Hartville, OH S22
Spring 2022
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Welcome to Hartville PERSPECTIVES
You are invited to join a unique discipleship journey! Perspectives on the World Christian Movement is an adventure of a lifetime that will give you a fresh and deeper understanding of God's story and His desire for you to be a part of it. Perspectives is
a course of vision - a vision that will change the way you view the
world and help mobilize and equip you to live a life of passion and
purpose as Jesus did.
We
will hear 15 outstanding instructors as they share from their
experiences and teach on the biblical, historical, cultural &
strategic perspectives of God's plan for the nations. Hear how God
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 to
make Jesus' disciples from all nations.
Is this course only for those interested in missions? Absolutely not! This
is a course for the Church. The goal is to bring our individual lives
into a closer alignment with God's purpose; to join God in His story. If
you want to grow and be challenged—want more vision, direction and
eternal impact to come from your life—you will love this class!
Where? Evermore Community Church, 1470 Smith Kramer St NE, Hartville, OH 44632 When? Wednesday nights from 6:15 pm - 9:00 pm, January 12 - April 27, 2022
What are the enrollment options?
If you are interested in the class, but are not sure about making the time commitment, we invite you to come check it out for the first two weeks for free. If you decide to continue, payment will need to be
made prior to lesson #3.
Participants can enroll in one of three levels:
Key Reading $250* 3-5 Hours Reading per Week No Written Homework 5 Personal Reflections |
Certificate $250* 7 Hours Work per Week Weekly Assignments 5 Personal Reflections Final Research Project |
Credit $500* 8 Hours Work per Week Weekly Assignments Mid-Term & Final Exams Integrative Project College Credit |
* Cost of books ($30) not included in registration. After registering, you will receive a link where you can purchase the book from the publisher at a discount. |
Scholarship Codes are available from Bethany, Cornerstone, and Evermore. If you are a member at one of those churches, please contact them for your correct code.
Perspectives alumni are welcome to attend for free at key reading level.
Hosted jointly by: Bethany Mennonite Church, Cornerstone Community Chapel and Evermore Community Church.
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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
Bob Sjogren
UnveilinGLORY, Mechanicsville VA
Bob Sjogren (pronounced show - gren) is the president of UNVEILINGLORY, a ministry awakening the Church to new awareness of God's glory in all areas of life, and to
seeing His glory go to all the world's peoples.
Bob has been mobilizing the Body of Christ to reveal God's greatest glory through reaching all ethnic groups with the gospel. He and his wife Debby have written homeschool Bible curricula. And in 2021, Bob launched a YouTube Channel called, "Maturing The Bride."
Bob and Debby live in Richmond, VA.
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Time: 6:15 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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Tom Brunner
MissionNext, Strongsville OH
Tom Brunner is the National Mobilizer for MissionNext (a Perspectives partner). He has served as Church Planting Diretor for the Christian & Missionary Alliance in the Washington DC area, was Lead Lead Pastor of The Syracuse Alliance Church (a multi-cultural church of 15 people groups in a city that was 97% unchurched). He has transitioned older churches, planted a church, and has served as a singles, missions, and youth pastor. He and his wife have ministered to missionaries in Mali and Mongolia.
After taking the Perspectives Course at the USCFWM on their honeymoon, they started the first Perspectives course in the C&MA and the New York City area. He holds degrees in Biblical studies from Asbury University, Evangelism & Theology from Asbury Seminary, and has done doctoral work at Drew University and Fuller Seminary. 3 of his daughters have lived outside the US and a 4th is considered medical missions. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Time: 6:15 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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Paco Amador
New Life Community Church, Chicago IL
Paco Amador is pastor of New Life Community Church in the Little Village community on Chicago's west side. Paco has served as a missionary, a public school teacher, and is currently a pastor at the mexican immigrant of Little Village. He and his wife, Sylvia, have seven children and live in Chicago. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Time: 6:15 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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Luke Kuepfer
The Truth Made Simple, Prospect Heights IL
Luke Kuepfer is a keynote speaker, workshop leader, and co-author of Becoming a Leader Worth Following. Having founded and directed a non-profit in Southeast Asia, he now serves as president of the Reverb Network, a non-profit organization committed to growing missional leaders and starting serving leadership movements around the globe. Primarily focused on the business world in North America, Luke facilitates workshops on Serving Leadership, The Art of Listening, Employee Engagement, Teamwork, and Winning at Customer Service. He has a Master's degree in Leadership and has taught a class on Foundations of Management and Leadership at Colorado Christian University. As a leadership developer and life coach, Luke helps business and non-profit leaders understand how to maximize their God-given potential to lead and serve others. His newest venture in the experience economy integrates leadership development with high-mountain trekking adventures. You will find Luke online at LukeKuepfer.com, thetruthmadesimple.org, and ReverbNetwork.org. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Time: 6:15 PM to 9:00 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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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: Wednesday, February 9, 2022
Time: 6:15 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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Chris Hardy
Missions and Outreach, Bay Village OH
Worked in the Pharmaceutical Industry for over 20 years in sales, marketing, management and corporate training. Provided motivational speaking and training for corporations and public organizations. Currently serving as Director of Outreach at Bay Presbyterian Church in Bay Village Ohio. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Time: 6:15 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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Ron Embleton
Hartville OH
Ron Embleton is pastor of Cornerstone Community Chapel in Hartville Ohio. He and his wife have served as missionaries and church planters in New Mexico, the middle east and in Northeast Ohio. He is the father of 5 children and 5 grandchildren. His passion for God, the Church, leadership development and for being on mission with God is contagious. Perspectives has been a life changing course for him. Ron is deeply grateful to have had the opportunity to take the course during his time of preparation for the work that he continues today.
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Time: 6:15 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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Jewel Showalter
Eastern Mennonite Missions, Irwiin OH
Jewel Showalter has worked as chaplin at Philhaven Hospital, served as church planter in Mechanicsburg, Ohio, and served as a missionary in Kenya, Turkey, Cyprus, and China. She has worked as writer and editor at Rosedale Mennonite Missions and at Rosedale Bible College. She has worked as a staff writer, trainer/teacher and Middle East administrator for Eastern Mennonite Missions. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Time: 6:15 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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Lance Stoddart
Leadership Training International, Mars PA
I left a career in the US Coast Guard in 1994 to respond to the call to missionary service. Since that time, each transition has taken me into another role in missions mobilization. I've served four churches and four mission organizations. My prayer has been, "God, let me touch more nations and reach more unreached peoples through those I mobilize, train and send than I ever could have had I gone myself." Today, God is allowing me to fulfill that prayer as through Leadership Training International, as we mobilize and train leaders worldwide. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Time: 6:15 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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Timothy Miner
Irwin OH
He and his family have worked in church planting in the Buddhist world since 1998.
Their call and successive career in missions was birthed through the US
Center for World Missions's literature. They have worked at crafting
contextualized messages to reach those who have little knowledge of
Christ through audio visual productions, and in their day-to-day
interactions with neighbors & friends. They are life-time learners and
find joy in walking alongside an emerging, struggling, triumphant church.
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Time: 6:15 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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Knoxville TN
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Time: 6:15 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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Ronald Morrison
Pastor, Warrensville Heights OH
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION on the MORRISONS
Ron was born and reared in Cleveland, Ohio, graduated from Glenville High School, and attended Cleveland State University before serving in the US Army from 1971-1973. He and Anita have been married since December 22, 1979. They enjoy doing ministry together and have taught in many different schools and ministry settings. Ron & Anita have spent time with C&MA missionaries in Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, and Brazil.
Ron served sixteen years on the Board of Directors of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, including four years as Chairman (2005-2009). He has a Bachelor of Theology Degree, a Master of Arts in Pastoral Ministry, and earned his Doctor of Ministry degree from Alliance Theological Seminary in 2014.
Ron is the founding and Senior Pastor of the Hope Alliance Bible Church (HABC), which was planted in 1995. He loves teaching the saints and reaching out to impact the surrounding community through a myriad of ministries and programs designed to bring sustainability and transformation to the families outside HABC’s doors. That desire led to launching a Community Development Corporation named “Alliance for Family Hope” in 2008.
Ron has taught Continuing Education Courses for Moody Bible Institute since 2004, and currently serves as the Regional Coordinator for Moody in Greater Cleveland. He has helped develop and teach an Urban Ministries class for Crown College and taught in the Doctor of Ministry Program for South University. He was honored as the “Alumnus of the Year” by Alliance Theological Seminary (2017), the “Citizen of the Year” (2019), by the Mayor of Maple Heights for bringing Convoy of Hope to the Cleveland area, and received the “Bold Steps” Award from Moody Bible Institute (2020).
Anita was born and reared in Columbus, Ohio, attended THE Ohio State University, Cleveland State University, and John Carroll University (M.A. Ed). She taught elementary school for many years before teaching Professional Development Courses for public school teachers through John Carroll. Anita has spoken at many women’s conferences, leads worship at HABC, teaches the women’s Wednesday morning Bible study, and has impacted many lives coordinating the After-School Program tutoring site at HABC.
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Time: 6:15 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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Joe Showalter
Rosedale International, Columbus OH
Joe Showalter is president of Rosedale International in Columbus, OH. RI sends workers globally to make disciples and plant churches, giving priority to people groups who have been isolated from the gospel. Joe and his wife Janice are the founding leaders of the multicultural Columbus Network of Microchurches. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Time: 6:15 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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James Cha
Crescent Project, Leesburg VA
Rev. James Cha was born in Korea, but grew up here in the US. He studied electrical engineering at Cornell University, and worked ten years as an engineer. In 2000 he and his wife, Faith, took their 3 kids to Central Asia, where they served ten years as church planting missionaries with Pioneers. They are now back in the US reaching out to the Muslims in the Washington, DC area. James & Faith are Washington DC Area Coordinators for Crescent Project. They also direct ESL ministry in Leesburg, VA. They have three adult children and one grandchild. James recently published a book about their missions journey - Fear Not: Living a Life of No Regrets. Available on amazon. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Time: 6:15 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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AJ P.
INIM Inc., Forest VA
AJ is the Director & General Secretary for INIM established 1964. The sole focus of this indigenous Mission remains Evangelism, Discipleship & Church Planting.
AJ, who was born & raised in New Delhi India is an alumnus of Liberty University. AJ shares responsibility for INIM's church planting & field evangelism efforts in South Asia. In addition to all his Missional responsibilities, he also serves as the Men's Pastor at his home church.
AJ & his wife have been married for 28 years and blessed with five children ranging from 19 years old to 9 yrs old. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Time: 6:15 PM to 9:00 PM
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