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Fresno, CA I22
Intensive 2022
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Gain a contemporary view of what God has done, what He is doing, and how we can join Him in reaching the lost. You can take this class for enrichment, for a certificate, or for college credit (undergrad or graduate). You were made to be part of God's plan for spreading His kingdom to all ethnic groups.
Why an Intensive? The normal Perspectives class is 15 weeks long, but this intensive class allows you to attend all the class sessions in 5 days. The work can be started ahead of the class and will be finished 2 months afterwards.
The advantage of a one week block is that students who are working or pastoring can take one week off to do the whole class. The Fresno committee will supply housing and 8 meals during the class for no additional cost.
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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
Markos Zemede
Horn of Africa Evangelical Mission, Fresno CA
I was born and raised in Ethiopia. I immigrated to the USA as a refugee in 1984. When I took the Perspectives class in 1999, it ruined me for the ordinary. In addition to my busy medical practice, I now serve in many missions organizations, a few of which were birthed out of the Perspectives class, including Horn of Africa Mission (www.hornofafrica.org). b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 25, 2022
Time: 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
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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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Karen Schagunn
Indestructible Daughters; Horn of Africa Evangelical Mission, Panama City Beach FL
An international speaker and author, Karen Schagunn is the founder of Indestructible Daughters (indestructibledaughters.com), a ministry to equip and empower women across the globe. She is a board member and trainer with Horn of Africa Mission, mobilizing believers to reach unengaged and unreached people groups throughout Africa, Europe and the Middle East. She and her husband train missionaries and teach classes on overcoming trauma. Karen served for years as a woman's director in a diverse cultural church. She is also the author of "Indestructible Daughters”. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 25, 2022
Time: 1:30 PM to 4:00 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
Chris Hawes
Horn of Africa Evangelical Mission, Fresno CA
Chris has a passion to see the lost made disciples. While at Urbana searching for where God wanted him to go as a missionary, the Lord directed him back to his hometown to teach for 6 years. He has a passion for bringing the good news into the marketplace and the education system and has given practical instruction for ways to do this. Chris has participated in many global outreaches to South Asia and seen church planting movements as God's people pray and unite. He has visited over a dozen countries and in 2017 joined Horn of Africa Evangelical Mission to see the gospel preached to the unreached in Ethiopia and the Middle East. Chris loves his role as a networker helping organizations find ways to work together in expanding the gospel in hard-to-reach places. Chris adores his wife, Bethany, daughter, and growing family. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 25, 2022
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:30 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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Matthew Ellison
Sixteen:Fifteen, Albuquerque NM
Matthew was rescued by Jesus when he was twenty-three. Shortly after, he found himself in Ghana, West Africa on the first of what would be many ventures to the mission field. That first trip, Matthew says, "ruined me for anything less than a life lived for God's global purpose." In 1993 he began serving at Calvary of Albuquerque, in New Mexico, where he attended and graduated from their School of Ministry. He worked as the missions pastor at Calvary for nine years, developing and launching a strategic church-wide missions ministry. There he founded LifeLine Missions, an international short-term mission ministry that gave thousands across the country the opportunity to experience the mission field firsthand. Through these ministry opportunities he became extensively involved in short and long-term mission endeavors in countries around the world.
Now, he devotes his time to serving local churches across the country by coaching them in strategically focused missions and helping them to discover and use their unique gifts in partnership with others to make Christ known among all nations. Matthew is the President and co-founder of Sixteen:Fifteen, and currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wife, Renee, and their three children, Matthew, Caleigh, and Landin. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Time: 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
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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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Tommy Corrao
Mid India Christian Mission, Clovis CA
Tommy is the Executive Director of Mid India Christian Mission. Prior to his role with Mid India, he served as Missions Pastor of CrossCity Christian Church in Fresno, CA. During that time, he coordinated Perspectives for a few years. Tommy is married to a wonderful woman from India and they have two boys. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Time: 1:30 PM to 4:00 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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Don Fisher
Vision 5:9, Fresno CA
Don became a Christian in Indonesia through the witness of a local believer, whom he later married.
They were missionaries in Indonesia from 1979 to 1993. They taught at the Institut Injil Indonesia.
Don has taught in both public and private schools in Malaysia, Indonesia, Mexico, and the United States. He has traveled and given seminars in Indonesia, the Philippines, China, India, the USA, and Zambia.
They currently work with Punjabis and other immigrant groups in the San Joaquin Valley. They have two friendship centers which offer help to immigrants along with English & U.S. citizenship classes.Don is also a member of the Fruitful Practices task force of Vision 5:9.
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:30 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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Mike Latsko
Global Muslim Ministries Network/Frontiers, Mesa AZ
“Mike was a pastor for 20 years before crossing the aisle to the missions’ world 11 years ago. He’s especially interested in how significant changes in the world over the last decade impact global sending and going. He’s hoping to help especially traditionally-based churches and agencies in North America make the transition into this new world, and he’s very optimistic at the prospect.” b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Time: 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM
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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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Mike Latsko
Global Muslim Ministries Network/Frontiers, Mesa AZ
“Mike was a pastor for 20 years before crossing the aisle to the missions’ world 11 years ago. He’s especially interested in how significant changes in the world over the last decade impact global sending and going. He’s hoping to help especially traditionally-based churches and agencies in North America make the transition into this new world, and he’s very optimistic at the prospect.” b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:05 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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Larry Stucky
WorldVenture, Clovis CA
Larry and his wife Dana served from 1983 to 1993 as church planters in Northeast Brazil. They also helped start a theological seminary for training Brazilian church planters in 1986, with Larry later serving as its director.
In 1993 he and his family moved to Albania for hands-on involvement in a country that had been known as one of the top unreached geopolitical areas of the world. This post-communist, atheistic nation provided a context of nominalism spanning three religious traditions. Ironically all three included a hefty dose of atheism.
The particular movement of churches that Larry and Dana served now includes several congregations in the southeast of the country.
Since 2011 Larry has concentrated on mobilizing the church to become involved with diaspora people groups from his base in California. He has a passion for UPGs (unreached people groups) and UUPGs (unengaged UPGs) throughout the world.
His wife Dana passed away in the fall of 2018. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Time: 1:30 PM to 4:00 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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Roxanne Johnson
Frontiers, Gilbert AZ
Roxanne Johnson, along with her husband Jeff, have served with Frontiers Mission agency in Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan for 35 years. She has witnessed battle hardened Muslims come to Christ,
home fellowships bloom, martyrdom of Muslim
background believers, and fellow missionaries, she has raised 3 resilant third cultured kids in war zones, and been showered by the blessings of God. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, April 28, 2022
Time: 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
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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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Jeff Johnson
Frontiers, Gilbert AZ
Jeff Johnson and his wife Roxanne have been working with Muslims since 1988. They have served on and led church-planting teams in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. They have witnessed firsthand the martyrdom of Muslim back-ground believers and fellow missionaries, birthed underground Christian fellowships in war torn countries, and seen the miraculous hand of God throughout the Muslim world. Jeff currently works in Frontiers' International Leadership group as Co-Director of Sending; overseeing 32 sending bases and engaging with indigenous sending partners and churches in the Global South and Majority World. After being arrested and deported from Uzbekistan, Jeff and his wife Roxanne split their time working with Frontiers International Office in London and in Phoenix, where they engage Frontiers' Latino Sending Bases.
Jeff & Roxanne also coach and oversee church planting teams in South Asia. Jeff is a popular speaker and preacher at large, specializing in training followers of Jesus to engage Muslims both domestically and globally. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, April 28, 2022
Time: 1:30 PM to 4:00 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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George Ordway
Communities INC., Clovis CA
Founder and Executive Director of Communities INC (In the Name of Christ).
George’s personal information:
• 27 years in business sales and marketing
• For the last 30 years George has served the Kingdom of God and the local Church through various Christian nonprofit ministries as well as his own
• Spending the last 15 years in fulltime vocational ministry and is an Ordained Minister
• George is co-designer of City Advance a national two day leadership equipping consultation that is now national and international
• George is experienced in donor development and has helped release kingdom financiers generosity to realize huge collective impacts
George is married 33 years to Faith and has three adult daughters April, Ashley and Amy. He enjoys shooting, fishing, camping and restoring classic cars.
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, April 28, 2022
Time: 6:00 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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Malcolm Hunter
SIM/USCWM, Mariposa CA
More than 40 years seeking to reach the nomadic peoples of the world, initially in Ethiopia and later in Sudan, Kenya and West Africa. In the last ten years I have been going more to Asia in my role as director of the Institiute for Nomadic Studies. Having trained in UK as an Engineer my entry point is usually through development. I have a PhD from Oxford entitled Appropriate Development for Nomadic Pastorlists b
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Class Info
Date: Friday, April 29, 2022
Time: 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM
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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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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! b
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Class Info
Date: Friday, April 29, 2022
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:05 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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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! b
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Class Info
Date: Friday, April 29, 2022
Time: 1:30 PM to 4:00 PM
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