Class Info

Date: Sunday, January 5, 2020

Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM

Location: Church of the King 685 Bay Road Queensbury NY 12804

Contact: Tricia Andrews

518-744-9804

• • Registration & Orientation

    Registration & Orientation

  • Instructor

    

    Sarah Maynard

    Fort Ann NY

    Sarah and Kevin Maynard are Perspectives class alumni and trained coordinators who have been on fire for this class and the Kingdom of God as a result of the "Perspectives" experience. Sarah and Kevin are involved in local ministries and just started "The Hands and Feet of Hope Ministry" which assists impoverished families in Kenya through Christ like love, discipleship, fair trade opportunities and community development.

    
    

  • Date: Sunday, January 5, 2020

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Ken Macleod

    Fort Edward NY

    
    
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    Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Lesson 2 Video Instruction

    Austin TX

    Steve Hawthorne
    
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    Date: Sunday, January 19, 2020

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Lesson 3 Video Instruction

    Redlands CA

    Jeff Lewis
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, January 26, 2020

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Randy Curtis

    Word of Life, Schroon Lake NY

    In 2006, I started at the Word of Life Bible Institute (WOLBI). After finishing their two-year program, I finished my B.S. Degree in Religion from Liberty University while working various intern positions for WOLBI. I met my wife Kylie at WOLBI and we were married in 2012. After a brief stint in Michigan, we came back to WOLBI in 2014 where I served as the Dean of Men, spending most of my days discipling, counseling, teaching chapels, and organizing other aspects of student ministry. Now, I work for the International Ministries division of Word of Life as the Short Term Missions Manager where I oversee our student missions trips and internships. My wife and I now have three kids: Alivianna (5), Luke (3), and Ben (6 months). In December of 2021, I will finish my certification in Biblical Counseling from the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC).
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, February 2, 2020

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Ken Macleod

    Fort Edward NY

    
    
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    Date: Sunday, February 9, 2020

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Mark Strohmaier

    Hudson Falls NY

    
    
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    Date: Sunday, February 23, 2020

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Michael Neigh

    Centre Point Ministries, Argyle NY

    Michael grew up in a missionary home in Vienna, Austria, the son of Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) missionaries. He married Alison in 1993 and they have thirteen living children, two that God has taken home, five grandsons, and two granddaughters. Michael served with CEF for 10 years before moving his family to Argyle, NY to serve at Durkeetown Baptist Church in 2003. He ministered at Durkeetown for 14 years before taking on full-time responsibilities with a regional church-planting network, Centre Point Ministries. Michael is also a member of the leadership team of Gospel Advance. Michael enjoys gardening, riding motorcycle, and spending time with his family.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, March 1, 2020

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Michael Neigh

    Centre Point Ministries, Argyle NY

    Michael grew up in a missionary home in Vienna, Austria, the son of Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) missionaries. He married Alison in 1993 and they have thirteen living children, two that God has taken home, five grandsons, and two granddaughters. Michael served with CEF for 10 years before moving his family to Argyle, NY to serve at Durkeetown Baptist Church in 2003. He ministered at Durkeetown for 14 years before taking on full-time responsibilities with a regional church-planting network, Centre Point Ministries. Michael is also a member of the leadership team of Gospel Advance. Michael enjoys gardening, riding motorcycle, and spending time with his family.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, March 8, 2020

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Lesson 9 Video Instruction

    Salt Lake City UT

    Bruce Koch (pictured) and Todd Ahrend
    
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    Date: Sunday, March 15, 2020

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Chris Clayman

    Global Gates, Bronx NY

    Chris Clayman is the Co-Founder and an Associate Director of Global Gates (www.globalgates.info), a mission organization focused on reaching the ends of the earth through global gateway cities. He has been involved in pioneer mission work in urban and rural West Africa and New York City among unreached Muslim peoples. Chris is also the author of Superplan: a journey into God’s story (thesuperplan.com) and ethNYcity: The Nations, Tongues, and Faiths of Metropolitan New York (unreachednewyork.com). He has initiated and helped develop numerous mobilization and outreach efforts focused on unreached peoples, including Heart for Muslims (heartformuslims.com), Welcome Africans (welcomeafricans.com), and UPG North America (upgnorthamerica.com). Chris lives with his wife Nichole and three children in New York City.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, March 22, 2020

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Susan Patt

    Frontier Ventures, Exton PA

    Sue Patt has worked as a mobilizer for more than 40 years (since 1982) with Frontier Ventures, formerly the US Center for World Mission. She has served as a Perspectives Regional Director (13 years) and as the Perspectives National Program Director (7 years). Her current assignment is Chief Strategy Officer with FV. She has been developing deliberate friendships with Muslims since 1980, and Hindus since 2005. She is married to Fran Patt since 1986. They have 3 adult children and live in Exton, PA in the Philadelphia suburbs.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, March 29, 2020

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Vicky Warren

    MissionNext, Mena AR

    Vicky spent 33 years working in innovative and creative environments from multimillion dollar technology deployments, alliances with technical luminaries such as Steve Jobs, Nicholas Negroponte's MIT media lab, Stanford Research Institute (SRI) and The Walt Disney Studios to entrepreneurial startup businesses. Her primary focus in these organizations included leadership and business development, strategic planning, research and development, innovation and creativity. She became "known" in these organizations for her heart for the Gospel through her daily walk in these high paced and demanding environments. Her passion for Christ took her on a 30-year journey of adventure as she walked on burning coals, assisted with eye clinics in Mexico, participated in medical relief efforts in Bolivia, planted pioneer businesses in Asia and Africa, came face to face with the persecuted church in Orissa, and served widows in the rainforest of Panama. Now she is committed full time to taking the Gospel to the nations through Pioneer Business Planting, building Kingdom businesses, and gobalization!
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, April 5, 2020

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Joel Rissinger

    Newington CT

    Pastor Joel L. Rissinger Pastor Joel is the lead pastor of Mill Pond Church, in Newington, Connecticut. Pastor Joel has been in fulltime ministry since 1992. In this capacity, he has led several congregations through major transitions prior to planting Mill Pond Church in 2007. Pastor Joel has a BA in theology from Ambassador University, as well as MAs in both religion and religious education from Liberty University. He is currently pursuing a D.Min. from the Antioch School in Ames, Iowa.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, April 19, 2020

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Brandon Doyle

    Global Gates Network, Mideast-North Africa Outreach, Astoria NY

    Brandon Doyle is a Global Gates Network pioneer missionary who is striving to catalyze a church planting movement among unreached diaspora peoples in Metro New York City with the end-vision of reaching the Near East. Brandon also works to equip and mobilize believers to reach their unreached neighbor. He and his family reside and serve in a Near Easterner heavy neighborhood in New York City.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, April 26, 2020

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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    Earlando Thomas

    New Hope Free Methodist, Webster NY

    An Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Rochester, Dr. Thomas is board certified in Obstetrics/Gynecology and Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery. He has been practicing medicine for the past three decades, in Jamaica, England, and the United States, and has always viewed his vocation as a calling to Workplace Ministry. His lifelong passion for Medical and Evangelical Missions has taken him on short term mission trips to Haiti, Nigeria, and Jamaica. In 2005, Dr. Thomas co-founded the New Hope Evangelical Church in Rochester, New York. He is currently a member of New Hope Free Methodist Church and a Conference Ministerial Candidate (CMC) on the ordination track in the Free Methodist Denomination. Married to Marjorie since 1986, they have two grown children.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, May 3, 2020

    Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM

• • Celebration

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  • Instructor

    

    Tricia Andrews

    Comstock NY

    Tricia is a Perspectives Area Leader in Northeastern New York State and sometimes Vermont. She loves to teach in the History section and often bring her traveling buddy, her youngest daughter Serah. Tricia and her family tried to move to Central Asia but God had other plans, so they work with their local church and Perspectives as much as possible.

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    Date: Sunday, May 17, 2020

    Time: 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM

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