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Date: Monday, August 13, 2018

Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: Rainbow Forest Baptist Church 1338 Rainbow Forest Drive Troutville VA 24175

Contact: Mark Plumb

(540) 759-0341

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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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    Phillip Nelson

    SIM, Charlotte NC

    Rev. Dr. Phillip Nelson pastored for over thirty years. He has served as a mission mobilizer for over ten years and, in addition, began teaching Perspective classes 25 years ago. He is the husband of one wife and father of five saved adult children. He is a preacher and teacher of the Gospel for 45+ years.
    
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    Date: Monday, August 13, 2018

    Time: 6:00 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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    Gerald Robison

    To All Nations, Madison AL

    Dr Robison presents Lessons #1 or #2 with a fast-paced, humor-filled interaction that leaves students in a state of joyful conviction, new understanding and primed with motivation. Gerald authored and co-authored 10 books: "Cat and Dog Theology" being the best-known. He has had an international ministry of teaching and training Bible teachers and pastors stretching over 40 years and over 24 countries, including Australia, Netherlands, the Middle East, parts of Africa, Europe and the former Soviet countries. He is the Founding President of "To All Nations", Vice-President for UnveilinGLORY, and often speaks at conferences around the nation and the world. He is also a strategist, coach and mentor to churches and pastors through "Issachar Initiative". Dr Robison has taught in over 24 countries and worked with "Walk Thru the Bible Ministries in many of those for the past 40 years.
    
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    Date: Monday, August 20, 2018

    Time: 6:00 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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    Dave Shive

    Frontier Ventures (formerly US Center for World Mission), Catonsville MD

    Dave Shive is a 1968 graduate of the Washington Bible College, a 1972 graduate of Capital Bible Seminary with a Th.M. in New Testament Studies, and a 1994 graduate of Baltimore Hebrew University with an M.A. in Biblical Literature. Dave has spent the past 47 years in full time ministry as a pastor, Christian school director, and college professor. He currently serves with Frontier Ventures (formerly the US Center for World Mission) as a missions mobilizer for the northeast region of the United States. Dave lives in Catonsville, MD, with Kathy, his wife of 52 years. Dave and Kathy have three married children, Dan, Mike, and Becky. They are also the proud grandparents of 9 grandsons and 2 granddaughters.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, August 27, 2018

    Time: 6:00 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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    Mark Fesmire

    Grace Evangelical Free Church, Forest VA

    Mark was a pastor for 34 years in Lynchburg, VA. He and his wife moved to Lynchburg in 1988 to plant the church with two other couples. They retired from their roles in 2022. He took the Perspectives course in 1986 and it transformed his vision of missions and the role of the church in missions. He considers teaching Perspectives classes as one of the most important things he does.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, September 10, 2018

    Time: 6:00 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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    Andrew Fuller

    World Horizons, Richmond VA

    Andrew Fuller is the Director of Operations for Al Massira (www.almassira.org), a media outreach ministry. He formerly served as the International Director of World Horizons from 2011 to 2020. (www.worldhorizons.org)
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, September 24, 2018

    Time: 6:00 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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    David Taylor

    Christian Aid Mission, Charlottesville VA

    David served for ten years as a missionary in the Philippines with the Frontier Mission Fellowship. He is the author of Eternal Vision and senior editor of the Global Mission Database. He serves as president of Christian Aid Mission and chairman of COSIM (Coalition on the Support of Indigenous Ministries)
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, October 1, 2018

    Time: 6:00 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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    David Cornelius

    Deacons Coordinator, Huguenot Road Baptist Church, Richmond, VA, Midlothian VA

    BORN: Texarkana, AR, grew up in Texarkana, TX. SCHOOLING: Dunbar High School, Texarkana, TX; Jarvis Christian College, Hawkins, TX; Texas Christian University; Ft. Worth, TX; Dallas Seminary; Dallas, TX; Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ft. Worth, TX. FAMILY: Married with 2 children and 5 grandchildren. WORK EXPERIENCE: Chemist, Minister of Education, Campus Minister, Assistant Pastor, Pastor, Missionary to Nigeria (church planter and church growth consultant,) Missional Church Strategist, International Mission Board, SBC.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, October 8, 2018

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Marsha Woodard

    Wycliffe Bible Translators, Greensboro NC

    Marsha came to faith in Christ in 1979 on a hippie journey to Africa, searching for the meaning of life; three years later she began what would become a life-time career, engaging the globe for her Lord. Marsha has served in Latin America, Europe and North Africa, including the adventure of living in refugee camps in the Sahara Desert. In 2010 she joined Wycliffe Bible Translators, serving their partner Seed Company as Field Coordinator and Training Manager, and currently as Launch Coordinator for Wycliffe USA. Marsha's passion, training and mentoring new cross-cultural workers, led her to author “To Timbuktu and Beyond: A Guide to Getting Started in Missions”, published by William Carey Library, in 2009.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, October 15, 2018

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    JDaniel

    GPPD, Blue Ridge VA

    Served in local church ministries as a missions pastor for 10+ years and is the founder and chairman of Global Partners in Peace and Development, a humanitarian aid organization that seeks to bring help and hope to orphans, widows, refugees and others in desperate need around the world. He has traveled extensively around the world partnering with both ex-pats and nationals with a focus to get the Gospel to unreached people groups. For the last 4 years he has lived in the Middle East with his family to serve refugees that have fled their homelands due to civil war and terrorism. It is his passion for all Christians to be effective and obedient to the Great Commission and Great Commandment.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, October 22, 2018

    Time: 6:00 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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    Isabel Lee

    Gaithersburg MD

    Isabel graduated from Washington Bible College and Columbia International University in Bible/missions. She served with SEND International for 22 1/2 years involved in church planting: evangelism, disciple-making, mentoring, seminary teaching, leadership training in Taiwan & in China. She also served in various leadership roles throughout the years, ministered in Ukraine, Ulan Ude, Korea, Egypt, India, Uganda, Thailand and among the Afghans and Syrian Refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, Macedonia, Clarkston, GA. Currently Isabel is the Minister of Global Outreach & Women's Ministries at CBCM, a Perspectives' instructor, and serves on the Boards of SEND's U.S. & International and Standards of Excellence on Short-term Missions.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, October 29, 2018

    Time: 6:00 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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    Diana Mood

    The Global Transformation Network, Inc., Catonsville MD

    Life long commitment to advancing the gospel of Jesus into the nations by training and equipping generations of champions who have a passion for integrating community development and disability advocacy in Biblical context.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, November 5, 2018

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Allen James

    Roanoke VA

    Allen, along with his family, served as a church planter and trainer of pastors and missionaries in East Asia for 20 years. During that time they witnessed a people group go from no known believers to a church planting movement where thousands came to faith and many churches were planted. In addition, the New Testament is currently being translated into the people group language. He currently serves as Community and Mission Pastor at Cave Spring Baptist Church in Roanoke, VA. He is a graduate of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and holds a Master of Divinity and a Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies. Inheriting a love for the outdoors from his dad, Allen enjoys mountain biking, hiking, and kayaking. For Allen, an ideal way to spend a day would be walking on the beach and then sharing a good book with Stepheny.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, November 12, 2018

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    James Cha

    Crescent Project, Leesburg VA

    Rev. James Cha was born in Korea, but grew up here in the US. He studied electrical engineering at Cornell University, and worked ten years as an engineer. In 2000 he and his wife, Faith, took their 3 kids to Central Asia, where they served ten years as church planting missionaries with Pioneers. They are now back in the US reaching out to the Muslims in the Washington, DC area. James & Faith are Washington DC Area Coordinators for Crescent Project. They also direct ESL ministry in Leesburg, VA. They have three adult children and one grandchild. James recently published a book about their missions journey - Fear Not: Living a Life of No Regrets. Available on amazon.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, November 19, 2018

    Time: 6:00 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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    AJ P.

    INIM Inc., Forest VA

    AJ is the Director & General Secretary for INIM established 1964. The sole focus of this indigenous Mission remains Evangelism, Discipleship & Church Planting. AJ, who was born & raised in New Delhi India is an alumnus of Liberty University. AJ shares responsibility for INIM's church planting & field evangelism efforts in South Asia. In addition to all his Missional responsibilities, he also serves as the Men's Pastor at his home church. AJ & his wife have been married for 28 years and blessed with five children ranging from 19 years old to 9 yrs old.
    
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    Date: Monday, November 26, 2018

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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    Date: Monday, December 3, 2018

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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