Class Info

Date: Monday, January 14, 2019

Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: Eastbrook Church 5353 N. Green Bay Ave. Milwaukee WI 53209

Contact: Elizabeth Kohli

(414) 837-7138

• • Registration & Orientation

    Registration & Orientation

  • Instructor

    Kari Malone

    West Bend WI

    Radically coming to faith at age 19, Kari knew within months that God was calling her to follow Him to the nations. She and her husband followed Him to Eastern Siberia where they lived out 8 of their early years as church planters and new parents to (eventually) 4 wonderful children. Returning to the USA in 2004, they settled in SE Wisconsin to lead a church plant, continue raising their family, and embrace God's heart for Unreached People Groups. Kari is now Director of Reach Global at their home church and dreams of living among an Unreached People Group in the future. As Kari waits, dreams, prays, mobilizes, and sends other, she also coaches a high school girl's cross country team in the hopes of impacting families in her hometown for Christ.

    
    

  • Date: Monday, January 14, 2019

    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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    John Zumwalt

    Outrageous Love, Choctaw OK

    John Zumwalt is the Cross Cultural Coach for the innovative organization, Outrageous Love. After serving as a missionary among the unreached Minnan he returned to America and for over 22 years served as the founder and Director of the Missionary Training Institute, Beautiful Feet Boot Camp. He has trained over 300 Career Missionaries. He has a Doctorate of Divinity from International University for Graduate Studies. John has authored the book, Passion for the Heart of God and travels widely, preaching and holding seminars, raising up activist to go to the ends of the earth. John and his wife, Jamie, also pastor a church in a “red light district” of Oklahoma City. They have five children, Jessica, Josiah, Jael, Jewel and James.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 21, 2019

    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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    Claude Hickman

    The Traveling Team, Riverside CA

    Claude Hickman is the Executive Director of The Traveling Team. Starting in 1999, He and his wife Rebecca spent seven years speaking to students at 49 of the 50 states and today Claude oversees teams that continue to visit every university in America every two years. Claude is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary and authored two books: Live Life On Purpose and It’s All Backward. Claude is also veteran BMX athlete and Guinness World Record holder who remains engaged judging and emceeing action sports events around the world. He lives with his wife and two boys in California where he is a regular teaching pastor at Sandals Church. Claude continues to develop leaders, speak around the nation, and awaken God's people to God's purpose.of Live Life On Purpose. He now lives with his family in Southern California, and continues to develop leaders, speak, and awaken God's people to God's purpose.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 28, 2019

    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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    Matthew Malone

    Elmbrook, Brookfield WI

    Matthew is a church planter, pastor, mobilizer and trainer. Currently he serves as the pastor of Mission for Elmbrook Church, a role where he is responsible for almost 80 field workers spread across the globe. Before that he and his family lived in Siberia for almost a decade helping start churches and encourage leaders. They returned to the states in 2004 and planted a multi-site church in Washington County, Wisconsin. He also currently serves as the Wisconsin area mobilizer for Perspectives and loves seeing people take steps of involvement in God’s mission. Matthew and Kari were married in 1994 and have four children. Matthew is a hack triathlete, which means he enjoys biking and swimming, and endures running.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 4, 2019

    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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    Manohar James

    , Verona WI

    Dr. Manohar James holds a Ph.D. in Intercultural Studies from Asbury Theological Seminary, USA. He is currently serving as a Minister of Intercultural Ministry at High Point Church, Madison, WI. As an adjunct professor, he teaches at Alliance Theological Seminary (NY, USA), The Alliance Institute for Mission (Sydney, Australia), Mission India Theological Seminary (Nagpur, India), and Christian Life College (Madison, WI). Before coming to the US for higher education, he served in India for 15 years as an evangelist, church planter, and seminary professor. While church planting in Himachal Pradesh (India) he suffered severe beatings twice for the sake of preaching the gospel and bringing people to Christ. He is the founder of Serving Alongside International (www.ServingAlongside.org), a non-profit Christian organization in the USA which annually trains about 1200 indigenous pastors in India. He often travels to India to train pastors. Dr. James and his wife Jasmine live in Madison, WI, along with their sons Jason (7 years) and Jonathan (2 years).
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 11, 2019

    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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    Scott Bessenecker

    InterVarsity, Madison WI

    Scott Bessenecker is Director Global Engagement and Justice for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. He is author of The New Friars: The Emerging Movement Serving the World’s Poor, among other books. He frequently speaks and writes about issues of poverty, justice and global missions and sends more than 2,000 students each year on short term mission experiences through InterVarsity. Scott blogs at overturningtables.com
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 18, 2019

    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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    Nathaniel Allen

    Global Outfitters, Fayetteville AR

    Nathan Allen is the Global Missions pastor at New Heights Church in Fayetteville, AR and the Director of Global Outfitters. He has a Bachelors of Arts in History and political Science from the University of Arkansas. He is currently pursuing a Masters in Theological Studies from Reformed Theological Seminary.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 25, 2019

    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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    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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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 4, 2019

    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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    Thomas Freeman

    Ethnos360 Bible Institute, Waukesha WI

    Passionate about introducing people (believers and non-believers alike) into fellowship with our transcendent God and the Body of Christ. My wife, Jennifer, and I joined Ethnos360 in 1999 and have enjoyed ministering in Missionary Training since.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 11, 2019

    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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    Lee Wanak

    Asian Theological Seminary/Asia Graduate School of Theology, Madison WI

    As a career missionary, Lee is passionate about holistic Christian nurture and discipleship in developing biblical values and skills for cross-cultural ministry. During his early years in Mindanao, Philippines he served as Director of Training and Church Planting among tribal minorities. In his later years he served as Dean and Professor of Education, Urban Ministry, and Intercultural Studies at Asian Theological Seminary and Asia Graduate School of Theology in Manila. His interests and activities include holistic urban ministry, unreached peoples, ministry training, worldview perspectives, intercultural communication, cultural anthropology, sociology, and world religions. His writings focus on contextual theological education and pastoral training. He currently serves as V.P. for Educational Development at iTEE Global a pastoral training organization in the Asia, Africa and Latin America.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 18, 2019

    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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    Tom Keppeler

    Milwaukee WI

    Tom grew up in the Milwaukee area and currently serves as Executive Director of PRISM Economic Development Corporation in the Sherman Park neighborhood of Milwaukee. Previous to his current role, he served for 13 years on the pastoral staff of Elmbrook Church in Brookfield, Wisconsin overseeing Elmbrook’s global and local mission outreach.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 1, 2019

    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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    Tawnya Ganfield

    , Glendale WI

    TAWNYA GANFIELD has spent over two decades in international, Christian ministry. She designed and taught spiritual formation classes highlighting that Christ is for all cultures. Her cultural knowledge has been leveraged as a mediator for conflict resolution with missionary teams and intercultural colleagues. Ms. Ganfield has hosted multiple internationals in her home for both long-term and short-term stays. She headed the international hosting program at her local church for many years. Her experience includes participating on the receiving team for refugee resettlement and assistance. Maintaining healthy diversity at the church school is a priority. She has delivered cultural trainings to church worship choirs and multicultural leaders’ networks, lay volunteers and church staff on the topic of culture and its implications in a church environment. Most recently, Ms. Ganfield has assisted multicultural churches with their cultural integration efforts and furthered diversity and inclusion efforts among homogenous church congregations.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 8, 2019

    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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    Pamela Lovett

    Wales WI

    My husband and I have been involved in mission work in Asia and Central Asia since 1983, together. We raised our children in Central Asia where the 2 main languages were Persian and Russian. We are grateful that God guided us to make friends in that region of the world and that we were able to join God in what He was doing out that way.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 15, 2019

    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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    Jenny Ellefson

    Glendale WI

    Born and raised in Manchester, England, for 8 years I trained young adults in mission in Sheffield, UK. Then five years doing a church plant in Pretoria South Africa; being mentored for three years in DMM. Upon completion of a Masters in Missiology and Development in the UK, I went to Burundi, where I trained nationals in holistic mission with a strong emphasis on DMM. Now, with my local church in Milwaukee, WI I serve to develop missional communities and DMM among the refugee community.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 22, 2019

    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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    Ron Lindsey

    Ethnos360, Waukesha WI

    Ron Lindsey, is the President of Ethnos360 Bible Institute and speaks with first hand experience regarding church planting among unreached people groups in remote environments. Ron and his family lived with a remote people in the jungles of Papua New Guinea for 18 years. Ron's experiences include jungle airstrip construction, language and culture acquisition, chronological approach to church planting and, Bible translation. Currently Ron serves as the President of Ethnos360 Bible Institute, in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Ron and Carrie's sons have completed missionary training with one serving in Prague, Czech Republic. Lessons of Competence:1,2, 14
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 29, 2019

    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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    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: Monday, May 6, 2019

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

• • Celebration

    Graduation & Commissioning

    Celebration

  • Instructor

    Matthew Malone

    Elmbrook, Brookfield WI

    Matthew is a church planter, pastor, mobilizer and trainer. Currently he serves as the pastor of Mission for Elmbrook Church, a role where he is responsible for almost 80 field workers spread across the globe. Before that he and his family lived in Siberia for almost a decade helping start churches and encourage leaders. They returned to the states in 2004 and planted a multi-site church in Washington County, Wisconsin. He also currently serves as the Wisconsin area mobilizer for Perspectives and loves seeing people take steps of involvement in God’s mission. Matthew and Kari were married in 1994 and have four children. Matthew is a hack triathlete, which means he enjoys biking and swimming, and endures running.

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    Date: Monday, May 13, 2019

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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