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Kona, HI F19
Fall 2019
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Be part of God's plan for Him to be loved by every people.
"Declare His glory among the nations, His marvellous works among all the peoples!" -Psalm 96:3
Aloha mai kakou,
God has a "world-sized" role for every Christian in His global purpose. Whether you travel to distant countries or you choose to stay home - everyone hungers to live a life of purpose. Perspectives helps you discover that purpose so that can live your life with a clear vision of how you can play a role in the world Christian movement.
Perspectives is a fifteen week course designed around four perspectives — Biblical, Historical, Cultural and Strategic. Each one highlights different aspects of God's global purpose. The Biblical and Historical sections reveal why our confidence is based on the historic fact of God's relentless work from the dawn of history until this day. The Cultural and Strategic sections underscore that we are in the midst of a costly, but very "do-able" task, confirming the Biblical and Historical hope. Come and join us at YWAM Ships Kona this fall on Tuesday nights. Together we can discover that we are "Made for More" and learn how to engage in God's plan to transform our community out unto to the ends of the earth.
Mahalo, John Keay & Danna McNeill
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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
James Mason
Frontier Ventures, Perspectives Study Program, Albuquerque NM
James served as a pastor for 12 years before responding to a growing passion to see God's glory established among all peoples on earth. He is now on staff with Frontier Ventures in Pasadena, CA where he serves as the US Director for the Perspectives Study Program. James has been married to his wife Kelly for 29 years and they have 3 precious children. Their passion is to help every person, every church, every denomination, and every missions organization find their most strategic place in the completion of the Great Commission. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, September 3, 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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Danny Lehmann
, Kailua-Kona HI
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, September 10, 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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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, September 17, 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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Chris Stanton
Lakeview Terrace CA
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, September 24, 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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Caitlyn Wheeler
Kailua Kona HI
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, October 1, 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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Danna McNeill
YWAM Ships Kona, Kailua-Kona HI
Danna currently serves with YWAM Ships Kona coordinating various mission-focused training programs.
Danna is passionate about God’s word, an avid reader, and loves learning and teaching as much as she can about God’s heart throughout history for the nations. Danna's diverse career experience includes the corporate world, local church ministry, mission ministry, and serving on the Board of Directors for United Way Cowichan. Her overseas field experience includes short-term trips to Papua New Guinea. Danna completed her Discipleship Training School (2016) and Bible Core Course “On Location” (2017) with YWAM’s University of the Nations. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Vancouver Island University (2014).
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, October 8, 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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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, October 15, 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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Kevin Sutter
, Napa CA
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, October 22, 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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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, October 29, 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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Instructor
Ron Binder
Wycliffe Bible Translators, Santa Ana CA
Ron and his wife, Kathy, worked in Panama and Colombia for 23 years with Wycliffe. They completed a New Testament translation among the Wounaan people and also did extensive work in developing literacy materials, training pastors, teachers and artists, community development and ethnomusicology. They have published some 80 books in the Wounaan language besides the New Testament and have seen God raise up some 15 churches, all of which are led by Wounaan pastors without the presence of missionaries.
Ron has been a speaker in Perspectives classes since 1994, has coordinated several classes himself and is Professor of Record for many of the classes in which he teaches. In the U.S. he is a speaker and events coordinator for Wycliffe, but he and Kathy also help facilitate ongoing ministry goals determined by the Wounaan church leaders by traveling to Panama 2-3 times a year. These goals include creating new media and written resources in their language for evangelism and outreach ministries. Currently working on Old Testament translation, discipleship materials and a bilingual dictionary. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, November 5, 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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Daniel Kikawa
, Keaau HI
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, November 12, 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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Christine Colby
Kailua Kona HI
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, November 19, 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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Gordon OConnor
Kailua Kona HI
Gordon and Charlene O'Connor completed their DTS (Discipleship Training School) and LTS (Leadership Training School) with Youth With a Mission in 1985. After spending 1986 in Beijing, China they returned to Kona to work with Crossroads (DTS) leading outreaches into China. In 1992 they began leading SOFM's (Schools of Frontier Missions) with long term targets to China's minority people's. They moved to China in 1995 to join teams planted from the SOFM, where they combined business and church growth for 17 years. At the present time, they are serving as elders on the China Counsel, staffing the Marketplace DTS, celebrating 50 years of marriage and enjoying the worship and youthful atmosphere of the UofN campus in Kona b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, November 26, 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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Dan Shannon
Youth With A Mission, Kailua, Kona HI
Dan and his wife Meehan have worked with Youth WIth A Mission (YWAM) for nearly 18 years now. In the midst of this they also became a part of All Nations, the church planting network founded by Floyd and Sally McClung. Dan and Meehan moved to South Africa under Floyd's mentorship right after they were married in 2009. Dan has traveled and taught with Floyd and had the honor to co-lead two church planting schools with Floyd.
Dan and Meehan have practiced simple church planting among Muslims, Hindus, nominal Christians, and Buddhists. For 10+ years now they have spend a portion of each year in Northern India focusing in on the unreached Tibetan and Gaddi people of Northern India.
Most recently, Dan and his family have been working with Youth With A Mission, pioneering a ministry called YWAM Beyond that empowers, equips, and encourages YWAMers who return to their indigenous nations to church plant. Dan has been invited and spoken in nearly 40 countries on missions and church planting.
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, December 3, 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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Joshua Seykora
Kailua Kona HI
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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Instructor
Danna McNeill
YWAM Ships Kona, Kailua-Kona HI
Danna currently serves with YWAM Ships Kona coordinating various mission-focused training programs.
Danna is passionate about God’s word, an avid reader, and loves learning and teaching as much as she can about God’s heart throughout history for the nations. Danna's diverse career experience includes the corporate world, local church ministry, mission ministry, and serving on the Board of Directors for United Way Cowichan. Her overseas field experience includes short-term trips to Papua New Guinea. Danna completed her Discipleship Training School (2016) and Bible Core Course “On Location” (2017) with YWAM’s University of the Nations. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Vancouver Island University (2014).
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Class Info
Date: Friday, December 13, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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