Branson, MO // F21
Fall 2021
Looking for your assignments?
Sign In
PERSPECTIVES on the World Christian Movement
MONDAYS, AUGUST 16 - DECEMBER 6, 2021
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . What is Perspectives ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Join us and experience God's heart for all peoples and encounter the momentum of the WORLD CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT. Perspectives will open the eyes of your heart with fresh knowledge and understanding of God's unchanging purposes and why they're relevant to your life.
Perspectives allows you to hear from 15 different instructors over the course of 15 weeks. Perspectives is for believers from all walks of life. Hear how God has been and continues to work throughout the world. Learn more about God's kingdom and His glory. Find out what your part is in this exciting movement. No matter who you are or what you do, Perspectives will help you learn how to live for GOD'S KINGDOM.
Class Info
Date: Monday, August 16, 2021
Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Location: First Baptist Church Branson 400 S Sunshine Branson MO 65616
Contact: Sharon Voth
(417) 598-2537
-
-
-
Instructor
-
-
-
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.
-
Instructor
Sean Cooper
The Traveling Team, Fayetteville AR
Sean and his wife Meredith have spent the last decade traveling the entire Continental U.S. casting mission vision with Traveling Team. They have a two year old daughter named Haven. Sean graduated from the University of Arkansas with a degree in Communication. He has short term exposure in India and Indonesia. Sean continues to travel nation wide speaking to students and churches. When not speaking he serves alongside The Traveling Team Leadership as the Director of Ministry Advancement. He is working on a Masters Degree from Reformed Theological Seminary. b
-
Class Info
Date: Monday, August 16, 2021
Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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.
-
Instructor
Randy Copeland
School to the Nations, Ozark MO
Randy and Maureen Copeland founded School to the Nations in 2007. They also founded Hidden Bluff ministries, devoted to reaching inner-city teens and children from 1991-2003. During that time, they were called into local church pastoral ministries at Ridgecrest Baptist Church from 1999-2003, and then to the Stonebridge Church Plant in Nixa, where Randy served from 2003-2010 as Missions Pastor and Executive Pastor. School to the Nations became their full-time focus in 2010. Randy was called back on staff at Ridgecrest in August of 2016 as the Missions Mobilization Pastor. In 2020 they were called back again full time to School to the Nations to engage the remaining unreached people groups with Church Planting initiative's. The Copeland's greatest calling and passion is to train, equip, and mobilize the body of Christ to the remaining unreached people groups.
b
-
Class Info
Date: Monday, August 23, 2021
Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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.
-
Instructor
Josh Coleman
Missouri State University, Springfield MO
Dr. Josh Coleman is a marketing professor at Missouri State University in Springfield, MO. He is also on staff at his church, where he serves as the Communications Director. He has traveled on short-term missions to China, Serbia, Italy, and Lesotho, where he has led local evangelism, taught Bible classes, led pastoral retreats, and preached in local churches. Josh is enthusiastic about the intersection of missions with every believer's daily walk of life, and he is passionate about teaching Biblical and theological literacy. Josh is married to his best friend and wife of over 12 years, Jill, and they have two fantastic kids, Lily and Oliver. b
-
Class Info
Date: Monday, August 30, 2021
Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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).
-
Instructor
Chris Regas
LifeBridge Baptist Church, Kansas City MO
Chris is the associate pastor at LifeBridge Baptist Church (WeAreLifeBridge.com), where his teaching and equipping ministry has been focused on discipleship and world missions. He was saved at LifeBridge as a teenager and served on staff after graduating from Liberty University (B.S.) and Dallas Theological Seminary (Th.M.). While in school he ministered with a mission mobilization team and studied for a summer with missionaries in Mexico City. He has done further doctoral-level studies at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. His heart for the world has led to teaching ministries with Asian Americans and leading short-term teams on five continents (Romania, Hungary, Netherlands, Philippines, Tanzania, England, Mexico, Colombia, the Lakota Nation, and Barbuda). He is passionate about mobilizing the local church to experience the Great Commission in a well-balanced and wholehearted manner. He and his wife live in Kansas City, MO and their daughter is completing her MA in Art Education at John Brown University. b
-
Class Info
Date: Monday, September 6, 2021
Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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.
-
Instructor
Sean Cooper
The Traveling Team, Fayetteville AR
Sean and his wife Meredith have spent the last decade traveling the entire Continental U.S. casting mission vision with Traveling Team. They have a two year old daughter named Haven. Sean graduated from the University of Arkansas with a degree in Communication. He has short term exposure in India and Indonesia. Sean continues to travel nation wide speaking to students and churches. When not speaking he serves alongside The Traveling Team Leadership as the Director of Ministry Advancement. He is working on a Masters Degree from Reformed Theological Seminary. b
-
Class Info
Date: Monday, September 13, 2021
Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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.
-
Instructor
Nathaniel Allen
Global Outfitters, Fayetteville AR
Nathan Allen is the Global Missions pastor at New Heights Church in Fayetteville, AR and the Director of Global Outfitters. He has a Bachelors of Arts in History and political Science from the University of Arkansas. He is currently pursuing a Masters in Theological Studies from Reformed Theological Seminary. b
-
Class Info
Date: Monday, September 20, 2021
Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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.
-
Instructor
Andrew Herbek
Perspectives, Omaha NE
God took this farm boy from the middle of nowhere in Nebraska and sent him to serve among an unreached people group in East Asia doing ethnographic research. God used this experience to shape Andrew into a mobilizer and sent him back to North America to equip the body of Christ back home to engage and participate with God in His global purpose. Andrew is a member of Perspectives and serves on the Curriculum Revision Team. He has a Masters of Divinity and a MA in Intercultural Studies, and has field experience in thirteen countries. His heart is that of an educator and discipler, and he desires is to see Christ named and known by all the peoples of the earth, so that Christ can be loved and obeyed within all the peoples of the earth. b
-
Class Info
Date: Monday, September 27, 2021
Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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.
-
Instructor
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.” b
-
Class Info
Date: Monday, October 4, 2021
Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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.
-
Instructor
Gene Daniels
Fruitful Practice Research, Jacksonville AR
Gene Daniels has a passion to spread the fame of Jesus in the Muslim world, something he and his family have been involved in since 1997, first as church planters in Central Asia and now as a mission researcher. Daniels has his doctorate in Religious Studies from the University of South Africa. He is also the author of several books and dozens of articles on mission. (Gene Daniels is a pseudonym) b
-
Class Info
Date: Monday, October 11, 2021
Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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.
-
Instructor
Dave Percy
Ethnos 360, Roach MO
I Served on the field of Thailand for 14 years. God allowed me to be involved in many facets of ministry. I see myself as an ORDINARY MAN SERVING AN
EXTRAORDINARY GOD!
I am a firsthand witness of a God who moves in incredible ways. God has given me a passion for his people, a love for his word and a desire to encourage and strengthen the church in this task of seeing a church birthed and matured among the unreached people of this world.
My wife and I are presently located at the Missionary Training Center (MTC) located in central MO. I serve as a Teacher/ Trainer and Speaker for the MTC and we also serve together as advisors to students as they train for serving overseas.
b
-
Class Info
Date: Monday, October 18, 2021
Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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.
-
Instructor
Thomas Lotz
Associate Pastor, Port Angeles WA
Tom has been saturated in missions his entire life: born on the mission field as a Missionary Kid and served 20 years as a missionary with New Tribes Mission, Awana Clubs, International, and ZimZam Global. He now serves as Associate Pastor at Independent Bible Church in Port Angeles, WA, where one of his main focuses is Missions. He and his wife, Sue, have one grown daughter, who is a teacher on Mission in Memphis, TN. b
-
Class Info
Date: Monday, October 25, 2021
Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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.
-
Instructor
Matt Clark
All Nations, St. Louis MO
Matt serves as the Executive Pastor of All Nations in St. Louis. All Nations was launched in September of 2017. Prior to that time, Matt and his wife, Kim, were working among the immigrant and refugee population in St. Louis and had partnered with their church at that time to provide holistic services to this underserved community. All involved parties saw the value in creating an organization dedicated exclusively to the work so that organizations throughout the St. Louis area could pool resources and contribute volunteers towards this effort. All Nations was thus formed to bring together people from all over the Metropolitan St. Louis area to embrace our new neighbors and make certain that they thrive here mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. We have since become primarily focused on mobilizing and equipping the local church. We still provide direct services to refugees but our focus is church mobilization. b
-
Class Info
Date: Monday, November 1, 2021
Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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.
-
Instructor
Heather L
Beautiful Feet , Springdale AR
Heather lived in South East Asia for 10 years and started a Business as Mission company that is still making disciples among the unreached.
She has a passion to train and mobilize believers to use their gifts and talents for the Kingdom. b
-
Class Info
Date: Monday, November 8, 2021
Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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.
-
Instructor
Norm Howell
Calvary Church, Coulterville IL
From 1993-2001, Norm served with New Tribes Mission (now Ethnos 360) as a bush church planting missionary to the Kakuna people of Papua New Guinea. From 2004-2008, he served with the Missouri Baptist Convention as their Mission Specialist working in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, West Africa, and Central America. From 2008-2017 Norm served as pastor of the Skyline Baptist Church in Branson, MO. Norm served from 2017-2020 as the Director of Missions for the Muskogee Baptist Association. At present, Norm is the Senior Pastor of the Calvary Church in Sparta, IL. b
-
Class Info
Date: Monday, November 15, 2021
Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 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.
-
Instructor
Todd Ahrend
The Traveling Team, Fayetteville AR
Todd Ahrend graduated from Northeastern State University, has a Masters from Dallas Theological Seminary and a Doctorate from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
He is the founder and international Director of The Traveling Team, a national missions mobilization movement. He and his wife, Jessica, have spent almost two decades traveling both nation-wide and abroad, speaking to thousands of people about involvement in world evangelization. Todd has exposure in over sixty countries and has lived in the Middle East. He is the author of The Abrahamic Revolution and In This Generation. Todd and Jessica have six children: Camden, Brody, Axel, Noble, Quincy and Cruz!
b
-
Class Info
Date: Monday, November 29, 2021
Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
-
You have not set your Security Questions and Answers. Do you want to set it now?
|