Austin, TX - South // S18
Spring 2018
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You Were MADE FOR MORE!Use what's in you to bless the world around you!
Perspectives
is a 15 week life and learning opportunity that will change the way you
view the world around you. In it, you will have your eyes opened to the
heart and purpose of God, and how you can take part in His work all
over the world, from the urban streets of America to the rain forest and
deserts of distant lands. A fantastic array of pastors, theologians,
international missiologists and mobilizers will challenge
and inspire you with their personal experiences that will open your
eyes to see just how big God is, and how much He desires that all might
come to know Him. Whether
you are single, married, a student, a homemaker, a professional or
retired, Perspectives will bless and challenge your life and direction.
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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
Topher Lee
Launch Global, College Station TX
"Topher" has served in Central Asia, as a missions pastor at Hill Country Bible Church, Austin, led a mobilization and training hub for long term workers (launchglobal.org) in College Station, TX. He recently helped launch a university with the goal of seeing its students step out of poverty and into greater kingdom impact.
Topher loves to see the church planted and multiply in places it has never existed through ordinary people. He loves helping people find the intersection between their passions/skills and opportunities to make disciples among the unreached.
He is married to an extraordinary woman and ministry partner and has 2 children.
He'd love to go for a run while he is in town and talk about your dreams in the nations! b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 22, 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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Steve Hawthorne
Austin TX
Steve Hawthorne serves as the director of WayMakers, a prayer and mission mobilization organization in Austin, Texas. He's the author of the widely used prayer guide called Seek God for the City. After co-editing the course and the book Perspectives on the World Christian Movement in 1981, he launched “Joshua Project,” a series of research expeditions among unreached peoples in world class cities. He co-authored, with Graham Kendrick, the book Prayerwalking: Praying On-Site With Insight. He has helped leaders in numerous cities unite and sustain life-giving prayer for entire communities. With humor and seasoned wisdom, he speaks with living passion for the greater glory of Jesus. He says of his ministry, “I like to commit arson of the heart.” b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 29, 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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Jeff Lewis
Thirteen~FiftyTwo, Rome GA
Present Ministry: Founder/Director of Thirteen~FiftyTwo
Ministry highlights:
California Baptist University, Assistant Professor of Intercultural Studies for 18 years & Director of Mobilization for 4 years.
*Mobilizing & disciple making ministries for 36 years
*Assisted with indigenous mobilization leadership training and mobilization consultation with mission personnel in over 30 countries
*Planted and pastored two churches
*Instructor/trainer for Perspectives Global Desk
*Co-founder & Co-Director of Passion Conferences 1996-2000
*Author of God's Heart for the Nations, Christ Love Compels Me, and Calling: A Scriptural Journey.
*Missions Leadership with three Boards of the Southern Baptist Convention for 14+ years
*College swimming coach at the University of TN & Lock Haven State University
Married to Elaine McClary, for 49 years. We have seven children and 20 grand children, so far.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 5, 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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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. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 12, 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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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, February 19, 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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Steve Hawthorne
Austin TX
Steve Hawthorne serves as the director of WayMakers, a prayer and mission mobilization organization in Austin, Texas. He's the author of the widely used prayer guide called Seek God for the City. After co-editing the course and the book Perspectives on the World Christian Movement in 1981, he launched “Joshua Project,” a series of research expeditions among unreached peoples in world class cities. He co-authored, with Graham Kendrick, the book Prayerwalking: Praying On-Site With Insight. He has helped leaders in numerous cities unite and sustain life-giving prayer for entire communities. With humor and seasoned wisdom, he speaks with living passion for the greater glory of Jesus. He says of his ministry, “I like to commit arson of the heart.” b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 26, 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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Andy Kampman
Launch Global and Austin Stone Community Church, Austin TX
Empowering this generation to bless all nations. Andy
and Jamie Kampman did college ministry for 8 years.
In 2006, they help start Launch Global and now also works with Austin Stone Community Church as Director of Mobilization.
Their strong desire is to see young people engaged in the evangelization of the world! They have four children and live in Austin, TX. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 5, 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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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 12, 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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Blake McDaniel
The Navigators, World Missions, Cedar Park TX
Since 1996, Blake has equipped individuals and local church leaders to become more effective and strategic in their cross-cultural engagement with the great commission through The Navigators, Pioneers, ACMC (Advancing Churches in Missions Commitment), and his home church (Hill Country Bible Church). He currently serves as The Navigators Eurasia and MENA mobilization director and church partnerships director through World Missions. And he serves as a certified life and leadership coach. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 19, 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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Edward Speyers
Wycliffe Bible Translators, Saugatuck MI
Ed and Linda Speyers joined Wycliffe Bible Translators in 1976 and invested 20 years (1979-1999) in South America doing incarnational ministry which included Bible Translation among the Suriname Javanese people. In March 2000 the fruit of their efforts culminated in the dedication of the Suriname Javanese New Testament.
At the time this also marked the 500th New Testament in which Wycliffe members (known as SIL overseas) had been involved.
The Suriname Javanese New Testament also marked a transition in the way Bible translation was approached in the years that followed. Until this translation, most
projects were done by generalists. That is, field workers handled nearly all of the
logistics of a translation project such as linguistics, literacy, translation, distribution, and Scripture Use.
The Suriname Javanese project was a different approach to translation in that local speakers were equipped to become proficient themselves in Bible translation techniques and all other aspects of the work. This led to greater involvement of local speakers which led to more proficiency and ultimately greater accuracy. With this approach, the Speyers assumed a more facilitator-type role as expatriates on the translation team with the nationals as the specialists in their own areas of expertise.
Largely because of this transfer of ownership and responsibility, translation of the Old Testament continued by the Suriname Javanese translators until August 2018 when the entire Bible was completed and dedicated. Around this same time, Wycliffe marked their involvement in the 1000th New Testament. The first 500 took 67 years and the second 500 took 17 years. This indicates the accelerated pace of Bible translation today.
The Speyers currently reside in MI and serve as recruiters on Wycliffe’s Mobilization team traveling to graduate schools and seminaries nationwide looking and praying for translation consultants and exegetical workers. They love to tell their story and encourage others to join the movement of God called Bible translation. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 26, 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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Pam Arlund
All Nations, Kansas City MO
Pam is currently the Co-Editor of Perspectives 5th Edition and a member of All Nations. She lived in Central Asia for ten years, where she planted churches among three people groups, two of whom are Muslim. She earned an MA and PhD in Linguistics (i.e. Bible Translation) from the University of Texas at Arlington. She has published numerous books and articles in missions. She is most well known as “The Stick Figure Lady” for her popular book “Stick Figures Save the World.” b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 2, 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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Larry Singletary
Xtreme Teams International & Building New Bridges, Saint Hedwig TX
Started my Following Jesus from first grade. I was called into the ministry by age 14. I attended Wheaton College in 1974-5. I transferred to East Texas Baptist College and graduated with a Major in Sociology and a Minor in Religion in 1978. I have a Masters of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. I have been married to Terry (Halford) Singletary since 1978. We have 3 adult children. We spent 12 years in the pastorate in New Braunfels, TX at Lakeside Baptist Church. I took Perspectives in 1991 and then sensed the call to full-time missions in 1992. Our family spent 10 years among the Karamojong of Uganda, East Africa. We have been training through mentoring and mobilizing through our non-profit organization called Xtreme Teams International, Inc. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 9, 2018
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Kent Parks
Beyond. Formerly "Act Beyond" and "Mission to Unreached Peoples", Plano TX
http://beyond.org/president/
Kent Parks is President and CEO of Beyond (formerly "Act Beyond" & "Mission to Unreached Peoples"). See beyond.org for a powerful video. This mission sending organization is focused on launching Disciple-Making Movements (also called Church Planting Movements) among the Unreached People Groups of the world. This 29% of the world does not have even access to witness of word or deed about Jesus in any kind within their culture. Act Beyond is focused on global collaboration to change this spiritual injustice.
Kent and his wife Erika worked among Muslims in Asia for 20 years. They continue to lead regular Disciple-Making Movement trainings around the world. He continues to occasionally teach graduate courses in mission strategy.
Previously, he coordinated outreach strategies for Unreached People Groups, and developed trans-national, trans-denominational networks at various levels. Kent also pastored in Texas for 7 years before going to the mission field. He has been a seminary professor, the academic dean of a seminary and has taught internationally in a graduate school. Kent is Co-Facilitator for the Ethne (a global network of UPG-focused leaders; is a part of the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission and is Senior Assoc. for Least Reached Peoples with the Lausanne Committee on World Evangelization.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 16, 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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Chris McBride
Woodway TX
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Date: Monday, April 23, 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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William Taylor
TaylorGlobalConsult, Austin TX
BRIEF BIO ON WILLIAM (BILL) TAYLOR
William D. Taylor, Ph.D., TaylorGlobalConsult, President http://taylorglobalconsult.org; http://taylorglobalconsult.org Mentor and writer, teacher and consultant. 4807 Palisade Dr., Austin, TX 78731 USA 512 801 3004 btaylorgc@gmail.com; http://theglobalpilgrim.com
Bill Taylor, a (TCP: third culture person), was born in Costa Rica of missionary parents and has lived 30 years in Latin America. He went to the USA for his senior year of high school, and returned to Latin America after college, seminary and graduate school (Moody Bible Institute, diploma; North Texas University, BA; Dallas Theological Seminary, Th.M.; University of Texas, Austin--Ph.D. in Latin American studies). He is a former Texas staff member of Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. From 1968-1985 Bill and his artist wife, Yvonne served 17 years in Guatemala (where their three children were born) in leadership development, theological education and church planting. They served on the founding team of Centro Bíblico el Camino in Guatemala City, their sending church in 1985. Bill and Yvonne have three married adult children and eight grand children. He continues as a visiting professor in seminaries (Seminario Teológico Centroamericano, Trinity School of Ministry, Columbia International University, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) and missionary training in other nations.
From 1986-2006 he served as Executive Director of the Mission Commission of World Evangelical Alliance and for another decade served as MC Senior Mentor as well as coordinating the MC publication program. He is a writer and editor of a number of mission publications in English and Spanish. His publications include Global Mission Handbook: A Guide to Cross-cultural Mission (with Steve Hoke), 2009; lead editor of Sorrow and Blood: Christian Mission in Contexts of Suffering, Persecution and Martyrdom, 2012; Misiones Mundiales, CLASE-SETECA, 2013; co-editor, Spirituality in Mission: Embracing the Life-Long Journey, 2018.
At the end of 2016 he concluded his 30 years with the WEA Mission Commission, strongly assured of new callings at this season of his elder life.
As founder and president of TaylorGlobalConsult, he now invests most of his time in selective mentoring-apprenticing of key leaders, writing, teaching and consulting with agencies, schools, churches and business-as-mission ventures, and speaking to address key issues of our world today.
Yvonne DeAcutis Taylor is a native-born Texan from Dallas. With a university degree in liberal
arts/music from the University of North Texas, she is Bill’s full partner serving him as a critical thinker and sounding board, editing his writings, and ministering with him locally and internationally. She and Bill are patrons of the arts and she is an accomplished classical pianist; they enjoy Irish dancing, all things Italian, reading, and photography. She also cherishes her role as a mother and grandmother and being able to serve/love/pray for her family. She is an intercessor and woman of wisdom.
Finding themselves in a later stage of life, Bill and Yvonne desire to serve and strengthen Christ’s global Church, locally and globally, and to finish their own race with faithfulness and integrity.
December 2017
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 30, 2018
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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