Class Info

Date: Monday, January 20, 2020

Time: 6:15 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: New Hope Presbyterian Church 2401 Deckner Ave Green Bay WI 54302

Contact: Jeff Hollenbeck

(920) 227-7059

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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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    Grace Fabian

    Douglassville PA

    Grace tells her amazing story in her book, Outrageous Grace. You’ll be inspired to hear how our Almighty God brings life out of death. Grace Fabian, whose missionary husband was slain while translating the New Testament into a Pacific island language, could easily be excused if she were to carry to her grave the conviction that the loss was meaningless. “Couldn’t I also, in a gesture of adoration and faith, offer my husband’s blood as a precious ointment to my Savior?” she asked after reading in God’s word about a woman who, in an act of worship, poured out expensive perfume over Jesus’ head. She along with her husband, Edmund, lived in an isolated Nabak-speaking village in Papua New Guinea, learned the language, devised an alphabet, produced literacy materials and translated the Scripture for the 25,000 people speaking this language. God’s kindness was poured out on this family, and after Edmund’s death, Grace, along with dedicated Nabak men and women completed the translation. In 1998 the Nabak New Testament was dedicated to the glory of God. Now Grace resides in Pennsylvania where she speaks, teaches and writes, hoping that others will be inspired to join in the work of reaching Bibleless people groups around the world.
    
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    Date: Monday, January 20, 2020

    Time: 6:15 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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    Maximus Cabey

    Green Bay WI

    Maximus is a former Orthodox priest who now works for the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay. He is passionate about seeing Our Lord Jesus Christ exalted and the Kingdom of God proclaimed and advanced to the glory of God the Father and in the grace and power of the Holy Spirit. He is committed to the study of the Bible and to growing deeper and deeper in love with Jesus Christ.
    
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    Date: Monday, January 27, 2020

    Time: 6:15 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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    Donald Buege

    Blazing Trees, Fond du Lac WI

    I have been working in Russia since 2000; 15 years with e3 Partners and more recently with Blazing Trees. I have also ministered in Ecuador, Cuba and Peru. After working for 13 years as a marketing manager, I also pastored two church plants with the Evangelical Free Church in Wisconsin. Jackie and I have been married for 45 years and we have two grown, married children, Josh (Tanya) and Rebecca (Andrew). We have two grandchildren, Penelope and Oliver.
    
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    Date: Monday, February 3, 2020

    Time: 6:15 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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    Wendy Lundberg

    Mequon WI

    Wendy Lundberg recently retired as the administrator at Fond du Lac Christian School. She has her Doctorate in Education from Liberty University and has been on numerous short term mission trips to Haiti, Bahamas, Russia, and West Africa. Wendy believes in the power of missions to ignite the Church and prays for the day when the united Church will accept its calling to reach all the people of the world.
    
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    Date: Monday, February 10, 2020

    Time: 6:15 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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    Jim Ferguson

    Green Bay WI

    Jim Ferguson is the senior pastor of New Hope Presbyterian Church in Green Bay, WI. His father is also a pastor, as is his son. Jim has been married to Laurel for 45 years and has three grown and married children and six grandchildren.
    
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    Date: Monday, February 17, 2020

    Time: 6:15 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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    Brian

    Frankston TX

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    Date: Monday, February 24, 2020

    Time: 6:15 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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    Jeff Hollenbeck

    MissonGuides Intl., Inc, DePere WI

    Since learning how the entire Bible reveals God’s missions heart, Jeff has been very enthusiastic about mobilizing ordinary people to participate in God’s extraordinary work. The experience he brings to Perspectives comes from leadership in Intervarsity Christian Fellowship while at University, working as the Church Partnership Director for Shelter Now International, a relief and development organization focused on the middle east and Asia and as a youth pastor. Now a full-time Training Specialist he splits his time as the founding director of MissionGuides International. Since 2003 MissionGuides has created training curriculum and on-field projects for many teams that have done a variety of helps, leadership events, building, discipleship and evangelism projects in Trinidad, Guyana, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, India and Malawi. He is eager to expose people to their missional role in God’s plan and creates opportunities for them to engage in edge-of-the-Kingdom work with the dream of bringing an unengaged people back into the fold. Jeff lives in Wisconsin with his wife, their two home schooled daughters and four cats.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 2, 2020

    Time: 6:15 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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    Darryl Jenkins

    DLJ CONSULTING GROUP LLC, Naperville IL

    Darryl is founder of DLJ Consulting Group, LLC, which coaches pastors nationwide in organic outreach and delivers training to communities of faith, corporations and business organizations in Mental Health First Aid, Trauma, Diversity, Equity and Cross Cultural Communications to improve and cultivate healthier communities through teaching, preaching, organizational and leadership development in evangelism, discipleship and missional church planting. (www.dljconsultinggroup.com) (www.faithcommunitycc.org)
    
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    Date: Monday, March 9, 2020

    Time: 6:15 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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    Jenni

    Youth With A Mission, Tiskilwa IL

    Jenni is from Sydney Australia. She has been a Missionary with Youth With A Mission since 1982. She has ministered in 56 countries, has been a Perspectives Coordinator and taught every lesson. She is also a RN and has a degree in Social Work. Jenni has a passion for evangelism and missions and is a gifted speaker. Her stories and zeal for the Lord will challenge you to pursue God's adventure for your life!
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 16, 2020

    Time: 6:15 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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    Cody Lorance

    Endiro Coffee, Aurora IL

    Cody Lorance is a Co-CEO, Brand Manager, and Corporate Executive Chef for Endiro Coffee; CEO and Master Roaster for Endiro Community Harvesters; Supervisor of Agricultural Innovation and Ecological Stewardship for Endiro Growers Uganda; and the President and CEO of Borderless. He and his wife, Katherine, have three children and live in Chicagoland.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 23, 2020

    Time: 6:15 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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    Randy

    Common Ground Consultants, Minnetonka MN

    We've had the privilege of working and living among unreached peoples since 1989. Today we train many people in how to bring the good news of Jesus to the unreached and begin disciple-making movements among them. We opened and later directed the work for our organization in Central Asia.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 30, 2020

    Time: 6:15 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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    Efi Tembon

    Oasis Network for Community Transformation, Hutchinson MN

    Efi Tembon is from Southern Cameroons. He is married to Mindy and they have three kids. Efi has an MA in Organizational Leadership from Crown College in MN and a BA in History from the University of Yaoundé. He serves as the Executive Director of the Oasis Network for Community Transformation, a ministry serving communities in the Sahel in Africa. Efi has previously served in a variety of capacities: as Co-facilitator of the Impact Conference of Global South Organizations, an initiative that brings together organizations from Asia and Africa to share best practices; Executive Director, Cameroon Association for Bible Translation and Literacy (CABTAL) 2012-2018; Facilitator of the Platform for Impact in Cameroon, an informal initiative that brings together the various denominational blocks and Bible translation agencies to serve communities in Cameroon, 2013- 2018; President of FOBA - Cameroon (Forum of Bible Agencies Cameroon, which brings together 9 Bible Agencies and a denomination in Cameroon), 2012-2016; and Church Relations Director for SIL and CABTAL, 2008-2012.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 6, 2020

    Time: 6:15 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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    Ben Leatherberry

    Green Bay WI

    Ben is indigenous to Wisconsin and grew up bleeding green and gold, learning to work hard, and eating meat and cheese like many other red-blooded boys in Wisconsin. After a profound experience with the grace of God in college for Ben, he met his wife and they set out for the Middle East. They lived and worked in the Middle East for several years working closely with a local church and university students. Ben's passion is to see Christ build his church through local churches all over the world, churches that are shepherded with godly oversight, with the Word of God at the forefront, and with evangelism and discipleship utilized in order to reach the last and the least, the unengaged, all peoples, with the Gospel.
    
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    Date: Monday, April 13, 2020

    Time: 6:15 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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    Robert Nordstrom

    OMF, Wheaton IL

    Robert works in partnership with local churches and campus ministry organizations in Chicago to reach and disciple international students (with a focus on East Asian students). This involves evangelism and discipling, preparing returnees, and developing training.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 20, 2020

    Time: 6:15 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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    Andrew Minch

    Wycliffe Bible Translators, Dixon IL

    Andy Minch is an Associate editor for the Perspective's Reader 5th edition and a 5 star instructor. He has instructed well over 100 Perspectives lessons over the past 30 years. He has spent 20 years working as a Bible translator in Papua New Guinea with Wycliffe Bible Translators. For eleven years he was an international administrator helping oversee about 20% of the world's remaining translation needs. Presently he is part of Wycliffe’s National Speaker’s bureau speaking on college campuses and other venues. He is author of the book 'Words Can Not Express'.
    
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    Date: Monday, April 27, 2020

    Time: 6:15 PM to 9:00 PM

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    Date: Monday, May 4, 2020

    Time: 6:15 PM to 9:00 PM

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