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Camas, WA S20
Spring 2020
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Monday evenings, 6-9pm
at Harvest Community Church
on Prune Hill in Camas
2436 NW Astor Street Camas, WA 98607
Register for the class using the buttons to the right.
We highly recommend you register before January 6th, but the first 3 nights are free!
What is Perspectives?
Perspectives is a 15-week life and learning opportunity that will change the way you view the world around you. In it, you will have your eyes opened to the heart and purpose of God, and how you can take part in His work all over the world, from the urban streets of America to the rain forest and deserts of distant lands.
15 Weeks. 15 Instructors. One Epic Story.
An array of pastors, theologians, international missiologists and mobilizers will challenge and inspire you with their personal experiences that will open your eyes to see just how big God is, and how much He desires that all might come to know Him. In the course - scripture, history, culture and strategy converge to reveal the unfolding of God's kingdom movement and redemptive purposes. Click through the lessons below to learn about the content and our instructors. Whether you are single, married, a student, a parent-at-home, working or retired, Perspectives will bless and challenge your life and direction. God is on a mission to bless the peoples of the earth, and you're invited to join him. In the words of Floyd McClung, International Director of All Nations Training Center:
"Take Perspectives - It'll ruin you for the ordinary!"
Is this course only for those interested in missions?
Absolutely not! This is a course for the Church. The goal is to bring our individual lives into a closer alignment with God's purpose. To join God in His story. If you want to grow and be challenged—want more vision, direction and eternal impact to come from your life.
Take the course at a level that best suits you:
Key Reading Level: Attend class, read key articles each week, and complete five personal responses (reflections on what you are learning) throughout the semester. $250 fee includes books.
Certificate Level: Attend class, 2-3 hours of reading per week, homework questions, five personal responses (reflections on what you are learning), and a final project. This level is required by several mission sending agencies, committees, etc. for candidacy, and is required if someone wants to coordinate a Perspectives class in the future. $250 fee includes books.
Credit Level: Earn 3 undergraduate credits for roughly 3-5 hours of reading per week, class participation, homework questions, a mid-term exam, and a final paper. Graduate Level: 3 credits are also available through Trinity International University. For fees, see registration link. Alumni: Perspectives alumni are encouraged to attend the classes. For fees, see registration link. Discounts Available: see registration link. ** 45 continuing education credit hours are available for teachers who take Perspectives!
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 6, 2020
Time: 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
Location: Harvest Community Church 2436 NW Astor Street Camas WA 98607
Contact: Alyssa Higginson
360-907-8450
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Registration & Orientation
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Registration & Orientation
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Instructor
Chris Neveux
Blessed to be a Blessing, Brush Prairie WA
My wife and I took this course in 1990. Since then, we have coordinated the course dozens of times. We spent 9 years in Indonesia doing Bible translation, medical relief outreach, mobilization with Perspectives derived material.
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Date: Monday, January 6, 2020
Time: 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
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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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Gerry Breshears
Western Seminary, Portland OR
Gerry Breshears has been professor of theology at Western Seminary since 1980. He served three years with WorldVenture in the Philippines, teaching at Faith Academy and helping start Calvary Baptist Church. He received the Ph.D. from Fuller Seminary. He now teaches overseas about one month per year. In addition to teaching and lecturing at a number of colleges and seminaries around the world, he speaks in many churches. He is co-author of Vintage Jesus, Death by Love, and Vintage Church with Mark Driscoll, in the Relit series from Crossway. Gerry and his wife, Sherry, have two sons, Donn and David, and a daughter, Cyndee, and three wonderful grandgirls. He is an elder and a member of the preaching team at Grace Community Church of Gresham, Oregon.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 13, 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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C.C.
Portland OR
Our speaker was born and raised in Oregon and currently serves as one of the pastors of a church in Portland. Before pastoring, he served with a non-profit in the US, London, and North Africa. He has been married for 24 years, and has two daughters and one son. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 20, 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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Lynne Ellis Gray
Serve the World Ministries, Woodinville WA
Dr. Lynne Ellis-Gray is passionate about being an adoptive mom, pastor, catalyzer of people and resources for the kingdom, partnership builder, and social justice advocate. After spending 22 years as a mission's pastor at Overlake Christian church (and 35 years on church staffs), she is equipping individuals, churches and non-profits to strategically and intentionally live out their unique calling for the kingdom. She founded Ellis Gray Coaching and Consulting to empower missional living. Beside teaching this lesson, Lynne has served as coordinator and host church, believing deeply in the ministry of Perspectives. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 27, 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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Sage Mwiinga
Meridian ID
Sage Mwiinga is an inspirational speaker with a passion to inspire others to walk and live by faith in God. Sage and his wife moved to the United States from Zambia in obedience to God’s call to be witnesses of His grace. Sage is a graduate of Northwest Nazarene University and George Fox University, and currently works in higher education. The Mwiinga Family live in the Boise, Idaho area where they attend Calvary Chapel Boise. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 3, 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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Tyler Pease
Perspectives USA, Tacoma WA
Tyler serves as the Regional Director for Perspectives in the Coastal NW and Inland NW regions (WA, OR, ID, MT, AK). In addition to his work with Perspectives, he serves with the pastoral staff at Sunset Bible Church, leading their global outreach ministry and serving as an interim campus pastor at a partner church in Tacoma, WA. On a personal level, Tyler and his wife, Karen, regularly apply what they continue to learn in Perspectives through a local ministry that Karen leads, called Better English in Tacoma. Better English is a multi-church ministry serving international friends through formal classes, one-on-one conversation partners, and Discovery Bible Studies. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 10, 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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Ron Billings
Trinity International University, Corvallis OR
Ron Billings was born in Everett, Washington and grew up in Oregon and the Philippines, where his parents were missionaries. His grandparents and great-grandparents were also missionaries, with China Inland Mission. Ron’s great-grandfather and great-grandmother were recruited by Hudson Taylor from England and Australia, respectively, and they met and married in China (as did Ron’s grandfather and grandmother, who was from California). Ron’s mother and grandfather were both born in China. Ron’s father was born in Oregon with a Native American heritage, and he met Ron’s mother in college in Seattle. After serving with the military, Ron attended the University of Texas at Austin where he received way too many degrees: a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, an M.B.A., an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, an M.S. in Computational and Applied Mathematics, and a Ph.D. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering. Ron first took the Perspectives class while he was an undergraduate in 1986, and as usual it wildly transformed his plans for the future. While in graduate school, he coordinated the Perspectives class in Austin from 1987 to 1992. He also worked for twelve years in the electronics industry as an international standards negotiator and traveled extensively in Asia and Europe. He then started his own software-development company. Dr. Billings has served on the faculty of Concordia University in Austin, Texas; Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta; Oregon State University in Corvallis; the University of Oregon in Eugene; Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, Oregon; and Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois (for which he served as the Professor of Record for many Perspectives classes on the West Coast). He lives in Corvallis, Oregon, with his German wife Bina whom he met in the house church they attended. He likes to say that he married half the single women in the church. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 24, 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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Alex Smith
OMF International (Overseas Missionary Fellowship), Portland OR
Dr Alex Smith taught Perspectives for 25+ years. His burden is 1.3 Billion Buddhists. He earned his D.Miss from Fuller's SWM in 1980.
Born in Brisbane, Australia, Alex was trained as a chartered accountant and as a pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force. He married Faith, his American wife in Canada and they joined OMF Intl. (CIM) in 1964. The Smith’s served for 20 years in Thailand doing pioneer evangelism, church planting, training national leaders, supervising new missionaries, coordinating evangelism. Alex started the Thailand Church Growth Committee (1971). He was OMF Northwest Director in USA 1984-2002, during which he also taught as Adjunct Faculty, Multnomah University. In 1998 he co-founded SEANET. Since 2002 he is OMF's International Trainer and Advocate in the Buddhist world. Primarily Alex now trains Third World leaders in Asia. He authored books in Thai and English, and contributes chapters to all 15 SEANET books (WCL). You will enjoy this dynamic Aussie. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 2, 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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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 9, 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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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. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 16, 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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Betty Sue Brewster
Fuller Seminary (Retired), Vancouver WA
Retired: Senior Associate Professor of Language and Culture Learning, School of Intercultural Studies.
Currently: Language and culture learning consultant
Betty Sue has traveled in over 100 countries, teaching and consulting in the area of language and culture learning. Her teaching and writing focus on practical, hands-on learning through relationships. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 23, 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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Jim Stevens
Fr., Portland OR
Training in Biology and Environmental Science
Worked as agricultural consultant and water quality specialist
6 years in Uganda in late 80's early 90's as agriculture development specialist. 4 years in Kyrgyzstan (06 thru 09) teaching in national ag university and doing projects outside of capitol. Currently Pac NW area director for recruiting and mobilization for a mission agency. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 6, 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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Edward Aw
Tsunami Unleashed, Gilbert AZ
Ed and Rachel have two teenage sons and live in Arizona.
Their ministry, Tsunami Unleashed, focuses on helping bring clarity to believers on how to live purpose "full" lives for Jesus. In addition, they provide a simple path to exponential discipleship, leadership, and church reproduction.
Currently, the Lord has them building Tsunami Unleashed. The vision is to see 1 billion people across the global mobilized, equipped and impacted for Jesus. This will leverage the technological infrastructure that exists (everything internet) in an effective way that draws people from the cold medium of the web into hot relationship with believers (in-person) and Jesus.
It will require an open-handed approach to all interactions and resources. They don't care who gets credit as long as the work is done giving glory to God through loving obedience to Jesus Christ. They seek to partner with any believer or organization who desires to do "something" for the Lord, not matter how small. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 13, 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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AC Hawthorne
Frontier Ventures, Portland OR
Ahshuwah has been a church planter and missions team leader since 2005. He lives with his wife and 6 kids in Portland, OR. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 20, 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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Jonathan Martin
Black Butte Ranch OR
Jonathan lives with his wife, Janie, in Sisters, Oregon. Jonathan taught in several colleges and universities in Central and East Asia for over a decade working with Muslims, and then spent 15 years pastoring at Good Shepherd Community Church in Boring, Oregon. He is now on staff with Co-Serve International and has the amazing privilege to learn from and help train leaders all over the world. He is the author of Giving Wisely, Breaking the King Saul Syndrome, and Reconstructing the Church: Paul's Letter to the 21st Century. Jonathan and Janie have three children and 4 grandchildren. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 27, 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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Keith Uebele
Portland OR
Keith Uebele has been involved with CRM around the world since 1995, with a particular interest in the Middle East. Keith retired from Intel in 2016 after completing a 32 year career. Keith serves on the board with CRM and works with teams across CRM to help build disciple making movements. Keith and his wife, Ellen, live in Portland, OR and have three adult children. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, January 7, 2021
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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