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Memphis, TN // S20
Spring 2020
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15 Challenging Topics | 15 World-Class Instructors | 15 Life-Changing Weeks
God has a "world-sized" role for every Christian in His global purpose. Whether people go to distant countries or stay at home is a secondary issue. The primary issue is what most people are hungry to discover: vision to live a life of purpose. Discovering that vision makes this course valuable, and perhaps crucial, for any Christian. Perspectives is a discipleship course that takes you through the Bible, back in time, and across the globe. A fantastic array of pastors, theologians, missiologists and mobilizers will challenge and inspire you as they help bring the course content to life with their personal experiences and expertise. You will join a community of believers as you journey together toward a better understanding who God is, what He is doing, and your role within that. Whether you are single, married, a student, a homemaker, a professional or retired, Perspectives will encourage and challenge you to live on purpose, with purpose.
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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
Matt Clayton
Forefront Experience, Richardson TX
Matt helps direct an organization called Forefront Experience. Forefront works to see disciples made among international populations living in the United States, focusing on individuals coming from unreached countries. Many of the people they serve are refugees and international students. He also trains western believers how to develop fruitful ministries among these populations. He has a passion to see the unreached reached and the churched equipped for that mission! b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020
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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Doug Landrum
Arlington TN
Doug Landrum serves as the Executive Director of Catalyst Missions. He is married with three sons. He also serves as the pastor of a bilingual church in Memphis, Comunidad en Cristo. His ministry passions are ethnic church planting and indigenous leader training.
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2020
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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Claude Atcho
Collierville TN
Claude Atcho serves as a pastor at Fellowship Memphis, multi-ethnic church in Memphis, TN. He has previously served as a pastor in Bellingham, WA and a church planter and an adjunct English professor in Boston, MA. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2020
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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Chelsea Standley
Center for Mission Mobilization, West Fork AR
Chelsea is passionate about raising up believers to participate in their most strategic role in seeing the Great Commission fulfilled. She grew up in Arkansas and graduated from the University of Arkansas in 2010 with a degree in Child Development. She then moved to India to do church planting for 6 years. Since the Fall of 2017, she has been on staff with the Center for Mission Mobilization which seeks to see the global church (Asia, Africa and Latin America) mobilized. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2020
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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Steve Moses
Nashville TN
Steve Moses has worked with Muslims primarily from Northern Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia for over 20 years. Over the past 10 years his focus has been among refugees within the U.S. Steve spends much of his time equipping and mobilizing people to live out a World Christian lifestyle wherever the Lord places them. Steve, his wife, and two children live in Memphis, TN. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2020
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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Steve Winstead
Harvest Church, Memphis TN
Steve Winstead serves as the Global Director for DownLine Ministries. He also is a Bible and discipleship teacher within the DownLine Institute. He has traveled on over 50 foreign mission trips.
He received a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Kentucky. He received his Masters of Divinity from Asbury Theological Seminary and his Doctorate from Fuller Theological Seminary.
Steve and his wife Margaret have four sons Samuel, Noah, Benjamin, and Daniel b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2020
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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David Frazier
Equipping Servants International, Memphis TN
David uses his 25+ years of experience in overseas ministry, discipleship, & cross-cultural living to mentor individuals & train churches to be better equipped for cross-cultural ministry. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2020
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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Lesson 8 Video Instruction
Fayetteville AR
Todd Ahrend (pictured) and Mary Ho b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2020
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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Nathan Cook
Bridgetown Ventures, Memphis TN
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2020
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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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. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2020
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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Betsy
Downline Ministries, Memphis TN
Betsy currently serves as the Emerging Leader Women's Director and Global Coordinator for Downline Ministries. Born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia in a church-planting missionary family, Betsy has always had a love for people and cultures, longing to see people experience redemptive freedom and restoration through the Gospel. She has a B.A. in Intercultural Studies from Emmaus Bible College and an M.A. in Intercultural Studies and Pastoral Counseling from Columbia International University. Her calling and ministry take many forms in many different contexts. They primarily consist of cross-cultural discipleship & equipping, teaching, counseling, global member care, resourcing, & support of people in vocational ministry, overseas partners, their families, refugees, & international students. She is passionate about spiritual formation and the integration of the whole person encountering God and His redemption. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2020
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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Cary Ramsay
Pre-Field Coach-Pioneers , Wilmington NC
Cary served in Ethiopia with Pioneers from 2008-2012 and has been on the U.S. team as a Pre-Field Coach ever since. While living in Ethiopia, Cary started an anti-trafficking program for young women and worked with ministry providing holistic care to HIV affected families in the slum of the capital city. Cary currently coaches long-term candidates going to Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia Pacific, and Oceania. Cary has also worked for a domestic anti-trafficking organization that focuses on providing services for victims in Southeast North Carolina. Cary serves on the board of directors for Love Justice International. She is married and has one son. They currently live in Wilmington, NC. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2020
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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Ronald Surgeon
Renewal Church, Germantown TN
Ronald loves his native Memphis, and Renewal Church, where he serves as an elder, church planter and mobilizer. He wants to be God’s tool to release His frozen assets – lay people.
Ron’s passion is to grow disciples with vision to impact the world, multiplying till the end of time. Ronald says, "God expects that I reproduce His investment, so that my influence for Him never dies - expanding to future generations long after I die."
As Henrietta Mears said, “When I consider my ministry, I think of the whole wide world. Anything less than that would not be worthy of Christ nor His will for my life.”
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2020
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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Mark Morris
Mission Leader, Inc, Memphis TN
B. Mark Morris
Biographical Sketch
Mark came to know Jesus Christ as personal Lord
and Savior through his local church in Memphis,
Tennessee.
After considerable influence by mission education
and service opportunities, Mark was moved to
commitment during a missionary presentation.
After seminary and church staff experiences the
Morris family found themselves en route to Portugal
for language study, then on to Cape Town, South
Africa as church planters. Churches and preaching
points were founded both in the South and in the
Northeast of South Africa. Having completed the
first missionary term of service in South Africa, the
Morrises returned to the United States where Mark
completed his Doctorate of Ministry in Missiology.
In 1989, God led Mark and Cindy to Pakistan, where
they pioneered Strategy Coordinator (Nonresidential
Missionary) work among the Hazara unreached
people of Afghanistan. In 1994 the Lord led Mark
to serve as Associate to the Area Director for the
Central and Southern Asia region for the
International Mission Board. In 1997 Mark became
Southern Baptists’ Regional Leader for Central and
Southern Asia of the IMB.
By 1998 Mark Morris co-founded an organization
known as All Peoples. All Peoples serves local
churches in their efforts to adopt and engage
unreached peoples with the Gospel. From 2000
Mark served for over 6 years as Pastor for Missions
and Ministries at Germantown Baptist Church in a
suburb of Memphis, Tennessee. He then served
with Rick Warren’s church as Pastor for Unengaged
People Groups through the Missions Department at
Saddleback, in Lake Forest, CA. Mark also founded
Mission Leader, Inc. which coaches churches in
becoming strategic W.O.R.L.D. Christians. Currently
Mark is Director of
Multi-affinity Church Relations at the International
Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Mark assists emerging churches in becoming
effective, strategic, missional churches. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2020
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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Jason Cook
Olive Branch MS
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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