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Spring 2019
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PERSPECTIVES ON THE WORLD CHRISTIAN MOVEMENTThis spring, join thousands of believers on a journey into the heart of God for all peoples. WHEN?Mondays, January 21 - May 6, 2019 6PM - 9PM WHERE?Community Fellowship 28W240 North Avenue West Chicago, IL 60185
Perspectives allows you to hear from 15 different instructors over the course of 15 weeks and is for believers from all walks of life. 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. No matter who you are or what you do, Perspectives will help you learn how to live for God's kingdom.
For more details, email the class coordinators Laura Ciaffara or Becca Martin:
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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
Kyle Reschke
Wheaton Bible Church - Pastor or Sending and Outreach, St. Charles IL
Kyle Reschke currently works as the Pastor of Sending and Outreach Wheaton Bible Church. Previously, Kyle has served as a volunteer teacher and educational developer on the Manu’a Islands with the Center for International Development at Harvard University, and as a Project Manager with The 410 Bridge in Haiti following the devastating earthquake of 2010. Kyle is passionate about standing with vulnerable people and communities around the world, assisting people in identifying their own community assets, personal gifts, and God-given identity as agents of positive transformation in their communities. With these passions, Kyle has traveled to and worked in 42 different countries in his career. Another of Kyle’s great passions is to work with the Western Church in partnering more effectively and strategically around the world. Kyle holds undergraduate degrees in Cell and Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (also minoring in music performance, French Horn) and Masters Degrees in Secondary Education and Educational Development, a Fellowship in International Development, and a Masters of Liberal Arts with a focus on Christian Ethics and Literature.
Kyle got married in the summer of 2017 to Joy, and looks forward to all of their shared adventures and mission together in life. Kyle and Joy continue their regular runs, now with a jogger stroller with their 14 month old son Liam. Outside of these passions, Kyle personally enjoys trail running, triathlons, good meals with family and good friends, and reading anything he can get his hands on!
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 21, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Anne Garnett
Wheaton IL
Anne is mom to four kids, one daughter and three sons, all in their 20's, and has been married to Grant for 32 years. Their family worships and serves at Wheaton Bible Church where Anne is part of the women’s bible study leadership and teaching teams, serves on the Global Executive Team, and helps teach and shepherd a class of young married couples. Anne has been involved with missions at WBC for 25 years, working as a missionary furlough home coordinator, leading several short term missions trips, serving on leadership teams and staying involved in missionary prayer and care. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 28, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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
Paco Amador
New Life Community Church, Chicago IL
Paco Amador is pastor of New Life Community Church in the Little Village community on Chicago's west side. Paco has served as a missionary, a public school teacher, and is currently a pastor at the mexican immigrant of Little Village. He and his wife, Sylvia, have seven children and live in Chicago. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 4, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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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. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 11, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Dave McDowell
West Chicago IL
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 18, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Robert Nordstrom
OMF, Wheaton IL
Robert works in partnership with local churches and campus ministry organizations in Chicago to reach and disciple international students (with a focus on East Asian students). This involves evangelism and discipling, preparing returnees, and developing training.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 25, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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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, March 4, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Andrew Herbek
Perspectives, Omaha NE
God took this farm boy from the middle of nowhere in Nebraska and sent him to serve among an unreached people group in East Asia doing ethnographic research. God used this experience to shape Andrew into a mobilizer and sent him back to North America to equip the body of Christ back home to engage and participate with God in His global purpose. Andrew is a member of Perspectives and serves on the Curriculum Revision Team. He has a Masters of Divinity and a MA in Intercultural Studies, and has field experience in thirteen countries. His heart is that of an educator and discipler, and he desires is to see Christ named and known by all the peoples of the earth, so that Christ can be loved and obeyed within all the peoples of the earth. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 11, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 18, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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
Sam Naaman
Moody Bible Institute, Carol Stream IL
Sam serves as professor of Intercultural Studies at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. He is also founding director of south Asian Friendship Center in Chicago since 1997. Sam was born and raised in Pakistan, served with OM and Cru. in Pakistan. Studied Theology and Missiology in Korea and USA. he is married to Debbie and they have two adopted sons Blaise and David from Pakistan. They are members of Wheaton Bible church. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 25, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Judy Duncan
West Chicago IL
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 1, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Melissa Warner
Winfield IL
Melissa Warner is a mental health counselor in the Chicago area working with all ages and specializing in play therapy with children 12 and younger. She loves being involved in discipleship at her home church, College Church in Wheaton. She grew up in England, Ukraine, and Austria as a missionary kid and plans to serve long-term as a professional counselor for Christian workers and their families overseas. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 8, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Steven Steinhaus
New Generations, Carol Stream IL
Steven and his wife, Joy, lived as missionaries among Muslims in SE Asia for 21 years. In 2015, they returned to the US and reside in Carol Stream where they continue as DMM Practitioner-Trainers training and coaching church-planters globally while also engaging the Muslim population here in Chicagoland. Steven & Joy have four children. The serve with the organization New Generations and lead a city-wide partnership called Ephesus Catalytic Partnership-Chicago. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 15, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Adam Gascho
Barrington IL
Adam and Bethel Gascho have served together with Greater Europe Mission since 1998. From 1999-2015, the Gascho's engaged in disciple/church multiplication and leader development in Germany. In 2015, Adam took on a U.S. based role with GEM leading the North American Mobilization Team. For the past 4 years, Adam has served the local church in the Chicagoland area, first at the Village Church of Barrington and currently as the Campus Pastor of the Compass Church in Wheaton. The Gascho's continue to work on both sides of the ocean in leader development/coaching and in disciple/church multiplication. b
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Date: Monday, April 29, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Becca Salvo
, Winfield IL
Becca grew up hearing the stories of missionaries who stayed in her family’s home, which began a dream of one day sharing her own such stories of God's work among the nations. She has since taught math to students from all over the world both in the US and in Europe. She currently serves with Greater Europe Mission as a regional mobilizer, casting vision to churches, universities, and individuals about the needs and opportunities among the nations in Europe and beyond. b
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Date: Monday, May 6, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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