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Reno, NV // F22
Fall 2022
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Registration & Orientation
Registration & Orientation
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Instructor
Dana Minassian
Reno NV
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Date: Thursday, August 18, 2022
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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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
Robert Blincoe
Frontiers, Mesa AZ
Bob led a Frontiers team into northern Iraq following the first Gulf War in 1991. He is president emeritus of Frontiers USA, living in Phoenix. He has a Ph.D. in History from William Carey International University in Pasadena. He has twice lost on television game shows. He blogs at robertblincoe.blog. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, August 25, 2022
Time: 6:00 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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Lee Bridges
Jonathan Project, Yuba City CA
International Coordinator for the Jonathan Project ministry. Instructor has 40 years experience in Church Planting ministry with extensive experience doing evangelism and church planting particularly in restricted access contexts. He also trains others to do the same. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, September 1, 2022
Time: 6:00 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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Gretchen Jill
Frontiers, Salinas CA
Perspectives (1995) first opened Gretchen's eyes to see how her lifelong interest in understanding and enjoying different cultures connected with God’s purposes and glory. She and her husband, David, coordinated the inaugural San Francisco class (1999) and subsequently joined the full-time ministry of Caleb Project, for 7 years, then to the Muslim world with their two children (then 2 and 4), for another 7 years. Returning to the US to battle cancer (2013), Gretchen is now (cancer-free), and is in the Training Department for Frontiers, helping others thrive on the field with effective langua-culture skills. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, September 8, 2022
Time: 6:00 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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Instructor
Alvern Vomsteeg
International Leadership Institute, Diamond Springs CA
Al served 24 years as a pastor in USA, 7 years missionary pastor in Brazil, and 7 years leading The Mission Society, and retired after 16 years serving with the Int'l Leadership Institute (ILI) training but still active.
Christian leaders worldwide. Retired 12/2018 b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, September 15, 2022
Time: 6:00 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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Instructor
Pastor Raed Awabdeh
Rancho Cordova CA
My name is Raed Awabdeh, Licensed and ordained Pastor with the Christian and Missionary Alliance. I was born in the coastal town Banyas in Syria; at the age of 18 I came to the States to continue my education. In 1998 my wife Manar and I began home Bible Study and God anointed the bible study, so it became Church plant. Our Church believes that God loves all people in the world, Christians, Jews, Muslims… and He is calling lost souls to believe in His Son Jesus Christ the One all the prophets testified …everyone who believes in Him will have their sins forgiven...'
I just came back from Jordan where I have visited the Syrian Refugees in Jordan, and witnessed the wonderful work of the Church; ministering and reaching out to un-churched brokenhearted, weak, sick, hungry, thirsty and poor in spirit refugees. The Church is demonstrating the love of Jesus and obeying His command “Love your neighbor as yourself”.
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, September 22, 2022
Time: 6:00 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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Instructor
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: Thursday, September 29, 2022
Time: 6:00 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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Instructor
Christine Teng Henson
Grace Community Covenant Church, Santa Clara CA
Tina grew up on Long Island, New York, but considered Boston home for most of her twenties. She and her husband John moved to the Bay Area in 2011, never imagining they'd have 3 children here in California! She did her MDiv at Fuller Theological Seminary after studying English literature at Harvard College. She presently serves as an assistant pastor at Grace Community Covenant Church in Los Altos. She is a writer, a spiritual director in training, and a community builder and networker wherever God takes her. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, October 6, 2022
Time: 6:00 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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Instructor
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. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, October 13, 2022
Time: 6:00 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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Randall McCaskill
Reno NV
Randy and Nicole McCaskill have 22 years of experience working
cross-culturally as evangelists and disciplers. They have worked with
Hindus in Bali, Muslims in Malaysia, and Tibetan Buddhists in China. In
the course of their ministry they learned and used various indigenous art,
drama, and musical forms in order to communicate the Gospel and Biblical
truths. They bring a unique perspective to the trends and issues of
missions strategy, raising a family on the field, and interacting with
colleagues. Their children, Malcolm, 27 years, and Hilary, 25 years, were
raised on the field and participated in ministry with them. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, October 20, 2022
Time: 6:00 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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Instructor
Michael Cutler
International Friends of Reno, Reno NV
Michael Cutler has a passion for developing pioneering missions with international students and immigrants in the Reno, Nevada area. He has special interest in creating discipleship experiences that equip local American church members to share their faith cross-culturally with internationals in their community. Additional interest and experience lies in: developing student-based leadership, Muslim and Hindu outreach, Chinese and East Asian cultures. Currently serves as team leader for International Friends of Reno.
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, October 27, 2022
Time: 6:00 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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Viji Cammauf
Little Flock, Oakland CA
Viji Nakka- Cammauf is the President of Little Flock Children’s Homes a ministry to orphans and widows
.She is on Faculty at a Christian school in India called the Sam Higginbothams University of Science , Agriculture and Technology in the School of Theology. She teaches doctoral students in the filed of Christian Studies.
She is a lecturer and Professor of record for the Perspectives Study Program in Northern California.
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, November 3, 2022
Time: 6:00 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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James Ardill
SIM USA, Macon GA
Jim was born and raised in Nigeria; has served with SIM in Liberia and Ethiopia as SIM Development Administrator, and Sudanese Ministries Manager. From 2003 to 2020, Jim has been recruiting believers, mobilizing churches and speaking in the SW region and in Bolivia Perspectives. From 2020 to
Spring 2023, Jim worked with refugees from the Middle East, particularly with sports outreach to refugee children and their families in Sacramento. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, November 10, 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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Instructor
Mark Leighton
Placerville CA
Mark and Becky served in Thailand with OMF (an international and interdenominational mission agency) from 1985 until 2017. They established two churches in Central Thailand. Then as regional leaders for OMF work in Central Thailand helped others establish new churches. Finally, as OMF Thailand Field Directors established training programs for missionaries and Thai Christians to help them establish new and reproducing churches. They served in each of these roles about ten years and are now retired, living in Placerville. Mark continues to serve OMF as a volunteer. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, November 17, 2022
Time: 6:00 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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Instructor
Wes Watkins
Wheaton IL
Wes is an editor of books on ministry to Muslims and understanding movements. As a missiologist with One Collective for more than 20 years, he currently serves in theological education, training Arab World leaders for ministry in the region. Wes is the founder and a facilitator of the Motus Dei Network (https://MotusDei.Network) and is a researcher at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, December 1, 2022
Time: 6:00 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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Keivan Tehrani
Compassion Bridges, Campbell CA
Born into a Muslim family in Iran, Keivan was powerfully moved to follow Jesus in 1992. Since then he has had the honor to preach the Good news of Jesus and share his testimony in dozens of countries over 25 years of ministry. After graduating from UC Davis with degrees in Psychology and Religious studies he served as the Youth and English pastor at the Iranian Christian Church for 10 years and since 2010 has been the Global Compassion pastor at WestGate Church. He also the co-founder and Executive Director of Compassion Bridges. He received a Masters in Theology from Fuller Seminary in 2008 and currently living in California with his wife and three beautiful children. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, December 8, 2022
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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