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Date: Monday, August 21, 2017

Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: River City Church 323 Main Ave Fargo ND 58102

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  • Date: Monday, August 21, 2017

    Time: 6:00 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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    Sean Cooper

    The Traveling Team, Fayetteville AR

    Sean and his wife Meredith have spent the last decade traveling the entire Continental U.S. casting mission vision with Traveling Team. They have a two year old daughter named Haven. Sean graduated from the University of Arkansas with a degree in Communication. He has short term exposure in India and Indonesia. Sean continues to travel nation wide speaking to students and churches. When not speaking he serves alongside The Traveling Team Leadership as the Director of Ministry Advancement. He is working on a Masters Degree from Reformed Theological Seminary.
    
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    Date: Monday, August 28, 2017

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Ben Killerlain

    Calvary Church, Moorhead MN

    Ben Killerlain was born in Denver, CO and to this day considers himself a Coloradan. He attended William Jewell College in Liberty, MO and Dallas Theological Seminary. By God’s grace he was hired at Scofield Church in Dallas in late 2002, just in time to hear a missions speaker named Pam Pierce. By early 2003, Pam was also hired by Scofield and later that year Ben finally convinced her to go on a date with him. Ben and Pam were married in October of 2007, and made the move to Memphis and First Evangelical Church where Ben served as the College Pastor. During their time in Memphis, they added three incredible kids to the family- Pierce, age 8, Anna Kate, who loves Frozen, age 5, and Claire, age 4. In 2014, Ben accepted the call to pastor Calvary Church in Moorhead. Ben has been blessed to be a part of 13 short term mission trips through the churches that he has served, mostly to support long term missionaries.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, September 11, 2017

    Time: 6:00 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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    Daryl Thompson

    Northern Plains District EFCA, Bismarck ND

    Daryl is a native North Dakotan. He came to faith in Jesus Christ as a college student and found the trajectory of his life changed. He has served three churches in his thirty year pastoral career and currently serves as the superintendent for the Northern Plains District of the EFCA. He is passionate about healthy, fruitful and multiplying churches. He and his lovely wife, Beth, have four children and six grandchildren. They live in Bismarck, ND.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, September 18, 2017

    Time: 6:00 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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    Pete Youlden

    Moorhead MN

    Pete has been on staff with Cru for 26 years. The past 19 years have been in the Fargo/Moorhead area where he served as the Fargo/Moorhead area team leader. Currently he serves as the Mobilization Director over an eight state area. He has a growing passion for all nations and has had the opportunity to lead 9 trips to East Asia varying in length from one week to 10 months. Pete has been married to Grace for 25 years and they have two daughters, Olivia (20) and Clara (17).
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, September 25, 2017

    Time: 6:00 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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    Bob Ona

    Northview Church, Fargo ND

    Dr. Robert Ona was born in northwestern Minnesota, a second generation American of Norwegian heritage. At the age of nine he received Christ at a Bible Camp and was called into the ministry. He has a varied background that includes serving in the army during the Vietnam Conflict, operating coffee houses during the “Jesus Movement”, serving as Alumni President of North Central University, and holding various ministry positions. He holds a BS in Bible and Pastoral Studies, an MBA in Church Management, and a DPhil in the Sociological Integration of Religion and Society. Dr. Ona is currently a Senior Pastor in Fargo, North Dakota which is near his birthplace. His interests outside the local church include missions projects (in January he participated in an emergency medical team in Haiti), church planting (he recently pioneered a Swahili speaking church in Fargo), university ministries (last fall he launched a campus ministry in Grand Forks, North Dakota) and functioning as a mentor to people in ministry. Dr. Ona and his wife, Sharon have been married 37 years and have two grown children: a daughter living in metropolitan Milwaukee, and son living in Shanghai, China. They are the happy grandparents of three grandsons, aged 7, 6 and 3… and another one on the way.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, October 2, 2017

    Time: 6:00 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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    Steve Krier

    Ignite Church, Moorhead MN

    Steve planted Ignite Church (Moorhead, MN) in 2011 which has grown into a church which is passionate about sending people out to impact the world in the name of Christ.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, October 9, 2017

    Time: 6:00 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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    Mark Strand

    Fargo ND

    Mark Strand worked in public health research and project development in China for twenty years. Mark was Executive Director of a non-profit organization that provided Christian professionals to work in medicine, agriculture and education as a means to develop China's society and as an expression of Christian love. Mark and his wife Rene raised their three children in China.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, October 16, 2017

    Time: 6:00 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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    Nancy Friesen

    Fargo ND

    Nancy Friesen has spent several years of her adult life working in S. Asia as an educator, mother and wife. She currently works as an ELL teacher in a middle school setting in Fargo, ND.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, October 23, 2017

    Time: 6:00 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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    Bob Peckham

    Frontiers, Gilbert AZ

    Bob has served with Frontiers for over 30 years. He and his wife spent many years on the field working with and leading church-planting teams. Bob also served as a field director for Frontiers before transitioning to his current role as U.S. Director.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, October 30, 2017

    Time: 6:00 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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    Lesson 10 Video Instruction

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    Dennis Cochrane (pictured) and Pam Arlund
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, November 6, 2017

    Time: 6:00 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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    Andy Krause

    EFCA ReachGlobal, MInneapolis MN

    Andy currently serves with EFCA ReachGlobal as Leader of Partnership Development for their ministry in Asia. He has served as pastor in the USA, church planter in a Muslim context in Asia, and church mobilizer.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, November 13, 2017

    Time: 6:00 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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    Andrew Minch

    Wycliffe Bible Translators, Dixon IL

    Andy Minch is an Associate editor for the Perspective's Reader 5th edition and a 5 star instructor. He has instructed well over 100 Perspectives lessons over the past 30 years. He has spent 20 years working as a Bible translator in Papua New Guinea with Wycliffe Bible Translators. For eleven years he was an international administrator helping oversee about 20% of the world's remaining translation needs. Presently he is part of Wycliffe’s National Speaker’s bureau speaking on college campuses and other venues. He is author of the book 'Words Can Not Express'.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, November 20, 2017

    Time: 6:00 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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    Jake Peterson

    River City Church, Fargo ND

    As a college student, God gripped Jake’s heart with a vision of the local church gripped by and engaged in proclaiming the Gospel. After 7 years serving as a worship leader and working with college students, God has affirmed the call help plant River City Church in 2009. In 2019 Jake was called and affirmed as the Lead Pastor of River City church where he leads in preaching and vision. Jake is married to Amy and they have five children, Natalie, Benjamin, Norah, Lucy and Ruby. Jake enjoys time with his family, motorcycles, a good round of disk golf and a good cup of coffee.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, November 27, 2017

    Time: 6:00 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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    Jan S

    Fergus Falls MN

    
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, December 4, 2017

    Time: 6:00 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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    Joseph Shane Bennett

    Healing Nations , Rye CO

    Shane helps Christians love Muslims and Muslims love Jesus. He has served in missions mobilization since 1987, recruiting, training, and sending short term research teams. He's been on teams in Bangkok, Bombay, and Turkey and he's lived among Muslim migrants in Europe. Shane writes a weekly email called Muslim Connect that helps Christians think about Muslims the way God does and love them like Jesus does. He works with Healing Nations and he and his family live in southern Colorado.
    
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    Date: Monday, December 11, 2017

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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