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Aiken, SC F17
Fall 2017
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You are invited to be a part of this unique course: Perspectives on the
World Christian Movement!
It is an
adventure of a lifetime taking you deeper into the Bible than you've ever gone before. After this course, your life
will never be the same.
What: Perspectives
is a 15-week discipleship course that will change the way you view the world around you. Perspectives will open
your eyes to the heart and purpose of God, and how you can take part in His work all
over the world, from the urban and suburban streets of America to the rain forests
and deserts of distant lands. Whether single, married, student, homemaker,
professional, retired, involved in apartment ministry, homeless ministry, youth, men or
women's ministry, you will explore God's heart for every tribe, tongue, and language He
created.
When: Monday evenings, 6:30 - 9:00 PM, August 21
- December 11, 2017
Where: Millbrook Baptist
Church, 223 S. Aiken Blvd SE, "The Mill" Youth Building, Aiken, SC 29803.
Cost: $275 per person (includes textbook)
- Register before July 31, 2017 to receive a $35 Early Bird Discount!
- Family Members taking the class together will pay regular price for the first family member and $75 off every additional family member.
- Alumni Pricing – Free with no new books, $60 Certificate Level (includes 4th edition Reader & Study Guide).
You will have the opportunity to learn from 15 highly-regarded missions leaders
and mentors. They will challenge and inspire you with their personal experiences,
opening your eyes to see just how big God is, and how much He desires that all might
come to know Him. For those who may not be sure whether this course is for them, the
first two lessons can be taken without any financial obligation.
For details: Contact either Sandy Spence (803-507-4880, ) or Harry Harmon (803-641-0407, ). For more general information about the course and to watch promotional videos, please check out
the Perspectives website: www.perspectives.org or "Perspectives Class Aiken,
SC" on Facebook. To enroll online, go to www.perspectives.org and find Aiken, SC
class.
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Instructor
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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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Instructor
Glenn Mason
Carver International Missions, Stonecrest GA
Rev. Mason and his wife Kimberly served as missionaries in Liberia in the 90s, teaching in high school and Bible college, counseling, and supervising field staff. Upon their return to Atlanta, Glenn was appointed Executive Director of their agency, Carver Int’l Missions. Glenn’s main role is motivating the Church toward global engagement.
Glenn earned his BA in Psychology and Sociology from UPenn, and has done grad studies at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia.
The Masons have two adult daughters, Eliana and Calin. Glenn and Kim attend Fellowship Bible Church in Roswell GA.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, August 28, 2017
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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David Cashin
Columbia Int'l University, Columbia SC
Dr. Cashin is professor of intercultural studies at Columbia Int'l University. He is fluent in Bengali and Swedish. The 1st due to investing 9 years with Bengali speakers (the 6th largest living language). The 2nd, thru marriage to Margareta, pastoring churches and earning his PhD in Indiology at Stockholm University. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 4, 2017
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Instructor
Phillip Dunn
Aiken SC
Dr. Dunn became pastor of
Millbrook in 2014. Prior to
Millbrook, he pastored North Star
Community Church in Fort Lauderdale. He has also served churches in Texas and
Florida. His personal ministry motto
is “To know the life of Christ and to make Him known.”
Pastor Dunn is a graduate of Liberty University and
Southwestern Baptist Seminary.
Dr. Dunn and his wife, Jamie, have three children,
Brenden, Reese, and Indee.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 11, 2017
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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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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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 18, 2017
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Gene Jennings
TrueNorth Church, North Augusta SC
Gene has served churches in Texas, Georgia, and South Carolina. He has spoken and served throughout the U.S. He has spoken and served in many countries over the years and traveled to every continent except Antarctica.
Gene is the Associate Pastor of TrueNorth Church in North Augusta, SC. He is the author of 4 books, Discovering God's Plan, The God Robbers, Laughing With Sarah, and Timely Words.
He is a graduate of USC-Aiken and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He and his wife Beth have 2 adult children and 5 grandchildren. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 25, 2017
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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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. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 2, 2017
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Jonathan St Clair
Riverland Hills Baptist Church, Columbia SC
Jonathan and Abby St.Clair served with Africa Inland Mission from January 2013 to June 2022. Until 2018, they helped lead AIM’s T.E.E. program (Theological Education by Extension) based in Mokhotlong, Lesotho. In June 2019, they moved to AIM's Diaspora Region based in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, serving in international refugee resettlement and sharing the love of Jesus with refugees through cooperation with the Spanish evangelical church. Jonathan now serves as the Missions Pastor at Riverland Hills Baptist Church in Irmo, South Carolina. The St.Clairs have four kids - Kyle (2011), Ellee (2013), Sadie (2015), and Rose (2019). b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 9, 2017
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Marti Wade
Pioneers, Hillsboro OR
Marti has been teaching Perspectives since the 1990’s and serving with Pioneers (Pioneers.org) since 2007, where she is the editorial director for the Marketing Team. Previously she was part of a ministry that sent teams to conduct ethnographic research to support strategic prayer and ministry efforts in unreached cities. She is the editor and publisher of the weekly Missions Catalyst newsletter (MissionsCatalyst.net) and serves on the board for MissionWorks (MissionWorks.global). b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 16, 2017
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Abraham Thomas
Royal Agape Int'l Ministry, Valparaiso IN
Abraham Thomas founded Agape Royal Ministries in 1993.
Abraham came to faith as boy, when his Mom led him to the Lord. After graduation from Bible College Abraham began his ministry of preaching and teaching.
Abraham’s wife’s family were the first converts to an Evangelical faith in their village. They were ostracized and ridiculed, but the church they established is still growing today.
Agape Royal has planted 400 churches, establish 16 children’s homes and begun an accredited Bible College. Their goal is to "Reach the Unreached".
The Thomas’ have 3 children, Asher Finney and twins Achsa & Ann, all born again and baptized.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 23, 2017
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Trevor Castor
Columbia Int'l University, Columbia SC
Trevor and his wife, Katie and their three children live in Columbia, South Carolina where Trevor serves as the Managing Director of the Zwemer Center for Muslim Studies. Prior to coming to the Zwemer Center Trevor and his wife served with Youth With a Mission for seven years. During their missionary service, they worked in a 100% Muslim country in South Asia. He is also a PhD candidate and his research interest is in Muslim Christian relations. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 30, 2017
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Chuck P.
Cumming GA
Chuck is the Founder and Executive Director of Cafe 1040, Inc. an organization that takes Christian college students overseas for a 3-month missions experience inside the 10/40 Window. The organization's goal is not to make missionaries; it is to bring clarity of decision and to offer the facts of a missional vocation within the 10/40 Window so that young believers can make informed decisions about the path of their lives. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 6, 2017
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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David Cashin
Columbia Int'l University, Columbia SC
Dr. Cashin is professor of intercultural studies at Columbia Int'l University. He is fluent in Bengali and Swedish. The 1st due to investing 9 years with Bengali speakers (the 6th largest living language). The 2nd, thru marriage to Margareta, pastoring churches and earning his PhD in Indiology at Stockholm University. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 13, 2017
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Ken Temple
Faith Global Missions, Lawrenceville GA
Ken loves Jesus, only because Jesus first loved him! (I John 4:10, 19) Only because of the grace of God in salvation, can we do any ministry. Ken is an ordained minister, missionary among Muslims since 1993, 3 years overseas; speaks a major Middle East Muslim language. Teaches and trains leaders (former Muslims) in Bible, theology, Discipleship, hermeneutics, church history; and mobilizes others for missions. Ken teaches lessons 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, & 15 b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 20, 2017
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Ken West
Retired - Ethnos360 (Formerly New Tribes Mission), Spartanburg SC
Ken & Cindy West: Missionaries with New Tribes Mission.
1978-1999 - Ken and Cindy served in Indonesia in a variety of ministries including Tribal evangelism and church planting, NTM Field leadership and administration, small group Bible studies, discipleship and counseling with internationals. Since 1999 Ken & Cindy have served as trainers in the NTM Missions Institute and as NTM Representives in the Southeast. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 27, 2017
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Cindy Keehn
Missions Mobilizer, Canton NC
After her first mission trip to Eastern Europe in 1991, Cindy joined Christian Outreach International, an evangelistic sports ministry,living 5 years in the Czech Republic helping to organize and lead short term sports missions.Once stateside,with her life radically impacted, Cindy cont to be involved in multiple STM trips to Czech doing prayer ministry, English teaching,and youth camps.Cindy's heart is to mobilize the church to fulfill the Great Commission and to utilize quality short term trips to impact both the participants and the world in which they serve. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, December 4, 2017
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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