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Spring 2018
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Spring 2018 Perspectives on the World Christian Movement!
15 Challenging Topics | 15 World-Class Speakers | 15 Life-Changing Weeks
You are invited to join a unique discipleship journey! Perspectives on the World Christian Movement is an adventure of a lifetime that will give you a fresh and deeper understanding of God's story and His desire for you to be a part of it. Perspectives is a course of vision - a vision that will change the way you view the world and help mobilize and equip you to live a life of passion and purpose as Jesus did.
We will hear 15 outstanding speakers as they share from their experiences and teach on the biblical, historical, cultural & strategic perspectives of God's plan for the nations. Hear how God has been and continues to work throughout the world. Learn more about God's kingdom and His glory. Find out what your part is in this exciting movement to make Jesus' disciples from all nations.
6 Ways to Reach God's World: Learn, Pray, Go, Send, Welcome, or Mobilize Join us for our FIRST NIGHT FREE and see how Perspectives can change the way you see the world!
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Is this course mainly for those interested in missions? Absolutely not! This is a course for the Church. The goal is to bring our individual lives into a closer alignment with God's purpose. To join God in His story. If you want to grow and be challenged—want more vision, direction and eternal impact to come from your life—you will love this class!
Where? Southside Church of Christ, 1533 Nicholasville Rd., Lexington KY 40503. When? Monday evenings — 6:30-9:30 PM January 8 through May 2 What are the enrollment options? Key Reading Level: Prepare for great speakers and their material with light reading. Be challenged along with certificate and credit level students to consider your own role in the Great Commission. Reading: 1-2 hours/week Homework: None Personal Reflections: 5/course Research Project: None Exams: None
Certificate Level: This is the recommended level. If you desire to dig deeper into the material than is required with the "Key Reading Level", and you feel the need for a push to help motivate you to cover the material, then this is the level for you. Christian Educators: This also qualifies in fulfillment of 7 teaching CEUs. Reading: 2-3 hours/week Homework: 1 hour Personal Reflections: 5/course Research Project: 1 short paper at the end of the course Exams: None
Credit Level: A college level study with 3 semester credit hours given through Trinity International University. Reading: 3-4 hours/week Homework: 1 hour Personal Reflections: 5/course Research Project: 1 paper at the end of the course Exams: 2 - Midterm and Final How much does it cost? Key Reader and Certificate Levels: $275($250 w/Early Registration) Credit Level: $500 (3 credit hrs transferable to UK) To qualify for Early Registration you must be registered by Jan. 1st Are there any discounts? Early Registrants receive a $25 discount. (Before Jan. 1) Student Registrants can receive a $25 discount. (Students can only receive one discount)
Other scholarships may be available. Please don't allow the cost to deter you from participating in this life changing course! Just let us know. How do I Register? Simply click on registration to the right & fill in the form. We do ask that you pay a $45 registration fee as soon as possible so we can assure we have the funds to order the books. You can also contact Miles Phelps with any questions. Other pertinent information: Please contact the class coordinator, Miles Phelps, at (859) 229-1909 or if you have any questions. Hear how God has been, and still is working throughout the world. Learn more about God's kingdom and His glory. Be encouraged to hear how God is working in local, national and global missions, and find out what your part may be in Christ's command to "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations."
Check out our Lesson 1 sample, below!
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Registration & Orientation
Registration & Overview
Registration & Orientation
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Instructor
Miles Phelps
City For The Nations , Lexington KY
Miles and Melanie Phelps have been happily married for 19 years. They currently resident in Lexington, Kentucky with their eight year old daughter Penielle.
Miles serves as the Executive Director and Co-Founder of City for the Nations Ministry. A global missions ministry focus mobilizing entire cities to reach unreached nations.
They believe in serving a God that has no limits. Their lives together have been marked by a lifestyle of living by faith and seeing God’s faithfulness to His word.
Miles and Melanie Phelps are popular speakers and well known for their workshops on the prophetic, spiritual warfare, church planting, city reaching, evangelism, leadership, and spirituality.
A strong part of Miles and Melanie’s ministry is reaching out to the poor, marginalized and supporting many projects around the world. They also financially support and help to underwrite church planting, leadership development, evangelism, and health and rescue projects in the third world.
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Date: Monday, January 8, 2018
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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
Miles Phelps
City For The Nations , Lexington KY
Miles and Melanie Phelps have been happily married for 19 years. They currently resident in Lexington, Kentucky with their eight year old daughter Penielle.
Miles serves as the Executive Director and Co-Founder of City for the Nations Ministry. A global missions ministry focus mobilizing entire cities to reach unreached nations.
They believe in serving a God that has no limits. Their lives together have been marked by a lifestyle of living by faith and seeing God’s faithfulness to His word.
Miles and Melanie Phelps are popular speakers and well known for their workshops on the prophetic, spiritual warfare, church planting, city reaching, evangelism, leadership, and spirituality.
A strong part of Miles and Melanie’s ministry is reaching out to the poor, marginalized and supporting many projects around the world. They also financially support and help to underwrite church planting, leadership development, evangelism, and health and rescue projects in the third world.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 15, 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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Instructor
Brett Martin
London KY
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 22, 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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Instructor
Mark Driskill
Oakdale Christian Academy, Jackson KY
Mark and Mary Driskill work together as community ministers in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. We have been married for 34 years and have home-schooled four children. We Serve as camp pastors in a Mennonite youth camp and Mark teaches in a Free Methodist boarding school, and serves as Pastor of Oakdale Free Methodist Church. Mark has written three books and travels overseas every two years to train pastors in developing countries. Mary is a certified Yoga instructor,certified health coach and an ordained minister. She uses her gifts to help people find wholeness in body, mind and spirit. Our vision is to "Be a blessing to all the families of the earth." By preaching, teaching and healing in Jesus name. (Genesis 12:1-3 / Matthew 4:23) b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 29, 2018
Time: 6:30 PM to 6:30 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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Instructor
Steve Liversedge
Evangelism Resources, Wilmore KY
Steve Liversedge is President of Evangelism Resources,a non-denominational mission based in Wilmore, KY. Steve and his wife Lorrie served as ER missionaries in Zaire/DRC from 1984 to 1998 and in Cameroon from 1999 to 2003. They are parents of 4 grown children. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 5, 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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Instructor
Corrie McKee
Greenville SC
Corrie has spent over 15 years in cross-cultural ministry, including working with international students in the US, college students in Asia and the Middle East, and refugees from Eastern Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Now she lives in Greenville, SC and serves as Director of Client Services at an international staffing agency that serves clients from all over the world. She also works part-time as a Fundraising Coach, training missionaries to raise their own financial support.
Corrie credits the 2012 Perspectives class as a major factor in her decision to move overseas. This is her 5th year instructing Lesson 5! 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 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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Instructor
Steve Pearson
Nicholasville KY
Steve Pearson has served as the Lead Pastor of Church of the Savior in south Lexington, Kentucky for 24 years. He is a graduate of Oral Roberts University and Asbury Seminary. His passions are Prayer, Evangelism, Preaching the Word, Missions, Mentoring, and his wonderful wife of thirty-seven years, Sue. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 19, 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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Instructor
Dean Davis
Nicholasville KY
Dean Davis grew up in Lexington, Kentucky. He served with his family for 17 years as a church planter among the Saraguro people of Ecuador. He currently serves as the International Director of One Mission Society's church multiplication catalyst, Every Community for Christ. 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 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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Instructor
Meredith Garrison
Lexington KY
Meredith Garrison and her husband Stephen have been married for nearly 4 years. She has had a passion for international missions and social justice since childhood. Meredith has been involved with international student ministry and youth ministry over the past eight years. She and her husband were missionaries in Bolivia with Agua Yaku and El Alfarero in 2015. After returning to Kentucky they became the leaders of the Senior High youth ministry at Oasis Community Church, where Stephen is a worship leader. Meredith is currently working at the University of Kentucky teaching Communication while she earns a PhD in the field of Participatory Communication with a focus on social work, global development, and intercultural communication. 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 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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Instructor
Jay Moon
Sioux Falls Seminary, Nicholasville KY
Jay and his family were missionaries to the Builsa people group in Ghana, West Africa for nine years doing church planting and water development. You can read about their story in the book, "Ordinary Missionary: A Narrative Approach to Introducing World Missions." Since 2013, Jay has been teaching Intercultural Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary. 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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Instructor
Segbegnon Mathieu Gnonhossou
Mouvement Missionaire pour l'Evangile de Christ (MMEC), Seattle WA
Djidoho Christel and I are from the Republic of Benin, West Africa. A personal awakening to faith at the age of 15 set me on the path of following Jesus. In 2002 I married Christel who was leading a cell group that I joined in 1995. We have four children, three daughters and one son (age range of 9 to 2). We both enjoy leading and coaching couples, marriages and parenting seminars. Our commitment is to serve Jesus Christ in ways that positively transform the church and society. We tend to live and teach Christian faith as Africans and Wesleyans who also embrace and critique the wider Church and world. In 1998 Christel and I co-founded the Mouvement Missionnaire pour l’Évangile de Christ (MMEC), a renewal movement in Benin working with churches to awaken people to living faith, train, and send missional disciples.We both continue to lead the movement until today and have taught and led seminars there during the summer of 2015. Each of us has a BA and an MA in Linguistics and. Communication Sciences. I have an MA in Intercultural Mission and a Doctorate of Ministry. Djidjoho has a double MA Marriage and Family Therapy and Christian Education. I have a passion for holistic discipling/evangelism, conflict and restorative justice mediation, and faith in the public realm. I currently serve as an adjunct professor at Eastern Kentucky University where I teach in the area of African culture, religion, and sociopolitical issues while working on a PhD at the University Of Manchester, England. I'm also coordinating All Nations African Ministry in the Lexington/Nicholasville, KY area with a triple vision of Radical Hospitality after the pattern of Christ, Spirit-led pan African solidarity, and missional disciplemaking among and through Africans living in diaspora. Djidjoho enjoys family education integrated to discipling and is currently working on a PhD at the University of Kentucky in family Science.
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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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Instructor
Conrad Davies
Every Nation Campus, Lexington KY
As bi-vocational missionaries, Conrad and Kandace Davies lead the Every Nation Campus (ENC) work at the University of Kentucky (UK). The Davies have trained and developed leaders since November 2012, and continue to watch God transform college students, marriages, families, and young mothers through discipleship, lifestyle evangelism, and the preaching of the gospel.
The Davies’ vision is to be a catalyst of change to bring ethnic unity to Lexington, KY, and their mission is “The Offended restores the Offender,” a model of God (the offended party) restoring humanity (the offenders). The Davies’ are laying the groundwork of a future Every Nation church plant in Lexington, KY.
Conrad is a faculty member at the University of Kentucky, and is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Education (anticipated 2021). He is also a Gallup-certified strengths coach.
Kandace is a homemaker, friend, mother, and intercessor, who has had leadership roles with Mothers of PreSchoolers International (MOPS) and Bible Study Fellowship (BSF).
The Davies' own a communication, consulting, and coaching services business called Davies and Associates, LLC and are raising three world-changing children: Conrad, Jr. (CJ), Levi, and Sarah Arden. 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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Instructor
Larry Frick
City for the Nations, Lexington KY
Larry joined the City for the Nations team in 2022. He has extensive experience leading medical mission teams and training leaders in Community Health Development and Integral Disciple Making Movements. His passion is leading and training others to meet both physical and spiritual needs around the world, particularly among unreached peoples. He also ministers in local churches, training on missions and on disciple making movements. He moved to Kentucky in 2008 to follow God’s call with his wife Marci and daughter Hannah after serving as a family physician in Chillicothe, Ohio. 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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Instructor
Jason Holland
Joshua Nations, Arvada CO
Jason serves as the Vice President and Director of Operations at Joshua Nations. He is a graduate from Christ for the Nations Institute and Jacksonville Theological seminary with degrees in Theology and Psychology. Jason has also graduated with a Master’s Degree of Business Management from Regent University. Additionally, Jason serves on the Board of Directors of several reputable mission’s organizations such as Dynamic Church Planting International (www.dcpi.org); Christian Ministries in Africa (www.christianministriesinafrica.org); LifeBridge India (www.lifebridgeindia.org); and also Joshua Nations (www.joshuanations.org). Jason has traveled and ministered in over 60 nations for the past 21 years b
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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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Instructor
Ken Shirkey
Gateway Center for World Mission, Versailles KY
Twenty six years in mission with emphasis on mission mobilization, training church leaders in nations, missionary care and discipleship:
Formerly with U.S.Center for World Mission regional ministries
Currently Director Gateway CWM working in Brazil, Haiti and Uganda and with churches in US. b
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Class Info
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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Instructor
Charles Madinger
IOS, Union KY
My passion for mission began with a life transforming week where I first learned to share my faith. I knew at that moment God called me make known the Kingdom and multiply disciples the process.
Since then God led me through 25+ years in located ministry culminating with a 10 year position as the missions pastor at a large church in Lexington, KY. He gave me mentors and insights that I now use to reach the Oral Majority of the world, and to help build mission strategies in churches and missions organizations around the world.
I am also involved in helping church movements and missions organizations design and implement instruction and training for oral cultures. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 30, 2018
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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Celebration
Celebration Night
Celebration
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Instructor
Miles Phelps
City For The Nations , Lexington KY
Miles and Melanie Phelps have been happily married for 19 years. They currently resident in Lexington, Kentucky with their eight year old daughter Penielle.
Miles serves as the Executive Director and Co-Founder of City for the Nations Ministry. A global missions ministry focus mobilizing entire cities to reach unreached nations.
They believe in serving a God that has no limits. Their lives together have been marked by a lifestyle of living by faith and seeing God’s faithfulness to His word.
Miles and Melanie Phelps are popular speakers and well known for their workshops on the prophetic, spiritual warfare, church planting, city reaching, evangelism, leadership, and spirituality.
A strong part of Miles and Melanie’s ministry is reaching out to the poor, marginalized and supporting many projects around the world. They also financially support and help to underwrite church planting, leadership development, evangelism, and health and rescue projects in the third world.
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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