Roanoke VA F19
Fall 2019
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Welcome to the Southwest Roanoke Perspectives Class!
We are thrilled that you are considering joining us in this exciting experience coming Fall 2019!
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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
Julian Dangerfield
Shalom Outreach, Inc., Woodbridge VA
Dr. J. Julian Dangerfield is the Executive Director of Shalom Outreach Inc., a Christian based non-profit organization dedicated to achieving worldwide propagation of the essentials of the historic Christian faith. He proudly serves on the Board of Directors for Wycliffe Bible Translators and mentors pastors and leaders in several nations. He has a Bachelors degree in Business Management and has completed his Master of Arts degree in Leadership, Evangelism and Mobilization at Columbia International University in Columbia, South Carolina. He has also completed his doctoral studies at Virginia Union University with a focus on cross cultural ministry.
In the United States he has organized the mission efforts of over 25 churches, ministries and not for profit organizations, which has resulted in over 54,000 people coming to Christ.
Dr. Dangerfield's perspective is informed by over 29 years of ministry experience and he has traveled to over 40 countries executing strategies that lift humanity while expanding God’s Kingdom. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, August 12, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Bob Sjogren
UnveilinGLORY, Mechanicsville VA
Bob Sjogren (pronounced show - gren) is the president of UNVEILINGLORY, a ministry awakening the Church to new awareness of God's glory in all areas of life, and to
seeing His glory go to all the world's peoples.
Bob has been mobilizing the Body of Christ to reveal God's greatest glory through reaching all ethnic groups with the gospel. He and his wife Debby have written homeschool Bible curricula. And in 2021, Bob launched a YouTube Channel called, "Maturing The Bride."
Bob and Debby live in Richmond, VA.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, August 19, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Greg Fletcher
Pioneers, Spotsylvania VA
A native of Virginia, Greg has done church planting work in Japan and missions mobilization from Australia. He now works with Pioneers, serving church mission leaders in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Regions as part of the Pioneers Church Partnerships Team. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, August 26, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Mark Fesmire
Grace Evangelical Free Church, Forest VA
Mark was a pastor for 34 years in Lynchburg, VA. He and his wife moved to Lynchburg in 1988 to plant the church with two other couples. They retired from their roles in 2022. He took the Perspectives course in 1986 and it transformed his vision of missions and the role of the church in missions. He considers teaching Perspectives classes as one of the most important things he does. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 9, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Linford Stutzman
Eastern Mennonite Seminary, Harrisonburg VA
Linford Stutzman was born in the logging community of Cascadia, Oregon. His teenage years were spent in the remote interior of British Columbia, Canada. There he worked for the Canadian Forest Service and in mining exploration while his parents served in a mission assignment with First Nations people.
Linford and his wife, Janet, have served in various mission and ministry roles over 20 years in Jerusalem, Israel; Munich, Germany; and in Perth, Australia. They have two grown sons, David and Jonathan.
Linford holds a Ph.D. from the Catholic University of America, a master’s degree in religion from Eastern Mennonite Seminary, and a bachelor’s degree in Bible from Eastern Mennonite University. Since 1993 he has been teaching courses in religion, culture and mission at Eastern Mennonite University.
Together, Linford and Janet have led Eastern Mennonite University’s cross-cultural study semester in the Middle East numerous times, as well as summer-study programs to Albania, Lithuania, Greece and Turkey. In the summers they continue to explore the life and ministry of the Apostle Paul in Mediterranean in their sailboat, SailingActs
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 16, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Douglas Batson
Global Frontier Missions, Cross Junction VA
Douglas Batson is a retired Defense Department geographer. With award-winning research and publications, he was an expert on land tenure and international migration.
Also a National Certified Career Counselor, Doug is on the Board of Directors of Global Frontier Missions, which operates a missionary training school in Atlanta, GA. He has been a Perspectives coordinator, instructor, and Professor of Record in the DC area for 25 years. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 23, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Jeff Graf
Missions Connections, Blacksburg VA
After closing his small business, Jeff and his wife Suzanne attended Capital Bible Seminary where Jeff earned a M.Div. degree, and Suzanne completed a Master of Arts in Christian Counseling and Discipleship. They served for six years in Papua New Guinea. They were lecturers at the Christian Leaders Training College. Suzanne taught missions history and lay counseling courses. Jeff led courses in theology, Bible, cell group leadership, preaching, teaching creatively, and Christian history. He developed an inductive Bible study tool kit to help students plumb the depths of Scripture. In addition, they conducted village ministries, were guests on public radio programs, and spoke at national Christian conferences. They have a good background in animistic religions and Melanesian culture. Upon their return to the United States, they served as Missionaries in Residence at Capital Bible Seminary and Washington Bible College. At these institutions Jeff taught missions classes at the undergraduate and graduate levels. They now reside in Blacksburg, Virginia. Jeff teaches in his church’s adult Sunday school program and shepherds a group of aspiring Greek students. Suzanne is an active leader in our church’s women’s ministry. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 30, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Kathie Baggott
Refugee Hope Partners, Raleigh NC
Director of Adult Education for Refugee Hope Partners,with field experience in Moria Camp, Lesvos, Greece: .Created and piloted a sustainable ESL program for use in Moria camp.
Decades of experience in Adult ESL.
Decades of experience with Perspectives locally and internationally.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 7, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Joshua Rolf
Lynchburg VA
Joshua grew up in Honolulu Hawaii, the cultural melting pot of the pacific. He was educated at California Baptist University (where he took perspectives under Jeff Lewis), before finishing up a seminary degree from Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Ft. Worth, TX. Joshua spent the following 13 years serving and leading the Missions Ministry for Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas. He was responsible for over 50 trips sent out by the church nationally and internationally. In addition to mobilizing short-term, he has been involved in the development of many long-term overseas strategies including the development of a Bible Institute along the Amazon River, training indigenous leaders theologically to plant/shepherd village churches and vocationally to provide for their families through government co-ops. Joshua has also served on the advisory council of a number of different non-profits including Seed Effect, an evangelical Micro-Finance Ministry in South Sudan. Currently he serves as the Director of Church Relationships for Launch Global - helping local churches recruit, train, and send Long Term Missionaries to the unreached peoples of the world. Joshua and his wife Maria live in Lynchburg, Va. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 14, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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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. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 21, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 28, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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David Taylor
Christian Aid Mission, Charlottesville VA
David served for ten years as a missionary in the Philippines with the Frontier Mission Fellowship. He is the author of Eternal Vision and senior editor of the Global Mission Database. He serves as president of Christian Aid Mission and chairman of COSIM (Coalition on the Support of Indigenous Ministries) b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 4, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Allen James
Roanoke VA
Allen, along with his family, served as a church planter and trainer of pastors and missionaries in East Asia for 20 years. During that time they witnessed a people group go from no known believers to a church planting movement where thousands came to faith and many churches were planted. In addition, the New Testament is currently being translated into the people group language. He currently serves as Community and Mission Pastor at Cave Spring Baptist Church in Roanoke, VA. He is a graduate of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and holds a Master of Divinity and a Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies. Inheriting a love for the outdoors from his dad, Allen enjoys mountain biking, hiking, and kayaking. For Allen, an ideal way to spend a day would be walking on the beach and then sharing a good book with Stepheny. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 11, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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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. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 18, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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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. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 25, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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