Memphis, TN F18
Fall 2018
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Perspectives on the World Christian Movement! Coming Fall 2018
15 Challenging Topics | 15 World-Class Speakers | 15 Life-Changing Weeks
Come find your true purpose as God’s creation and gain a new perspective on the world. Through 15 lessons and 15 outstanding speakers you will see how God has revealed His plan to us through the scriptures, how Christian history has worked to make Him known to the nations, ways to reach the diverse peoples and cultures of the world, and discover opportunities to participate in completing the Great Commission. Join us to find out how to be a part of God’s glorious kingdom! When: Tuesday evenings 6:00pm-9:00pm August 21, 2018 - December 4, 2018 Where: Baptist East Hospital 6019 Walnut Grove Rd. Memphis, TN 38120 Cost: Certificate and Key Reading Level $275 (includes workbook and textbook) Credit $550 (graduate and undergraduate)
Check out the first class for free on August 21st! Questions? Contact: Sarah Biggs, Class Coordinator 901-687-8506
Class Info
Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: Baptist East Hospital Walnut Grove Rd Memphis TN 38120
Contact: Sarah Biggs
901-687-8506
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Instructor
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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
Hudson Smith
The Traveling Team, Conway AR
Hudson Smith is from the United States, and grew up in Arkansas, earning a degree in history from the University of Arkansas. For 10 years, he served as the Director of Operations for The Traveling Team. The Traveling Team is a mobilization organization that recruits college students from all major US universities toward Christ's global cause. During his time on staff, he traveled to 49 states and 3 countries and spoke to over 40,000 college students, sharing God's heart for the world. He also spoke extensively at Perspectives classes and missions conferences for churches.
In 2021, he and his family moved to Dubai, UAE to serve as the Director of Operations for Redeemer Church of Dubai. He has Master of Arts in Theological Studies from Reformed Theological Seminary. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2018
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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Doug Landrum
Arlington TN
Doug Landrum serves as the Executive Director of Catalyst Missions. He is married with three sons. He also serves as the pastor of a bilingual church in Memphis, Comunidad en Cristo. His ministry passions are ethnic church planting and indigenous leader training.
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, August 28, 2018
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
Rufus Smith
Memphis TN
Rufus Smith is the Senior Pastor for Hope Church. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Rufus joined the Hope staff September 1, 2010. Before moving to Memphis and Hope, he served 12 years as the Sr. Pastor of City of Refuge Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC), a diverse, dynamic and socially active congregation. In addition, he served 3 years as the lead Chaplain for the NBA Houston Rockets and advises on four other local and national Boards. He was ordained in 1988 and studied at Houston Baptist University majoring in Theology and Psychology and his passion is preaching, teaching and discipleship development. He loves baseball, reading, fishing and walking, but his claim to fame and fun is his wife Jacqueline of 30 years along with their three adult children, Ruth Abigail, Rufus V and Rhoda. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2018
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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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
Scriptures in the native language. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2018
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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Steve Moses
Nashville TN
Steve Moses has worked with Muslims primarily from Northern Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia for over 20 years. Over the past 10 years his focus has been among refugees within the U.S. Steve spends much of his time equipping and mobilizing people to live out a World Christian lifestyle wherever the Lord places them. Steve, his wife, and two children live in Memphis, TN. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2018
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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Instructor
Steve Winstead
Harvest Church, Memphis TN
Steve Winstead serves as the Global Director for DownLine Ministries. He also is a Bible and discipleship teacher within the DownLine Institute. He has traveled on over 50 foreign mission trips.
He received a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Kentucky. He received his Masters of Divinity from Asbury Theological Seminary and his Doctorate from Fuller Theological Seminary.
Steve and his wife Margaret have four sons Samuel, Noah, Benjamin, and Daniel b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2018
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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Chelsea Standley
Center for Mission Mobilization, West Fork AR
Chelsea is passionate about raising up believers to participate in their most strategic role in seeing the Great Commission fulfilled. She grew up in Arkansas and graduated from the University of Arkansas in 2010 with a degree in Child Development. She then moved to India to do church planting for 6 years. Since the Fall of 2017, she has been on staff with the Center for Mission Mobilization which seeks to see the global church (Asia, Africa and Latin America) mobilized. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2018
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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Anna Darnell
Perspectives, Conway AR
Anna & her husband Brian are passionate about mobilizing God's people to engage fully in His plans & purposes. Whether locally or abroad, one of her greatest joys is helping others realize who God created them to be and coaching them as they take steps toward their specific role in fulfilling the Great Commission. Anna has served through Perspectives as a coordinator, instructor, area mentor and currently serves as the Perspectives Chief Training Officer and Acting Director of Instructor Development. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, October 9, 2018
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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Instructor
Edward Speyers
Wycliffe Bible Translators, Saugatuck MI
Ed and Linda Speyers joined Wycliffe Bible Translators in 1976 and invested 20 years (1979-1999) in South America doing incarnational ministry which included Bible Translation among the Suriname Javanese people. In March 2000 the fruit of their efforts culminated in the dedication of the Suriname Javanese New Testament.
At the time this also marked the 500th New Testament in which Wycliffe members (known as SIL overseas) had been involved.
The Suriname Javanese New Testament also marked a transition in the way Bible translation was approached in the years that followed. Until this translation, most
projects were done by generalists. That is, field workers handled nearly all of the
logistics of a translation project such as linguistics, literacy, translation, distribution, and Scripture Use.
The Suriname Javanese project was a different approach to translation in that local speakers were equipped to become proficient themselves in Bible translation techniques and all other aspects of the work. This led to greater involvement of local speakers which led to more proficiency and ultimately greater accuracy. With this approach, the Speyers assumed a more facilitator-type role as expatriates on the translation team with the nationals as the specialists in their own areas of expertise.
Largely because of this transfer of ownership and responsibility, translation of the Old Testament continued by the Suriname Javanese translators until August 2018 when the entire Bible was completed and dedicated. Around this same time, Wycliffe marked their involvement in the 1000th New Testament. The first 500 took 67 years and the second 500 took 17 years. This indicates the accelerated pace of Bible translation today.
The Speyers currently reside in MI and serve as recruiters on Wycliffe’s Mobilization team traveling to graduate schools and seminaries nationwide looking and praying for translation consultants and exegetical workers. They love to tell their story and encourage others to join the movement of God called Bible translation. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2018
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
Jamie Zumwalt
Outrageous Love, Oklahoma City OK
Jamie Zumwalt is the Founder and President of Outrageous Love, an organization that starts Communities of Hope among marginalized peoples. Jamie and her husband, John, served as missionaries in Taiwan among the Hakka and Taiwanese. For 22 years, John and Jamie have been training and sending missionaries out to plant the church among the unreached. She now pastors and a leads a coffee house, church community called Joe's Addiction in a "red light" district of Oklahoma City, doing life together with the poor. She has authored two books: Simple Obsession: Enjoying the Tender Heart of God and Beloved Chaos: moving from religion to Love in a red light district. Jamie travels widely, teaching and inviting more people to plant Communities of Hope. She and John have five children and one grand daughter. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2018
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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Betsy
Downline Ministries, Memphis TN
Betsy currently serves as the Emerging Leader Women's Director and Global Coordinator for Downline Ministries. Born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia in a church-planting missionary family, Betsy has always had a love for people and cultures, longing to see people experience redemptive freedom and restoration through the Gospel. She has a B.A. in Intercultural Studies from Emmaus Bible College and an M.A. in Intercultural Studies and Pastoral Counseling from Columbia International University. Her calling and ministry take many forms in many different contexts. They primarily consist of cross-cultural discipleship & equipping, teaching, counseling, global member care, resourcing, & support of people in vocational ministry, overseas partners, their families, refugees, & international students. She is passionate about spiritual formation and the integration of the whole person encountering God and His redemption. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2018
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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Tollie Meggs
Out of the Boat Ministries, Tuscaloosa AL
Founder of Out of the Boat Ministries where she is a Bible teacher, conference speaker, and author. Missions Mobilizer at Capstone Church in Tuscaloosa. Tollie leads retreats and conferences around the world, and has an ongoing counseling/teaching ministry to women in homeless shelters, helping them re-establish their lives. A passionate and gifted communicator, Tollie’s mission is: challenging and mobilizing followers of Christ to know Him more deeply and to make His glory known among the nations. She has a passion to help Christ followers discover their gifting and maximize their gifts, talents and life experience for the glory of God at home and abroad. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2018
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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Gene Daniels
Fruitful Practice Research, Jacksonville AR
Gene Daniels has a passion to spread the fame of Jesus in the Muslim world, something he and his family have been involved in since 1997, first as church planters in Central Asia and now as a mission researcher. Daniels has his doctorate in Religious Studies from the University of South Africa. He is also the author of several books and dozens of articles on mission. (Gene Daniels is a pseudonym) b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2018
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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Instructor
Mark Morris
Mission Leader, Inc, Memphis TN
B. Mark Morris
Biographical Sketch
Mark came to know Jesus Christ as personal Lord
and Savior through his local church in Memphis,
Tennessee.
After considerable influence by mission education
and service opportunities, Mark was moved to
commitment during a missionary presentation.
After seminary and church staff experiences the
Morris family found themselves en route to Portugal
for language study, then on to Cape Town, South
Africa as church planters. Churches and preaching
points were founded both in the South and in the
Northeast of South Africa. Having completed the
first missionary term of service in South Africa, the
Morrises returned to the United States where Mark
completed his Doctorate of Ministry in Missiology.
In 1989, God led Mark and Cindy to Pakistan, where
they pioneered Strategy Coordinator (Nonresidential
Missionary) work among the Hazara unreached
people of Afghanistan. In 1994 the Lord led Mark
to serve as Associate to the Area Director for the
Central and Southern Asia region for the
International Mission Board. In 1997 Mark became
Southern Baptists’ Regional Leader for Central and
Southern Asia of the IMB.
By 1998 Mark Morris co-founded an organization
known as All Peoples. All Peoples serves local
churches in their efforts to adopt and engage
unreached peoples with the Gospel. From 2000
Mark served for over 6 years as Pastor for Missions
and Ministries at Germantown Baptist Church in a
suburb of Memphis, Tennessee. He then served
with Rick Warren’s church as Pastor for Unengaged
People Groups through the Missions Department at
Saddleback, in Lake Forest, CA. Mark also founded
Mission Leader, Inc. which coaches churches in
becoming strategic W.O.R.L.D. Christians. Currently
Mark is Director of
Multi-affinity Church Relations at the International
Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Mark assists emerging churches in becoming
effective, strategic, missional churches. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, November 20, 2018
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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David Frazier
Equipping Servants International, Memphis TN
David uses his 25+ years of experience in overseas ministry, discipleship, & cross-cultural living to mentor individuals & train churches to be better equipped for cross-cultural ministry. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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