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Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: Zoom Classroom Email the Coordinator for Zoom link Orlando FL 32832

Contact: Mason Martin

(407) 399-6028

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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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    Jim O'Neill

    Frontier Ventures, New Cumberland PA

    Missionary to Asia 1982 to 1995; Director of Missions, Liberty University and Seminary, 1995-2000; President, CrossWorld Mission, 2000-2009; ABWE, 2013 to 2016 President, The Center for Global Mission, 2009 to present; Director of Mobilization for Frontier Ventures 2016 to present.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Jamie Farr

    Wycliffe Bible Translators, Orlando FL

    I grew up in the South Pacific in Papua New Guinea the son of Translators speaking four languages. I experienced the joy of watching my ethnic people receive the NT and experience the power of God in amazing ways. I later went with my beautiful Wife Anita to Thailand to serve with Wycliffe. On our watch we have seen over 2000 missionaries go to serve among over 1800 people groups in the last 24 years. We are passionate about God's glory to be experienced by all peoples.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2020

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Mark Baxter

    YWAM Jacksonville, Jacksonville FL

    Mark Baxter is the visionary leader of Youth With A Mission Jacksonville, Florida. Mark and Janet started the base in January 2001 because they are passionate about taking the Gospel to places where it isn't. They have 3 children - Daniel, Kathleen, and Jennifer along with 8 grandchildren. Mark has ministered in over 130 nations and he, Janet, and their youngest child lived in Harbin, China teaching English and planted a church among unreached people in 2008/09. Mark is on YWAM's international frontier missions leadership team, is the missions pastor at Redeemer Church, and is part of the NoPLaceLeft network in Jacksonville.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2020

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Gus Davies

    Longwood FL

    Pastor Augustine (Gus) Davies is passionate about Perspectives because it is a great and compelling course that continues to advance discipleship and leadership development for the Kingdom. Gus was introduced to Perspectives in the 80’s at African Bible College in Liberia and Reformed Theological Seminary USA. During those times he read several of the articles for missions, anthropology and cross-cultural classes. Gus is serving as pastor at Northland Church in Longwood Florida since 1998. Perspectives course was part of his beginning days as he participated in both local and global missions along with pastoral responsibilities. In the last year Gus’s heart and mind has been re-ignited to reengage in this class as a student and facilitator. Perspectives go deeper in equipping and empowering the Church for the Great Commission.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2020

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Roger Frank

    GLobal Connections, Orlando FL

    Roger received eternal life while in college. In seminary he received God's call into cross-cultural missions. After seminary he planted a church in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1989 he and his wife joined Youth With A Mission and focused on church planting among Muslims in Southeast Asia. In 1992 he worked for Far East Broadcasting. In 1993 he became the Dean of Tung Ling Bible College's School of Ministry. In 1996 he became the director of mobilization for YWAM Singapore and then from 1999 to 2006 led the School of Frontier Mission. In 2006 Roger became the director of YWAM's Frontier Mission Int'l Coordination Office. In 2011 he has been helping YWAM Orlando train, send, and support long-term workers. Since 2018 he and his wife are sharing the gospel with international students at local Orlando universities and coaching emerging Asian leaders.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2020

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Jennifer Webster

    Tallahassee FL

    Jennifer Webster is a native Floridian and recently moved to Tallahassee with her family after living in the UK since 2020. She is currently completing her PhD in Theology at the University of Cambridge, St. John’s College. She previously received her undergraduate degrees in Anthropology and Theatre from the University of Central Florida and her MA in Church History from the University of Nottingham. She has a passion for educating Christians and congregations in theology and church history, and sees quality education as fundamental for developing healthy and whole followers of Jesus Christ. Her days are currently filled with exploring her new hometown with her daughter and husband and hiding away at the FSU library to write her PhD thesis
    
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    Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2020

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Sundee Simmons

    Perspectives, Winter Park FL

    Sundee Simmons currently serves as Associate Director of Perspectives Global. Sundee has been serving the Perspectives program since 1991. She has served as a volunteer coordinator, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Director, East Coast Regional Administrator and the Director of Training for Perspectives USA before joining the Perspectives Global Team. Sundee Simmons is a wife and mother of 3 children, Nathan (1996), Emily (1998) and Julianna (2005). Her husband, Scott, is a ordained PCA Pastor serving Third Millennium Ministries as the Director of Instructor Relations.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2020

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Kendi Howells Douglas

    Kissimmee FL

    Dr. KENDI HOWELLS DOUGLAS Professor of Intercultural Studies at Johnson University, Florida Dr. Howells Douglas was the Professor of Cross Cultural Ministry at Great Lakes Christian College in Lansing, MI for 15 years. And Is now the Professor of Intercultural Studies at Johnson University, Florida Her passion is in the area of urban mission and her dissertation was on the history of the Christian Churches/Churches of Christ in the cities of North America. She enjoys research in other areas as well including: women in missions, postmodernism and culture, mission history, and mission biographies. Dr. Howells Douglas served as the associate editor of New Urban World Journal, and co-editor of a new book series entitled Urban Missiology in the 21st Century, and the urban editor of a new Biblical commentary series entitled, The Polis Commentary. Her hobbies include all types of music, reading (her favorite authors being Annie Dillard, Anne Lamott, Stanley Hauerwas, Ruth Tucker, and Eugene Peterson), a founding member of International Society of Urban Missiology and member of Evangelicals for Social Action and the American Society of Missiology, involvement in Habitat for Humanity, as well as traveling and visiting several urban partners all over the world, and learning continually from her 15 year old son, Truman. A.A., 1989, Minnesota Bible College B.A., Music, 1992, Minnesota Bible College M.Div., 1996, Emmanuel School of Religion D.Miss., 2004, Asbury Theological Seminary
    
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    Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2020

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Christopher Deckert

    JESUS Film - Cru, Orlando FL

    Chris works with The JESUS Film Project, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ. He has been working in the field of missions research and mapping of languages and people groups for 27 years. Chris has shared the story of the unfinished task at conferences around the globe and helps coordinate the World Missions Atlas Project (www.worldmap.org).
    
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    Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2020

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    David Heath

    Wycliffe Bible Translators, Ocala FL

    David has been serving with Wycliffe in NW Nigeria as a linguist and Bible translation consultant since 1995. Currently, he is doing Bible translation consulting for seven languages in Nigeria and managing the us-Saare and ut-Hun translation projects (working remotely from U.S. – working two months a year in Nigeria). David and his wife Carleen live in Ocala, FL and have 2 adult sons. His formal education is in Bible/Theology (BA, MDiv). Linguistics (MA), and Biblical Languages (PhD).
    
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    Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2020

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Julie Whitmore

    Pioneers, Orlando FL

    While pursuing her degree, God grew Julie’s heart for missions among people who have little or no access to the gospel. Before even going on a short-term mission trip Julie made a three-year commitment to church planting in South Asia. She loved those years, but afterward God led her to work at Pioneers in Orlando. After four years on the mobilization team, now she serves as a pre-field coach, helping people move into cross-cultural, church-planting ministry with unreached people groups.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2020

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Kate Schell

    SIL Philippines, Jacksonville FL

    Kate Schell is a member of Wycliffe Bible Translators and works on a team serving a people group in the southern Philippines who are culturally marginalized because of their Muslim faith, semi-nomadic lifestyle and lack of resources. The team is involved in Scripture engagement, Old Testament translation, community development projects and supporting formal and non-formal education in the languages of the people group. Kate is focused on teacher training, educational materials development and advocacy for greater inclusion of minority children in the multilingual formal education system. Kate earned her Bachelor's degree in English Literature and Spanish from Florida State University in 2008, an M.A. in Linguistics from Florida State University in 2011, and an M.A. in Literacy Programme Development from Redcliffe College, University of Gloucestershire in 2018. She lived in the Philippines from 2013-2015, but is now based in Jacksonville, Florida, where she lives with her husband, Chris. She continues to serve remotely with the team in the Philippines, traveling to the Philippines periodically.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2020

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Ted Esler

    Missio Nexus, St. Cloud FL

    Ted Esler is the President of Missio Nexus, an association of agencies and churches representing over 30,000 Great Commission workers worldwide. A Minnesota native, Ted worked in the computer industry before becoming a church planter in Sarajevo, Bosnia, during the 1990’s. He is the author of the book, "Overwhelming Minority," about their family's ministry in Bosnia. In 2000, Ted became the Canadian director of Pioneers and three years later moved to Orlando to join Pioneers USA’s leadership team. He was appointed the President of Missio Nexus in 2015. Ted has BS in Computer Science and Speech Communication (Mankato State University, 1985), an MTS in Theology (Heritage Seminary, 2002), and a PhD in Intercultural Studies (Fuller Theological Seminary, 2012). Ted is married to Annette and they have five children. Ted loves sailing, Crossfit, bikes, plays bass, and enjoys eating ethnic foods from around the world. Ted is a part of a church planting network in Orlando called "The Living Room," and serves as a board member for a couple of ministry organizations.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2020

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Bruce L.

    Ocala FL

    Lived with wife and children as pioneer church planters and disciple makers in Central Asia for five years. Also worked in strategic research for Central Asia's 371 unreached people groups. Currently living in Florida.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2020

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Courtney Joseph

    Pioneers, Orlando FL

    Courtney Joseph developed a heart for the unreached during her years in college. While studying Public Health, she learned about God’s heart for the nations and upon graduation, spent a summer with long-term workers in East Africa. After sensing His leading towards long-term ministry, her life’s trajectory shifted. She spent a year working in the public health field before joining Pioneers. Motivated by Luke 10:2, she has spent the last two years working for in mobilization with a heart to see more laborers sent to do church planting among unreached people groups.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2020

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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