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Date: Sunday, January 21, 2018

Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Location: Parkade Baptist Church 2102 N Garth Ave Columbia, MO Columbia MO 65202

Contact: Monica Miller Brown

(620) 285-9171

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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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    Luke Hettinger

    Restore Counseling Services, Columbia MO

    When I was 24 I became the pastor of a small town church in Sumner, Iowa. It was there that God began to show my wife and I his heart for the nations through books, people, and Perspectives. Since that time we have had the incredible privilege to work as mobilizers, welcomers and even goers in a number of different contexts. Most recently my wife and I work as counselors and mentors to workers on and off the field through our counseling practice in Columbia, MO.
    
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    Date: Sunday, January 21, 2018

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Jeff Adams

    Missional Impact/Graceway, Kansas City MO

    Jeff was Graceway’s lead pastor for 33 years, having spent the previous ten years pastoring in Latin America with his wife Cheryl and daughters Sarah and Rebekah. He continues on Graceway's team as Teaching Pastor. He shares his passion for the Word of God in English and Spanish at Graceway and as an international conference speaker. He holds a Ph.D from Trinity Theological Seminary. He enjoys the cultural and dining diversity of Kansas City and is an active supporter of Kansas City's active arts scene. Having traveled and ministered in approximately 70 countries he is an avid student of culture. He trains leaders in cultural competency through cultural immersion experiences in Paris and Amsterdam and is also a certified Paterson LifePlan facilitator, a powerful tool that he uses in equipping and coaching leaders
    
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    Date: Sunday, January 28, 2018

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Stan Yoder

    World Partners, Maquoketa IA

    Stan and his wife, Valli, served full-time with World Partners since 1978. Valli passed away in November 2021 after a long battle with M.S. Their experience includes 10 years of church planting and curative medical work in Sierra Leone, West Africa among the Yalunka People; 3 years at the US Center as Administrative Director for the Adopt-a-People Clearinghouse; 3 years mobilizing churches to adopt unreached people groups; 2 years training students at Bethel College, Mishawaka, IN; 4 years coaching workers in Africa and the Middle East; and 16 years reaching out to Middle Wast refugees in Kansas City, Missouri. They moved to Maquoketa, Iowa in October 2018 and will begin a new ministry to Middle East students. Stan will continue to serve with World Partners as a traveling evangelist among Muslims and instructor for Perspectives.
    
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    Date: Sunday, February 4, 2018

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Chris Regas

    LifeBridge Baptist Church, Kansas City MO

    Chris is the associate pastor at LifeBridge Baptist Church (WeAreLifeBridge.com), where his teaching and equipping ministry has been focused on discipleship and world missions. He was saved at LifeBridge as a teenager and served on staff after graduating from Liberty University (B.S.) and Dallas Theological Seminary (Th.M.). While in school he ministered with a mission mobilization team and studied for a summer with missionaries in Mexico City. He has done further doctoral-level studies at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. His heart for the world has led to teaching ministries with Asian Americans and leading short-term teams on five continents (Romania, Hungary, Netherlands, Philippines, Tanzania, England, Mexico, Colombia, the Lakota Nation, and Barbuda). He is passionate about mobilizing the local church to experience the Great Commission in a well-balanced and wholehearted manner. He and his wife live in Kansas City, MO and their daughter is completing her MA in Art Education at John Brown University.
    
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    Date: Sunday, February 11, 2018

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Justin Raby

    Grace Church, Kansas City MO

    Justin has been married to Amy for 14 years and they have 3 wonderful children and are involved in foster care. They have served in over 25 countries including Spain, India, Myanmar, Iraq and the US in a variety of roles that include: Church-Planting, Youth, Teaching, Preaching, Discipleship, & Evangelism. Their desire is to see people and the church mobilized to reach unengaged & unreached peoples.
    
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    Date: Sunday, February 18, 2018

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Ed Pollasch

    ReachGlobal, Rolla MO

    Ed Pollasch, and wife Janet, have served the Lord in missions since 1996. Their passion and call is to see the gospel advance into unreached and unengaged peoples. They were part of a church planting team in Tanzania; coordinated a pastoral training and repatriation ministry with South Sudanese; and served as mobilizers and trained in the Middle East/North Africa region. Ed believes strongly in an equipping ministry to Majority World movement leaders. He is equally committed to teaching and training the US church to engage in global missions – “there is fit for anyone and everyone.” Ed is a student of mission history and gospel movements throughout the church age. He and Janet married in 1979 and are currently living in the St Louis area.
    
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    Date: Sunday, February 25, 2018

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    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.
    
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    Date: Sunday, March 4, 2018

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Ed Brye

    Wycliffe Bible Translators, Dallas TX

    Ed Brye is Wycliffe’s Team Lead for Perspectives and he also has extensive experience assessing the remaining task. He has done research not from 30,000 feet above sea level, but SQUARED, on the ground in the towns and villages of peoples' homelands. He carried out surveys of 37 unreached, Bibleless ethnolinguistic people groups during his 10 years in Cameroon, Sub-Saharan Africa. Ed graduated from Concordia Teachers College and later earned master degrees in Biblical Literature and Communication. He also did doctoral work in Communication Science through the University of South Africa (Pretoria).
    
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    Date: Sunday, March 11, 2018

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    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: Sunday, March 18, 2018

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Rod Casey

    TEI of Central Missouri, Columbia MO

    I am the Director of a theological education initiative in Central MO that helps area church and campus leaders with needed resources. I am a graduate of Dallas Seminary and Talbot School of Theology. I'm married to Julie who I've known since I was 14. I love basketball and have a wicked hook shot that sometimes goes in.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, April 1, 2018

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Ken Shackelford

    Lumenations, Searcy AR

    Ken Shackelford was in pastoral ministry for 14 years in California and Arkansas. He and his wife, Tanja and their family have lived long term and worked on the Tibetan Plateau in China and also in Albania. In 2018, Ken formed a new media-mobilization organization called Lumenations. In 2021, Ken and his family will be relocating to Tunisia where he will pastor the Sousse International Church.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, April 8, 2018

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    DMarkus Thomas Brown

    Convergence Church, Columbia MO

    D'Markus, a Columbia, MO native, has a strong passion to see the Kingdom of God impact the earth through local churches on mission in their respective communities. As for missional initiative D'Markus is the founder of the Peace After School Program in Kirksville, MO (peacekv.org) that focuses on the renewal of neighborhood based ministry. He is also the founding leader of Convergence Church. As a bi-vocational pastor D'Markus is an account manager with MBS Textbook Exchange, where he works assisting educational institutions with curriculum and operational planning and goal setting. D'Markus has a strong passion for the Columbia community, exhibited through his roles as the President of his local homeowners association and as a pastor at Convergence Church.
    
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    Date: Sunday, April 15, 2018

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    John Vernon

    Cape Girardeau Baptist Association, Marble Hill MO

    John Vernon married his wife Janet in December 1985 while attending School of the Ozarks in Branson, MO. They completed their bachelor degrees in May 1987. Upon graduation, they moved to Little Rock, AR where John worked as a computer programmer. They have three daughters: Jessica, 1990; Brittany, 1993; and Amanda, 1995. John attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary from August 1993 through December 1994. In May 1995 their family moved to Central Asia where they spent almost fourteen years coordinating church planting strategies among Muslim peoples. They returned to the United States in January 2008 and served at Miner Baptist Church as their associate pastor of family and children ministries until March 2013. They now serve as the Director of Missions for the Cape Girardeau Baptist Association.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, April 22, 2018

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    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.
    
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    Date: Sunday, April 29, 2018

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 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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    Dave Percy

    Ethnos 360, Roach MO

    I Served on the field of Thailand for 14 years. God allowed me to be involved in many facets of ministry. I see myself as an ORDINARY MAN SERVING AN EXTRAORDINARY GOD! I am a firsthand witness of a God who moves in incredible ways. God has given me a passion for his people, a love for his word and a desire to encourage and strengthen the church in this task of seeing a church birthed and matured among the unreached people of this world. My wife and I are presently located at the Missionary Training Center (MTC) located in central MO. I serve as a Teacher/ Trainer and Speaker for the MTC and we also serve together as advisors to students as they train for serving overseas.
    
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    Date: Sunday, May 6, 2018

    Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

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