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San Antonio, TX // F19
Fall 2019
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You Were MADE FOR MORE!Use what's in you to bless the world around you!
Perspectives is a 15 week life and learning opportunity that will change the way you view the world around you. In it, you will have your eyes opened to the heart and purpose of God, and how you can take part in His work all over the world, from the urban streets of America to the rain forest and deserts of distant lands. A fantastic array of pastors, theologians, international missiologists and mobilizers will challenge and inspire you with their personal experiences that will open your eyes to see just how big God is, and how much He desires that all might come to know Him. Whether you are single, married, a student, a homemaker, a professional or retired, Perspectives will bless and challenge your life and direction.
Class Enrollment Levels:
Certificate Level: $250
Credit Level: $500 / 3 credit hours (Undergraduate & Graduate) High School Dual Enrollment Credit: $500 / 3 credit hours
The following seminaries, universities & colleges have accepted the Perspectives course through a transfer credit from Trinity International University or Excelsior College in Texas.
**Each student should take the syllabus to their Academic Advisor to see what the course will transfer as**
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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
Matt Clayton
Forefront Experience, Richardson TX
Matt helps direct an organization called Forefront Experience. Forefront works to see disciples made among international populations living in the United States, focusing on individuals coming from unreached countries. Many of the people they serve are refugees and international students. He also trains western believers how to develop fruitful ministries among these populations. He has a passion to see the unreached reached and the churched equipped for that mission! b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, August 18, 2019
Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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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.” b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, August 25, 2019
Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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Kristin Huffman
Frontier Fellowship, San Antonio TX
Rev. Dr. Kristin Huffman has been an ordained Presbyterian pastor since 1983, serving 4 churches in CA, LA and TX. She currently serves as a mission mobilizer for Frontier Fellowship and as an Affiliate Professor for Fuller theological Seminary. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, September 8, 2019
Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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Greg Despres
East-West Ministries International, Cypress TX
Dr. Greg Despres is the Regional Director of the North American Field for East-West. He lives in Cypress and also directs the Houston East-West Team.
Greg has formerly served as a Lead Pastor, Missions Pastor, and Youth Pastor. He is married to Alli and they have 5 kids.
Both Greg and Allison have a desire to see people get mobilized for Great Commission service. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, September 15, 2019
Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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Chad C Mason
Mission TX
Currently Chad is serving as the Pastor of Mobilization and Global Impact at Calvary Baptist Church in McAllen, TX. He and his wife have served as missionaries in Mexico and lead Short Term Teams all over the world. His passion to mobilize the church to the nations. He has been training church leaders around the globe in the 4 Fields Strategy for Church multiplication and Church Planting. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, September 22, 2019
Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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Yvonne Huneycutt
Perspectives Global, Round Rock TX
Yvonne from Austin, Texas loves mobilizing Christians and entire churches to find and engage their God-designed role for participation in the completion of the Great Commission. Currently on staff with Perspectives Global, Yvonne's varied career experience includes the corporate world, local church ministry, mission ministry, and managing a non-profit organization. She has worked with the Perspectives movement for over 25 years both nationally and internationally. Her overseas field experience includes one year in Russia and travel in 40 nations. She holds a Doctor of Ministry in Missions and Cross-Cultural Studies from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, September 29, 2019
Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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Courtney Contos
Cafe 1040, Inc., Cleburne TX
Courtney Contos received a history degree from Texas Tech University, and then worked in a health club as a personal trainer before switching to full-time work in mobilization. From 2007-2010 she lived on the road with The Traveling Team, casting missions vision to college-age audiences around the U.S. That was followed by three years with Cafe 1040, an Atlanta-based group with intensive missional training bases in Africa and Southeast Asia. She currently resides in Cleburne, Tx with her husband where she spent most of her growing-up years. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, October 6, 2019
Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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James George
International Leadership Consortium, Cayon Lake TX
James has a background in Jesus movements, from the Jesus People of the US, to the revivals in Africa. He is passionate about helping everyone live in the atmosphere of prayer in the Spirit. His teaching will lead to understanding not just what the heroes of the faith have done, but how they were able to do it.
James is a former Wycliffe Bible Translator, Billy Graham discipleship coach, and current Area Director of Church Mobility for East West Ministries. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, October 13, 2019
Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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John Oh
Dallas International University, McKinney TX
After working as an engineer and completing his seminary education, John worked as a mobilizer at a mission agency. He joined Wycliffe Bible Translators in 1998 and served as a Bible translator in Southeast Asia. He also served as the director of Korean Church Engagement and provided missions education and training. He is currently serving as the Director of External Relationships at Dallas International University. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, October 20, 2019
Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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Grace Fabian
Douglassville PA
Grace tells her amazing story in her book, Outrageous Grace. You’ll be inspired to hear how our Almighty God brings life out of death.
Grace Fabian, whose missionary husband was slain while translating the New Testament into a Pacific island language, could easily be excused if she were to carry to her grave the conviction that the loss was meaningless.
“Couldn’t I also, in a gesture of adoration and faith, offer my husband’s blood as a precious ointment to my Savior?” she asked after reading in God’s word about a woman who, in an act of worship, poured out expensive perfume over Jesus’ head.
She along with her husband, Edmund, lived in an isolated Nabak-speaking village in Papua New Guinea, learned the language, devised an alphabet, produced literacy materials and translated the Scripture for the 25,000 people speaking this language. God’s kindness was poured out on this family, and after Edmund’s death, Grace, along with dedicated Nabak men and women completed the translation. In 1998 the Nabak New Testament was dedicated to the glory of God.
Now Grace resides in Pennsylvania where she speaks, teaches and writes, hoping that others will be inspired to join in the work of reaching Bibleless people groups around the world. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, October 27, 2019
Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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Robin Harris
International Council of Ethnodoxologists (ICE), Dallas TX
Dr. Robin Harris is the director of Dallas International University's Center for Excellence in World Arts (www.diu.edu/arts) and also serves as the president of the International Council of Ethnodoxologists (ICE). She co-edited "Worship and Mission for the Global Church: An Ethnodoxology Handbook" (William Carey Library, 2013) and speaks widely on the topic of arts and cross-cultural service. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, November 3, 2019
Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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Class Info
Date: Sunday, November 10, 2019
Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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James Palmer
Missional Team Inc, Athens TX
James (Jim) is a 42 yr veteran missionary with the Southern Baptist International Mission Board (30yrs) and Missional Team (12ys). He and his wife Viola have directed disaster relief and community development projects, church planting, and leadership training. Jim and Viola were part of a church planting movement that saw over 300 churches planted in 18 years among the Miskito people of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua and Honduras. Most recently Jim has facilitated a church planting effort in Ethiopia resulting in over 40 churches being planted among the Bacho Oromo people of Western Shewa. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, November 17, 2019
Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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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: Sunday, November 24, 2019
Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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Blake McDaniel
The Navigators, World Missions, Cedar Park TX
Since 1996, Blake has equipped individuals and local church leaders to become more effective and strategic in their cross-cultural engagement with the great commission through The Navigators, Pioneers, ACMC (Advancing Churches in Missions Commitment), and his home church (Hill Country Bible Church). He currently serves as The Navigators Eurasia and MENA mobilization director and church partnerships director through World Missions. And he serves as a certified life and leadership coach. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, December 8, 2019
Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
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