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Date: Sunday, August 18, 2019

Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Location: Grace Fellowship UMC 2655 S. Mason Road The Vista, 2nd Floor in the Mansion Katy TX 77450

Contact: Maria Connor

281-646-1903

• • Registration & Orientation

    Perspectives Overview

    Registration & Orientation

  • Instructor

    

    Jim Leggett

    Katy TX

    Jim Leggett, Senior Pastor, Grace Fellowship, Katy TX. Jim is a Perspectives alumni and the pastor of Grace Fellowship. He is the husband of Lisa, the father of Smith (father-in-love to Ingrid, and Pa to Peter, Andrew and Aubrey), Grace, and John-David. He founded Grace Fellowship UMC in 1996, a church plant in Katy, Texas, whose vision is to be a house of prayer for all nations (Is. 56:7). Jim is a chemical engineer nerd who graduated from Texas A&M University. He also holds a M.Div. from Asbury Theological Seminary and a D. Min. from Fuller Theological Seminary. Jim took the Perspectives course in college where he also met his future wife! Together, Jim & Lisa felt God leading them to start a church with the faith-goal of reaching 10 Unreached People Groups. To date, Grace Fellowship has adopted 4 UPGs in S. and SE. Asia. Things Jim loves include his family, reading, food, movies, exercise, and most of all God!

    
    

  • Date: Sunday, August 18, 2019

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM

• • 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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    Andy Kampman

    Launch Global and Austin Stone Community Church, Austin TX

    Empowering this generation to bless all nations. Andy and Jamie Kampman did college ministry for 8 years. In 2006, they help start Launch Global and now also works with Austin Stone Community Church as Director of Mobilization. Their strong desire is to see young people engaged in the evangelization of the world! They have four children and live in Austin, TX.
    
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    Date: Sunday, August 25, 2019

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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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    Ashley Bendickson

    Houston TX

    Ashley is the Student Ministry Pastor at Grace Fellowship. She also holds her Masters in Counseling and is an LPC-I in the state of Texas. Ashley is passionate about journeying with people through restoration and mobilization. Ashley finds great joy in leading students to God's heart and launching them with God's heart into the World. God has been cultivating a heart for the Nations in Ashley for many years. After taking the Perspectives of The World Christian Movement course and spending time in the 10/40 window, that journey became clearly focused. For the past eight years, she has been mobilizing students in joining God to reach the Unreached through globally minded missions and ministry.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, September 1, 2019

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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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    Sunny Hong

    Wycliffe Bible Translators, Dallas TX

    Born in South Korea, Sunny Hong came to the US in 1983. She was employed in the computer software profession and was active in a local church. At that time Sunny was seeking for God’s call as to how she could be involved in missions. Eventually she felt God’s calling to the ministry of Wycliffe Bible translators. She joined Wycliffe in 1994 and worked as a mobilizer for Koreans in the US and Canada for 12 years. She then was sent to the Philippines to work as a mobilization consultant for the Wycliffe Asia and Pacific areas. While in the Philippines, she sensed God redirecting her ministry to missiology/anthropology. She pursued an intercultural studies Ph.D. program at Biola and after completing these studies, started working as a senior intercultural consultant at SIL International which includes teaching at Dallas International University, in Dallas, TX.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, September 8, 2019

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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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    Carl Johnson

    Christian Fellowship Union, San Juan TX

    Carl grew up in Minnesota and has a BA in Bible and Theology from Crown College near Minneapolis. He has a Masters degree in Cross-cultural Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary's School of World Mission. He has served among Latinos since 1987 in various places, beginning in central Los Angeles. He served ten years in Mexico City. Carl and Rita have been married since 1994. Their son Samuel was born in 2011. Carl is a missionary with Christian Fellowship Union and works with the Perspectives course in Spanish in the U.S. and numerous other countries as an instructor and in instructor development. Carl and his family live in south Texas.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, September 15, 2019

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, September 22, 2019

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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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    David Swanson

    College Station TX

    David is an avid storyteller. As a missions mobilizer he uses story to help people understand God’s global purpose and discover their place in that plan. David grew up as a missionary kid in Panama. A graduate of Texas A&M University, David currently works for his alma mater. He also serves as a volunteer with a campus ministry. He has helped lead short-term student ministry trips and has worked with churches and church-planting ministries in several countries around the world.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, September 29, 2019

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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.

  • Instructor

    Ally S.

    Carrollton TX

    Ally has served the Perspectives Movement in various roles from coordinator to instructor, for the past eleven years in Texas, where she lives with her husband and two boys. Her passion for the nations has been the driving force throughout her Christian walk, taking her into the inner cities of England, the mountains of the Afghanistan and India and the refugee camps of Pakistan, and now the suburbs of North Texas.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 6, 2019

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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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    Robert Blincoe

    Frontiers, Mesa AZ

    Bob led a Frontiers team into northern Iraq following the first Gulf War in 1991. He is president emeritus of Frontiers USA, living in Phoenix. He has a Ph.D. in History from William Carey International University in Pasadena. He has twice lost on television game shows. He blogs at robertblincoe.blog.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 13, 2019

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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.

  • Instructor

    KK

    OM, Dallas TX

    Currently serving in hospitality ministry while living abroad
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 20, 2019

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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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    Jerry Squyres

    Innovative Mission Opportunities, Pearland TX

    Four years working with university students in Taiwan, Twenty plus years on church staff with emphasis on missions, Nineteen and a half years mobilizing short-term mission teams...last sixsteen years plus to closed countries/unreached people groups. Founded Innovative Mission Opportunities (www.imoi.org) in 1998. Founded Innovative Humanitarian Solutions (www.innovativehs.net) in 2002.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 27, 2019

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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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    Darrell Whiteman

    Asbury Theological Seminary 1984-2005; The Mission Society 2005-2014; Interim Executive Director, Overseas Ministries Study Center 2015-2016; Global Development 2017-present; , Gig Harbor WA

    Darrell Whiteman is a missiological anthropologist now semi-retired but continues to teach and train cross-cultural workers around the globe. He retired as VP and Resident Missiologist at The Mission Society, now TMS-Global. Darrell served in cross-cultural ministry for nine years in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Central Africa, then was one of the founding professors of Asbury Theological Seminary's School of World Mission and Evangelism, where he taught for 21 years and served as dean in the later years. He’s given leadership to many professional missiological societies researching the intersection of cultures and biblical values. Darrell annually equips hundreds of cross-cultural witnesses to understand God's mission around the globe and to help them to better connect the gospel to the deepest part of their worldview.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, November 3, 2019

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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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    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.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, November 10, 2019

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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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    Brian Hogan

    Disciple Making Mentors, Fayetteville AR

    Brian and Louise Hogan have served in mission since 1987. From the Navajo Tribe to Outer Mongolia, their passion has been to see Jesus glorified and lifted up among those who have never known Him. From 1993-1996 their team pioneered a church planting movement in Erdenet (AIR-DUH-NET), Mongolia that continues to grow under fully indigenous leadership to this day. Their Mongolian disciples are now training and sending out their own missionaries to other unreached people groups. The story of the work in Erdenet can be read in Brian’s book: There’s a Sheep in my Bathtub (Asteroidea Books), and in the case study article – “Distant Thunder: Mongols Follow the Khan of Khans” – on page 695 of your Perspectives Reader.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, November 17, 2019

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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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    Kent Parks

    Beyond. Formerly "Act Beyond" and "Mission to Unreached Peoples", Plano TX

    http://beyond.org/president/ Kent Parks is President and CEO of Beyond (formerly "Act Beyond" & "Mission to Unreached Peoples"). See beyond.org for a powerful video. This mission sending organization is focused on launching Disciple-Making Movements (also called Church Planting Movements) among the Unreached People Groups of the world. This 29% of the world does not have even access to witness of word or deed about Jesus in any kind within their culture. Act Beyond is focused on global collaboration to change this spiritual injustice. Kent and his wife Erika worked among Muslims in Asia for 20 years. They continue to lead regular Disciple-Making Movement trainings around the world. He continues to occasionally teach graduate courses in mission strategy. Previously, he coordinated outreach strategies for Unreached People Groups, and developed trans-national, trans-denominational networks at various levels. Kent also pastored in Texas for 7 years before going to the mission field. He has been a seminary professor, the academic dean of a seminary and has taught internationally in a graduate school. Kent is Co-Facilitator for the Ethne (a global network of UPG-focused leaders; is a part of the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission and is Senior Assoc. for Least Reached Peoples with the Lausanne Committee on World Evangelization.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, December 1, 2019

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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.

  • Instructor

    

    Hudson Smith

    The Traveling Team, Conway AR

    Hudson Smith is from the United States, and grew up in Arkansas, earning a degree in history from the University of Arkansas. For 10 years, he served as the Director of Operations for The Traveling Team. The Traveling Team is a mobilization organization that recruits college students from all major US universities toward Christ's global cause. During his time on staff, he traveled to 49 states and 3 countries and spoke to over 40,000 college students, sharing God's heart for the world. He also spoke extensively at Perspectives classes and missions conferences for churches. In 2021, he and his family moved to Dubai, UAE to serve as the Director of Operations for Redeemer Church of Dubai. He has Master of Arts in Theological Studies from Reformed Theological Seminary.
    
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    Date: Sunday, December 8, 2019

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM

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