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Indianapolis, IN F18
Fall 2018
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Welcome to the Eagle Perspectives Class! Tuesday Evenings, August 7 - November 13, 2018 6:30 - 9:30 pm Eagle Church, 5801 South Main St., Whitestown, IN 46075 __________________________________________________________
God has an epic story. Discover your role in it. __________________________________________________________
Perspectives is a transformational course that will enhance your spiritual life wherever you are on your journey. Whether you aspire to overseas ministry or are firmly settled in Indianapolis, Perspectives will inspire you to find your place in the expansion of God's kingdom. This 15 week class is designed to help you actively share your faith and participate in the Great Commission.
Each week, you'll hear from a new instructor who will share amazing insights into ministry, personal experiences from decades on the mission field and relevant information on how to live out the Great Commission wherever God places you.
The Perspectives material will walk you through four areas of the World Christian Movement: 1. The Biblical Foundation for World Missions. 2. The History of the Missions Movement. 3. Effective Ways to Work Across Cultures. 4. Strategic Ways to Plug into His Story and see the Great Commission completed.
Perspectives will encourage you to follow Jesus with a greater passion and lead others to do the same. Join us for an incredible journey this fall.
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ENROLLMENT OPTIONS
Certificate Level: This level is recommended for those who seek to gain a deeper understanding of the topics. It involves weekly homework assignments, five "Personal Reflections", and one research project due at the end of the course. This level requires about 4 hours of work per week. We highly recommend this level to get the most from this class.
Key Reading Level: This level requires about 1 to 2 hours of reading per week with no written homework. There are five "Personal Reflections" assigned during the course which would require approximately an hour each to complete.
First Night Free: If you are curious about Perspectives you can attend the first lesson night for free. After Lesson One if you choose, you can still register as a student. See class coordinator for more information.
Credit Level: A more in-depth study with 3 semester credit hours. More information and Course Syllabus upon request. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________
Prices for the course vary depending on the level at which you choose to take the course. The levels and prices are as follows:
$250 Key Reading (Audit) Level $250 Certificate Level $500 Undergrad or Graduate Credit
Alumni $15 Key Reading Level (Covers administration costs) $50 Certificate (Covers administration, books and grading costs)
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DISCOUNTS
Early Bird Discount: Enroll before June 10th and receive a $25 discount! Family Member Discount: Family members taking the class together can share a book and receive a $30 discount. Book Discount: If you already have a set of books or if you purchase the Kindle version online, you can receive a $30 book discount. Alumni Pricing: All alumni are welcome in Perspectives class. Minimal fees are listed above. If you have a book and are taking the class at Certificate level you can receive the book discount. First Night Free: If you are still not sure about Perspectives, please come to the first night free and check it out for yourself. If you like it, you can still sign up after the meeting.
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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
Kyle Maloney
SIM, Carmel IN
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Nate Irwin
Indianapolis IN
Born and raised in Pakistan by missionary parents, Nate has spent a total of 29 years in that country. From 1986-2000, he and his wife served as missionaries with TEAM in Pakistan. He has now been at College Park Church in Indianapolis for 22 years in the global outreach department. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Jason Kandel
Global Outreach International, Mooreville MS
For 10 years, my family and I lived in the Middle East working in church planting, community development, and business as missions. We have 4 boys, 2 of whom were born in our host country. We moved back to the USA in October 2016 in order to take a pastoral position there. After 4 years in that position, the Lord opened an opportunity to take a position with Global Outreach International as the Vice President of Operations. We are excited about mobilizing people at our church and organization to further engage in God's mission to recruit more worshippers while we remain involved in the work happening in the Middle East. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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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. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Kathlene Fulton
Church of God Hospital-Haiti, Anderson IN
In 1993, when Kathy Fulton was a young mother and wife, she and her husband participated in a short-term medical mission trip to Haiti. After frequent trips to Haiti in the years that followed, she and her husband Mark left their careers in speech pathology and dentistry (respectively) and moved to Haiti in 2015 to help manage (alongside the indigenous administrative team) a small hospital in rural Haiti. The mission statement of the nonprofit they formed to assist in empowering the staff is “to share the gospel of Jesus Christ through a healthcare alliance with the people of Haiti”. They have 3 grown children, one of whom is married, and 2 adorable grandchildren. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Crescent Project, Columbus IN
My missions interest was birthed in college. During my
senior year I took Perspectives and it greatly affected my life.
I went into missions mobilization for a few years. I also
participated in two different ethnographic research trips in
the Muslim world for the purposes of church planting. My
family and I served 10 years in Kazakhstan, Central Asia on a
church planting team. Currently I am on staff with Crescent
Project, a ministry that reaches out to Muslims throughout
North America.
I am married to Maria and we have four children. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Luke Fetters
Huntington University, Huntington IN
Luke Fetters is the Vice President for Academic Affairs & Dean of the Faculty at Huntington University. Previously, he served as professor of Ministry & Missions and founder/director of Huntington University's Institute for TESOL Studies. Luke served in Macau from 1986 until 1997 as the director of the English Language Program, a conversational English program for adults in Macau. While in Macau, he helped to establish the United Brethren Mission and plant two local churches. For nearly 30 years, Luke has consulted on English teaching methodology for numerous school districts and universities in China. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Barbara Yandell
Hope for the Nations, Round Rock TX
President Hope for the Nations, director of Engage Course and teacher at Horizons International, ordained minister and board member of the Alliance of Reformed Churches, Interserve USA, founder of Legacy Muslim Ministry conference. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Eldon
Refugee assistance, Fort Wayne IN
Youth With A Mission is an international movement of Christians from many denominations dedicated to serving Jesus throughout the world. Also known as YWAM (pronounced "WYE-wam"), their calling is to know God and to make Him known. When they began in 1960, their main focus was to get youth into short-term mission work and to give them opportunities to reach out in Jesus' name. Today, they still focus on youth, and they also involve people of almost every age (even many people who choose to spend their "retirement" in active service). Their many ministries fit into three main categories: evangelism, training and mercy ministry. They are currently operating in more than 1000 locations in over 149 countries, with a staff of nearly 16,000. Eldon has spent 8 years in Uzbekistan and is currently working with Somali and Burmese refugees in Fort Wayne, Indiana. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Instructor
David Giles
CMF International, Indianapolis IN
David Giles grew up in Ethiopia as an MK. He graduated from Milligan College and completed his master's degree in intercultural studies at Fuller's School of World Mission. David and his wife Linda served in Kenya among the Maasai from 1985-1994 with Christian Missionary Fellowship. David and Linda have three children. David has been serving in the CMF home office since 1994, first in Recruitment and currently serves as the Director of Church Catalyst Ministries for CMF International where he oversees the work of CMF in their church planting fields. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Jim Lo
, Marion IN
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Eric Black
Lagro IN
Using a team-teaching approach modeled in their work throughout the developing world, Eric and Johnson are Perspectives alumni and passionate promoters.
Eric combines a background in business and entrepreneurship with a contagious passion for missions. Johnson was a long-term church planter among working classes in an Asian urban setting shaping his approach to discipleship and business as mission. They have worked individually and together with teams in over 20 nations, most with restricted access. Currently they focus on training near-culture disciple-makers to multiply workers among least-reached peoples.
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2018
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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Kevin Dooley
Pioneer Bible Translators , Clayton IN
Kevin serves Pioneer Bible Translators in Marketplace Engagement for restricted access fields, and is founder and Exec Dir of Global Hope Initiatives. GHI promotes peace through Business, Education and Community Development Initiatives. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Brian Hogan
Disciple Making Mentors, Fayetteville AR
Brian and Louise Hogan have served in mission since 1987. From the Navajo Tribe to Outer Mongolia, their passion has been to see Jesus glorified and lifted up among those who have never known Him.
From 1993-1996 their team pioneered a church planting movement in Erdenet (AIR-DUH-NET), Mongolia that continues to grow under fully indigenous leadership to this day. Their Mongolian disciples are now training and sending out their own missionaries to other unreached people groups. The story of the work in Erdenet can be read in Brian’s book: There’s a Sheep in my Bathtub (Asteroidea Books), and in the case study article – “Distant Thunder: Mongols Follow the Khan of Khans” – on page 695 of your Perspectives Reader. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Jeannie Marie
Frontiers, Gilbert AZ
Jeannie Marie is a strategist for Frontiers, an international sending agency that recruits, trains, and sends long-term field-workers to more than fifty Muslim countries. She's also lived overseas in the Philippines and in India with her husband and four children, worked with refugees and international students locally, and worked at a church mobilizing.
Jeannie Marie is the author of Across the Street and Around the World: Following Jesus to the Nations in Your Neighborhood and Beyond, published by Thomas Nelson and the creator of the digital The Neighbors & Nations Course. Check out a lot of resources, like quizzes, blogs, free chapters, and training for going across the street and around the world at www.jeanniemarieacademy.com b
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Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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