Class Info

Date: Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: Go To Nations Ministry Center 3771 Spring Park Road Jacksonville FL 32207

Contact: Victor Barousse

813-481-5556

• • Registration & Orientation

    Registration and Orientation

    Registration & Orientation

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    Mitch Arbelaez

    Go To Nations , Jacksonville FL

    Dr. Mitch is based in Jacksonville, Florida at the World Headquarters of Go To Nations where he is helping as a full-time missionary and mobilizer providing overall leadership and training to missionaries involved in this worldwide agency. From his home base in Jacksonville Dr. Mitch travels the world mobilizing churches to incorporate missions into the DNA of the local church to help complete the Great Commission. Dr. Mitch Arbeláez earned his Doctor of Ministry degree in Leadership and Global Perspectives through George Fox University and his Master of Divinity in Missiology from Regent University. Dr. Mitch has been in ministry since 1989. He has served as a Sr. Pastor for 7 ½ years. He has traveled to 27 nations preaching and teaching the great Gospel of Jesus.

    
    

  • Date: Tuesday, January 9, 2018

    Time: 6:30 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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    Nicole Parks

    Cafe 1040, Cumming GA

    God has been calling Nicole to missions since before she was walking with Him. She graduated from the University of Georgia with a BBA in International Business and Risk Management. Through studying abroad twice in college, God began to open her eyes to her love of other cultures, languages, and travel. After graduation, she worked in financial services for a few years before God called her into ministry. While working for North Point Ministries, she went on her first short-term missions trip. Through 2 trips to the 10/40 window, God called her into vocational missions. In 2014, she joined the staff of Cafe 1040 first as a mobilizer and then as a team lead. She now serves on their board of directors. She is also the Missions Director at Restoration Church in Alpharetta. She is passionate about the unreached, mobilization, and God's heart for the nations.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, January 16, 2018

    Time: 6:30 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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    Jaime Saint

    I-TEC, Dunnellon FL

    Jaime was born in Willmar, MN, into a family with a heritage in missions.  His dad, Steve, is the son of martyr, Nate Saint, a jungle missionary pilot who was speared to death in the Amazon Rainforest of Ecuador, South America in 1956 by the Waodani tribe.  Jaime grew up in a family that participated in mission ventures in Ecuador as well as in Mali, West Africa, in-between businesses that took them from Minnesota to Texas and eventually to central Florida where I-TEC is headquartered. After graduating from high school in 1995, Jaime moved with his family to the Amazon Rainforest to help the Waodani tribe learn to do for themselves what outsiders had been doing so that the Waodani could reach their own people with the Gospel.  After returning from the jungles, Jaime attended the University of Florida, where he graduated with a degree in Marketing.  After his second year of college, Jaime married Jessica Shea, a girl he met just before leaving for the jungles.  Jaime and Jessica have been married for over 24 years and have six beautiful daughters, including one set of twins who became their grand finale. In 2010, Jaime joined the Indigenous People’s Technology and Education Center (I-TEC), which was founded by his dad, Steve.  Since his Dad's injury in 2012, Jaime has become the primary spokesperson for I-TEC, helping people in North America and around the world catch the vision for training Indigenous Christ followers with tools to open doors for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, January 23, 2018

    Time: 6:30 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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    Mark Baxter

    YWAM Jacksonville, Jacksonville FL

    Mark Baxter is the visionary leader of Youth With A Mission Jacksonville, Florida. Mark and Janet started the base in January 2001 because they are passionate about taking the Gospel to places where it isn't. They have 3 children - Daniel, Kathleen, and Jennifer along with 8 grandchildren. Mark has ministered in over 130 nations and he, Janet, and their youngest child lived in Harbin, China teaching English and planted a church among unreached people in 2008/09. Mark is on YWAM's international frontier missions leadership team, is the missions pastor at Redeemer Church, and is part of the NoPLaceLeft network in Jacksonville.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2018

    Time: 6:30 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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    Mateo Echeverry

    Gator Christian Life, Gainesville FL

    Mateo and Katie currently serve as Campus Missionaries with Gator Christian Life and Reliant Mission. Both graduated from UF, but felt a call to ministry instead of pursuing their fields of study. Ever since taking Perspectives, God has stirred their hearts towards working directly with UPG's. As a result, they are currently in transition to move to Germany to work amongst refugees coming from UPG's. Their desire is to plant indigenous churches amongst UPG's in Europe that will multiply back to the nations from which the people came. Their goal is to move overseas towards the end of 2018.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 6, 2018

    Time: 6:30 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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    Steven Masood

    Jesus to Muslims, Summerfield FL

    Steven Masood became a follower of Jesus in April 1973 in Karachi, Pakistan from a Muslim background. His testimony is chronicled in Into the Light. Steven earned a PhD from the London School of Theology thru Brunel University, London, on Islam and Christianity. He has spent 30+ years studying and working in Christian-Muslim relations and has taught Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim relations as a visiting lecturer in Christian institutions in Britain and the Far East. Steven also lectures in conferences and churches on varied subjects including the integrity of Christian and Muslim scriptures, and sharing the Gospel of Jesus. For further info: www.JesusToMuslims.org
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2018

    Time: 6:30 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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    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.”
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2018

    Time: 6:30 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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    BJ Chandler

    The Church of Eleven22, Neptune Beach FL

    BJ met The Navigators as a very hungover freshman at the University of Florida (Go Gators!). He graduated with both a degree in history and a conviction that God will always be faithful to His promises. He met his wife of almost 5 years at a Navigator Summer Training Program and they have 2 kiddos - Eli and Gracie. BJ currently serves as the campus director of University of Florida Navigator ministry . When he isn't chasing around freshman to join BIble studies or challenging anyone with a heartbeat to go to the nations, you can find him attempting to play golf, on the skeet shooting range, or perfecting his fried turkey method.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2018

    Time: 6:30 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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    Lesson 8 Video Instruction

    Fayetteville AR

    Todd Ahrend (pictured) and Mary Ho
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2018

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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.

  • Instructor

    

    Victor Barousse

    Go To Nations, Jacksonville FL

    Victor, along with his gifted wife Kathie, are experienced field missionaries, seeing much fruit in church planting, leadership development and humanitarian / developmental work. They first encountered Go To Nations while already serving as missionaries in Siberia. They returned to Russia full-time, planting new works and aiding national church networks to embrace their Great Commission calling. Now based at the Go To Nations Headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida, Victor currently serves as Director of GTN Frontier Missions, with a two tiered strategy. First, equipping American missionaries to reach Frontier People Groups, while also envisioning and mobilizing indigenous workers to raise up powerful, self-supporting disciple making movements. Victor also serves as First Coast City Director for City for the Nations, a strategy to connect 100 US cities to "adopt" entire countries until disciples and churches are made in every community.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Dennis Cochrane

    Lexington SC

    Dennis and his wife Nancy served as linguists and Bible translators among the 20,000 Duna people of Papua New Guinea. After devising an alphabet for this previously unwritten language they produced primers and readers, teaching many to read their own language. They then translated the first portions of God's Word into the Duna language. Several thousand Duna came to faith in Christ and today there are many churches among these people.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2018

    Time: 6:30 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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    Lesson 11 Video Instruction

    West Hills CA

    Colleen Wong
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2018

    Time: 6:30 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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    Kate Schell

    SIL Philippines, Jacksonville FL

    Kate Schell is a member of Wycliffe Bible Translators and works on a team serving a people group in the southern Philippines who are culturally marginalized because of their Muslim faith, semi-nomadic lifestyle and lack of resources. The team is involved in Scripture engagement, Old Testament translation, community development projects and supporting formal and non-formal education in the languages of the people group. Kate is focused on teacher training, educational materials development and advocacy for greater inclusion of minority children in the multilingual formal education system. Kate earned her Bachelor's degree in English Literature and Spanish from Florida State University in 2008, an M.A. in Linguistics from Florida State University in 2011, and an M.A. in Literacy Programme Development from Redcliffe College, University of Gloucestershire in 2018. She lived in the Philippines from 2013-2015, but is now based in Jacksonville, Florida, where she lives with her husband, Chris. She continues to serve remotely with the team in the Philippines, traveling to the Philippines periodically.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Ted Esler

    Missio Nexus, St. Cloud FL

    Ted Esler is the President of Missio Nexus, an association of agencies and churches representing over 30,000 Great Commission workers worldwide. A Minnesota native, Ted worked in the computer industry before becoming a church planter in Sarajevo, Bosnia, during the 1990’s. He is the author of the book, "Overwhelming Minority," about their family's ministry in Bosnia. In 2000, Ted became the Canadian director of Pioneers and three years later moved to Orlando to join Pioneers USA’s leadership team. He was appointed the President of Missio Nexus in 2015. Ted has BS in Computer Science and Speech Communication (Mankato State University, 1985), an MTS in Theology (Heritage Seminary, 2002), and a PhD in Intercultural Studies (Fuller Theological Seminary, 2012). Ted is married to Annette and they have five children. Ted loves sailing, Crossfit, bikes, plays bass, and enjoys eating ethnic foods from around the world. Ted is a part of a church planting network in Orlando called "The Living Room," and serves as a board member for a couple of ministry organizations.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2018

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Lee Wood

    1 Body Church, Land O' Lakes FL

    Lee Wood, a former orphan, an abused, addicted young man received Jesus at 23 and his life was completely transformed. Lee is the Founder and catalyst of 1 Body Church in Tampa, Florida and has seen that network of house churches multiply to the 8th generation. Lee has seen the Lord use him to train and catalyze other movements in 10 other countries since 2013.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2018

    Time: 6:30 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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    Lesson 15 Video Instruction

    Stillwater OK

    Bryan Padgett (pictured) and Richard Coleman
    
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    Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2018

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

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