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Date: Sunday, January 6, 2019

Time: 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM

Location: Central Presbyterian 1920 Canal St. Merced CA 95340

Contact: Nathan Hunsuck

209-325-6536

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  • Date: Sunday, January 6, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM

• • 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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    Steve Hawthorne

    Austin TX

    Steve Hawthorne serves as the director of WayMakers, a prayer and mission mobilization organization in Austin, Texas. He's the author of the widely used prayer guide called Seek God for the City. After co-editing the course and the book Perspectives on the World Christian Movement in 1981, he launched “Joshua Project,” a series of research expeditions among unreached peoples in world class cities. He co-authored, with Graham Kendrick, the book Prayerwalking: Praying On-Site With Insight. He has helped leaders in numerous cities unite and sustain life-giving prayer for entire communities. With humor and seasoned wisdom, he speaks with living passion for the greater glory of Jesus. He says of his ministry, “I like to commit arson of the heart.”
    
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    Date: Sunday, January 13, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 5:30 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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    David Ingerson

    Christians in Action Missions International, Fresno CA

    Author, entrepreneur, and twenty-four year US Air Force veteran, Dr. David Ingerson is the president and CEO of Christians in Action Missions International, a world-wide missions mobilizing organization. David earned a doctorate in global leadership studying Diaspora Missiology among the Lahu peoples. David is an exciting communicator and compelling advocate of mobilizing the body of Christ to pray, send, go, make disciples of all nations--particularly among the growing diasporic communities worldwide. David and his wife Kathleen, parents of five, grandparents of seven, make their home in Fresno, California.
    
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    Date: Sunday, January 20, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 5:30 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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    Karen Schagunn

    Indestructible Daughters; Horn of Africa Evangelical Mission, Panama City Beach FL

    An international speaker and author, Karen Schagunn is the founder of Indestructible Daughters (indestructibledaughters.com), a ministry to equip and empower women across the globe. She is a board member and trainer with Horn of Africa Mission, mobilizing believers to reach unengaged and unreached people groups throughout Africa, Europe and the Middle East. She and her husband train missionaries and teach classes on overcoming trauma. Karen served for years as a woman's director in a diverse cultural church. She is also the author of "Indestructible Daughters”.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, January 27, 2019

    Time: 3:00 AM to 5:30 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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    Matthew Ellison

    Sixteen:Fifteen, Albuquerque NM

    Matthew was rescued by Jesus when he was twenty-three. Shortly after, he found himself in Ghana, West Africa on the first of what would be many ventures to the mission field. That first trip, Matthew says, "ruined me for anything less than a life lived for God's global purpose." In 1993 he began serving at Calvary of Albuquerque, in New Mexico, where he attended and graduated from their School of Ministry. He worked as the missions pastor at Calvary for nine years, developing and launching a strategic church-wide missions ministry. There he founded LifeLine Missions, an international short-term mission ministry that gave thousands across the country the opportunity to experience the mission field firsthand. Through these ministry opportunities he became extensively involved in short and long-term mission endeavors in countries around the world. Now, he devotes his time to serving local churches across the country by coaching them in strategically focused missions and helping them to discover and use their unique gifts in partnership with others to make Christ known among all nations. Matthew is the President and co-founder of Sixteen:Fifteen, and currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wife, Renee, and their three children, Matthew, Caleigh, and Landin.
    
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    Date: Sunday, February 3, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM

• • 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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    Tommy Corrao

    Mid India Christian Mission, Clovis CA

    Tommy is the Executive Director of Mid India Christian Mission. Prior to his role with Mid India, he served as Missions Pastor of CrossCity Christian Church in Fresno, CA. During that time, he coordinated Perspectives for a few years. Tommy is married to a wonderful woman from India and they have two boys.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, February 10, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 5:30 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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    Don Fisher

    Vision 5:9, Fresno CA

    Don became a Christian in Indonesia through the witness of a local believer, whom he later married. They were missionaries in Indonesia from 1979 to 1993. They taught at the Institut Injil Indonesia. Don has taught in both public and private schools in Malaysia, Indonesia, Mexico, and the United States. He has traveled and given seminars in Indonesia, the Philippines, China, India, the USA, and Zambia. They currently work with Punjabis and other immigrant groups in the San Joaquin Valley. They have two friendship centers which offer help to immigrants along with English & U.S. citizenship classes.Don is also a member of the Fruitful Practices task force of Vision 5:9.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, February 24, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 5:30 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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    Ron Binder

    Wycliffe Bible Translators, Santa Ana CA

    Ron and his wife, Kathy, worked in Panama and Colombia for 23 years with Wycliffe. They completed a New Testament translation among the Wounaan people and also did extensive work in developing literacy materials, training pastors, teachers and artists, community development and ethnomusicology. They have published some 80 books in the Wounaan language besides the New Testament and have seen God raise up some 15 churches, all of which are led by Wounaan pastors without the presence of missionaries. Ron has been a speaker in Perspectives classes since 1994, has coordinated several classes himself and is Professor of Record for many of the classes in which he teaches. In the U.S. he is a speaker and events coordinator for Wycliffe, but he and Kathy also help facilitate ongoing ministry goals determined by the Wounaan church leaders by traveling to Panama 2-3 times a year. These goals include creating new media and written resources in their language for evangelism and outreach ministries. Currently working on Old Testament translation, discipleship materials and a bilingual dictionary.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, March 10, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 5:30 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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    Mike Latsko

    Global Muslim Ministries Network/Frontiers, Mesa AZ

    “Mike was a pastor for 20 years before crossing the aisle to the missions’ world 11 years ago. He’s especially interested in how significant changes in the world over the last decade impact global sending and going. He’s hoping to help especially traditionally-based churches and agencies in North America make the transition into this new world, and he’s very optimistic at the prospect.”
    
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    Date: Sunday, March 17, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 5:30 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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    Robert Rasmussen

    Near Frontiers, Turlock CA

    Bob Rasmussen serves as Ex. Dir of Near Frontiers. After eight years as a pastor, Bob and his family lived in Kenya for 10 years training African church leaders. Near Frontiers focuses on partnering within the diaspora church in the USA and beyond, befriending international students, and helping churches move toward intercultural unity.Bob writes books and blogs, hikes, kayaks, and plays trumpet with the worship team.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, March 24, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 5:30 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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    Roxanne Johnson

    Frontiers, Gilbert AZ

    Roxanne Johnson, along with her husband Jeff, have served with Frontiers Mission agency in Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan for 35 years. She has witnessed battle hardened Muslims come to Christ, home fellowships bloom, martyrdom of Muslim background believers, and fellow missionaries, she has raised 3 resilant third cultured kids in war zones, and been showered by the blessings of God.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, March 31, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 5:30 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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    Judy Patin

    Clovis CA

    Judy has worked with students for 15 years in high school and college settings and has been a mission pastor for 5 years, leading/facilitating short term teams to several countries. She is currently trained as a chaplain for disaster response nationally and is a city first responder for disaster. She has been involved with Perspectives for 4 years and Kairos for 2 years.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, April 7, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 5:30 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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    John Payne

    Medical Ambassadors Intl., Salida CA

    A physician, John spent nineteen years as the director of a Family Practice Residency in California. Madelle was a hospice nurse. In 2005, after taking early retirement, they became second career missionaries in East Africa. There they worked with national leaders who taught their own people a seamless combination of community development, disease prevention, and evangelism and discipleship. In 2009, John became the president of the mission. In 2017, he retired and continued to Represent MAI as President Emeritus.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, April 14, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 5:30 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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    John Becker

    AIM/3P Ministries/Activate Global, Redwood City CA

    John serves as Global Strategy Director for AIM and the Vice President for Global Networking and Partnerships for GACX. Currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area, John Becker has lived and ministered in Africa and the United Kingdom with his wife and four children. John and his family love to live in community, practice hospitality and practically display God’s love in the community, especially to those displaced by war and violence. John has been a contributing author of several books, two of which are: From Seed to Fruit: Global Trends, Fruitful Practices and Emerging Issues Relating to Muslims and Where There Was No Church: Postcards From Followers of Christ in the Muslim World. John has a heart for Kingdom collaboration and has co-founded a dozen global networks and regional partnerships to serve the least reached communities of the world.
    
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    Date: Sunday, April 28, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 5:30 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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    Malcolm Hunter

    SIM/USCWM, Mariposa CA

    More than 40 years seeking to reach the nomadic peoples of the world, initially in Ethiopia and later in Sudan, Kenya and West Africa. In the last ten years I have been going more to Asia in my role as director of the Institiute for Nomadic Studies. Having trained in UK as an Engineer my entry point is usually through development. I have a PhD from Oxford entitled Appropriate Development for Nomadic Pastorlists
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, May 5, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 5:30 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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    Markos Zemede

    Horn of Africa Evangelical Mission, Fresno CA

    I was born and raised in Ethiopia. I immigrated to the USA as a refugee in 1984. When I took the Perspectives class in 1999, it ruined me for the ordinary. In addition to my busy medical practice, I now serve in many missions organizations, a few of which were birthed out of the Perspectives class, including Horn of Africa Mission (www.hornofafrica.org).
    
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    Date: Sunday, May 19, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM

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