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Date: Sunday, January 13, 2019

Time: 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Location: First Presbyterian Church 101 E. Third Avenue Rome GA 30161

Contact: Adam Nash

706-936-0230

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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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    Glenn Mason

    Carver International Missions, Stonecrest GA

    Rev. Mason and his wife Kimberly served as missionaries in Liberia in the 90s, teaching in high school and Bible college, counseling, and supervising field staff. Upon their return to Atlanta, Glenn was appointed Executive Director of their agency, Carver Int’l Missions. Glenn’s main role is motivating the Church toward global engagement. Glenn earned his BA in Psychology and Sociology from UPenn, and has done grad studies at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia. The Masons have two adult daughters, Eliana and Calin. Glenn and Kim attend Fellowship Bible Church in Roswell GA.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, January 13, 2019

    Time: 4:00 PM to 7:00 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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    Mark Tabladillo

    Ratio Christi, Atlanta GA

    Mark Tabladillo volunteers as Area Ministry Director for Georgia and Florida for Ratio Christi, where he oversees 10 college campus apologetics ministries. "Ratio Christi" means Reason of Christ, a mission of student-led college chapters focusing on apologetics and evangelism. Mark speaks on college campuses, evangelizes with students, and recruits new supported missionaries as Chapter Directors. Mark has been a Perspectives coordinator, presenter, and curriculum contributor since 2004. He has a full-time career in data science and artificial intelligence for Microsoft. He has a strong interest in science apologetics. His church home is in Atlanta, GA.
    
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    Date: Sunday, January 20, 2019

    Time: 4:00 PM to 7:00 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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    Scott Miller

    Salem Church, McDonough GA

    Scott and his wife, Chris, have been married 40 years and are blessed with two grown children and one grandson. Scott completed a BSBA from Mars Hill University (NC), a Master of Divinity from Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY., and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Fuller Seminary in 1995 in Evangelism and Church Growth. After serving as a Lead Pastor for 34 years he has now made the transition to invest 100% of his ministry in Missions as the Pastor of Global Missions at Salem Church in McDonough, Georgia. He is personally involved in mission partnerships on four continents and serves as the Co- Director for Mustard Seed International. He has led 69 short-term mission trips to Asia, Africa, Europe, and Central America. Scott also teaches 6 Perspectives on the World Christian Movement lessons and seeks to weave stories and experiences from the front lines into the time-tested practical principles of the world of missions. He loves helping to mobilize churches and individuals to catch God's vision for the world and to develop ongoing mission partnerships between local churches and believers here with indigenous partners in unreached areas. He loves to teach God's Word in its simplicity and power and has a passion to reach the unreached and to see believers grow in Christ and become pioneers of Kingdom growth.
    
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    Date: Sunday, January 27, 2019

    Time: 4:00 PM to 7:00 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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    Sky Pratt

    Prince Avenue Baptist Church, Athens GA

    Sky Pratt has been involved with student ministry for twenty years serving at churches in Texas and Georgia. The Lord moved Sky and his family to Prince Avenue Baptist in Athens in 2001. Sky has a passion to see believers develop an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ, and impact their world by capturing God’s heart for the nations. Sky and his wife Karen have two children, Josh and Lauren.
    
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    Date: Sunday, February 3, 2019

    Time: 4:00 PM to 7:00 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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    Carol

    LoveCompels, Augusta GA

    Carol is the Australian founder of a missions ministry that for over 30 years has worked in partnership with churches and ministries to help train and deploy thousands of Christian workers in over 30 countries. Carol's cross cultural perspective developed over many years serving indigenous ministries in urban and rural sub-saharan African contexts. She has assisted multiple international Churches, denominations and movements and contributed to developing a global network of ministry training centers. Carol is currently engaged in mobilizing church planters in North Africa and the Middle East.
    
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    Date: Sunday, February 10, 2019

    Time: 4:00 PM to 7:00 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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    Nathan Jewett

    Huntsville AL

    Nathan Jewett is a follower of Christ, husband to Amber, and mobilizer for the nations. He studied Bible and Preaching in Dallas, TX before moving to Alabama in 2010 to pastor in the local church. His heart to see God's glory among all nations has taken him to Nicaragua, Panama, Rwanda, India, and Nepal. He now mobilizes through his work in the marketplace and advocates for social change around the issue of chronic homelessness in his local community, with the overall aim of seeing God's glory displayed among all peoples.
    
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    Date: Sunday, February 17, 2019

    Time: 4:00 PM to 7:00 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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    Jamie Farr

    Wycliffe Bible Translators, Orlando FL

    I grew up in the South Pacific in Papua New Guinea the son of Translators speaking four languages. I experienced the joy of watching my ethnic people receive the NT and experience the power of God in amazing ways. I later went with my beautiful Wife Anita to Thailand to serve with Wycliffe. On our watch we have seen over 2000 missionaries go to serve among over 1800 people groups in the last 24 years. We are passionate about God's glory to be experienced by all peoples.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, February 24, 2019

    Time: 4:00 PM to 7:00 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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    Jimmy R.

    Pioneers, Athens GA

    Jimmy currently serves in the Balkans with Pioneers on a team that aims to glorify God by multiplying disciples of Jesus throughout the former Yugoslavia. Their current vision is to see no place left in Balkans without access to the gospel of Christ. The team primarily does this by seeking to catalyze a uniquely Balkan movement of reproducing churches throughout the Balkans AND by equipping local believers with simple Biblical principles for making obedient disciples of Jesus Christ. Jimmy and his wife have been serving overseas with their three children since January 2017. Before his work with Pioneers, Jimmy worked with Cafe 1040 for eight years. While serving stateside as a mobilizer and missions coach Jimmy developed a passion for helping individuals find their fit with serving cross culturally. For that reason, when he's in the USA for home assignment, he loves engaging with those in the American church to find where they might fit best fit into God's Global Great Commission work.
    
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    Date: Sunday, March 3, 2019

    Time: 4:00 PM to 7:00 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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    Nicole Parks

    Cafe 1040, Cumming GA

    God has been calling Nicole to missions since before she was walking with Him. She graduated from the University of Georgia with a BBA in International Business and Risk Management. Through studying abroad twice in college, God began to open her eyes to her love of other cultures, languages, and travel. After graduation, she worked in financial services for a few years before God called her into ministry. While working for North Point Ministries, she went on her first short-term missions trip. Through 2 trips to the 10/40 window, God called her into vocational missions. In 2014, she joined the staff of Cafe 1040 first as a mobilizer and then as a team lead. She now serves on their board of directors. She is also the Missions Director at Restoration Church in Alpharetta. She is passionate about the unreached, mobilization, and God's heart for the nations.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, March 10, 2019

    Time: 4:00 PM to 7:00 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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    D

    Suwanee GA

    After business school at Emory, D worked in consulting for several years until Perspectives rocked his world. Then he shifted careers by quitting the corporate world and getting a Master’s in linguistics and Bible translation. That paved his way to go to remote corners in Central Asia to do Bible translation for an unengaged people group. However, for various personal reasons, he had to come back to Atlanta and reenter the corporate world again where he has worked for McKinsey & Company and Ernst & Young. After settling back into Atlanta, his focus is now on working with Muslims in the metro Atlanta area. His corporate life gives him the time, resources, and a sincere platform to interact with Muslims he meets.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, March 17, 2019

    Time: 4:00 PM to 7:00 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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    Mari Beth Poor

    Seeking Eden, Helena AL

    After serving as a pastor at a church for 21 years, Mari Beth recently launched a ministry called Seeking Eden. This ministry was formed to provide biblical resources that aid people in studying Scripture in a hermeneutical fashion. While these resources will be available to anyone, the heart of Seeking Eden is to take resources into rural areas to aid pastors in the discipleship of their churches. In addition to founding Seeking Eden, Mari Beth has also joined Cardinal Counseling and Consulting as a life coach. As a coach, she feels passionate about partnering with people who feel "stuck" and helping them move towards positive change and a new direction in life.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, March 24, 2019

    Time: 4:00 PM to 7:00 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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    Grant Haynes

    Global Frontier Missions, Lilburn GA

    Grant Haynes founded Global Frontier Missions in 2000 while church planting among indigenous groups in southern Mexico. His passion is to see as many individuals and churches as possible praying, giving, welcoming, and going to the least reached people groups of the earth. Grant spent 14 years serving in Oaxaca, Mexico with his wife and three children church planting, hosting short-term mission groups, running an indigenous Bible school, and starting a missionary training school for North Americans. Grant now serves in Clarkston, GA, known as the most diverse square mile in America, reaching refugees from Iraq, Burma, Bhutan, Nepal, Somalia, Ethiopia, and many other nations.
    
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    Date: Sunday, March 31, 2019

    Time: 4:00 PM to 7:00 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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    Date: Sunday, April 7, 2019

    Time: 4:00 PM to 7:00 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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    Mitch Jolly

    Three Rivers Church, Rome GA

    Mitchell is the teaching pastor and founder of Three Rivers Church. He is the husband of Jennifer, the daddy of Gabriel, John Mark and Daniel. Mitchell enjoys family time, teaching, hunting, and hometown sports.
    
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    Date: Sunday, April 14, 2019

    Time: 4:00 PM to 7:00 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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    Christen

    Pioneers, Athens GA

    Christen, her husband and their three teenage children live in a small muslim town in south eastern Europe, in an area known as the Balkans. Her family has lived and served among a unreached people group for almost five years. Their small team is a part of a network of teams who follow DMM (disciple making movement) principals to reach their area for Christ. Before her work with Pioneers, Christen worked with Cafe 1040 for eight years. In this role, she served as a mobilizer and as a pre-GO missions coach.. In their last few years with Cafe 1040, Christen and her husband also partnered with Launch Global. In that role, they facilitated a 10-month missionary training program in Athens, GA for three consecutive years. Christen enjoys taking regular Sabbaths, learning about emotionally healthy spirituality, talking in depth about the Enneagram, learning new languages, and reading historical fiction.
    
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    Date: Sunday, April 28, 2019

    Time: 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

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    Date: Sunday, May 5, 2019

    Time: 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

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