Class Info

Date: Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Time: 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Location: Christ Church South Philly 229 Moore Street Philadelphia PA 19148

Contact: Pamela Gibson

(215) 834-1167

• • Registration & Orientation

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  • Date: Tuesday, August 20, 2019

    Time: 6:00 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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    Dave Shive

    Frontier Ventures (formerly US Center for World Mission), Catonsville MD

    Dave Shive is a 1968 graduate of the Washington Bible College, a 1972 graduate of Capital Bible Seminary with a Th.M. in New Testament Studies, and a 1994 graduate of Baltimore Hebrew University with an M.A. in Biblical Literature. Dave has spent the past 47 years in full time ministry as a pastor, Christian school director, and college professor. He currently serves with Frontier Ventures (formerly the US Center for World Mission) as a missions mobilizer for the northeast region of the United States. Dave lives in Catonsville, MD, with Kathy, his wife of 52 years. Dave and Kathy have three married children, Dan, Mike, and Becky. They are also the proud grandparents of 9 grandsons and 2 granddaughters.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, August 27, 2019

    Time: 6:00 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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    John Kless

    Glenside Bible Church, Glenside PA

    As pastor of Glenside Bible Church in Glenside PA, John led his fellowship in the adoption of the Kyrgyz people of Central Asia in 1996 and has served as an active advocate for them ever since, including serving as Chairman of the Board of the NGO Central Asian Partners. Subsequently, he has helped the church develop an additional strategic focus in India touching the city of Hyderabad and an unreached tribal people, the Yenadi, through deep partnership connections and serving as Vice Chairman of the NGO Hebron Believers Assembly USA. He and his wife LuAnn have 5 children and eight grandchildren.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, September 3, 2019

    Time: 6:00 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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    Lyn Newbrander

    International Students, Inc., Philadelphia PA

    Lyn has 25 years of overseas missions experience in Japan, The Netherlands, and Germany. Since 2013, she and her husband Tim have worked with international students from all over the world. Lyn's role is primarily at the University of Pennsylvania where she is a chaplain's associate. Over 70 nations have been represented in the Newbrander's home in Philadelphia. Lyn and Tim open their home and their hearts wide to students, many of whom consider them their family away from home.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, September 10, 2019

    Time: 6:00 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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    Mark Giacobbe

    Citylight Church, WYNDMOOR PA

    Mark is a pastor, worship leader, and former overseas worker currently residing outside of Philadelphia, PA. Mark spent many years writing, recording, and performing music before being called to serve in Central Asia in the mid-2000s. While there, he was a catalyst for indigenous worship music in an unreached area. He returned to the U.S. in the late 2000s to pursue theological education, culminating in a PhD in New Testament. He currently serves as Teaching Pastor at Citylight Church (Philadelphia). Mark is passionate for missions, the integration of head, heart, and hands in the Christian life, and the spread of indigenous expressions of worship throughout the globe.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, September 17, 2019

    Time: 6:00 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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    Larry Ray

    Philadelphia PA

    Larry Ray is a native of Philadelphia Christ drew him to Himself at the age of 17. He was introduced to evangelism by the Navigators while in the U.S Navy. The Lord also drew him to Christian Stronghold in 1995. He has served on the Evangelism Ministry. He has been involved in short term missions to Tiajuana Mexico and Nairobi Kenya The Lord called Larry, his wife Rebecca and their two children Lauren and Jedidiah to the Arab World where they served for four years. One of Larry's favorite ministry verse is Ephesians 2:10 " For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them" Larry and his family serve with Pioneers.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2019

    Time: 6:00 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 Sorge

    Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia PA

    David spent most of the first 18 years of his life in South Asia. He currently lives in Philadelphia. He has a PhD in Sociology, and does research on conflict escalation, resolution, and relations between religious communities. He currently teaches Sociology at Bryn Mawr College. When not working on his dissertation or teaching, he enjoys cycling, reading history, philosophy, and theology, and sharing life with his beloved wife Larissa, and their young son.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, October 1, 2019

    Time: 6:00 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.

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    Chuck Walton

    Wycliffe Bible Translators - Ret., Hatboro PA

    Chuck Walton is a graduate of Cairn U, Wheaton College and Temple University. He and his wife Janice have served with Wycliffe Bible Translators for many years. Most of their career has been in the Philippines. They worked with two very different ethnic groups in there, the Itneg of Northern Luzon and the Sama of Pangutaran Island (a Muslim UPG) where they completed the translation of the New Testament. In addition to translation Chuck had been involved in mission administration and has taught Linguistics at the Wycliffe affiliate school in Dallas, Texas, Alliance Biblical Seminary in Quezon City, Philippines and the University of North Dakota. In 2013 Chuck retired but still does Mobilization for Wycliffe on a volunteer basis, and teaches ESL. They live in Newtown, PA (Bucks County). Chuck has taught for Perspectives since 2006 and is a coordinator.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, October 8, 2019

    Time: 6:00 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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    Sophia Wang

    SEND International, Fort Washington PA

    Serving with SEND International, Sophia taught at Evangelical Christian Academy near Madrid, Spain, and now she helps to catalyze partnerships to mobilize a multiplying, interdependent, and diverse global workforce, sent into the Lord's harvest field.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2019

    Time: 6:00 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.

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    Edwin Hernandez

    Word Christian Fellowship International, Somerset NJ

    Pastor Edwin's vision is to see the Filipino diaspora (wave of overseas workers and migrants) mobilized to declare God's glory among the nations. An engineer by profession, he quit his job in 1999 to pastor a church in the Philippines. He completed his Masters in Divinity at the Asian Seminary of Christian Ministries in Manila, Philippines in 2004. In 2006, he was sent to Singapore where he trained ministry leaders and coordinated efforts in the planting of churches in key cities in Asia and Oceania. He came to the US in 2013 to pastor a church in Hopewell, NJ where he brings the same vision. He is also an instructor in a training institute based in NY city that equips lay leaders in biblical studies.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2019

    Time: 6:00 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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    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: Tuesday, November 5, 2019

    Time: 6:00 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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    Susan Patt

    Frontier Ventures, Exton PA

    Sue Patt has worked as a mobilizer for more than 40 years (since 1982) with Frontier Ventures, formerly the US Center for World Mission. She has served as a Perspectives Regional Director (13 years) and as the Perspectives National Program Director (7 years). Her current assignment is Chief Strategy Officer with FV. She has been developing deliberate friendships with Muslims since 1980, and Hindus since 2005. She is married to Fran Patt since 1986. They have 3 adult children and live in Exton, PA in the Philadelphia suburbs.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2019

    Time: 6:00 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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    Guy Eshelman

    Missionary in Residence, Langhorne PA

    In 2001 Guy, Carolyn, and their 4 young children moved to Tirana, Albania to become part of the Christar team serving in the Balkans. There Dr. Guy has helped direct a multi-cultural team of Christian primary-care physicians, nurses, and physical therapists at ABC Health Foundation in providing a wide range of primary healthcare and medical education services in Albania. Guy and Carolyn are currently serving as Missionaries in Residence at Cairn University where they help to promote God’s global perspective on campus and provide support to the community of MKs and international students studying there. Guy enjoys biking, building things, and hands-on equipping of students and young professionals to serve Christ in their churches, communities and world.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2019

    Time: 6:00 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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    Joseph Suozzo

    Pastor Joe, Freehold NJ

    Joe Suozzo currently serves with Immanuel Bible Church as the Senior Pastor. From 1989-1999, he and his wife were involved in church planting in India. During that time God used Joe and a Christar team to establish a network of house churches among the Chamar people of North India which has now grown to over 50 groups. Joe has been married to Dianne for 25 years and has two daughters, Anna Marie (23) and Danielle (21).
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2019

    Time: 6:00 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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    BJ

    Philadelphia PA

    BJ was born in Seoul, and grew up in NYC. He pastored youth and adults for 6+ years there before turning his attention to Bible-less peoples. BJ and his family lived in a conservative province, facilitating Bible translation using a community-based approach, involving local theological instructors.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2019

    Time: 6:00 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.

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    Rebecca Ray

    Philadelphia PA

    Rebecca Ray and her husband Larry served short term in Mexico and Kenya and full time in North Africa. They now serve in Perspectives and mobilization. She is committed to sharing the love of Jesus in classrooms from nursery school to college, anywhere in the world . They have one adult daughter, two teenagers and three grandchildren.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2019

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

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    Date: Tuesday, December 17, 2019

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

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