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Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 PM

Location: Hope Community Church 707 10th Ave S Minneapolis MN 55415

Contact: Renee Kim

(612) 210-1543

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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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    Lesson 1 Video Instruction

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    Claude Hickman (pictured) and Richard Coleman
    
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    Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2022

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Derrick Skoglund

    Congregation of the Word, Roseville MN

    Derrick Skoglund is the lead pastor of Congregation of the Word - a new startup home church movement which studies the Scriptures from a Jewish context, establishing and supporting congregational gatherings with a simple "earliest church" approach and mindset. This endeavor is a partnership work with LoveIsrael.org (with whom Derrick served for 6 years both in Israel and internationally) providing biblically-based teachings and studies in such a manner that those of Jewish descent might even understand and receive the message of the Gospel. The outreach of LoveIsrael.org spans over 190 countries with current translation into 10 languages. Derrick's ministry experiences include Israel, India, Romania, Ukraine, Colombia, and a number of cross-cultural settings within the USA. Derrick has been in pastoral ministry for over 28 years. He and his wife are very excited to partner with their 3 college aged children as they engage their own ministry pursuits!
    
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    Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2022

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Mike Moline

    Wycliffe USA, Florence CO

    Mike Moline has served with family in support roles with Wycliffe USA since 2008. Mike has a BA in Math from Bethel College in St. Paul, MN and BA in Chemistry from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, MN. Mike's theology is profoundly shaped by 25 years of attending Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, MN. Mike's favorite activity is telling of the impact of Bible translation and inviting everyone who will listen to consider how they can share in the joy of building Christ's Kingdom through involvement in Bible translation.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2022

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Andrea Kay

    Converge International Ministries, Hopkins MN

    Andrea spent four years working as an ESL teacher to university students in Southeast Asia with a like-minded NGO that strategizes through a partnership with local governments in the countries where they serve and building relationships with students who will become the future leaders. She currently lives in the Twin Cities and is working on a Master's degree in Comparative and International Development Education at the University of Minnesota, along with actively being involved in Perspectives and the local church. She is passionate about sharing God's heart for the nations with the American church and seeing people of all cultures orient their lives toward Him and for His glory.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2022

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Scott Countryman

    Global Training Network, Lakeville MN

    Scott serves as the Executive Director of Resource Development with Global Training Network. His focus is to equip and encourage leaders in the majority world. Scott began his career in southern Germany and has served in over 45 countries on 5 continents. Pastor Scott received his M.Div. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, IL and is currently completing a doctoral degree in Global and Contextual Leadership at Bethel University.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2022

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Ryan Griffith

    Minneapolis MN

    Ryan Griffith (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) serves as an elder and Director of Training and Operations at Cities Church in St. Paul. Prior to serving at Cities, Ryan was executive director of The Gospel Coalition. Ryan also served as the founding Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Professor of Church History and Humanities at Bethlehem College & Seminary (Minneapolis, MN) where he taught for twelve years. He earned MA and BA degrees at Wheaton College (IL).
    
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    Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2022

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Bob Oehrig

    Arrive Ministries, Eden Prairie MN

    Bob Oehrig, was the Missions Pastor at Grace Church Roseville from 2001-2011, and the Executive Director of Arrive Ministries (formerly World Relief Minnesota) from 2011-2020 resettling and serving refugees in the Twin Cities. Bob has two MA degrees in Cross-Cultural Communications (Wheaton College) and Missiology (Fuller Theological Seminary). Bob served on the faculty and administration at Daystar University, Nairobi, Kenya for 24 years teaching in the areas of Intercultural Studies, Islamics and Cross-Cultural Communications. He has traveled to more than 55 countries and has led church teams to Macedonia, Ukraine, Guatemala, Mexico, Bolivia, Kenya and India. Bob is married to Donna, the daughter of missionaries to Liberia. They have 5 children, including two adopted sons.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2022

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Jessica Wick

    Perspectives, St. Paul Park MN

    Jessica is the Twin Cities Area Team Leader for Perspectives and also serves as an Alumni Coordinator for GoCorps, an organization that helps recent grads find their place in God's global work. Jessica has had a successful career in corporate recruitment and HR for 15+ years and works as an HR Generalist "by day". Jessica is passionate about helping emerging adults transition well from college into their career and strongly believes that investing 2 years in global service after graduation should be normalized among recent grads to help fulfill the Great Commission. She believes God has called us all in unique ways to live missionally wherever he calls us, whether in the city or overseas.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2022

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Dan Farr

    Circle Pines MN

    Dan, his wife Kelly and their 3 children work with Engage Global and minister among immigrants, refugees, and international students in the United States in Minneapolis, MN. We mobilize churches, train disciples, and send out those disciples all over the world to reach the unreached peoples of the world.Our heart is to get the Western Church impassioned to see how they can be a part of the great commission by welcoming unreached people groups to the U.S, and getting involved in the lives of those who up until this point have been left without a witness to the Love that is Jesus Christ. Our passion is to reach out and help newcomers that have recently arrived in the US by helping with English, tutoring, paperwork, job placement, etc. Many of these internationals have escaped persecution, genocide, and political unrest. By training people here to meet the physical needs of those coming from overseas, we can meet their even greater spiritual needs. The goal is to share the gospel and help develop full devoted followers of Christ. We have hope of seeing those that have entered into the Kingdom return to their home countries as apostolic leaders where still 1.9 Billion people remain without the Good News of Christ. Prior to coming to Minneapolis our family spent 4 years in Oaxaca, Mexico reaching out to the unreached Indigenous Mixteco people groups, then the last 5 years working in very diverse US cities training the local church and indigenous believers to reach out to those coming to America. The goal and passion of our organization is to see Matthew 24:14 come to pass and that all unreached peoples of this earth will have the opportunity to hear the Gospel of this Kingdom.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Natalie Johnson

    Minneapolis MN

    Natalie has served in different roles for Perspectives over the years. She has had the opportunity to see the necessity of understanding culture through her occupation and places she has lived or visited around the world.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2022

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Walt

    , Minneapolis MN

    
    
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    Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2022

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    T. Cher Moua

    Cru, Maplewood MN

    Sinner. Saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Called by Christ to serve the Church of Christ to share the gospel of the kingdom of Christ with the world by connecting with, developing, and empowering the follower of Christ to live out God's heart for the world so that all can grow in Christ and spiritually multiply. One person at a time.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2022

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Jean Johnson

    Five Stones Global, St. Paul MN

    Jean Johnson serves primarily as a missionary and coach, while fulfilling the role of Executive Director for Five Stones Global. Jean brings 30 years of cross-cultural mission experience, the majority of those years in Cambodia. Her ultimate desire is to inspire a movement of disciple-makers who make disciples of Jesus by using methods that lead to local-sustainability and spontaneous multiplication in global missions.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2022

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Stephen Lonetti

    Beacon of Hope / LifeGate Worldwide, Stillwater MN

    For the past thirty-five years, Stephen has committed his life to serve Christ by spreading the gospel and equipping His church. His ministry began with New Tribes Mission Indonesia in 1979 where he served as a pioneer church planter for seventeen years. He and Mary moved to a remote Molucaan island to complete a thirteen-year evangelistic and teaching ministry among the Taliabo tribal people. The Taliabo work has been documented in two videos, The Taliabo Story and Delivered from the Power of Darkness (1995). Upon returning to the States, Stephen joined the pastoral team at Grace Community Church (1996-2001), where he eventually became the pastor for international ministries. Currently, Stephen serves as the founding pastor of Beacon of Hope Church in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is also the founding director of LifeGate Worldwide, an organization dedicated to the advance of the Gospel by supporting and equipping national pastors to plant churches. Mary loves serving the women and children at Beacon and working around the edges of Stephen’s ministry. The Lonettis have been blessed with two children, Joseph and Amanda Clare. Stephen graduated from Bethel University with a degree in Organizational Leadership. He completed Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees from The Master’s Seminary (2001, 2016).
    
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    Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2022

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 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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    Brett Clemens

    Perspectives Study Program, Kansas City MO

    After spending 9 years in the corporate world as a financial analyst at Hallmark Cards in Kansas City, MO, Brett left the corporate world for full-time vocational ministry. He currently serves as a Perspectives Regional Director. He has a great passion to mobilize the body of Christ to strategic engagement in God’s global purpose.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2022

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 PM

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    Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2022

    Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 PM

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