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Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: Wheaton Bible Church 27W500 North Ave West Chicago IL 60185

Contact: Becca Martin

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    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 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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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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    Paco Amador

    New Life Community Church, Chicago IL

    Paco Amador is pastor of New Life Community Church in the Little Village community on Chicago's west side. Paco has served as a missionary, a public school teacher, and is currently a pastor at the mexican immigrant of Little Village. He and his wife, Sylvia, have seven children and live in Chicago.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 6, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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    Dennis Cochrane

    Lexington SC

    Dennis and his wife Nancy served as linguists and Bible translators among the 20,000 Duna people of Papua New Guinea. After devising an alphabet for this previously unwritten language they produced primers and readers, teaching many to read their own language. They then translated the first portions of God's Word into the Duna language. Several thousand Duna came to faith in Christ and today there are many churches among these people.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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    Judy Duncan

    West Chicago IL

    
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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    Marvin Newell

    Niles MI

    Dr. Marvin J. Newell is Executive Director Emeritus of Alliance for the Unreached, and Ambassador at Large of Missio Nexus. Previously he served as a missionary in Papua, Indonesia, a mission administrator, and a professor of missions. He is the author of five mission related books. Marv and his wife Peggy have been involved in missions for over 44 years.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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    Robert Nordstrom

    OMF, Wheaton IL

    Robert works in partnership with local churches and campus ministry organizations in Chicago to reach and disciple international students (with a focus on East Asian students). This involves evangelism and discipling, preparing returnees, and developing training.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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    Diana Collymore

    InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA, Chicago IL

    Diana Collymore serves as the Associate Director of Missions with InterVarsity/USA. Her vision is to “turn the world upside down” (Acts 17:6) through the college campus. Diana seeks to invest in the development of college students as the lifelong disciples of Christ Jesus who are about God’s mission in every sphere. A calling and passion for Diana is mobilizing students from communities of color to contribute their God-designed gifts in global missions.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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    Keith & Debbie B

    Chattanooga TN

    Keith has more than 30 years’ experience helping to bring the gospel into unreached people groups of Africa. Keith and his wife, first moved to East Africa in the early 80’s where they worked in Kenya, Sudan and Tanzania in various community health evangelism and church-planting projects. Through most of the 90’s the B’s developed and directed a two-year church-planting training program based from Arusha, Tanzania. This program continues to be one of the most effective training programs in missions today having trained nearly 500 missionaries on more than 50 teams and in 15 countries. Since 2000, Keith has been directing a new focus to see Christ’s Church planted in Islamic areas of Africa, specifically North Africa and the Horn of Africa. Because these countries do not issue ‘church’ or ‘mission’ visas, Keith has developed alternate ways to gain access for Christian workers to live and proclaim in these countries. These creative means of access have included the development of more than a dozen profitable Kingdom companies across several North African countries as well as the development of a number of not-for-profit, Non-Governmental Organization’s (NGO) in four countries. He also developed relationships within the governments of three diverse countries that allow for the placement of proclaimers in government offices and public institutions. Keith holds a degree in Business Administration. The B’s are currently engaged in the recruiting, training, mentoring and coaching of Business For Transformation (B4T)/Business As Mission (BAM) personnel. Keith and his wife have three children, all born and raised in Africa.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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    Scott Moreau

    Wheaton IL

    
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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    Sam Naaman

    Moody Bible Institute, Carol Stream IL

    Sam serves as professor of Intercultural Studies at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. He is also founding director of south Asian Friendship Center in Chicago since 1997. Sam was born and raised in Pakistan, served with OM and Cru. in Pakistan. Studied Theology and Missiology in Korea and USA. he is married to Debbie and they have two adopted sons Blaise and David from Pakistan. They are members of Wheaton Bible church.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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    Tabitha McDuffee

    Moody Publishers, Indio CA

    Tabitha McDuffee blogs at TabithaMcDuffee.com where she shares resources for Christians who are serving refugees both vocationally and voluntarily. She holds a double BA in Biblical and Intercultural Studies from Moody Bible Institute and an MA in Refugee Law and Forced Migration Studies from the University of London. Tabitha also works in nonprofit communications, helping organizations like World Relief inform and inspire their volunteers and donors. She lives with her husband and four month old son in the Palm Springs area and can’t imagine life without coffee.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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    Steven Steinhaus

    New Generations, Carol Stream IL

    Steven and his wife, Joy, lived as missionaries among Muslims in SE Asia for 21 years. In 2015, they returned to the US and reside in Carol Stream where they continue as DMM Practitioner-Trainers training and coaching church-planters globally while also engaging the Muslim population here in Chicagoland. Steven & Joy have four children. The serve with the organization New Generations and lead a city-wide partnership called Ephesus Catalytic Partnership-Chicago.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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    Cecil Stalnaker

    Greater Europe Mission, Valencia CA

    Cecil grew up in SoCal and has 34 years of missionary experience in Europe related to equipping church leaders, church planting, and evangelism. He trained pastors and missionaries at the French-speaking Institut Biblique Belge in Belgium and at Tyndale Theological Seminary in the Netherlands. He currently helps as a mobilizer with Greater Europe Mission; teaches and preaches on missions in local churches, and equips new missionaries for cross-cultural work. Cecil has a PhD in Missiology and has written a number of articles and chapters for mission publications. He lives in Santa Clarita, CA and often watches the squirrels fight over fruit in his backyard.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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    Andrew Herbek

    Perspectives, Omaha NE

    God took this farm boy from the middle of nowhere in Nebraska and sent him to serve among an unreached people group in East Asia doing ethnographic research. God used this experience to shape Andrew into a mobilizer and sent him back to North America to equip the body of Christ back home to engage and participate with God in His global purpose. Andrew is a member of Perspectives and serves on the Curriculum Revision Team. He has a Masters of Divinity and a MA in Intercultural Studies, and has field experience in thirteen countries. His heart is that of an educator and discipler, and he desires is to see Christ named and known by all the peoples of the earth, so that Christ can be loved and obeyed within all the peoples of the earth.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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    Kyle Reschke

    Wheaton Bible Church - Pastor or Sending and Outreach, St. Charles IL

    Kyle Reschke currently works as the Pastor of Sending and Outreach Wheaton Bible Church. Previously, Kyle has served as a volunteer teacher and educational developer on the Manu’a Islands with the Center for International Development at Harvard University, and as a Project Manager with The 410 Bridge in Haiti following the devastating earthquake of 2010. Kyle is passionate about standing with vulnerable people and communities around the world, assisting people in identifying their own community assets, personal gifts, and God-given identity as agents of positive transformation in their communities. With these passions, Kyle has traveled to and worked in 42 different countries in his career. Another of Kyle’s great passions is to work with the Western Church in partnering more effectively and strategically around the world. Kyle holds undergraduate degrees in Cell and Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (also minoring in music performance, French Horn) and Masters Degrees in Secondary Education and Educational Development, a Fellowship in International Development, and a Masters of Liberal Arts with a focus on Christian Ethics and Literature. Kyle got married in the summer of 2017 to Joy, and looks forward to all of their shared adventures and mission together in life. Kyle and Joy continue their regular runs, now with a jogger stroller with their 14 month old son Liam. Outside of these passions, Kyle personally enjoys trail running, triathlons, good meals with family and good friends, and reading anything he can get his hands on!
    
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    Time: 6:15 PM to 9:00 PM

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