Class Info

Date: Thursday, January 24, 2019

Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: Autumn Ridge Church 3611 Salemn Rd SW Rochester MN 55902

Contact: Ryan Henderson

(469)238-9817

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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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    Rick

    Minneapolis MN

    Rick planted churches among refugees in the US for over 20 years before moving to SE Asia to serve on a church planting team. During his time in Asia he was involved in developing an English vocational center as well as seeing a church planted among an UPG in that country. He now devotes his time living out his God given vision through a ministry called Engage Global. Engage Global exists to be a catalyst for the long term engagement of unreached peoples around the world by providing intensive World Christian training among unreached people groups living in the Twin Cities. He serves with a fantastic team along with his wife, Nicky and their two daughters Lilly and Liana.
    
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    Date: Thursday, January 24, 2019

    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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    Erik Hyatt

    Creation Stewards International, Indialantic FL

    Erik is the International Director of Creation Stewards International. He has a B.A. from University of the Nations, Hawaii; M.Div. from Western Seminary; and a D.Miss. from Fuller Seminary. Erik has ministered in over 25 countries as a missionary (YWAM) and as a Missions Pastor. From 2002-2012 Erik served as the Global Outreach Pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, with Pastor John Piper. In 2012 Erik was commissioned from Bethlehem to plant New City of Nations Church in St. Paul, MN. He and his wife, Charlotte, now live in Indialantic, FL. with their three daughters (Anna, Kathryn, and Clara).
    
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    Date: Thursday, January 31, 2019

    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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    Mike Moline

    Wycliffe USA, Florence CO

    Mike Moline has served with family in support roles with Wycliffe USA since 2008. Mike has a BA in Math from Bethel College in St. Paul, MN and BA in Chemistry from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, MN. Mike's theology is profoundly shaped by 25 years of attending Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, MN. Mike's favorite activity is telling of the impact of Bible translation and inviting everyone who will listen to consider how they can share in the joy of building Christ's Kingdom through involvement in Bible translation.
    
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    Date: Thursday, February 7, 2019

    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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    Bradley Buser

    Founder Radius International, San Diego CA

    Brad came to faith in Christ at 17 and soon after was challenged with the need of unreached people groups. He began training for this directly after High School. Beth is from St. Johns MI., her Mom and Dad love the Lord Jesus and raised her with a heart for the world. They met, had two boys and left for Papua New Guinea in January of 1979. Soon after arriving they moved in among the Iteri people who live in the headwaters of the Sepik River Basin. After 4 years of studying the language and culture of the Iteri people they were fluent and began to share Christ with them for the first time. The baby church was discipled and in a few years leaders were ordained. The Busers worked on the New Testament translation and by 1999, after 20 years in the village, with the translation done, the church up and thriving, their need to be among the Iteris was over. Upon returning from PNG he and other men saw the need for appropriate training for missionaries who would be sent to Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists. In 2010 he helped found Radius International as a ministry to do such training. Radius is currently the largest training program for those going into Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and Tribal peoples. For those who desire to do church planting among the least reached it is the premier training available.
    
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    Date: Thursday, February 14, 2019

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Jim Bloom

    Innerchange, Minneapolis MN

    Jim and his wife Raquel serve in Minneapolis with InnerCHANGE, a Christian order among the poor. They originally started the Minneapolis team in 1995 focusing on church planting among the unreached urban poor.They also serve on InnerCHANGE's Horizons team which is responsible for catalyzing and training new teams. Jim also served in the role of U.S. Regional Director for 7 years. Before joining InnerCHANGE, Jim served on the staff of Bethlehem Baptist Church in downtown Minneapolis as minister for college-age, overseeing small groups and urban ministry. He also served briefly with YWAM in the Philippines. Jim has been married to Raquel for the past 37 years. They have two children. Jim has an M.Div. from Bethel Seminary and a Doctorate in Transformational Leadership from Bakke Graduate University.
    
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    Date: Thursday, February 21, 2019

    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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    Ryan Griffith

    Minneapolis MN

    Ryan Griffith (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) serves as an elder and Director of Training and Operations at Cities Church in St. Paul. Prior to serving at Cities, Ryan was executive director of The Gospel Coalition. Ryan also served as the founding Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Professor of Church History and Humanities at Bethlehem College & Seminary (Minneapolis, MN) where he taught for twelve years. He earned MA and BA degrees at Wheaton College (IL).
    
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    Date: Thursday, February 28, 2019

    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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    Bob Oehrig

    Arrive Ministries, Eden Prairie MN

    Bob Oehrig, was the Missions Pastor at Grace Church Roseville from 2001-2011, and the Executive Director of Arrive Ministries (formerly World Relief Minnesota) from 2011-2020 resettling and serving refugees in the Twin Cities. Bob has two MA degrees in Cross-Cultural Communications (Wheaton College) and Missiology (Fuller Theological Seminary). Bob served on the faculty and administration at Daystar University, Nairobi, Kenya for 24 years teaching in the areas of Intercultural Studies, Islamics and Cross-Cultural Communications. He has traveled to more than 55 countries and has led church teams to Macedonia, Ukraine, Guatemala, Mexico, Bolivia, Kenya and India. Bob is married to Donna, the daughter of missionaries to Liberia. They have 5 children, including two adopted sons.
    
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    Date: Thursday, March 7, 2019

    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 Livingston

    Bethlehem Baptist Church, Burnsville MN

    In 2009 my wife and I completed a sabbatical journey to South Africa & the British Isles to study the famous lives of John Bunyan, William Carey, & David Livingstone . . . seeing all sorts of places from Capetown to Hadrian's Wall! This year we will have completed 25 years of service at our current church and 41 years altogether. And we are the delighted grandparents of 8 grandchildren, ranging in age from 10 years to 6 months.
    
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    Date: Thursday, March 14, 2019

    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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    Paul Van Der Werf

    GoCorps, Minneapolis MN

    Paul Van Der Werf caught a vision for the least reached peoples globally after going on a short term mission trip in college. Since then he’s lived and ministered in the Red Light District of Amsterdam and in a border town in Mexico and has traveled to over 40 countries. He’s passionate about college students going after their dreams and finding the place where their passions intersect with God’s global dream. He is the founder and executive director of GoCorps [www.GoCorps.org] – an on-ramp for recent grads to serve globally for two years. He and his wife Julia are based in Minneapolis where you can most often find him biking or playing a pickup game of Ultimate.
    
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    Date: Thursday, March 21, 2019

    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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    Jeremy Kim

    Engage Global, Saint Paul MN

    Jeremy and his wife, Renee, have been the Twin Cities Coordinators for the Perspectives course for the past decade. Through Perspectives, they were awakened to God's heart to receive worship from all the nations of the earth. Multiple exposures to the unreached people groups in multiple countries, as well as ministering to international students and refugees, only solidified their desire to serve the global Church in completing the Great Commission. The Kims are blessed to serve with Engage Global, a missions mobilization agency that aims to equip churches in planting more churches in the least-reached areas of the world. Before joining Engage Global, Jeremy was a supervisor at a mental health clinic where more than 15 languages were spoken daily. Jeremy is also humbled to be able to serve as the Elder of Global Outreach at New City of Nations Church, a local multi-ethnic body where more than a dozen nations gather to worship. Jeremy and Renee's heart is to see the Bride of Christ be in full obedience to Christ’s Mandate for the nations.
    
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    Date: Thursday, March 28, 2019

    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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    Philemon Yong

    Saint Anthony MN

    Philemon grew up in the Kom tribe, Cameroon. His parents were both Christians, and church was a regular part of their lives. Yet, at the same time, Philemon observed a strange mix where traditional religion was still also a part of life—even of many in the church! At age 13, with his family unable to send him to more schooling, Philemon left home to go to the city to find some jobs that would give him a better life. When he was 23, through a friend Philemon was led to attend Cameroon Baptist Theological Seminary, Ndu. This began his training for ministry. Linda was a short-termer at CBTS that year, and they developed a very strong friendship. As a result, Philemon came to the USA, and he and Linda were married the following year. Bethel College accepted Philemon, and after completing his bachelor’s degree he continued on to earn a Masters of Divinity degree at Bethel Seminary (St. Paul). A year of short-term ministry back at CBTS fueled the desire to eventually return to Cameroon as a full-time teacher/theologian. This led Philemon to pursue Ph.D. work at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. From 2003-2010, Philemon has been teaching many courses at CBTS, solidly equipping future church leaders to preach and practice that Christ alone is the source for power and guidance in their lives. He also has a desire to write materials that will be helpful to the church in Cameroon/Africa. His unique preparation—knowing the culture firsthand and having solid theological training—equip Philemon to do this in an excellent way. Philemon has experienced firsthand the confusing mix of Christianity and spiritism in the African church. He realizes that many church leaders have little theological training. Those with some training are trying to use a Western approach to theology in the African context, where the questions and problems call for a more African approach. His experiences, combined with his extensive theological studies in the USA, have put in him a desire for theological education in Africa. Philemon and his wife Linda live in Minnesota. They have three children, Benjamin, Samuel, and Anna.
    
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    Date: Thursday, April 4, 2019

    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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    Paul Hartford

    Bethany Global University, Plymouth MN

    Paul brings both a decade-long field experience from his service as a church planter and trainer in Southeast Asia and two decades of experience as a trainer of missionaries. He currently serves with Bethany Global University - a missionary training university located in Bloomington, MN. Paul holds a BA in Theology and Missions, an MA in Intercultural Studies and a PhD in Post-secondary and Adult Education. He and his wife Theresa have three adult children and nine grandchildren. They live in Plymouth, MN
    
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    Date: Thursday, April 11, 2019

    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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    Dan Farr

    Circle Pines MN

    Dan, his wife Kelly and their 3 children work with Engage Global and minister among immigrants, refugees, and international students in the United States in Minneapolis, MN. We mobilize churches, train disciples, and send out those disciples all over the world to reach the unreached peoples of the world.Our heart is to get the Western Church impassioned to see how they can be a part of the great commission by welcoming unreached people groups to the U.S, and getting involved in the lives of those who up until this point have been left without a witness to the Love that is Jesus Christ. Our passion is to reach out and help newcomers that have recently arrived in the US by helping with English, tutoring, paperwork, job placement, etc. Many of these internationals have escaped persecution, genocide, and political unrest. By training people here to meet the physical needs of those coming from overseas, we can meet their even greater spiritual needs. The goal is to share the gospel and help develop full devoted followers of Christ. We have hope of seeing those that have entered into the Kingdom return to their home countries as apostolic leaders where still 1.9 Billion people remain without the Good News of Christ. Prior to coming to Minneapolis our family spent 4 years in Oaxaca, Mexico reaching out to the unreached Indigenous Mixteco people groups, then the last 5 years working in very diverse US cities training the local church and indigenous believers to reach out to those coming to America. The goal and passion of our organization is to see Matthew 24:14 come to pass and that all unreached peoples of this earth will have the opportunity to hear the Gospel of this Kingdom.
    
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    Date: Thursday, April 18, 2019

    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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    Jay Vi

    Minneapolis MN

    
    
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    Date: Thursday, April 25, 2019

    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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    Erin K.

    OMF International, Littleton CO

    Erin hails from California but was transplanted to Colorado in 2007 to begin serving full-time with the mobilization team of OMF International. She began serving as alumni follow-up coordinator in 2005 while also working full-time as a social worker. During these two years she became increasingly aware of how being involved in missions should be a natural part of every believer's life of worship to God. Her passion is still to see every person in the church mobilized to be part of reaching unreached people groups among every tribe, tongue and nation through mentoring and discipleship.
    
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    Date: Thursday, May 2, 2019

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

• • Celebration

    Celebration Night

    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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    Date: Thursday, May 9, 2019

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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