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Date: Sunday, August 18, 2019

Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Location: New Song Nashville 316 Southgate Court Brentwood TN 37027

Contact: Mitch Rowe

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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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    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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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, August 18, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Mary Ho

    All Nations Family, Inc, Kansas City MO

    Dr. Mary Ho is the International Executive Leader of All Nations (http://allnations.international), a global Christian missions organization with workers making disciples and doing church planting in 44 countries. Dr. Ho is passionate about finishing the Great Commission in this generation by sharing the love of God among every people and in parts of the world where the name of Jesus Christ is little or not known. Dr. Ho received her Doctorate of Strategic Leadership from Regent University, VA, U.S.A. in 2016.
    
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    Date: Sunday, August 25, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Dale Evrist

    New Song Nashville, Brentwood TN

    Dale Evrist is a pastor and citywide ministry leader whose life’s work has been dedicated to disciple-making. He is the Founding/Senior Pastor of New Song Nashville, a church and ministry committed to citywide disciple-making in partnership with the greater body of Christ. In addition to co-authoring a series of disciple-making resources - including Following Jesus: A Disciple's Handbook and Empowered: Choosing to Live by the Power of the Holy Spirit - he is the author of The Mighty Hand of God, and co-author of Lifebook, with Dr. David Shibley. One of Dale’s main passions is to provide biblically-based resources that equip Christ’s church to see souls saved and disciples made.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, September 1, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Todd Bradley

    Equipping Leaders International, Spring Hill TN

    Dr. Todd Bradley currently serves with Equipping Leaders International, a leadership development ministry for international pastors. He is a former professor of leadership and intercultural studies at Dallas Theological Seminary and has taught at the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary in Beirut, Lebanon and Grace Theological Seminary in Indiana. Dr. Bradley has served as the chairman of the board for Middle East Bible Outreach, a U.S. organization that promotes Christian ministry among Muslims throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Dr. Bradley's degrees include a Doctorate in Intercultural Studies from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon, Masters in Military Arts and Sciences (Strategy and Middle East emphases) from the U.S. Army’s Command and General Staff College, Master of Arts in Religion from Liberty University, and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Texas A&M University. He has also done graduate work in the geography and historical background of the Holy Land at the Jerusalem University College in Israel. Dr. Bradley has been married to Pam Bradley for over 50 years. They have two sons: Matt, who is senior pastor at All Saints Presbyterian Church in Brentwood, Tennessee, and Adam, who works as a policy officer at the Department of State.
    
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    Date: Sunday, September 8, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    AJ P.

    INIM Inc., Forest VA

    AJ is the Director & General Secretary for INIM established 1964. The sole focus of this indigenous Mission remains Evangelism, Discipleship & Church Planting. AJ, who was born & raised in New Delhi India is an alumnus of Liberty University. AJ shares responsibility for INIM's church planting & field evangelism efforts in South Asia. In addition to all his Missional responsibilities, he also serves as the Men's Pastor at his home church. AJ & his wife have been married for 28 years and blessed with five children ranging from 19 years old to 9 yrs old.
    
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    Date: Sunday, September 15, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    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.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, September 22, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Adam Hoffman

    Perspectives, Garner NC

    Adam was transformed by Perspectives in 2005. More than a missions course, this class was discipleship into God's Kingdom purposes - and the best premarital counseling they had. Adam and his wife Melissa were married that summer and joined with Frontier Ventures (from the legacy of the US Center for World Mission), where they have been on staff since. He currently co-directs the Southeast region of Perspectives with Melissa. Adam and Melissa are passionate about people understanding and living out God's global purposes. More at staff.frontierventures.org/hoffman
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, September 29, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Barbara Yandell

    Hope for the Nations, Round Rock TX

    President Hope for the Nations, director of Engage Course and teacher at Horizons International, ordained minister and board member of the Alliance of Reformed Churches, Interserve USA, founder of Legacy Muslim Ministry conference.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 6, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    David Shibley

    Rockwall TX

    David Shibley is founder and world representative of Global Advance, a ministry that equips frontline leaders to fulfill the Great Commission. Each year Global Advance brings on-site training, resources, and encouragement to thousands of pastoral, business, women, and Next Generation leaders in many of the world’s neediest areas. Global Advance also brings practical aid to persecuted Christians through its humanitarian initiative, Alpha Relief. Founded in 1990, Global Advance has brought face-to-face training to more than 822,000 Christian leaders in 102 nations. Since his call to preach the gospel over 50 years ago, David has ministered personally in over 60 nations in conferences, churches, and evangelistic outreaches. Also, he speaks extensively throughout the United States, challenging the American church to reach its full missions potential.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 13, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Sue Russell

    Wilmore KY

    Worked 15 years as a single woman in S. E. Asia aiding local Christians in Bible Translation, church planting, and literacy. She learned what it meant to be a "younger sister" and work alongside men and women committed to reaching their own people for Jesus Christ. She currently is Professor of Mission and Contextual Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary. She has doctorates in Missiology, Linguistic Anthropology and Early Christian History. She also has a M.Div missions and ThM in New Testament as well as MAs in Intercultural Studies and Early Christian History.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 20, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Fady Al Hagal

    Spring Hill TN

    Pastor Fady Al Hagal, founder of the International Leadership Coalition, exists for the purpose of discovering, discipling and sending a company of ethnic Gospel planters to make disciples among the international people groups in the United States and beyond. In partnership with the local American church, the ILC aims to plant ministries locally, nationally and internationally, offering eternal hope through the Gospel and holistic healing in Word and Deed.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 27, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Amy Richardson

    Nashville TN

    Amy Richardson, MPH, is an advocate for vulnerable populations and their well-being locally and globally. Though a proud Nashville native, Amy’s work and travel abroad led her to recognize the interconnectivity of the world. She entered the sphere of health care through a side door, becoming a public health advocate while simultaneously developing a passion for refugees and immigrants. She has served in numerous leadership roles with refugee and immigrant agencies in Nashville, and she currently works as Chief Community Health Officer at Siloam Health, a faith-based nonprofit, where she promotes a culture of health among refugees and immigrant communities.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, November 3, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    James Cha

    Crescent Project, Leesburg VA

    Rev. James Cha was born in Korea, but grew up here in the US. He studied electrical engineering at Cornell University, and worked ten years as an engineer. In 2000 he and his wife, Faith, took their 3 kids to Central Asia, where they served ten years as church planting missionaries with Pioneers. They are now back in the US reaching out to the Muslims in the Washington, DC area. James & Faith are Washington DC Area Coordinators for Crescent Project. They also direct ESL ministry in Leesburg, VA. They have three adult children and one grandchild. James recently published a book about their missions journey - Fear Not: Living a Life of No Regrets. Available on amazon.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, November 10, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 3:00 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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    Julius Esunge

    Hope Outreach International Ministries, Fredericksburg VA

    Julius directs Hope Outreach International Ministries. In the the past 8 years, he has lectured for the Perspectives course hosted at several locations by the US Center for World Missions. He is a gifted planner, an engaging speaker, and a very enthusiastic servant. His unique background gives him an edge in dissecting cultural issues pertinent to the gospel message and he is blessed with fluency in several languages. Their family verses are 1 Corinthians 9:16 and Luke 12:15.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, November 17, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Julio Moromisato

    Operation Mobilization, Tyrone GA

    Julio Moromisato has been serving as a missionary with OM (Operation Mobilization) since 1998. During this time, he played different roles – Training Coordinator, Personnel Manager, CEO/President for OM Brazil. While working for OM he also served as a pastor and as a Bible College Teacher. In 2014 he joined OM in the US, where he currently serves as the TeenStreet Director. He is a strategic thinker, and passionate communicator that loves to connect Christians with God’s mission around the world. Julio is married with Gildelia and they have one son, Lucas
    
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    Date: Sunday, December 1, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM

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    Date: Sunday, December 8, 2019

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM

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