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Gallatin, TN F23
Fall 2023
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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
David Outlaw
Mt View Baptist Church, LaVergne TN
David, and his wife, Angie are the parents of 5 children and have been in ministry together for over 25 years. David graduated from Welch College in Nashville, then received graduate degrees from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary. They have pastored churches in Arkansas and Tennessee, and served as missionaries in Central Asia. As they lead Mt. View they exhibit a passion for God’s Word and God’s world through teaching, hospitality, discipleship, and counseling. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, August 21, 2023
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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Danny Gasperson
The Hanna Project, Mt. Juliet TN
Danny serves as the Administrative Director of The Hanna Project, an NGO that exists to provide Help, Hope, and Healing in hard places and difficult circumstances. Through his work at THP he has led numerous teams to Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, India, Ivory Coast, Uganda, Spain, Mexico, Panama, Dominican Republic and Jamaica. These teams provide a variety of services such as training leaders, teaching English, doing construction projects, hosting children's camps, providing eye/dental/medical clinics, etc. based on the needs of the fields.
Previously, Danny was the senior pastor of Zephyr Hills Church in Asheville, NC where he served for 20 years. The Lord used his ministry there to transform Zephyr Hills Church into a fully engaged, mission minded congregation that is involved in God's global purpose through praying, mobilizing, sending and going.
Danny and his wife Jackie are blessed with a son, daughter, son-in-law and two grandsons. He currently resides in Mt. Juliet, TN. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, August 28, 2023
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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Instructor
Neil Gilliland
Free Will Baptist International Missions , Mount Juliet TN
After graduation from OSU, Neil enrolled at Welch College to study Bible and Missions, where he met his wife Sheila. They served as house parents in East Tennessee, then 8 years in Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa, as dorm parents at a boarding school for missionary kids. Neil returned to graduate school earning a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Tennessee State University. In 2001, Neil became the Director of Member Care for Free Will Baptists. Neil is now a member care consultant and adjunct professor at Welch, and a online professor at Liberty University. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 4, 2023
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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Tyler Penn
English Corner, Oreana IL
Tyler Penn and his wife, Kellie, and their three kids serve with IM of Free Will Baptist to reach out to the international student population at the University of Illinois. Tyler has served in this capacity with IM for 8 years. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 11, 2023
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
David Outlaw
Mt View Baptist Church, LaVergne TN
David, and his wife, Angie are the parents of 5 children and have been in ministry together for over 25 years. David graduated from Welch College in Nashville, then received graduate degrees from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary. They have pastored churches in Arkansas and Tennessee, and served as missionaries in Central Asia. As they lead Mt. View they exhibit a passion for God’s Word and God’s world through teaching, hospitality, discipleship, and counseling. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 18, 2023
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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Tim Johnson
Gallatin TN
Tim has a B.A. in Missions from Welch College and a M.A. in TEFL/Intercultural Studies from Columbia International University. He has served for over 20 years as a church-planting missionary in Spain. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 25, 2023
Time: 9:00 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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Estera Pirosca Escobar
Culture Bound, Mt Juliet TN
As a former international student from Romania, with a career in international student ministry (ISM) spanning over 15 years, Estera brings contagious enthusiasm and passion to everything she does. Estera is a gifted writer and speaker, a sought-after Perspectives instructor and is also involved in various cross-cultural training projects. She is currently pursuing a Doctor of Education in Intercultural Education from Western Seminary. Estera is married to Francisco, a global nomad originally from Chile, and they have a beautiful daughter, Esmeralda. They live in Nashville, Tennessee. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 2, 2023
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
Ricky Bailey
Clinch River Baptist Church, Briceville TN
Ricky felt the call to missions at 18 years old and has devoted his life to it since. Ricky and his wife moved to Miami, Fl for the sake of seeing multi-cultured college students sent to the nations and to see international students return home as indigenous missionaries to their own people. Ricky has worked with No Place Left, the Timothy Initiative, the International Mission Board, and the Voice of the Martyrs in faith of seeing the unreached reached. Additionally, Ricky has written professionally in topics such as apologetics, worldview, college ministry, and post-Christian culture. He now focuses on sending college students to the nations and marketplace ministry.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 9, 2023
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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Mike Pollard
Pioneers, Murfreesboro TN
Mike Pollard serves as a regional Church Partnerships Facilitator and is based in Nashville, TN. In this capacity he mentors, encourages and resources local churches to grow in missions health and send missionaries well, with an end goal of an increased, effective footprint among the world's least reached peoples. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 16, 2023
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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Lesson 10 Video Instruction
Lexington SC
Dennis Cochrane (pictured) and Pam Arlund b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 23, 2023
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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Lesson 11 Video Instruction
West Hills CA
Colleen Wong b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 30, 2023
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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Instructor
Clint Morgan
Free Will Baptist Int'l Missions, Antioch TN
Clint and his wife served 27 years in Cote d'Ivoire in evangelism, church planting, and leadership training. Two years were given to researching creative access opportunities, which led to setting up an NGO called The Hanna Project. They also spent 3+ years in southern France reaching Muslim immigrants.
Clint served as a Regional Director for 7 years before taking the agency directorship in 2011. The Morgans led projects in Central Asia, North Africa, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Panama, and Brazil. Clint enjoys teaching mission courses at Welch College and cross-cultural seminars in Russia, France, and Cote d'Ivoire.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 6, 2023
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
David Kaufmann
City Church Network, Nashville TN
David Kaufmann is the lead pastor of City Church Network. He is married to Rebekah, his high-school sweetheart, and has 4 amazing and wonderful children (William, Gracie, Belle, and Noah). His heart for church planting comes from over 10 years of prayer, experience, and study in the ministry. He first began as youth pastor in Huntsville, AL and then moved on to e3 Partners to become the International Director for Students. After traveling to 15 different countries spanning four years and training international leaders, David received a call to serve as a pastor with Lighthouse Christian Fellowship in Antioch, TN.
David planted City Church of Woodbine five years ago with a vision to birth a church planting movement in Nashville, TN that would successfully spread the gospel among all refugee and immigrant communities in the city. David’s hope is that someday Nashville will be known as a light unto the nations (Isaiah 49:6).
David is now leading a team of 9 Missionary families to plant churches among the most unreached people groups in Nashville, TN. In addition, he helps train church planters across the United States and India. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 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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John Weaver
YWAM, Lindale TX
Since experiencing PSP in the early 90's, John has been praying for the nations, mobilizing believers, and sharing God's Love with Muslims. In 1998, after earning a MA, John joined a pioneer church planting team in Central Asia. He met his bride-to-be there and they had a Christ-centered wedding in 2005 surrounded by hundreds of curious Muslims. By God’s grace, they've seen some fruit and also birthed five children. John continues to facilitate disciple-making among Muslims. He is the author of Inside Afghanistan, A Flame on the Front Line and Najiba: A Love Story from Afghanistan. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 20, 2023
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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Sarah Malone
Alton IL
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 27, 2023
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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