Fargo/Moorhead Area - Fargo, ND // F22
Fall 2022
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, August 21, 2022
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Location: River City Church 323 Main Ave Fargo ND 58103
Contact: Mark Fugere
(701) 261-0981
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Registration & Orientation
Registration & Orientation
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Instructor
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Date: Sunday, August 21, 2022
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:30 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
Sean Cooper
The Traveling Team, Fayetteville AR
Sean and his wife Meredith have spent the last decade traveling the entire Continental U.S. casting mission vision with Traveling Team. They have a two year old daughter named Haven. Sean graduated from the University of Arkansas with a degree in Communication. He has short term exposure in India and Indonesia. Sean continues to travel nation wide speaking to students and churches. When not speaking he serves alongside The Traveling Team Leadership as the Director of Ministry Advancement. He is working on a Masters Degree from Reformed Theological Seminary. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, August 28, 2022
Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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Instructor
Len Bartlotti
Frontiers, Springfield MO
Leonard N. (Len) Bartlotti, Ph.D. is a well-known speaker, author, mobilizer, educator and strategy consultant to faith-based organizations in the Middle East/Asia. He and his wife Debi served 14 years among one of the world's largest Muslim people groups. Dr. Len is a passionate communicator who combines a love for students with deep empathy and understanding of other cultures. He and his wife Debi, a nurse midwife and licensed Spiritual Director, have been married for over 45 years, and have three married adult children, and six grandsons, and live in Springfield, Missouri. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, September 11, 2022
Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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
Mike Neterer
Bethany Gateways, Minneapolis MN
Michael Neterer helped to mobilize 1,800 volunteers to “share Jesus with our Somali neighbors through literacy & friendship” as director of SALT - Somali Adult Literacy Training for 18 years. This ministry continues under Arrive Ministries Minneapolis, but now Michael has joined Bethany Gateways to "take the church where it is not, and help others do the same" because Jesus is worthy to be loved and obeyed in Somalia. Michael and his wife Sara met at Bethany Global University in Minnesota. In 1993, they served an 8-month internship in the former Soviet republics of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. They intended to return to the “field” after completing training, but in 1999 the Lord made it clear that their calling was “across the street.” Michael taught ESL at various Twin Cities institutes until he started SALT at the invitation of a Somali pastor in 2003. In 2010 he published his MA thesis, “Love Our Somali Neighbors,” as the capstone for the Organizational Management graduate degree at Concordia University St. Paul. He finished a second MA in Applied Anthropology from the Wycliffe affiliated Dallas International University focused on the “bible-less” languages of Somalia. Michael and Sara raised three boys to love and serve the Lord in the inner city of Minneapolis where they live, work and go to school. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, September 18, 2022
Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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
Mark
Frontiers USA, Fargo ND
I was blessed to have launched a small mission mobilization ministry prior to serving 13 years as a Pastor of Missions in a couple of Evangelical Free Churches. I now serve as the Midwest Mobilization Director for an organization focused on church planting among some of the remaining unreached peoples of the world. I have been volunteering with Perspectives since the first class was offered in Fargo, ND on September 11th, 2001. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, September 25, 2022
Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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
Jake Peterson
River City Church, Fargo ND
As a college student, God gripped Jake’s heart with a vision of the local church gripped by and engaged in proclaiming the Gospel. After 7 years serving as a worship leader and working with college students, God has affirmed the call help plant River City Church in 2009. In 2019 Jake was called and affirmed as the Lead Pastor of River City church where he leads in preaching and vision. Jake is married to Amy and they have five children, Natalie, Benjamin, Norah, Lucy and Ruby. Jake enjoys time with his family, motorcycles, a good round of disk golf and a good cup of coffee. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, October 2, 2022
Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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Steve Krier
Ignite Church, Moorhead MN
Steve planted Ignite Church (Moorhead, MN) in 2011 which has grown into a church which is passionate about sending people out to impact the world in the name of Christ. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, October 9, 2022
Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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
Mark Strand
Fargo ND
Mark Strand worked in public health research and project development in China for twenty years. Mark was Executive Director of a non-profit organization that provided Christian professionals to work in medicine, agriculture and education as a means to develop China's society and as an expression of Christian love. Mark and his wife Rene raised their three children in China. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, October 16, 2022
Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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Nancy Friesen
Fargo ND
Nancy Friesen has spent several years of her adult life working in S. Asia as an educator, mother and wife. She currently works as an ELL teacher in a middle school setting in Fargo, ND. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, October 23, 2022
Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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Amy Law
Cody WY
Amy has a passion to mobilize young people and churches to pray, give and go to foster disciple making movements among unreached people groups. She has served with Youth with a Mission (YWAM), Caleb Project, Teen Mania, La Canada Presbyterian church and supervised over 40 Perspectives courses. Leading youth teams to Yemen, India, Turkey, Malaysia, China and Thailand has helped her training remain practical and reproducible, as she continues to train young people in YWAM and churches in Perspectives. Amy and her husband raise cattle in Wyoming and home educate one son, while their other son attends high school.
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, October 30, 2022
Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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
Dan Venberg
Lutheran Brethren International Mission, Fergus Falls MN
Dan is a missionary kid who grew up in Cameroon and Chad. He has served vocationally as a missionary in Chad with his family for ten years, among an unreached people group. Currently, Dan serves as international director of Lutheran Brethren International Mission. His hobbies include hiking, camping, traveling and wildlife photograph. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, November 6, 2022
Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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Randy
Common Ground Consultants, Minnetonka MN
We've had the privilege of working and living among unreached peoples since 1989. Today we train many people in how to bring the good news of Jesus to the unreached and begin disciple-making movements among them. We opened and later directed the work for our organization in Central Asia. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, November 13, 2022
Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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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. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, November 20, 2022
Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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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. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, November 27, 2022
Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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Scott Michael
Mt Vernon IL
Scott and his family served for nearly 20 years in Central Asia, doing pioneer church planting among an unreached Muslim people. He now mobilizes others to go to the unreached and unengaged of the Muslim world. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, December 4, 2022
Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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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. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, December 11, 2022
Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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