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Gainesville, FL S20
Spring 2020
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Join us on this journey to discover God's heart and purpose - a purpose in which you have a part to play. It may be sending, welcoming, praying, supporting, and yes - even going. Discovering this purpose is valuable, and perhaps crucial, for any Christian.
What is Perspectives? Perspectives will take you on a 15-week journey, looking in-depth at the biblical, historical, cultural, and strategic aspects of God’s global plan to reconcile every nation, tribe, people, and tongue to Himself. You will learn from 15 Different Instructors over 15 weeks, all of them excellent and all of them passionate about this course. They will challenge and inspire you with their wisdom and experience, opening your eyes to a deeper vision of God’s mercy, greatness Too Expensive? Don't let that stop you! We have several discounts available for this class. An Early Bird discount, $50 off if you register and pay by December 20th, a family member discount, $50 the second member of one family to register, and a group discount. The group discount is $75 off each person's registration if you register with four or more people from your church or campus ministry, under the condition that you register and complete the course at the certificate level, which is why it is the most significant discount. There are also payment plans available. Please contact the coordinator if finances are still your main obstacle. We do not want finances to be the reason you abstain from this experience!
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Registration & Orientation
Registration & Orientation
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Instructor
Jeffrey Moody
Frontier Ventures, Gainesville FL
After serving in various church roles, Jeff was "ruined for the ordinary" when he took Perspectives in 2003. He served his church as missions pastor for 6 years before joining Frontier Ventures. After leading internal projects for a couple of years, in 2014 he helped launch NextMove, a ministry of FV that helps missions agencies implement diaspora missions solutions. He co-directed NextMove for 6 years. In 2021 he joined the FV Operations Team as Business Transition Lead. He has volunteered in Persspectives for many years, coordinating and teaching Perspectives classes. He and his wife Kemberly have 3 adult children (and one wonderful daughter-in-law!). Jeff loves exercise, bass guitar, the arts, reading, and great conversations accompanied by good food and coffee.
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Date: Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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
Gus Davies
Longwood FL
Pastor Augustine (Gus) Davies is passionate about Perspectives because it is a great and compelling course that continues to advance discipleship and leadership development for the Kingdom. Gus was introduced to Perspectives in the 80’s at African Bible College in Liberia and Reformed Theological Seminary USA. During those times he read several of the articles for missions, anthropology and cross-cultural classes.
Gus is serving as pastor at Northland Church in Longwood Florida since 1998. Perspectives course was part of his beginning days as he participated in both local and global missions along with pastoral responsibilities. In the last year Gus’s heart and mind has been re-ignited to reengage in this class as a student and facilitator. Perspectives go deeper in equipping and empowering the Church for the Great Commission.
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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
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. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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
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. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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
Vinay Mathews
ROCK Intl., Gainesville FL
In 2013, I received a vivid calling from the Lord to become a true disciple of Him - not just in my words, but in action. After many years of being tossed to and fro, I was finally filled with the singular purpose of proclaiming the mysteries and wonder of His great name. From that moment in 2013, it didn't take the Lord long till he spoke into my life again and again and again. The first and the greatest prayer that He answered (a prayer that I never knew to pray) was for my awesome wife, April. Life with her, for Him, is indescribable. While I work full-time as an Architect, I've been tasked with much ministry focused on building up young men and youth, teaching His Word to the nations (rockintl.org, comeawake.org), and proclaiming his name to dear unbelieving friends. Prayers have been answered; great things are being done; and I have no doubt there is much more to come. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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
Scott Simmons
Third Millennium Ministries, Winter Park FL
Scott Simmons is currently the Director of Professor Relations for Third Millennium Ministries, a ministry designed to provide theological education to church leaders around the world for free. Scott is in charge of adding video content from seminary professors and pastors around the world into our free, online curriculum.
Before this, Scott was the minister of missions and spiritual formation at Chapelgate Presbyterian Church, where he oversaw global church planting partnerships and local evangelism and mercy ministries.
Scott is the husband of one and father of three and he loves nature and wildlife photography, jazz and folk music, movies and a good book. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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
Jennifer Webster
Tallahassee FL
Jennifer Webster is a native Floridian and recently moved to Tallahassee with her family after living in the UK since 2020. She is currently completing her PhD in Theology at the University of Cambridge, St. John’s College. She previously received her undergraduate degrees in Anthropology and Theatre from the University of Central Florida and her MA in Church History from the University of Nottingham. She has a passion for educating Christians and congregations in theology and church history, and sees quality education as fundamental for developing healthy and whole followers of Jesus Christ. Her days are currently filled with exploring her new hometown with her daughter and husband and hiding away at the FSU library to write her PhD thesis b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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
David Jackett
Sixteen:Fifteen, Lewisville TX
After spending 10 years as a professional firefighter/EMT / Fire Marshal in Fort Worth, TX, David left the fire service for full-time vocational ministry. He currently serves as the Director of Mobilization & Operations at Sixteen:Fifteen. David has led more than a dozen trips to Central America doing evangelism, medical and orphan care, firefighter training and church planting. He has helped his church and others develop missionary training and equipping programs and he has spoken to thousands of students and adults across the US and Central America about God’s global mission with a great passion to mobilize the body of Christ to strategic engagement in God’s global purpose. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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
David Jackett
Sixteen:Fifteen, Lewisville TX
After spending 10 years as a professional firefighter/EMT / Fire Marshal in Fort Worth, TX, David left the fire service for full-time vocational ministry. He currently serves as the Director of Mobilization & Operations at Sixteen:Fifteen. David has led more than a dozen trips to Central America doing evangelism, medical and orphan care, firefighter training and church planting. He has helped his church and others develop missionary training and equipping programs and he has spoken to thousands of students and adults across the US and Central America about God’s global mission with a great passion to mobilize the body of Christ to strategic engagement in God’s global purpose. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Time: 6:35 PM to 9:30 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
Dorian Rose
City Church, Gainesville FL
Dorian's professional background is in the field of physical therapy. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Physical Therapy at the University of Florida and a Research Health Scientist at the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center. She has had the privilege of serving in Uganda with an indigenous organization in the village of Kaihura, "Bringing Hope to the Family" the past five years. She took Perspectives in 2018 which was an eye-opening, mind-expanding adventure. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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Roger Frank
GLobal Connections, Orlando FL
Roger received eternal life while in college. In seminary he received God's call into cross-cultural missions. After seminary he planted a church in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1989 he and his wife joined Youth With A Mission and focused on church planting among Muslims in Southeast Asia. In 1992 he worked for Far East Broadcasting. In 1993 he became the Dean of Tung Ling Bible College's School of Ministry. In 1996 he became the director of mobilization for YWAM Singapore and then from 1999 to 2006 led the School of Frontier Mission. In 2006 Roger became the director of YWAM's Frontier Mission Int'l Coordination Office. In 2011 he has been helping YWAM Orlando train, send, and support long-term workers. Since 2018 he and his wife are sharing the gospel with international students at local Orlando universities and coaching emerging Asian leaders. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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
Julie Whitmore
Pioneers, Orlando FL
While pursuing her degree, God grew Julie’s heart for missions among people who have little or no access to the gospel. Before even going on a short-term mission trip Julie made a three-year commitment to church planting in South Asia. She loved those years, but afterward God led her to work at Pioneers in Orlando. After four years on the mobilization team, now she serves as a pre-field coach, helping people move into cross-cultural, church-planting ministry with unreached people groups. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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Instructor
Pam Arlund
All Nations, Kansas City MO
Pam is currently the Co-Editor of Perspectives 5th Edition and a member of All Nations. She lived in Central Asia for ten years, where she planted churches among three people groups, two of whom are Muslim. She earned an MA and PhD in Linguistics (i.e. Bible Translation) from the University of Texas at Arlington. She has published numerous books and articles in missions. She is most well known as “The Stick Figure Lady” for her popular book “Stick Figures Save the World.” b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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
Tabitha Price
MAST, Osteen FL
Tabitha Price has just completed her studies for her Master of Ministry degree from Louisiana Baptist University. She will continue in the fall in her doctoral studies in leadership. She also holds a Bachelor's degree in Christian Education, and has spent the past twenty years in full time ministry. Through extreme tragedy and loss Tabitha has found God to be truly enough. Her book Joy Comes in the Mourning, was published in 2012. Tabitha is married to her childhood sweetheart, Joel and they live in Osteen, FL, with their three boys, Marshall, Jaden, and Roman. She continues to write and serve as a missionary with Wycliffe Associates equipping national and mother-tongue translators around the world.
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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Moasic girl
St.Cloud FL
Aicha serves on the Media2Movements team with Arab World Media, a ministry of Pioneers.
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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
Jeffrey Moody
Frontier Ventures, Gainesville FL
After serving in various church roles, Jeff was "ruined for the ordinary" when he took Perspectives in 2003. He served his church as missions pastor for 6 years before joining Frontier Ventures. After leading internal projects for a couple of years, in 2014 he helped launch NextMove, a ministry of FV that helps missions agencies implement diaspora missions solutions. He co-directed NextMove for 6 years. In 2021 he joined the FV Operations Team as Business Transition Lead. He has volunteered in Persspectives for many years, coordinating and teaching Perspectives classes. He and his wife Kemberly have 3 adult children (and one wonderful daughter-in-law!). Jeff loves exercise, bass guitar, the arts, reading, and great conversations accompanied by good food and coffee. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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