Kelso, WA S19
Spring 2019
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información al final de la pagina.) Touching God's Whole World
"Perspectives shows
you ever more what God's up to,
then equips & motivates you to play your part in this."
It's about
- His glory
- His kingdom
- His love for the peoples of the world
- His heart shaping my heart
It's about
- Understanding His purposes
- Living for something/someone bigger than myself
- Discovering the part I can play in what God's doing in the world
What is Perspectives?
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Perspectives is a discipleship course that equips the Body of Christ to
get threaded into God's Amazing Story to help complete the Great
Commission!
15 Challenging Topics | 15
World-Class Instructors | 15
Life-Changing Weeks
First Three Nights Free:
If you are still not sure about Perspectives, please
come to the nightly sessions from January 8-22, 2019 for free and check it out
for yourself. If you like it, you can still sign up after the
meeting. Come check it out. You can bring a friend.
Class Info
Dates: Tuesdays - January 8, 2019 – April 30, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Host Church:
East Hills Alliance Church 1405 Burcham Kelso, WA 98626 Directions
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Key Reading
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Certificate
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Credit
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Homework Time
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~3-5 hours of reading per week
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~7 hours of reading per week
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~8 hours of reading per week
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Assignments
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· No written homework
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· Weekly assignment
· 5 page paper
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· Weekly assignments
· Integrative project
· Mid-term and final exam
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Cost
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$250
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$250
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$550
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-- Undergraduate
or Graduate Credit
(available through Trinity International
University or Excelsior College)
-- ACSI: 7 CEUs (Continuing Education Units): 3 Bible CEUs + 4 Education
CEUs
-- Public School Teachers: Up to 45 clock hours: Additional fees through ESD 112
Discounts
Early Bird Discount: Enroll before December 21 and
receive a $25 discount!
Family Member Discount: Additional Family Members living in
the same home taking class together receive $25 off each!
Pastor Discount: Full time church staff or full time ministry staff receive
$25 off each!
Book Discount: If you already have a set of 4th edition books
or if you purchase the Kindle version online, you can receive a $30 book
discount.
Free Childcare
Childcare is available for
children (Birth to 5th grade). There is no fee, but a donation is
encouraged. Space is limited, so please register
your child(ren) here.
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Sande
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Bilingual / Español
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: Longview/Kelso 1405 Burcham St. Kelso WA 98626
Contact: Jack Sande
360-673-2051
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Registration & Orientation
Registration & Orientation
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Instructor
Richard Wilson
WEC INternational, Tumwater WA
I'm an Australian still active as a mission mobilizer with WEC International. My wife and I church planted, taught and mobilized missionaries and leaders for 32 years in Venezuela. Today these people serve nationally and internationally with several organizations…
To me mission is lifestyle; my heart to your heart; my home to the ends of the earth.
Laura and I had a sitting room and saw God do miracles. We saw Venezuela become a place that sends missionaries. Despite all odds the Venezuelan church is growing phenomenally in God's hands and has workers on four continents and we are privileged to still interact with some of them.
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Date: Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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
C.C.
Portland OR
Our speaker was born and raised in Oregon and currently serves as one of the pastors of a church in Portland. Before pastoring, he served with a non-profit in the US, London, and North Africa. He has been married for 24 years, and has two daughters and one son. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, January 15, 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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Instructor
Pete Luedemann
Happy Valley OR
I've nurtured a passion for missions since first connecting with the urban poor in college. I took the Perspectives class back then and it super-charged my understanding, prayer life, and effectiveness. My primary perspective is as a local church pastor in the U.S. working to support missions both locally and overseas. I've also participated in the Lausanne Conference on World Evangelism in 2005 and have trained pastors in Kolkata, India, and will train pastors in Uganda this summer. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, January 22, 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
Keith Hook
Missions Fest Seattle, Mukilteo WA
Keith has served in three churches as pastor and has spent 30+ years working in and teaching missions. He and his family lived in Hong Kong for two years serving Christian workers in China. They have hosted 90+ international students in their home. Keith served as a mission agency training director and is currently the executive director of Missions Fest Seattle. He and his wife, Judy, also lead a cancer care support group called Healing Strong and they have 3 married daughters and 11 grandchildren. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, January 29, 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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Instructor
Robert Blincoe
Frontiers, Mesa AZ
Bob led a Frontiers team into northern Iraq following the first Gulf War in 1991. He is president emeritus of Frontiers USA, living in Phoenix. He has a Ph.D. in History from William Carey International University in Pasadena. He has twice lost on television game shows. He blogs at robertblincoe.blog. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 12, 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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Instructor
Diane Kina
Perspectives On the World Christian Movement, Poulsbo WA
Short bio:
• Teacher
• Mobilizer
• Mission director, emeritus
• Involved with Perspectives since 1991
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 19, 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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Instructor
R. Jordan
Beaverton OR
R Jordan uses her 30 years experience in children's missions education to empower churches in developing global outreach strategies for their children's ministries. She makes history relevant and memorable through the use of audience participation and a variety of media. Ruth's husband John, is the World Missions Pastor at Village Baptist Church in Beaverton, Oregon. Contact Information: (503) 952-6901; email: ruth.jordan1922@gmail.com.
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 26, 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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Instructor
Betty Sue Brewster
Fuller Seminary (Retired), Vancouver WA
Retired: Senior Associate Professor of Language and Culture Learning, School of Intercultural Studies.
Currently: Language and culture learning consultant
Betty Sue has traveled in over 100 countries, teaching and consulting in the area of language and culture learning. Her teaching and writing focus on practical, hands-on learning through relationships. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 5, 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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Instructor
Richard Nakamura
Japanese Diaspora Ministries, Fort Worth TX
Richard Nakamura was born and raised in a Buddhist home in Seattle, WA. At the age of 19 (1979), Richard received Christ through the influence of his older brother, who converted a year earlier. Richard joined SEND International in 1988 and served as a church planter in Japan until 2011. He is now doing a Japanese Diaspora Ministry outreach out of Fort Worth, TX. through SEND International and RJC (Reaching Japanese for Christ). b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 12, 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
Miriam Adeney
Seattle Pacific University, Shoreline WA
With a Ph.D. in Anthropology and three sons, Miriam Adeney never stops learning. When not conducting her regular courses at Seattle Pacific University, Miriam teaches modules on five continents. She is passionate about training indigenous writers. A prolific speaker who has been invited to many campuses and national and international venues, Miriam also writes, resulting in five books and over 100 articles. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 19, 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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Instructor
Darrell Whiteman
Asbury Theological Seminary 1984-2005; The Mission Society 2005-2014; Interim Executive Director, Overseas Ministries Study Center 2015-2016; Global Development 2017-present; , Gig Harbor WA
Darrell Whiteman is a missiological anthropologist now semi-retired but continues to teach and train cross-cultural workers around the globe. He retired as VP and Resident Missiologist at The Mission Society, now TMS-Global. Darrell served in cross-cultural ministry for nine years in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Central Africa, then was one of the founding professors of Asbury Theological Seminary's School of World Mission and Evangelism, where he taught for 21 years and served as dean in the later years. He’s given leadership to many professional missiological societies researching the intersection of cultures and biblical values. Darrell annually equips hundreds of cross-cultural witnesses to understand God's mission around the globe and to help them to better connect the gospel to the deepest part of their worldview. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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
Jonathan Martin
Black Butte Ranch OR
Jonathan lives with his wife, Janie, in Sisters, Oregon. Jonathan taught in several colleges and universities in Central and East Asia for over a decade working with Muslims, and then spent 15 years pastoring at Good Shepherd Community Church in Boring, Oregon. He is now on staff with Co-Serve International and has the amazing privilege to learn from and help train leaders all over the world. He is the author of Giving Wisely, Breaking the King Saul Syndrome, and Reconstructing the Church: Paul's Letter to the 21st Century. Jonathan and Janie have three children and 4 grandchildren. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 9, 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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Instructor
Paul Watson
Contagious Disciple Making, Beaverton OR
Paul grew up on an airplane.
Not really, but he felt like it! He split his childhood between Hong Kong, Malaysia, India, and Singapore while his parents, David and Jan Watson, planted churches as career missionaries with the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Since the day God called Paul into full-time ministry, he has traveled over 200,000 miles training disciple-making teams in the UK, France, Indonesia, Malaysia, Lebanon, Egypt, Germany, and all over the United States.
From January 1, 2012, through August 15,2015, Paul served as director of Cityteam’s Rescue and Recovery Center in downtown Portland, OR. Feeding the homeless while helping alcoholics discover sobriety and Jesus taught him incredible lessons about putting feet to faith and loving those who don’t love themselves.
Paul left his role at Cityteam and founded Contagious Disciple Making (http://www.contagiousdisciplemaking.com) to focus on catalyzing Disciple Making Movements among the unreached and under-reached peoples in the Cascadia Corridor (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, British Columbia, and Alaska.)
Paul and his family are active members at Westside Community Church in Aloha, OR. Paul and his wife, Christi, lead a growth group that meets in their home on Sunday evenings. Paul is incredibly excited by his pastor’s desire to see 10,000 churches planted in the Pacific Northwest and wants to use his experiences to help his pastor and other ministry leaders plant churches among people who would not normally attend the typical church in North America.
Paul blogs at http://www.pauldwatson.com and http://www.contagiousdisciplemaking.com. He is the host of American Church Stories (http://www.americanchurchstories.com). He is published in ‘Perspectives on the World Christian Movement, 4th Edition.’ He co-authored Contagious Disciple Making: Leading Others On a Journey of Discovery with his father, David Watson.
You can reach Paul at pwatson@contagiousdisciplemaking.com. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 16, 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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Instructor
Nathan J'Diim
TOAG/Launch Internship and Frontiers, Chandler AZ
Nathan J'Diim (pen name) is the Founder of TOAG and (semi-retired) Consultant, Instructor and Coach for Frontiers (www.FrontiersUSA.org). Launch (www.LaunchGlobal.org) has since replaced TOAG but carries the same DNA: a year long after-hours internship preparing beautiful feet to serve in the Unreached World. Offered in cities across the US, TOAG/Launch has apprenticed hundreds of interns, many who serve or will soon serve the least reached world wide. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 23, 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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Instructor
Carlos Calderón
Partners, Spokane WA
Born in Central America, grew up during a civil war time, came to faith in Jesus with some other 30 friends in the neighborhood, and became active in evangelism, eventually joined a church and was impacted by the missionary call while at the university. Came to the USA for post-grad education and moved to a Muslim country. Now cooperates with indigenous movement work in some 60 countries in the Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist world, consistently resulting in thousands of decisions for Christ, and national indigenous church planting movements. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 30, 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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Instructor
Floyd Schneider
Great Northern University, Spokane, WA, Nine Mile Falls WA
Husband (of one wife), Father (of two sons), Grandfather (of eight grandchildren), Missionary, Church planter, College professor. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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
Floyd Schneider
Great Northern University, Spokane, WA, Nine Mile Falls WA
Husband (of one wife), Father (of two sons), Grandfather (of eight grandchildren), Missionary, Church planter, College professor. b
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Class Info
Date: Saturday, June 1, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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