Class Info

Date: Sunday, August 7, 2022

Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Location: Northland Church 522 Dog Track Rd Room #4206-4207 Longwood FL 32750

Contact: Julia Kauffman

(321) 356-1063

• • Registration & Orientation

    Class Overview and Orientation

    Registration & Orientation

  • Instructor

    

    Sundee Simmons

    Perspectives, Winter Park FL

    Sundee Simmons currently serves as Associate Director of Perspectives Global. Sundee has been serving the Perspectives program since 1991. She has served as a volunteer coordinator, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Director, East Coast Regional Administrator and the Director of Training for Perspectives USA before joining the Perspectives Global Team. Sundee Simmons is a wife and mother of 3 children, Nathan (1996), Emily (1998) and Julianna (2005). Her husband, Scott, is a ordained PCA Pastor serving Third Millennium Ministries as the Director of Instructor Relations.

    
    

  • Date: Sunday, August 7, 2022

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM

• • 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.

  • Instructor

    

    Josh Laxton

    Northland Church, Longwood FL

    Josh serves as the Lead Pastor at Northland Church. He has been serving the local church in vocational ministry for over twenty years. He has served the local church mainly as a Lead Pastor replanting and revitalizing churches. Josh is passionately in love with King Jesus and committed to extending His glory throughout the world by proclaiming and demonstrating the Gospel. Josh has a deep love for mobilizing the church to participate in God’s mission.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, August 14, 2022

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Jamie Farr

    Wycliffe Bible Translators, Orlando FL

    I grew up in the South Pacific in Papua New Guinea the son of Translators speaking four languages. I experienced the joy of watching my ethnic people receive the NT and experience the power of God in amazing ways. I later went with my beautiful Wife Anita to Thailand to serve with Wycliffe. On our watch we have seen over 2000 missionaries go to serve among over 1800 people groups in the last 24 years. We are passionate about God's glory to be experienced by all peoples.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, August 21, 2022

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Grant Haynes

    Global Frontier Missions, Lilburn GA

    Grant Haynes founded Global Frontier Missions in 2000 while church planting among indigenous groups in southern Mexico. His passion is to see as many individuals and churches as possible praying, giving, welcoming, and going to the least reached people groups of the earth. Grant spent 14 years serving in Oaxaca, Mexico with his wife and three children church planting, hosting short-term mission groups, running an indigenous Bible school, and starting a missionary training school for North Americans. Grant now serves in Clarkston, GA, known as the most diverse square mile in America, reaching refugees from Iraq, Burma, Bhutan, Nepal, Somalia, Ethiopia, and many other nations.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, August 28, 2022

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Gus Davies

    Longwood FL

    Pastor Augustine (Gus) Davies is passionate about Perspectives because it is a great and compelling course that continues to advance discipleship and leadership development for the Kingdom. Gus was introduced to Perspectives in the 80’s at African Bible College in Liberia and Reformed Theological Seminary USA. During those times he read several of the articles for missions, anthropology and cross-cultural classes. Gus is serving as pastor at Northland Church in Longwood Florida since 1998. Perspectives course was part of his beginning days as he participated in both local and global missions along with pastoral responsibilities. In the last year Gus’s heart and mind has been re-ignited to reengage in this class as a student and facilitator. Perspectives go deeper in equipping and empowering the Church for the Great Commission.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, September 4, 2022

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Emily Simmons

    Frontier Ventures, Gainesville FL

    Emily has a Bachelors Degree in Linguistics, Arabic, and Hebrew with a Teaching English certificate from UF. She works for Frontier Ventures, a missions organization dedicated to innovating new ways of reaching frontier peoples. She has a few different roles there, though her favorite is her role on the Perspectives 5th Edition Revision Team. She is passionate about learning and teaching and absolutely adores getting to learn from the students as she teaches Perspectives!
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, September 11, 2022

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Yvonne Huneycutt

    Perspectives Global, Round Rock TX

    Yvonne from Austin, Texas loves mobilizing Christians and entire churches to find and engage their God-designed role for participation in the completion of the Great Commission. Currently on staff with Perspectives Global, Yvonne's varied career experience includes the corporate world, local church ministry, mission ministry, and managing a non-profit organization. She has worked with the Perspectives movement for over 25 years both nationally and internationally. Her overseas field experience includes one year in Russia and travel in 40 nations. She holds a Doctor of Ministry in Missions and Cross-Cultural Studies from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, September 18, 2022

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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.

  • Instructor

    

    Sundee Simmons

    Perspectives, Winter Park FL

    Sundee Simmons currently serves as Associate Director of Perspectives Global. Sundee has been serving the Perspectives program since 1991. She has served as a volunteer coordinator, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Director, East Coast Regional Administrator and the Director of Training for Perspectives USA before joining the Perspectives Global Team. Sundee Simmons is a wife and mother of 3 children, Nathan (1996), Emily (1998) and Julianna (2005). Her husband, Scott, is a ordained PCA Pastor serving Third Millennium Ministries as the Director of Instructor Relations.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, September 25, 2022

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Kendi Howells Douglas

    Kissimmee FL

    Dr. KENDI HOWELLS DOUGLAS Professor of Intercultural Studies at Johnson University, Florida Dr. Howells Douglas was the Professor of Cross Cultural Ministry at Great Lakes Christian College in Lansing, MI for 15 years. And Is now the Professor of Intercultural Studies at Johnson University, Florida Her passion is in the area of urban mission and her dissertation was on the history of the Christian Churches/Churches of Christ in the cities of North America. She enjoys research in other areas as well including: women in missions, postmodernism and culture, mission history, and mission biographies. Dr. Howells Douglas served as the associate editor of New Urban World Journal, and co-editor of a new book series entitled Urban Missiology in the 21st Century, and the urban editor of a new Biblical commentary series entitled, The Polis Commentary. Her hobbies include all types of music, reading (her favorite authors being Annie Dillard, Anne Lamott, Stanley Hauerwas, Ruth Tucker, and Eugene Peterson), a founding member of International Society of Urban Missiology and member of Evangelicals for Social Action and the American Society of Missiology, involvement in Habitat for Humanity, as well as traveling and visiting several urban partners all over the world, and learning continually from her 15 year old son, Truman. A.A., 1989, Minnesota Bible College B.A., Music, 1992, Minnesota Bible College M.Div., 1996, Emmanuel School of Religion D.Miss., 2004, Asbury Theological Seminary
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 2, 2022

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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.

  • Instructor

    

    Mark Baxter

    YWAM Jacksonville, Jacksonville FL

    Mark Baxter is the visionary leader of Youth With A Mission Jacksonville, Florida. Mark and Janet started the base in January 2001 because they are passionate about taking the Gospel to places where it isn't. They have 3 children - Daniel, Kathleen, and Jennifer along with 8 grandchildren. Mark has ministered in over 130 nations and he, Janet, and their youngest child lived in Harbin, China teaching English and planted a church among unreached people in 2008/09. Mark is on YWAM's international frontier missions leadership team, is the missions pastor at Redeemer Church, and is part of the NoPLaceLeft network in Jacksonville.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 9, 2022

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Tom and Danielle Brendle

    Ethnos360, DeBary FL

    We are Tom and Danielle Brendle. We have been married for 27 years. In 1998, God took Danielle and I and our two little boys to Papua New Guinea. It was here that we became vessels to share the love of Christ with the Siawi people. The years were difficult, but we would not trade them. Today,there is a functioning church in Siawi. In 2009, our time of ministering in PNG ended, and we returned to Florida (with four boys) to work at the Ethnos360 home office. Today we serve as the Directors of Member Care. We have a passion to see others thrive as image bearers of the Creator.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 16, 2022

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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.

  • Instructor

    

    Julie Whitmore

    Pioneers, Orlando FL

    While pursuing her degree, God grew Julie’s heart for missions among people who have little or no access to the gospel. Before even going on a short-term mission trip Julie made a three-year commitment to church planting in South Asia. She loved those years, but afterward God led her to work at Pioneers in Orlando. After four years on the mobilization team, now she serves as a pre-field coach, helping people move into cross-cultural, church-planting ministry with unreached people groups.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 23, 2022

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Matthew Shiles

    Longwood FL

    Matt serves as the Missions Director at Northland. This includes both the local and global outreach expressions of the church. He recognizes that we must all examine the poverty in our own lives in order to be used most effectively in the lives of others. Prior to Northland, Matt worked in various roles as an analyst in the business world. He has a passion for creating spreadsheets, while also using his gifts in a unique way that will further God's Kingdom and bring Him glory.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, October 30, 2022

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Moasic girl

    St.Cloud FL

    Aicha serves on the Media2Movements team with Arab World Media, a ministry of Pioneers.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, November 6, 2022

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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.

  • Instructor

    Joe G

    PIONEERS, Orlando FL

    Joe has been with Pioneers for 18 years. Previously, he spent 5 years on staff with the Traveling Team sharing the Biblical Basis of Missions and mobilizing college students. He and his wife Sarah served on church planting teams in Central Asia in and out of country from 2002-2012. He currently serves as the VP of Mission Engagement for Pioneers USA. Joe, Sarah and their sons Ezra and Eli live in Orlando.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Sunday, November 13, 2022

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 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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    Jeffrey Moody

    Frontier Ventures, Gainesville FL

    After serving in various church roles, Jeff was "ruined for the ordinary" when he took Perspectives in 2003. He served his church as missions pastor for 6 years before joining Frontier Ventures. After leading internal projects for a couple of years, in 2014 he helped launch NextMove, a ministry of FV that helps missions agencies implement diaspora missions solutions. He co-directed NextMove for 6 years. In 2021 he joined the FV Operations Team as Business Transition Lead. He has volunteered in Persspectives for many years, coordinating and teaching Perspectives classes. He and his wife Kemberly have 3 adult children (and one wonderful daughter-in-law!). Jeff loves exercise, bass guitar, the arts, reading, and great conversations accompanied by good food and coffee.
    
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    Date: Sunday, November 20, 2022

    Time: 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM

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