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Fort Smith, AR S18
Spring 2018
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Perspectives on the World Christian Movement is an adventure of a lifetime that will give you a new and deeper understanding of God's Story.
15 weeks with 15 dynamic instructors will take you through the Bible, back in time, and across the globe. Each instructor will share from their personal experiences as they walk you through the Biblical, Historical, Cultural, & Strategic perspectives of God's plan for all nations.
Whether you are single, married, a student, a homemaker, a professional or retired, this class will help you to discover your unique role in His unfolding plan. You don't want to miss it!
When: Monday Nights | 6:30pm-9:30pm | January 15-April 30
Host Location: Grand Avenue Baptist Church 3900 Grand Avenue, Fort Smith, Arkansas 72904
Cost: Key Reading & Certificate: $275 Alumni for Certificate: $40 FIRST NIGHT FREE
Family discounts Available (see pricing page)
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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
Sean Cooper
The Traveling Team, Fayetteville AR
Sean and his wife Meredith have spent the last decade traveling the entire Continental U.S. casting mission vision with Traveling Team. They have a two year old daughter named Haven. Sean graduated from the University of Arkansas with a degree in Communication. He has short term exposure in India and Indonesia. Sean continues to travel nation wide speaking to students and churches. When not speaking he serves alongside The Traveling Team Leadership as the Director of Ministry Advancement. He is working on a Masters Degree from Reformed Theological Seminary. b
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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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Brian W Pope
Global Outreach Fellowship Bible Church , Fayetteville AR
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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
Justin Schell
Union, Tulsa OK
Justin is passionate about doing whatever he can to see the Great Commission fulfilled. He mobilized with The Traveling Team for 5 years. He studied missiology and global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and global leadership and business at EDHEC Business School in Nice, France. He has been a part of a church planting team in North Africa. He is the US Director for Union, a ministry based in the UK training leaders for the Church throughout the world. He also serves as the Director of Executive Projects for The Lausanne Movement, creating and catalyzing initiatives to accelerate the completion of the Great Commission. Areas of interest/expertise include Reaching Muslims, Church Planting, Global Christianity, Biblical Theology, the Local Church engaging in mission, Global Partnership, Theological Education, Business as Mission, and Mobilization. He is husband of Megan and papa of Henry and Evie. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 29, 2018
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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Bryan Padgett
Redeemer Stillwater, Stillwater OK
Bryan has served in mission mobilization for over 10 years with ministries such as The Traveling Team, Perspectives on the World Christian Movement, Frontiers, Avant and more recently as missions pastor at Redeemer Church in Lubbock, TX. He and his wife are currently planting a church in Stillwater, OK. They hope to plant a church that would intentionally develop and send many church planting teams out among unreached and unengaged people groups. If there was one verse that drives what he does, it would Habakkuk 2:14 which states, "For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as water cover the seas." He is married to Abbey and has four kids - Judson, Lydia, Isobel and Hazel. 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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Angela Zimmerman
New Albany IN
Angela is a 2006 Perspectives Credit Alumni. Angela joined the Perspectives coordinating team in Fall 2006 and soon thereafter served as a Regional Director over KY, WV, VA, and TN from 2007 to 2014. She co-created the Instructor Development Department in 2014 and served in that capacity until early 2021, resigning to care for an elderly parent who passed away later that year. Angela now serves as a grader in an online capacity while she finishes her MAED with Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. She has two grown children and lives in New Albany, Indiana with her husband. 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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Nathaniel Allen
Global Outfitters, Fayetteville AR
Nathan Allen is the Global Missions pastor at New Heights Church in Fayetteville, AR and the Director of Global Outfitters. He has a Bachelors of Arts in History and political Science from the University of Arkansas. He is currently pursuing a Masters in Theological Studies from Reformed Theological Seminary. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 19, 2018
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Bob Peckham
Frontiers, Gilbert AZ
Bob has served with Frontiers for over 30 years. He and his wife spent many years on the field working with and leading church-planting teams. Bob also served as a field director for Frontiers before transitioning to his current role as U.S. Director. 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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Jessica Smith
The Traveling Team, Conway AR
Jessie Smith grew up in Arkansas, and graduated from college in Missouri, earning a degree in English. For the past 5 years she has served with The Traveling Team alongside her husband Hudson. The Traveling Team is a mobilization organization that recruits students from all major universities toward Christ's global cause. 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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Todd Ahrend
The Traveling Team, Fayetteville AR
Todd Ahrend graduated from Northeastern State University, has a Masters from Dallas Theological Seminary and a Doctorate from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
He is the founder and international Director of The Traveling Team, a national missions mobilization movement. He and his wife, Jessica, have spent almost two decades traveling both nation-wide and abroad, speaking to thousands of people about involvement in world evangelization. Todd has exposure in over sixty countries and has lived in the Middle East. He is the author of The Abrahamic Revolution and In This Generation. Todd and Jessica have six children: Camden, Brody, Axel, Noble, Quincy and Cruz!
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 12, 2018
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Scott Ward
Grand Avenue Baptist Church, Fort Smith AR
Scott Ward is the mission pastor at Grand Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Prior to this position, he and his family served in Tanzania with the International Mission Board starting churches among an unreached, Muslim people group. He has been married to Jennifer for 25 years and has 4 boys: 3 biological and their last one adopted three years ago from Korea. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 26, 2018
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Ken Baker
SIM International, Rogers AR
Ken Baker, and his wife Gwen, spent 24 years planting churches with SIM in West Africa in both rural and urban settings, and primarily among unreached Muslim peoples. For eight years Ken was national director of SIM-Culture ConneXions, a ministry committed to coaching churches in the process of engaging diverse cultures and developing intercultural relationships. Ken is currently directing global ministry training for SIM International. The author of numerous missiological articles and training materials, Ken has a particular interest in contextualization, intercultural relations and incarnational ministry. Ken received a Doctor of Missiology degree in 1995 from Trinity International University and is an adjunct professor at Southern Evangelical Seminary. The Bakers speak French and Hausa, and have three children and two grandsons. 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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Cliff Peters
Paraclete Mission Group, Siloam Springs AR
Cliff is a tinker for Jesus and loves to work on gadgets in his workshop that could be useful in developing countries. He has been a missionary for over 20 years, most recently with Paraclete Mission Group, and is now retired but continues to volunteer with Paraclete and other organizations. He enjoys teaching Christian community development to missionaries, national workers, and Perspectives students as he has opportunity. He lives in NW Arkansas with his wife of 40 years, and has four children and three grandchildren. 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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Doug Schaible
Ethnos360, Wichita KS
Doug & Cheryl Schaible were church planters among
the Solong people of Papua New Guinea from 1991-
1998. They were able to see believers raised up as a
result of learning the language and culture, building
relationships and teaching and translating the
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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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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. 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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Joe G
PIONEERS, Orlando FL
Joe has been with Pioneers for 18 years. Previously, he spent 5 years on staff with the Traveling Team sharing the Biblical Basis of Missions and mobilizing college students. He and his wife Sarah served on church planting teams in Central Asia in and out of country from 2002-2012. He currently serves as the VP of Mission Engagement for Pioneers USA. Joe, Sarah and their sons Ezra and Eli live in Orlando. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 30, 2018
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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