Class Info

Date: Monday, January 13, 2020

Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Location: Great Northern University 611 E Indiana Ave Spokane WA 99207

Contact: Chris Sheeran

(509) 868-3334

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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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    Joseph Shane Bennett

    Healing Nations , Rye CO

    Shane helps Christians love Muslims and Muslims love Jesus. He has served in missions mobilization since 1987, recruiting, training, and sending short term research teams. He's been on teams in Bangkok, Bombay, and Turkey and he's lived among Muslim migrants in Europe. Shane writes a weekly email called Muslim Connect that helps Christians think about Muslims the way God does and love them like Jesus does. He works with Healing Nations and he and his family live in southern Colorado.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 13, 2020

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Kurt Staeuble

    Coeur d'Alene Bible Church, Coeur d' Alene ID

    Kurt has been the lead pastor at CDA Bible since 2009. He absolutely loves seeing how lives can be changed when people trust God to bring about transformation in their lives. He and his wife Sara have two adult children, Lauren and Aaron, one son-in-law (Zach) and a new grandchild Jude.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 20, 2020

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    John Repsold

    Mosaic Fellowship, Spokane WA

    John is the Founding & Senior Pastor at Mosaic Fellowship in downtown Spokane. His ministry experience includes college, church planting, theological education, urban ministry and senior pastorates. He is a graduate of Multnomah University (Portland, OR), Western Seminary (Portland, OR) and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Deerfield, IL). Along with his family of 8, his passion is the glory of Jesus Christ in the city church.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 27, 2020

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    John Underhill

    South Hill Bible Church, Spokane Valley WA

    Education: A.A Spokane Falls Community College; B.A. Eastern Washington University; M.A. Dallas Theological Seminary Work experience: Pastor, Springhill Community Bible Church 1984-1990; Associate Pastor, Valley 4th Memorial Church 1990-1996; Senior Pastor, Valley 4th Memorial Church 1996-2011 Pastor, South Hill Bible Church, 2011 - present
    
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    Date: Monday, February 3, 2020

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Garry Morgan

    Retired, University of Northwestern-St. Paul, Spokane WA

    Garry Morgan is Professor Emeritus of Intercultural Studies and former Director of Global Initiatives at the University of Northwestern- St. Paul, where he taught from 1999-2016. Prior to that, he spent 18 years in Kenya, serving in a variety of ministry settings. He is the author of Understanding World Religions in Fifteen Minutes a Day, published by Baker. He has been married to Connie since 1981, and they have a married daughter and two grandchildren.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 10, 2020

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Ian Downs

    International Students Inc., Pullman WA

    Ian Downs serves as an Area Director with International Students Inc. In Pullman, WA. Before moving to Pullman, Ian and his wife served in Los Angeles, CA with ISI for 14 years. Previously, he served as an assistant editor with Mission Frontiers magazine.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 17, 2020

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Tom Richards

    Coeur D Alene ID

    Tom is a native of Idaho and the owner of the Snake Pit, Idaho’s longest, continuously operating restaurant. As an economics graduate from Stanford and an education graduate from Idaho State, Tom has an outstanding career of teaching Advanced Placement courses on the mission field in places like Vienna Austria and Seoul South Korea. He, along with his magnificent wife Kirste and their two beautiful daughters have served as church planters in Hiroshima, Japan. Tom has also filled the position of dynamic leader of Youth For Christ. His involvement with Perspectives began in 2016. Tom’s hobbies include worship music, classic cars and wilderness hiking. Because of his accurate research and energetic classroom style Tom is a sought after Perspectives Instructor. (This bio was written by an Idaho Forest Lookout who was paid by Tom’s mother to say nice things)
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 24, 2020

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    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.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 2, 2020

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Lesson 9 Video Instruction

    Salt Lake City UT

    Bruce Koch (pictured) and Todd Ahrend
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 16, 2020

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    David Beine

    Great Northern University, Spokane WA

    Dave is Emeritus Professor of Intercultural Studies. He served with Wycliffe Bible Translators for 28 years (1988-2016) in a variety of capacities including language surveyor, literacy and scripture-use project facilitator, anthropology consultant and linguistic institute director. He holds a B.A. in communication studies (Cal State, Sacramento), a M.A. in linguistic anthropology (San Diego State University) and a Ph.D. in medical anthropology (Washington State University). He is the author of Ensnared By AIDS: Cultural Contexts of HIV and AIDS in Nepal (2014), Whodunit: The Continuing Case of Spokane Garry (2021), and has published extensively in several missiological contexts as well.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 23, 2020

    Time: 6:30 PM to 6:30 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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    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.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 30, 2020

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Karen Stoufer

    Christian Veterinary Mission, Wormleysburg PA

    Dr. Karen Stoufer served with her family in Nepal for 13 years in rural community development, animal health training and women's empowerment with the United Mission to Nepal and World Concern/CVM. She returned to serve as Director of Training and Asia programs for Christian Veterinary Mission (CVM) based in Seattle WA. She has a special interest in Missionary Kids (TCKs) and fostering of refugee teens.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 6, 2020

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Pam Arlund

    All Nations, Kansas City MO

    Pam is currently the Co-Editor of Perspectives 5th Edition and a member of All Nations. She lived in Central Asia for ten years, where she planted churches among three people groups, two of whom are Muslim. She earned an MA and PhD in Linguistics (i.e. Bible Translation) from the University of Texas at Arlington. She has published numerous books and articles in missions. She is most well known as “The Stick Figure Lady” for her popular book “Stick Figures Save the World.”
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 13, 2020

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Tom Steffen

    Biola University, Coeur D'Alene ID

    Dr. Tom Steffen is emeritus professor of intercultural studies at the Cook School of Intercultural Studies, Biola University. He specializes in church multiplication, orality, honor and shame, and business as mission. He and his family spent 15 years in the Philippines in church planting and consulting. Semi-retired, he continues to teach courses, advise dissertations, and write. Some of his books include, Passing the Baton, Reconnecting God’s Story to Ministry, Great Commission Companies (with Steve Rundle), Encountering Missionary Life and Service (with Lois McKinney-Douglas), and The Facilitative Era.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 20, 2020

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    John Dupree

    Missions Consultant, Blanchard ID

    Rev. John Dupree serves as a Church Mobilization Minister Consultant: retired PERSPECTIVES Pacific Regional Director, former William Jessup University Adjunct Professor, Inter-Cultural Studies Dept., John is an ordained minister who has served as a Church Planter, Missions Pastor, Elder, ACMC Regional Director, Mission Networks creator (13 in Pacific region), organized 70 National and Regional Conferences, plus preaching and teaching at churches, seminaries, conferences in Eastern Europe, Asia and America.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 27, 2020

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

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    Date: Monday, May 4, 2020

    Time: 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

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