Class Info

Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM

Location: Elmbrook Lake Country Church 1100 WI-83 Hartland WI 53029

Contact: Jake Leigh

(262) 786-7051

• • Registration & Orientation

    Registration & Orientation

  • Instructor

    Kari Malone

    West Bend WI

    Radically coming to faith at age 19, Kari knew within months that God was calling her to follow Him to the nations. She and her husband followed Him to Eastern Siberia where they lived out 8 of their early years as church planters and new parents to (eventually) 4 wonderful children. Returning to the USA in 2004, they settled in SE Wisconsin to lead a church plant, continue raising their family, and embrace God's heart for Unreached People Groups. Kari is now Director of Reach Global at their home church and dreams of living among an Unreached People Group in the future. As Kari waits, dreams, prays, mobilizes, and sends other, she also coaches a high school girl's cross country team in the hopes of impacting families in her hometown for Christ.

    
    

  • Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM

• • 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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    Melva Henderson

    Milwaukee WI

    Melva Henderson serves as the Vice President of World Outreach & Bible Training Center Inc., in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is also the founder of the World Bible Training Institute an accredited bible school that trains and sends purpose-driven ministry leaders into the harvest fields of the world. Melva established the Little Feet of Mexico and the Milwaukee Give, humanitarian outreach efforts. She is an author, host of Discipling The Nations radio broadcast, and former host on the Trinity Broadcasting Network(TBN). Melva Henderson is a certified member of the international John Maxwell Leadership Team and 2015 Top 100 John Maxwell Leadership Award Nominee. Melva is currently earning her MA in Missional Leadership. She is a graduate of Rhema Bible College, and holds an honorary Doctorate of Divinity for her years of training and developing ministry leaders.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    Phillip Nelson

    SIM, Charlotte NC

    Rev. Dr. Phillip Nelson pastored for over thirty years. He has served as a mission mobilizer for over ten years and, in addition, began teaching Perspective classes 25 years ago. He is the husband of one wife and father of five saved adult children. He is a preacher and teacher of the Gospel for 45+ years.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2021

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Matthew Malone

    Elmbrook, Brookfield WI

    Matthew is a church planter, pastor, mobilizer and trainer. Currently he serves as the pastor of Mission for Elmbrook Church, a role where he is responsible for almost 80 field workers spread across the globe. Before that he and his family lived in Siberia for almost a decade helping start churches and encourage leaders. They returned to the states in 2004 and planted a multi-site church in Washington County, Wisconsin. He also currently serves as the Wisconsin area mobilizer for Perspectives and loves seeing people take steps of involvement in God’s mission. Matthew and Kari were married in 1994 and have four children. Matthew is a hack triathlete, which means he enjoys biking and swimming, and endures running.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:05 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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    Manohar James

    , Verona WI

    Dr. Manohar James holds a Ph.D. in Intercultural Studies from Asbury Theological Seminary, USA. He is currently serving as a Minister of Intercultural Ministry at High Point Church, Madison, WI. As an adjunct professor, he teaches at Alliance Theological Seminary (NY, USA), The Alliance Institute for Mission (Sydney, Australia), Mission India Theological Seminary (Nagpur, India), and Christian Life College (Madison, WI). Before coming to the US for higher education, he served in India for 15 years as an evangelist, church planter, and seminary professor. While church planting in Himachal Pradesh (India) he suffered severe beatings twice for the sake of preaching the gospel and bringing people to Christ. He is the founder of Serving Alongside International (www.ServingAlongside.org), a non-profit Christian organization in the USA which annually trains about 1200 indigenous pastors in India. He often travels to India to train pastors. Dr. James and his wife Jasmine live in Madison, WI, along with their sons Jason (7 years) and Jonathan (2 years).
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    Manuel Marin

    Waukesha WI

    Manuel Marin was born in Spain, raised in Puerto Rico, and arrived in the U.S. in his early twenties. During his late twenties he had a radical conversion, similar to Paul’s on the road to Damascus, and came to faith in Christ. He received Biblical training in Michigan, missionary training in Canada, and attended Trinity International U and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois. Manuel also attended Ethnos 360 Bible Institute. The whole family went on missionary trips to Mexico and to Lesvos, Greece to work with refugees.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    Mark Chapman

    Sussex WI

    Mark Chapman teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in theology and church history. He has taught for Trinity International University, Marquette University, Marian University, and Bethel University (in St. Paul). He has also taught extensively in his home church. He holds a PH.D. in historical theology from Marquette University, and previously completed a Master of Divinity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    Mary Ho

    All Nations Family, Inc, Kansas City MO

    Dr. Mary Ho is the International Executive Leader of All Nations (http://allnations.international), a global Christian missions organization with workers making disciples and doing church planting in 44 countries. Dr. Ho is passionate about finishing the Great Commission in this generation by sharing the love of God among every people and in parts of the world where the name of Jesus Christ is little or not known. Dr. Ho received her Doctorate of Strategic Leadership from Regent University, VA, U.S.A. in 2016.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    Diana Collymore

    InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA, Chicago IL

    Diana Collymore serves as the Associate Director of Missions with InterVarsity/USA. Her vision is to “turn the world upside down” (Acts 17:6) through the college campus. Diana seeks to invest in the development of college students as the lifelong disciples of Christ Jesus who are about God’s mission in every sphere. A calling and passion for Diana is mobilizing students from communities of color to contribute their God-designed gifts in global missions.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    Pamela Lovett

    Wales WI

    My husband and I have been involved in mission work in Asia and Central Asia since 1983, together. We raised our children in Central Asia where the 2 main languages were Persian and Russian. We are grateful that God guided us to make friends in that region of the world and that we were able to join God in what He was doing out that way.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    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: Tuesday, April 6, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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: Tuesday, April 13, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    Jenny Ellefson

    Glendale WI

    Born and raised in Manchester, England, for 8 years I trained young adults in mission in Sheffield, UK. Then five years doing a church plant in Pretoria South Africa; being mentored for three years in DMM. Upon completion of a Masters in Missiology and Development in the UK, I went to Burundi, where I trained nationals in holistic mission with a strong emphasis on DMM. Now, with my local church in Milwaukee, WI I serve to develop missional communities and DMM among the refugee community.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    Paul Sinclair

    , Algoma WI

    Paul and Lisa Sinclair served with United World Mission for 15 years both in Mali, West Africa and in organizational leadership in North America. Lisa has both an M.A. in Missions and a Masters degree as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Paul has a MDiv in Missions and both have Doctor of Ministry degrees through Columbia International Seminary, Columbia, SC. Paul has also served as the Pastor for Urban and Prison Ministries, of Elmbrook Church, Brookfield, WI., and later Missions Pastor of Northbrook Church and Eastbrook Church, Milwaukee. Lisa has had clinical experience as a nurse practitioner in the USA, in addition to having had a private practice as a psychiatric practitioner. Other areas of the world where the Sinclairs have ministered include Senegal, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Congo-DRC, Congo-Brazzaville, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Turkey, and other countries in South Asia and the Horn of Africa Additionally, Paul and Lisa are engaged in prison ministry in Wisconsin. They have three adult children and six grandchildren. Lisa has recently published a book, Sexuality for Christian Leaders, that especially targets missionaries.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 27, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    Ron Lindsey

    Ethnos360, Waukesha WI

    Ron Lindsey, is the President of Ethnos360 Bible Institute and speaks with first hand experience regarding church planting among unreached people groups in remote environments. Ron and his family lived with a remote people in the jungles of Papua New Guinea for 18 years. Ron's experiences include jungle airstrip construction, language and culture acquisition, chronological approach to church planting and, Bible translation. Currently Ron serves as the President of Ethnos360 Bible Institute, in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Ron and Carrie's sons have completed missionary training with one serving in Prague, Czech Republic. Lessons of Competence:1,2, 14
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 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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    Shanthini Baskaran

    Elmbrook Church , Pewaukee WI

    Shanthini grew up in South India, with a deep love for God and world missions. She is a clinical psychologist by training, but a stay-at-home-yet-volunteer-for-everything-mom in practice. She is part of the Adult discipleship teaching team at her home church, and loves discipling small groups of women, at church and in prison and through teaching opportunities at home and around the world. . A mentor & guide to many, Shanthini is constantly learning and loves to share what she learns with those around her. . She is happiest sitting out in her garden on a warm day with a good book, having dozens of people over for dinner on Sunday nights, or having God conversations over a cup of coffee. She is married to her husband, Vinod for 29 years; they have 3 adult children.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, May 11, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM

• • Celebration

    Graduation and Commissioning

    Celebration

  • Instructor

    Matthew Malone

    Elmbrook, Brookfield WI

    Matthew is a church planter, pastor, mobilizer and trainer. Currently he serves as the pastor of Mission for Elmbrook Church, a role where he is responsible for almost 80 field workers spread across the globe. Before that he and his family lived in Siberia for almost a decade helping start churches and encourage leaders. They returned to the states in 2004 and planted a multi-site church in Washington County, Wisconsin. He also currently serves as the Wisconsin area mobilizer for Perspectives and loves seeing people take steps of involvement in God’s mission. Matthew and Kari were married in 1994 and have four children. Matthew is a hack triathlete, which means he enjoys biking and swimming, and endures running.

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    Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM

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