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Date: Monday, January 13, 2020

Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: Lexington City Church 410 Sporting Ct #3560 Lexington KY 40503

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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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    Jonathan Wilbur

    Frontiers, Nicholasville KY

    We have a passion to glorify God and see the Gospel of the Kingdom break-through in every people group living in our world today. For 20 years we have lived, loved, suffered, served, and enjoyed the blessings of following Jesus to the edges of the Kingdom where we have witnessed and experienced the life changing power of the Gospel and the truth that all the “promises of God are YES and AMEN in Christ Jesus”. During this time we led a church planting team among two unreached people groups in Central Asia. We are now overseeing teams in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Georgia, involved in mobilizing and training church planters to new unengaged Muslim people groups and preparing ourselves to begin a new work among Persian speakers.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 13, 2020

    Time: 6:30 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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    Bradley and Annet Ihrig

    Nicholasville KY

    My wife and I met while working as missionaries in Mongolia. She is a special needs educator and I am a family physician We both share a passion for those who have never heard about Jesus. We have 4 adopted children and also share a burden for the fatherless around the world.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 20, 2020

    Time: 6:30 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 Driskill

    Oakdale Christian Academy, Jackson KY

    Mark and Mary Driskill work together as community ministers in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. We have been married for 34 years and have home-schooled four children. We Serve as camp pastors in a Mennonite youth camp and Mark teaches in a Free Methodist boarding school, and serves as Pastor of Oakdale Free Methodist Church. Mark has written three books and travels overseas every two years to train pastors in developing countries. Mary is a certified Yoga instructor,certified health coach and an ordained minister. She uses her gifts to help people find wholeness in body, mind and spirit. Our vision is to "Be a blessing to all the families of the earth." By preaching, teaching and healing in Jesus name. (Genesis 12:1-3 / Matthew 4:23)
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 27, 2020

    Time: 6:30 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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    James Atherton

    College Hill UMC , Waco KY

    James is the pastor of College Hill and Doylesville United Methodist Churches in Madison County, KY. James is married to Michele Atherton and they have four children, Joshua, Faith, Victoria and Jonathan. James and Michele met in Kazakhstan in 1992, where they were both part of church planting teams. James has over 30 years of ministry and church leadership experience. In addition to serving churches in the central Kentucky area, he has planted churches in Kazakhstan and San Francisco, CA.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 3, 2020

    Time: 6:30 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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    Corrie McKee

    Greenville SC

    Corrie has spent over 15 years in cross-cultural ministry, including working with international students in the US, college students in Asia and the Middle East, and refugees from Eastern Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Now she lives in Greenville, SC and serves as Director of Client Services at an international staffing agency that serves clients from all over the world. She also works part-time as a Fundraising Coach, training missionaries to raise their own financial support. Corrie credits the 2012 Perspectives class as a major factor in her decision to move overseas. This is her 5th year instructing Lesson 5!
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 10, 2020

    Time: 6:30 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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    Steve Pearson

    Nicholasville KY

    Steve Pearson has served as the Lead Pastor of Church of the Savior in south Lexington, Kentucky for 24 years. He is a graduate of Oral Roberts University and Asbury Seminary. His passions are Prayer, Evangelism, Preaching the Word, Missions, Mentoring, and his wonderful wife of thirty-seven years, Sue.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 17, 2020

    Time: 6:30 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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    Wanda Kay Watts

    Wycliffe Bible Translators, Lexington KY

    
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 24, 2020

    Time: 6:30 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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    Meredith Garrison

    Lexington KY

    Meredith Garrison and her husband Stephen have been married for nearly 4 years. She has had a passion for international missions and social justice since childhood. Meredith has been involved with international student ministry and youth ministry over the past eight years. She and her husband were missionaries in Bolivia with Agua Yaku and El Alfarero in 2015. After returning to Kentucky they became the leaders of the Senior High youth ministry at Oasis Community Church, where Stephen is a worship leader. Meredith is currently working at the University of Kentucky teaching Communication while she earns a PhD in the field of Participatory Communication with a focus on social work, global development, and intercultural communication.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 2, 2020

    Time: 6:30 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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    Jay Moon

    Sioux Falls Seminary, Nicholasville KY

    Jay and his family were missionaries to the Builsa people group in Ghana, West Africa for nine years doing church planting and water development. You can read about their story in the book, "Ordinary Missionary: A Narrative Approach to Introducing World Missions." Since 2013, Jay has been teaching Intercultural Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 9, 2020

    Time: 6:30 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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    Allan Alvarez

    Iglesia Del Salvador, Nicholasville KY

    Allan has served as Pastor of Iglesia del Salvador, the Spanish congregation of Church of the Savior in Nicholasville, KY since 2013. He graduated from Oral Roberts University (B.S. 1999) and Perkins School of Theology/SMU (MDiv 2003). In addition to his work on a local level, Allan has been privileged to minister and preach in several South and Central American countries for the past 10 years.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 23, 2020

    Time: 6:30 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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    Conrad Davies

    Every Nation Campus, Lexington KY

    As bi-vocational missionaries, Conrad and Kandace Davies lead the Every Nation Campus (ENC) work at the University of Kentucky (UK). The Davies have trained and developed leaders since November 2012, and continue to watch God transform college students, marriages, families, and young mothers through discipleship, lifestyle evangelism, and the preaching of the gospel. The Davies’ vision is to be a catalyst of change to bring ethnic unity to Lexington, KY, and their mission is “The Offended restores the Offender,” a model of God (the offended party) restoring humanity (the offenders). The Davies’ are laying the groundwork of a future Every Nation church plant in Lexington, KY. Conrad is a faculty member at the University of Kentucky, and is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Education (anticipated 2021). He is also a Gallup-certified strengths coach. Kandace is a homemaker, friend, mother, and intercessor, who has had leadership roles with Mothers of PreSchoolers International (MOPS) and Bible Study Fellowship (BSF). The Davies' own a communication, consulting, and coaching services business called Davies and Associates, LLC and are raising three world-changing children: Conrad, Jr. (CJ), Levi, and Sarah Arden.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 30, 2020

    Time: 6:30 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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    Larry Frick

    City for the Nations, Lexington KY

    Larry joined the City for the Nations team in 2022. He has extensive experience leading medical mission teams and training leaders in Community Health Development and Integral Disciple Making Movements. His passion is leading and training others to meet both physical and spiritual needs around the world, particularly among unreached peoples. He also ministers in local churches, training on missions and on disciple making movements. He moved to Kentucky in 2008 to follow God’s call with his wife Marci and daughter Hannah after serving as a family physician in Chillicothe, Ohio.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 6, 2020

    Time: 6:30 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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    David Griffith

    Lexington KY

    Dave serves as the Ministries Pastor at LexCity Church overseeing all adult ministries including local and international missions. He is married to an amazing woman, Wendi, and has 3 kids, Hannah, John, and Will. He has helped develop ministry in Africa, India, the Middle East and Latin America and has dedicated his life to helping people know about the love of Christ and to reach the unreached areas of the world.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 13, 2020

    Time: 6:30 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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    Dean Davis

    Nicholasville KY

    Dean Davis grew up in Lexington, Kentucky. He served with his family for 17 years as a church planter among the Saraguro people of Ecuador. He currently serves as the International Director of One Mission Society's church multiplication catalyst, Every Community for Christ.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 20, 2020

    Time: 6:30 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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    Luke Long

    222 Dwelling Ministries, Lexington KY

    Luke grew up in Winchester, KY. After graduating from the University of Kentucky, he moved to Jordan for two years to work with Syrian refugees. Now, he has returned to the United States and lives in Lexington, KY, working with City for the Nations among unreached people groups across the city.
    
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    Date: Monday, April 27, 2020

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM

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