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Date: Thursday, January 14, 2021

Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Location: Canyon Lake 30515 Railroad Canyon Rd Canyon Lake CA 92587

Contact: Nels Pitotti

208-610-5359

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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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    Jeff Lewis

    Thirteen~FiftyTwo, Rome GA

    Present Ministry: Founder/Director of Thirteen~FiftyTwo Ministry highlights: California Baptist University, Assistant Professor of Intercultural Studies for 18 years & Director of Mobilization for 4 years. *Mobilizing & disciple making ministries for 36 years *Assisted with indigenous mobilization leadership training and mobilization consultation with mission personnel in over 30 countries *Planted and pastored two churches *Instructor/trainer for Perspectives Global Desk *Co-founder & Co-Director of Passion Conferences 1996-2000 *Author of God's Heart for the Nations, Christ Love Compels Me, and Calling: A Scriptural Journey. *Missions Leadership with three Boards of the Southern Baptist Convention for 14+ years *College swimming coach at the University of TN & Lock Haven State University Married to Elaine McClary, for 49 years. We have seven children and 20 grand children, so far.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, January 14, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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.

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    Tracy Ward

    Riverside CA

    Tracy is a faculty member and administrator at California Baptist University. She has served on short-term teams and is leading efforts to engage faculty in opportunities to integrate faith within the academic experience in a global context. She has a passion for seeing people connect their professions with opportunities to reach the nations.
    
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    Date: Thursday, January 21, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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.

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    Tom Theriault

    Solana Beach Presbyterian Church, San Marcos CA

    Born and raised in the Northwest, Tom Theriault is retired, serving most recently for 21 years as Associate Pastor for Mission and Outreach at the Solana Beach Presbyterian Church, Solana Beach, California (in north San Diego County). A congregation of over 1400 members, Solana Beach Pres supports a wide range of mission activities, including a large outreach to local Hispanics, a burgeoning Creation Care initiative, and the support of missionaries around the world. Attending the University of Washington, Tom majored in history and psychology. Upon graduation from Fuller Seminary in Pasadena,CA, was ordained as Associate Pastor for Christian Education and Youth Ministry at the La Crescenta Presbyterian Church near Pasadena. He then served as the Evangelism and Mission Pastor at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Yakima, WA. When God opened the door, he moved back to Pasadena as Executive Director of the Presbyterian Center for Mission Studies. For six years he traveled extensively, mobilizing God’s people to more vigorously pursue God’s global purposes through the PCUSA. Back in the pastoral saddle at Solana Beach Presbyterian Church in 1996, Tom spearheaded his church’s commitment to plant the gospel among an unevangelized Muslim group in the desert of Ethiopia. He is a big booster of the Perspectives class, having taught Perspectives around the country and offered it twice in his church. Tom earned a Doctor of Ministry degree from Fuller Seminary’s School of Inter Cultural Studies, doing research around the topic, “The Influence of Universalism in Presbyterian Mission Policy and Practice in the 20th Century.” Tom and his wife of 40 years, Judy, thank God for their three grown children, Anna Julie, and Steve , a wonderful son-in-law, a beautiful daughter-in-law and four amazing grandsons and one granddaughter.
    
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    Date: Thursday, January 28, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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).

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    DawnEllen Jacobs

    Hideaway TX

    DawnEllen Jacobs is a faculty mentor and academic consultant. Recently retired from 28 years at California Baptist University, she began serving on short term service teams in 1998 and has done over 20 projects to date. She has a passion for discipling others with a desire to share the gospel with the nations.
    
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    Date: Thursday, February 4, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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.

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    Dave Dick

    Sr. Pastor, Canyon Lake CA

    Dave lives out the motto of the church by being "on mission with the Gospel of Jesus Christ." That starts in our neighborhoods and extends to the unreached of the world. Dave and his wife, Mollee have two adult daughters and love their regular camping/hiking trips to Yosemite and the Sierras.
    
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    Date: Thursday, February 11, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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.

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    Andy Pearce

    International Students, Inc., San Gabriel CA

    Andy serves as Director of Church Partnerships with International Students, Inc. (ISI) He has a Master's in Theological Studies from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, a Master's in Education from Cal State Los Angeles, and a Ph.D.in International Development from William Carey International University. Andy and his wife have four daughters and one son and live in San Gabriel, CA.
    
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    Date: Thursday, February 18, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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.

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    Tom Richards

    Coeur D Alene ID

    Tom is a native of Idaho and the owner of the Snake Pit, Idaho’s longest, continuously operating restaurant. As an economics graduate from Stanford and an education graduate from Idaho State, Tom has an outstanding career of teaching Advanced Placement courses on the mission field in places like Vienna Austria and Seoul South Korea. He, along with his magnificent wife Kirste and their two beautiful daughters have served as church planters in Hiroshima, Japan. Tom has also filled the position of dynamic leader of Youth For Christ. His involvement with Perspectives began in 2016. Tom’s hobbies include worship music, classic cars and wilderness hiking. Because of his accurate research and energetic classroom style Tom is a sought after Perspectives Instructor. (This bio was written by an Idaho Forest Lookout who was paid by Tom’s mother to say nice things)
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, February 25, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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.

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    Bryan Pitotti

    Canyon Lake Community Church, Canyon Lake CA

    Bryan grew up in a church that was passionate about worldwide evangelism. He started serving on short-term mission teams as a high school student and has led, trained and participated in dozens of mission teams since. It was during a mission's conference in high school that Bryan understood God's call on his life into vocational Christian service, and he's been serving as a church staff member since 1984. In 2005, Bryan was called to serve at Canyon Lake Community Church where one of his responsibilities is to oversee missions. He and his wife, Amy, count it a great privilege to prepare, train and lead short-term ministry teams together.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, March 4, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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.

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    James Mason

    Frontier Ventures, Perspectives Study Program, Albuquerque NM

    James served as a pastor for 12 years before responding to a growing passion to see God's glory established among all peoples on earth. He is now on staff with Frontier Ventures in Pasadena, CA where he serves as the US Director for the Perspectives Study Program. James has been married to his wife Kelly for 29 years and they have 3 precious children. Their passion is to help every person, every church, every denomination, and every missions organization find their most strategic place in the completion of the Great Commission.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, March 11, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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.

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    Gerry Gutierrez

    Global Recordings Network, Homeland CA

    Gerry Gutierrez spent 60 years in Oaxaca, Mexico; first as a child of Bible Translators, then as a Medical Doctor in a Zapotec Indian community, then as co-Director of Global Recordings Network Mexico with her husband, Dave. She has researched and published studies of the ethnic groups of Mexico in “Alcancemos las Etnias de Mexico,” and of Greater Los Angeles in “EthnoLA”. After coming to California in 2010, Gerry began to serve as Language Tracking Coordinator for GRN. During the Perspectives course in Temecula in 2015 she began to work with 50,000 refugees in Northern San Diego, sharing the gospel through henna tatoos, audio CDs, the Jesus film, and personal evangelism.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, March 18, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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.

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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: Thursday, March 25, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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.

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    Chris McHorney

    International Service Project, Lake Elsinore CA

    Chris McHorney has been a member of the faculty at California Baptist University for fourteen years. As a member of the faculty, he has been blessed to have the opportunity to lead ten short-term teams, serve as the president of University Educators for Global Engagement, and take the Perspectives class. The Perspectives class was a paradigm changing experience for him, changing how he lived his life as a follower of Jesus in his roles as husband, parent, teacher, and mentor.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, April 8, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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.

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    Aleksandra Coggins

    Riverside, CA CA

    A mobilizer working to invite others into God's purpose for their lives while preparing to plant churches wherever the Lord will send her.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, April 15, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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.

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    Andrew Lacasse

    Calvary Murrieta, Murrieta CA

    
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, April 22, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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.

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    Crystal Rough

    MissionNext, FMI-Highlands Missions, Lancaster CA

    Crystal and her husband, Ron, are Directors of Missions at the Highlands Christian Fellowship in Palmdale, CA. She is part of MissionNext doing Generational Mobilization Ministry. Other involvement in missions include YWAM (Micronesia), evangelism, kids ministry, missionary care, and Pioneer Business Planting. Countries of ministry include Myanmar, Thailand,Vietnam, Japan, Kenya, Micronesia and Mexico.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Thursday, April 29, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

• • Celebration

    CELEBRATION & COMMISSIONING

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    Nels Pitotti

    , Sandpoint ID

    As a classroom teacher in the public schools Nels’ goal was to share the good news of the gospel with every one of his students and their parents. Since this wasn’t a possibility from the teacher platform in the public schools, he developed close relationships that led to opportunities outside the educational setting. His report is that some years he came very close to reaching 100% of that goal. His career led him and his favorite wife Sandi to serve on the foreign mission field as an administrator at the International Christian School Of Vienna, Austria where over 80% of the students came from families who were not Christian. Unrestricted, he and his staff were able to reach many families who never had been introduced to the love of Jesus. Nels sees Perspectives as a highly effective multiplier of mobilizers. Disciples making disciples requires all of us to invest time and resources into the greatest task of all time. He is pleased to be part of such a worthwhile movement.

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    Date: Thursday, May 6, 2021

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

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