in Turkana alongside indigenous leaders. He is passionate about church planting movements, leadership training and contextualizing the Gospel in folk religion settings. In June 2017, Kip will begin a new role as executive director for CMF International in Indianapolis.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, September 14, 2017

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Barbara Yandell

    Hope for the Nations, Round Rock TX

    President Hope for the Nations, director of Engage Course and teacher at Horizons International, ordained minister and board member of the Alliance of Reformed Churches, Interserve USA, founder of Legacy Muslim Ministry conference.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, September 28, 2017

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

• • 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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    Barbara Yandell

    Hope for the Nations, Round Rock TX

    President Hope for the Nations, director of Engage Course and teacher at Horizons International, ordained minister and board member of the Alliance of Reformed Churches, Interserve USA, founder of Legacy Muslim Ministry conference.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, September 28, 2017

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Nate Irwin

    Indianapolis IN

    Born and raised in Pakistan by missionary parents, Nate has spent a total of 29 years in that country. From 1986-2000, he and his wife served as missionaries with TEAM in Pakistan. He has now been at College Park Church in Indianapolis for 22 years in the global outreach department.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, October 5, 2017

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Dan Crum

    Brownsburg IN

    Dan taught school band 4 years before switching to a missionary career in East Africa. Dan and his wife Connie arrived in Kenya with their young children in 1988. They spent ten years in church-planting and evangelism among the rural Maasai of Kenya, followed by 16 years in Nairobi. During their Nairobi time, Dan's ministry included materials production, leadership training, national church guidance and team leadership. Dan and Connie co-ministered in missionary care in East Africa their last five years before returning to the USA in 2014. After receiving his MA in Global Leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary that same year, Dan began his current role as Global Impact Director at Connection Pointe Christian Church in Brownsburg, IN. Dan also serves with Missionary Care Catalysts and is on the board of Asian Partners. Dan and Connie have 3 adult children, all married, and 4 grandchildren.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, October 12, 2017

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Andre Ciobani

    Cedars92, Indianapolis IN

    Served as full-time church-planting missionaries in Romania 1993-1999. Coordinated Perspectives in Greenwood, Indiana area 2012-2014 and loved the role of "mobilizer". Currently in process of being sent in a pastoral care (aka "Member care") capacity working alongside ministries in Lebanon and the Near East
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, October 19, 2017

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

• • 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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    Judy Fish

    Bloomington IN

    CMF Holistic Development Facilitator. Judy is a nurse who served in healthcare on the field as part of Christian Missionary Fellowship's Ethiopia (2001-2004) and Ivory Coast (2005-2007) field teams. Judy saw the focus of her ministry change as she implemented Community Health Evangelism (CHE), a strategy for holistic mission. In 2008, she became the global CHE consultant for CMF, traveling to the various fields and training CMF missionaries, their national partners, and other missionaries to help them establish the CHE strategy in their ministries. God has blessed those efforts, and most of the CMF fields now use CHE principles in their ministries.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, October 26, 2017

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Guy M Caskey

    M4 Network, Cypress TX

    Guy is the founder of the M4 Network (see Mark 4:13) which is committed to a disciple making movement among unreached people groups and existing churches both locally and globally. Guy is the Movements Pastor at Woodsedge Community Church. Guy Caskey is married to his wife Kelli and has three children: Rachel, Candace and Besufekad. Guy is a catalyst, a church planter, and an equipper.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, November 2, 2017

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

• • 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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    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: Thursday, November 9, 2017

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

• • 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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    AJ P.

    INIM Inc., Forest VA

    AJ is the Director & General Secretary for INIM established 1964. The sole focus of this indigenous Mission remains Evangelism, Discipleship & Church Planting. AJ, who was born & raised in New Delhi India is an alumnus of Liberty University. AJ shares responsibility for INIM's church planting & field evangelism efforts in South Asia. In addition to all his Missional responsibilities, he also serves as the Men's Pastor at his home church. AJ & his wife have been married for 28 years and blessed with five children ranging from 19 years old to 9 yrs old.
    
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    Date: Thursday, November 16, 2017

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

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