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Date: Sunday, August 13, 2017

Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Location: Bear Creek Baptist Church 5901 North Fry Road Katy TX 77449

Contact: Germaine Guerra

281-705-6974

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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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    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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    Date: Sunday, August 13, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Yvonne Huneycutt

    Perspectives Global, Round Rock TX

    Yvonne from Austin, Texas loves mobilizing Christians and entire churches to find and engage their God-designed role for participation in the completion of the Great Commission. Currently on staff with Perspectives Global, Yvonne's varied career experience includes the corporate world, local church ministry, mission ministry, and managing a non-profit organization. She has worked with the Perspectives movement for over 25 years both nationally and internationally. Her overseas field experience includes one year in Russia and travel in 40 nations. She holds a Doctor of Ministry in Missions and Cross-Cultural Studies from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
    
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    Date: Sunday, August 20, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Wayne Park

    Katy TX

    Wayne Park grew up in New York, the son of Korean immigrants. He studied Fine Arts at Parsons School of Design in NYC and received his Master of Divinity at Regent College in Vancouver, BC. He is presently working towards a Doctorate of Ministry at Fuller Theological Seminary. As a minister with the Evangelical Covenant Church denomination his focus is on planting multiethne, missional churches in urban centres. Prior, he has worked with Youth With A Mission in strategic development. Currently, he is the lead pastor of Woven Church, a multiethnic church in Houston with a focus on empowering lay people in vocational identity and calling. He is married to Ashley 15 years and has two children Austin (9) and Zoe (8).
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, September 10, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Dale Smith

    Dobbin TX

    Dale Smith has served as lead pastor in local churches for over 30 years along with his wife, Jennifer, and their two daughters. During that time they also served as a church planters in Louisville, Kentucky and Northern Virginia. Currently he is privileged to serve Cy-Fair Christian Church as Executive Pastor. Dale is passionate about mobilizing people from all walks of life to engage people with the gospel of Christ beginning in their neighborhoods and stretching to the ends of the earth. Dale holds two graduate degrees in missions and evangelism. His passion is to lead the local church to identify and engage unreached people groups with the gospel of Christ. He has been blessed to invest his time and energy in the house church movement in East Asia. He has also been blessed to do work in Kenya, Southeast Asia and Mexico.
    
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    Date: Sunday, September 17, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    David Swanson

    College Station TX

    David is an avid storyteller. As a missions mobilizer he uses story to help people understand God’s global purpose and discover their place in that plan. David grew up as a missionary kid in Panama. A graduate of Texas A&M University, David currently works for his alma mater. He also serves as a volunteer with a campus ministry. He has helped lead short-term student ministry trips and has worked with churches and church-planting ministries in several countries around the world.
    
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    Date: Sunday, September 24, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Mary Ho

    All Nations Family, Inc, Kansas City MO

    Dr. Mary Ho is the International Executive Leader of All Nations (http://allnations.international), a global Christian missions organization with workers making disciples and doing church planting in 44 countries. Dr. Ho is passionate about finishing the Great Commission in this generation by sharing the love of God among every people and in parts of the world where the name of Jesus Christ is little or not known. Dr. Ho received her Doctorate of Strategic Leadership from Regent University, VA, U.S.A. in 2016.
    
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    Date: Sunday, October 1, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Rick Seifert

    The Woodlands TX

    Rick Seifert is a businessman by day and a missions mobilizer by night. He has been involved with world missions for the past 30 years. For many years he served as the Missions Chairman of Faith Bible Church in The Woodlands. During the years, his wife, Suzanne and Rick have had the privilege of helping on cross-cultural trips to The Philippines, El Salvador, Dubai, Haiti, Romania, China, Albania, the Gaza Strip, Germany and Turkey. Rick is a member of Faith Bible Church in The Woodlands. He is a graduate of Baylor University.
    
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    Date: Sunday, October 8, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Robin Harris

    International Council of Ethnodoxologists (ICE), Dallas TX

    Dr. Robin Harris is the director of Dallas International University's Center for Excellence in World Arts (www.diu.edu/arts) and also serves as the president of the International Council of Ethnodoxologists (ICE). She co-edited "Worship and Mission for the Global Church: An Ethnodoxology Handbook" (William Carey Library, 2013) and speaks widely on the topic of arts and cross-cultural service.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 15, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Richard Gunasekera

    Online Perspectives Programs/Courses, La Mirada CA

    Richard is assoc dean and professor at Biola University CA and Faculty at Rice University, Houston, TX. Richard grew up in a Christian family in old Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). He earned his undergraduate degree and a doctorate in biochemical genetics at the Baylor University- Medical Center in Dallas. Richard has served Perspectives Since early 1990s as an instructor, Coordinator, the founding Director of Online PSP Programs and POR. He lives in the Houston, Texas area with his family; wife is an Anesthesiologist and they have two grown children.
    
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    Date: Sunday, October 22, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Jamie Zumwalt

    Outrageous Love, Oklahoma City OK

    Jamie Zumwalt is the Founder and President of Outrageous Love, an organization that starts Communities of Hope among marginalized peoples. Jamie and her husband, John, served as missionaries in Taiwan among the Hakka and Taiwanese. For 22 years, John and Jamie have been training and sending missionaries out to plant the church among the unreached. She now pastors and a leads a coffee house, church community called Joe's Addiction in a "red light" district of Oklahoma City, doing life together with the poor. She has authored two books: Simple Obsession: Enjoying the Tender Heart of God and Beloved Chaos: moving from religion to Love in a red light district. Jamie travels widely, teaching and inviting more people to plant Communities of Hope. She and John have five children and one grand daughter.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 29, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Topher Lee

    Launch Global, College Station TX

    "Topher" has served in Central Asia, as a missions pastor at Hill Country Bible Church, Austin, led a mobilization and training hub for long term workers (launchglobal.org) in College Station, TX. He recently helped launch a university with the goal of seeing its students step out of poverty and into greater kingdom impact. Topher loves to see the church planted and multiply in places it has never existed through ordinary people. He loves helping people find the intersection between their passions/skills and opportunities to make disciples among the unreached. He is married to an extraordinary woman and ministry partner and has 2 children. He'd love to go for a run while he is in town and talk about your dreams in the nations!
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, November 5, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    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: Sunday, November 12, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Alice H.

    Sugar Land TX

    Alice and her husband David, along with Joshua and Jonathan served in Southeast Asia with OMF International among an unreached people group from 2002-2014. Upon returning the States, they are now serving as missions mobilizers with OMF international. Alice is currently the Area Coordinator for Texas with OMF International.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, November 26, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Jon Hardin

    Frontiers, Highlands Ranch CO

    Dr. Jon Hardin is the National Communications Specialist for Frontiers. He has served in full-time missions work for over 25 years. Jon regularly speaks and teaches in churches, conferences, and various training events around the world--he has taught over 35,000 Perspectives students. Jon has a passion for seeing local churches and ordinary Christians step into strategic roles in the global missions enterprise. Jon is an ordained minister, holds a PhD from the VU University in Amsterdam, and did post-graduate studies at the International Baptist Theological Seminary in Prague. He is also a graduate of Denver Seminary. Jon is a CPA and prior to going into full-time ministry he worked for IBM Corporation for nine years.
    
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    Date: Sunday, December 3, 2017

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

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