Jacksonville, FL VF20
Fall 2020
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Join us on this virtual journey to discover God's heart and purpose - a purpose in which you have a part to play. It may be sending, welcoming, praying, supporting, and yes - even going. Discovering this purpose is valuable, and perhaps crucial, for any Christian.
What is Perspectives? Perspectives will take you on a 15-week journey, looking in-depth at the biblical, historical, cultural, and strategic aspects of God’s global plan to reconcile every nation, tribe, people, and tongue to Himself. Usually this course is in person, however due to COVID the class will be meeting via zoom. You will learn from 15 Different Instructors over 15 weeks, all of them excellent and all of them passionate about this course. They will challenge and inspire you with their wisdom and experience, opening your eyes to a deeper vision of God’s mercy, greatness.
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Registration & Orientation
Registration & Orientation
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Instructor
Anne-Marie Fort
The Church of Eleven22, Ponte Vedra Beach FL
Anne-Marie has been in full-time vocational ministry since 2016. She and her husband, Brad, live in Ponte Vedra, Florida and are actively involved in The Church of Eleven22 where she serves as Ministries Director. Anne-Marie and Brad completed perspectives in 2019 and it forever changed them. They love God more and love people better as a result.
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Date: Monday, July 27, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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Instructor
Todd Engstrom
The Austin Stone Community Church, Austin TX
Dr. Todd Engstrom is the Executive Pastor of Ministry Strategies at The Austin Stone Community Church in Austin, Texas. He directs the efforts of The Austin Stone in multiplication and church planting - training, resourcing and deploying church leaders to glorify God wherever they are.
He regularly speaks, writes and consults with churches on the topics of missional communities and organizational leadership. At home, he is husband to Olivia, father to five kids, and a makes disciples in his neighborhood. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, August 10, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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Instructor
Ron Nelson
Evangelism & Missions, Arlington TX
Ron is a licensed and ordained minister and co-founder of Sowing Seeds of Joy, Inc., an organization founded in 2007 to connect the hearts of people to the heart of God. This is done by empowering church leaders and believers through discipleship and training. The belief is that effective evangelism, biblical training, and discipleship of leaders lead to community transformation. Ron holds a B.A. in Vocational Rehabilitation and Counseling, is a former world-class sprinter, police officer, US federal agent, and mission director at Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, TX.; he currently serves as the CEO of Sowing Seeds of Joy, Inc., a mission mobilizer, Perspectives instructor and coordinator, certified Evantell trainer, trained chaplain, and trauma healing facilitator. Ron’s travels and experience have taken him to Haiti, Belize, Brazil, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Nigeria, Kenya, Philippines, South Africa, and countless regions and cities of the US. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, August 17, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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Instructor
Victor Barousse
Go To Nations, Jacksonville FL
Victor, along with his gifted wife Kathie, are experienced field missionaries, seeing much fruit in church planting, leadership development and humanitarian / developmental work. They first encountered Go To Nations while already serving as missionaries in Siberia. They returned to Russia full-time, planting new works and aiding national church networks to embrace their Great Commission calling. Now based at the Go To Nations Headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida, Victor currently serves as Director of GTN Frontier Missions, with a two tiered strategy. First, equipping American missionaries to reach Frontier People Groups, while also envisioning and mobilizing indigenous workers to raise up powerful, self-supporting disciple making movements. Victor also serves as First Coast City Director for City for the Nations, a strategy to connect 100 US cities to "adopt" entire countries until disciples and churches are made in every community. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, August 24, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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Instructor
Gus Davies
Longwood FL
Pastor Augustine (Gus) Davies is passionate about Perspectives because it is a great and compelling course that continues to advance discipleship and leadership development for the Kingdom. Gus was introduced to Perspectives in the 80’s at African Bible College in Liberia and Reformed Theological Seminary USA. During those times he read several of the articles for missions, anthropology and cross-cultural classes.
Gus is serving as pastor at Northland Church in Longwood Florida since 1998. Perspectives course was part of his beginning days as he participated in both local and global missions along with pastoral responsibilities. In the last year Gus’s heart and mind has been re-ignited to reengage in this class as a student and facilitator. Perspectives go deeper in equipping and empowering the Church for the Great Commission.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, August 31, 2020
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Instructor
Chuck Walton
Wycliffe Bible Translators - Ret., Hatboro PA
Chuck Walton is a graduate of Cairn U, Wheaton College and Temple University. He and his wife Janice have served with Wycliffe Bible Translators for many years. Most of their career has been in the Philippines. They worked with two very different ethnic groups in there, the Itneg of Northern Luzon and the Sama of Pangutaran Island (a Muslim UPG) where they completed the translation of the New Testament.
In addition to translation Chuck had been involved in mission administration and has taught Linguistics at the Wycliffe affiliate school in Dallas, Texas, Alliance Biblical Seminary in Quezon City, Philippines and the University of North Dakota.
In 2013 Chuck retired but still does Mobilization for Wycliffe on a volunteer basis, and teaches ESL. They live in Newtown, PA (Bucks County).
Chuck has taught for Perspectives since 2006 and is a coordinator. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 14, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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Instructor
Jennifer Webster
Tallahassee FL
Jennifer Webster is a native Floridian and recently moved to Tallahassee with her family after living in the UK since 2020. She is currently completing her PhD in Theology at the University of Cambridge, St. John’s College. She previously received her undergraduate degrees in Anthropology and Theatre from the University of Central Florida and her MA in Church History from the University of Nottingham. She has a passion for educating Christians and congregations in theology and church history, and sees quality education as fundamental for developing healthy and whole followers of Jesus Christ. Her days are currently filled with exploring her new hometown with her daughter and husband and hiding away at the FSU library to write her PhD thesis b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 21, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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Instructor
Sundee Simmons
Perspectives, Winter Park FL
Sundee Simmons currently serves as Associate Director of Perspectives Global. Sundee has been serving the Perspectives program since 1991. She has served as a volunteer coordinator, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Director, East Coast Regional Administrator and the Director of Training for Perspectives USA before joining the Perspectives Global Team.
Sundee Simmons is a wife and mother of 3 children, Nathan (1996), Emily (1998) and Julianna (2005). Her husband, Scott, is a ordained PCA Pastor serving Third Millennium Ministries as the Director of Instructor Relations. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 28, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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Instructor
BJ Chandler
The Church of Eleven22, Neptune Beach FL
BJ met The Navigators as a very hungover freshman at the University of Florida (Go Gators!). He graduated with both a degree in history and a conviction that God will always be faithful to His promises. He met his wife of almost 5 years at a Navigator Summer Training Program and they have 2 kiddos - Eli and Gracie.
BJ currently serves as the campus director of University of Florida Navigator ministry . When he isn't chasing around freshman to join BIble studies or challenging anyone with a heartbeat to go to the nations, you can find him attempting to play golf, on the skeet shooting range, or perfecting his fried turkey method. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 5, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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Instructor
Bob Peckham
Frontiers, Gilbert AZ
Bob has served with Frontiers for over 30 years. He and his wife spent many years on the field working with and leading church-planting teams. Bob also served as a field director for Frontiers before transitioning to his current role as U.S. Director. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 12, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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Instructor
Benjamin Annis
Jacksonville FL
Benjamin Annis has served on staff at The Church of Eleven22 in Jacksonville, Florida since 2016 and is currently the Director of Multiplication, primarily charged with executing the church’s global initiatives in sending and church planting. He and his wife, Tonya have been married since 2001, have three sons, and have worked and served together in both ministry and non-profit capacities since 2003, continuing to do so today. Whether working domestically or abroad, Ben’s approach to disciple-making is guided by his educational and professional background in architecture, engineering, art, and music; walking alongside both individuals and organizations as they navigate their own discipleship journeys and transform into global gospel multipliers. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 19, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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Instructor
Ginger P
St. Augustine FL
Ginger has served with a mission’s agency since 2013, and with love and respect, she invites Muslims to follow Jesus. After completing a Perspectives course in 2011 where God opened her eyes to the BILLIONS of people around the world who have never heard the gospel, she transitioned from teaching here in the US and became an Educational Consultant in an unreached area of the world. Through education, she has built bridges into communities both overseas, as well as the refugee community here in Florida, where she has seen God draw many Muslims to Himself. She loves to share how God is at work, and she loves to mobilize others to join God in the work He is doing both here and around the world! b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 26, 2020
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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Instructor
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. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 2, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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Instructor
Paul Watson
Contagious Disciple Making, Beaverton OR
Paul grew up on an airplane.
Not really, but he felt like it! He split his childhood between Hong Kong, Malaysia, India, and Singapore while his parents, David and Jan Watson, planted churches as career missionaries with the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Since the day God called Paul into full-time ministry, he has traveled over 200,000 miles training disciple-making teams in the UK, France, Indonesia, Malaysia, Lebanon, Egypt, Germany, and all over the United States.
From January 1, 2012, through August 15,2015, Paul served as director of Cityteam’s Rescue and Recovery Center in downtown Portland, OR. Feeding the homeless while helping alcoholics discover sobriety and Jesus taught him incredible lessons about putting feet to faith and loving those who don’t love themselves.
Paul left his role at Cityteam and founded Contagious Disciple Making (http://www.contagiousdisciplemaking.com) to focus on catalyzing Disciple Making Movements among the unreached and under-reached peoples in the Cascadia Corridor (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, British Columbia, and Alaska.)
Paul and his family are active members at Westside Community Church in Aloha, OR. Paul and his wife, Christi, lead a growth group that meets in their home on Sunday evenings. Paul is incredibly excited by his pastor’s desire to see 10,000 churches planted in the Pacific Northwest and wants to use his experiences to help his pastor and other ministry leaders plant churches among people who would not normally attend the typical church in North America.
Paul blogs at http://www.pauldwatson.com and http://www.contagiousdisciplemaking.com. He is the host of American Church Stories (http://www.americanchurchstories.com). He is published in ‘Perspectives on the World Christian Movement, 4th Edition.’ He co-authored Contagious Disciple Making: Leading Others On a Journey of Discovery with his father, David Watson.
You can reach Paul at pwatson@contagiousdisciplemaking.com. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 9, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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Instructor
Steve and Arlene
Pioneers, Orlando FL
Steve Richardson grew up in Indonesia where his parents served in a jungle tribe. Their family story is told in his father’s missionary classic, Peace Child.
Steve and his wife Arlene led a network of church planting teams in Southeast Asia before he became President of Pioneers USA in 1999. Pioneers is based in Orlando and has grown into a leading international mission organization with 3,000 members who are impacting over 500 unreached people groups.
The Richardsons live in Orlando and are blessed with four daughters and eight grandchildren. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 16, 2020
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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Ryan Britt
The Church of Eleven22, Jacksonville FL
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 23, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
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