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Date: Monday, January 13, 2020

Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: Hopevale Church 4873 N Center Road Saginaw MI 48904

Contact: Kelly Davidson

989 793-3122

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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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    Jake B.

    The Traveling Team, Riverside CA

    Jake grew up in Kansas and earned a degree in Animal Science from Kansas State University. For the past 9 years, he has been on staff with The Traveling Team, serving as a team leader and Director of Projects. The Traveling Team is a ministry that speaks to students all across the country to cast missions vision and challenge them to get involved in finishing the Great Commission. During his time on staff, Jake has spoken to over 35,000 students on 400+ campuses in 49 states. He’s also spent time doing ministry in India and hopes to do long-term ministry in the Middle East in the near future.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 13, 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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    Dave Shive

    Frontier Ventures (formerly US Center for World Mission), Catonsville MD

    Dave Shive is a 1968 graduate of the Washington Bible College, a 1972 graduate of Capital Bible Seminary with a Th.M. in New Testament Studies, and a 1994 graduate of Baltimore Hebrew University with an M.A. in Biblical Literature. Dave has spent the past 47 years in full time ministry as a pastor, Christian school director, and college professor. He currently serves with Frontier Ventures (formerly the US Center for World Mission) as a missions mobilizer for the northeast region of the United States. Dave lives in Catonsville, MD, with Kathy, his wife of 52 years. Dave and Kathy have three married children, Dan, Mike, and Becky. They are also the proud grandparents of 9 grandsons and 2 granddaughters.
    
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    Date: Monday, January 20, 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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    Brent Slater

    Highland Park Baptist Church, Farmington Hills MI

    "Brent Slater grew up as a “missionary kid” in rural Africa. After studies at Denver Seminary, he returned to serve in church planting, evangelism and leadership development for 22 years. His teaching at Kampala Evangelical School of Theology and his PhD studies at the University of Edinburgh represent his passion for developing culturally appropriate learning systems among African peoples. He is presently pastor of Highland Park Baptist Church in Metro-Detroit".
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 27, 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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    Kshitiz Sharma Ghimire

    Flushing MI

    Kshitiz was born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal to a Hindu family. He was introduced to the gospel through a group of missionaries. After receiving the gospel in faith, Kshitiz has been residing in United States to pursue further education. Currently, he is working on his Doctor of Ministry in Expository Preaching and Teaching at Liberty University, while also serving as Pastor of Student Ministries at Riverdale Baptist Church in Flint, MI. His goal is to be missionary back to Nepal after his educational career comes to an end.
    
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    Date: Monday, February 3, 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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    Luke Fetters

    Huntington University, Huntington IN

    Luke Fetters is the Vice President for Academic Affairs & Dean of the Faculty at Huntington University. Previously, he served as professor of Ministry & Missions and founder/director of Huntington University's Institute for TESOL Studies. Luke served in Macau from 1986 until 1997 as the director of the English Language Program, a conversational English program for adults in Macau. While in Macau, he helped to establish the United Brethren Mission and plant two local churches. For nearly 30 years, Luke has consulted on English teaching methodology for numerous school districts and universities in China.
    
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    Date: Monday, February 10, 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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    Brad Gill

    Frontier Ventures, Livonia MI

    Brad and his wife, Beth, helped launch the U.S. Center for World Mission after meeting at the early Perspectives course in 1975. They served in student mission mobilization and in 1980 gave leadership to the Int'l Student Consultation on Frontier Missions in Edinburgh, Scotland. They then served among the Muslims of North Africa for 13 years. They returned to the States (Detroit) in 1998 due to medical needs, and worked initially in the development of training programs for Muslim ministry. Brad is presently the senior editor of the International Journal of Frontier Missiology and has served as president of their society. He speaks and teaches on mission history and Muslim culture in campus and church settings.
    
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    Date: Monday, February 17, 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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    Barbara Yandell

    Hope for the Nations, Round Rock TX

    President Hope for the Nations, director of Engage Course and teacher at Horizons International, ordained minister and board member of the Alliance of Reformed Churches, Interserve USA, founder of Legacy Muslim Ministry conference.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 24, 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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    Estera Pirosca Escobar

    Culture Bound, Mt Juliet TN

    As a former international student from Romania, with a career in international student ministry (ISM) spanning over 15 years, Estera brings contagious enthusiasm and passion to everything she does. Estera is a gifted writer and speaker, a sought-after Perspectives instructor and is also involved in various cross-cultural training projects. She is currently pursuing a Doctor of Education in Intercultural Education from Western Seminary. Estera is married to Francisco, a global nomad originally from Chile, and they have a beautiful daughter, Esmeralda. They live in Nashville, Tennessee.
    
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    Date: Monday, March 2, 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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    Georgia and Stephen Coats

    SIL International, Greeley CO

    Stephen & Georgia’s first love is Jesus the Messiah. Their zeal for language and people comes from the promise of Revelation 7:9—that one day people from every language will worship around God’s heavenly throne! As members of SIL International, along with their three children, they seek to intentionally love and serve their diverse neighbors in Dearborn, MI, for 17 years, and currently in Greeley, CO. Stephen is an International Media Consultant and Director of Sabeel Media. With a lifelong passion for story, culture, and spirituality, he serves to produce and promote culturally embedded and spiritually uplifting media that is biblically guided. He has a degree in Radio, TV and Film from Biola University. Georgia is a teacher, writer, neighbor, and language learning coach. She coaches others through language learning processes, focusing on building bridges into other people’s lives and cultures. Her Master’s Degree is from Wayne State University in Language Learning, Spanish, and Linguistics.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 9, 2020

    Time: 6:00 AM to 9:00 AM

• • 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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    Deanna

    Spring Hill TN

    
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 16, 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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    Jeff and Danette Johnson

    International Needs, Hudsonville MI

    Jeff and Danette Johnson have been involved with mission work for the last sixteen years. They have spent the majority of those years with work in Zambia, Africa, working with widows, orphans and youth touched by the AIDS crisis. They have ministered to over sixty teams and interns both in Africa and in the States. Jeff Johnson, M.S., was originally Director of Community Health World Wide with World Hope International and has dealt extensively with the issues of HIV/AIDS in Africa. He has coordinated many efforts to diminish poverty and AIDS and has ministered to both Africans and Americans, in the areas of health and spiritual guidance. His two passions are to reach the lost and impoverished and see people walking in the fullness of the Gospel message. Danette Johnson has had trainings through Over Comers Through Christ, a South African based ministry; John G. Lake’s Healing Rooms in Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Wellspring Ministry – an inner-healing counseling ministry. She has done extensive research in the areas of spiritual gifts, deliverance, healing and spiritual warfare. She has ministered to Africans and Americans in all these areas, along with her gift of prophetic intercession. Her passion is to see the Body trained and equipped to reach the hurting and oppressed and has developed a missions training manual and seminar being used for mission teams and interns. Along with her father, Dr. Richard Matteson, Danette also travels to various countries training indigenous pastors and lay leaders the curriculum How to Love a Grieving Child, a program that ministers to orphans and grief. Jeff currently serves as the President of International Needs where they provide a wide variety of Gospel outreach and compassionate ministries services to the poor and oppressed of the developing world.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 6, 2020

    Time: 6:00 AM to 9:00 AM

• • 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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    Vicky Warren

    MissionNext, Mena AR

    Vicky spent 33 years working in innovative and creative environments from multimillion dollar technology deployments, alliances with technical luminaries such as Steve Jobs, Nicholas Negroponte's MIT media lab, Stanford Research Institute (SRI) and The Walt Disney Studios to entrepreneurial startup businesses. Her primary focus in these organizations included leadership and business development, strategic planning, research and development, innovation and creativity. She became "known" in these organizations for her heart for the Gospel through her daily walk in these high paced and demanding environments. Her passion for Christ took her on a 30-year journey of adventure as she walked on burning coals, assisted with eye clinics in Mexico, participated in medical relief efforts in Bolivia, planted pioneer businesses in Asia and Africa, came face to face with the persecuted church in Orissa, and served widows in the rainforest of Panama. Now she is committed full time to taking the Gospel to the nations through Pioneer Business Planting, building Kingdom businesses, and gobalization!
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 13, 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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    Ted Szymczak

    SEND International, Farmington Hills MI

    Helped plant 2 urban and 1 suburban Church in the USA, then served 17 years in theological education and helped plant 3 church plants in Poland. Have MA in ICS and Postgraduate studies towards a PhD in Education. In 2011 transitioned to the Global Division of SEND International, developing online church planting resources, coaching church planters and multiplying churches and disciples.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 20, 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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    John Sundararajan

    RCA Global Mission, Holland MI

    John Paul (JP) Sundararajan serves as the India-Asia director for Audio Scripture Ministries, which works with national organizations around the world to produce and distribute audio recordings of God's Word in a variety of languages. In India alone, more than 1,600 languages are spoken. Audio Scriptures give people access to the Bible in their own language, even when written translations aren’t available or the people are non-literate. JP travels in and around India and other parts of Asia, helping local organizations with audio Scriptures. He also spends time in North America, promoting Audio Scriptures' work and building bridges between the cultures. He is married to Katy. They have a daughter, Leila Ruth, and a son, Reuben Alagar.
    
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    Date: Monday, April 27, 2020

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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