Murrieta, CA // 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
Greg Parsons
USCWM, Pasadena CA
Greg Parsons is Director of Global Connections at Frontier Ventures (formerly the U.S. Center for World Mission) where he and his wife, Kathleen have been on staff since 1982.
Greg serves as part of the leadership team of the Frontier Ventures, he has traveled to more than 25 countries to meet with, learn from, and networking with mission leaders in North America, and around the globe.
He is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary
(ThM-1982) and has a PhD from the
University of Wales (2012) entitled: Ralph D Winter: Early Life and Core Missiology. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, August 10, 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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Jeff Jackson
Radiance International Church, Escondido CA
Pastor Jeff Jackson is the founder of Shepherd's Staff Mission Facilitators, a unique missions organization that he founded in 1999. He recently retired from that ministry and is currently serving as the pastor of Radiance International Church, a small Filipino church in the San Diego area.
Along with his family, Pastor Jeff lived in the Philippines from 1987 to 1993 while planting an urban church in Cebu City, Philippines. After returning from the mission field, he planted a multi-ethnic church in the San Diego area. He was the senior pastor of Cross-Connection International Fellowship in Phoenix, AZ, from 2008-2012, a church that was heavily engaged with reaching refugees that had been resettled to Phoenix from around the world. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, August 17, 2023
Time: 6:30 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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Mike
Hacienda Heights CA
Mike and his wife, along with their three children, lived and served for 10 years among one of the least reached people groups, with a Christian population around 0.02%. They were involved in church planting, discipling local believers, training indigenous missionaries, as well as coordinating educational and medical projects. Nowadays they are based in the U.S. and focused on equipping missionaries and reaching immigrants and refugees. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, August 24, 2023
Time: 6:30 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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Jeff Lewis
Thirteen~FiftyTwo, Rome GA
Present Ministry: Founder/Director of Thirteen~FiftyTwo
Ministry highlights:
California Baptist University, Assistant Professor of Intercultural Studies for 18 years & Director of Mobilization for 4 years.
*Mobilizing & disciple making ministries for 36 years
*Assisted with indigenous mobilization leadership training and mobilization consultation with mission personnel in over 30 countries
*Planted and pastored two churches
*Instructor/trainer for Perspectives Global Desk
*Co-founder & Co-Director of Passion Conferences 1996-2000
*Author of God's Heart for the Nations, Christ Love Compels Me, and Calling: A Scriptural Journey.
*Missions Leadership with three Boards of the Southern Baptist Convention for 14+ years
*College swimming coach at the University of TN & Lock Haven State University
Married to Elaine McClary, for 49 years. We have seven children and 20 grand children, so far.
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, August 31, 2023
Time: 6:30 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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Sunny Hong
Wycliffe Bible Translators, Dallas TX
Born in South Korea, Sunny Hong came to the US in 1983. She was employed in the computer software profession and was active in a local church. At that time Sunny was seeking for God’s call as to how she could be involved in missions. Eventually she felt God’s calling to the ministry of Wycliffe Bible translators. She joined Wycliffe in 1994 and worked as a mobilizer for Koreans in the US and Canada for 12 years. She then was sent to the Philippines to work as a mobilization consultant for the Wycliffe Asia and Pacific areas. While in the Philippines, she sensed God redirecting her ministry to missiology/anthropology. She pursued an intercultural studies Ph.D. program at Biola and after completing these studies, started working as a senior intercultural consultant at SIL International which includes teaching at Dallas International University, in Dallas, TX. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, September 7, 2023
Time: 6:30 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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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, September 14, 2023
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Shanalea Atchison
Sandals Church, Riverside CA
Shanalea is wife to Adam Atchison, campus pastor of Sandals Church Palm Ave, mom to four active boys, and an elementary school teacher. She grew up with a love for the world, and God is teaching her what it means to love the world from her classroom and the local church. Her heart is to teach others what it means to live this out from right where they are. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, September 21, 2023
Time: 6:30 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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Wade Harlan
Alhambra CA
Wade & his family spent 18 years combining agricultural development projects and pioneering church planting among an unreached people group in a communist country in Asia. Since being blacklisted in that country in 2016 for his ministry activities Wade has been serving as a pastor in Los Angeles. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, September 28, 2023
Time: 6:30 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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Michelle Lapp
Africa Inland Mission, San Diego CA
Michelle and her late husband Chris were appointed as missionaries with Africa Inland Mission in 2008 after leaving careers in Education/Church Ministry and Business Management/dressmaking. They served with their 6 children in the small village of Molumong in rural Lesotho, Africa. After language and culture acquisition and Chris teaching one term, he got Encephalitis and passed away after a short 3 weeks in a coma. Through God's strength and Sovereignty, Michelle went on to serve as a teacher at Rift Valley Academy and now serves as the Southwest Mobilizer for AIM while juggling parenting and an active speaking ministry. Michelle has a passion for proclaiming God's heart for the Nations and the truth that EVERY Christ-follower has a place in His plan to redeem the Nations unto Himself. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, October 5, 2023
Time: 6:30 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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TBD
, San Diego CA
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, October 12, 2023
Time: 6:30 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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Laura Macias
Trinity United Presbyterian Church , Fullerton CA
After serving as a public school teacher for 18 years, Laura and her family joined Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) as the orality specialist for Latin America. While serving among oral preference learners in Central and South America, Laura also served with the International Orality Network (ION) leadership team overseeing secondary orality projects. Laura holds a MA in Intercultural Studies and is a Ph.D. candidate at Johnson University. Currently, she is the Director of Missional Engagement at Trinity United Presbyterian Church in Santa Ana, CA. Laura and her husband, Tony, have three children. The couple lives in Orange County. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, October 19, 2023
Time: 6:30 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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Chris McHorney
International Service Project, Lake Elsinore CA
Chris McHorney has been a member of the faculty at California Baptist University for fourteen years. As a member of the faculty, he has been blessed to have the opportunity to lead ten short-term teams, serve as the president of University Educators for Global Engagement, and take the Perspectives class. The Perspectives class was a paradigm changing experience for him, changing how he lived his life as a follower of Jesus in his roles as husband, parent, teacher, and mentor. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, October 26, 2023
Time: 6:30 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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Larry Hansen
Calvary Murrieta , Murrieta CA
Larry Hansen has been on staff at Calvary Murrieta for 17 years and serves as the Missions Pastor. God has moved him to passionately pursue unreached people across the globe and he has taken the Great Commission as a personal commission. Larry combines missions’ education, first-hand experience, and missions’ partnerships to continue to move forward in reaching the unreached. He has a strong desire for developing strong missionary care and support for missionaries in the field and invests in providing tools and preparation for them to become equipped to serve in a global capacity. Larry brings a strong focus to being a continuous learner and listener so that he can best serve in the role he has been called.
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, November 2, 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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Paul Martindale
Pioneers, Retired, Upland CA
Paul Martindale worked for 18 years in North Africa in church planting as a tent-maker with Arab World Ministries(AWM). He was AWM's Morocco
Country leader and Area Director for North Africa. Paul also served as Islamicist and ministry consultant for Pioneers in the USA where he trained churches how to reach Muslims living in their communities. Paul was the director of the Summer Institute on Islam in Philadelphia and has a D.Min in Missions and Cross-Cultural Studies. He is Ranked Adjunct Professor of Islamic Studies and Cross-Cultural Ministry at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He and his wife Michele have three children and 5 grandchildren. They recently retired and now live in Upland, CA. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, November 9, 2023
Time: 6:30 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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Tim Hardy
Aliso Viejo CA
His passion is to move people to a deeper dependence upon God and to help them seamlessly integrate His global purposes into the fabric of their lives. He loves the local church and is committed to helping it connect to God’s purposes to reach the fringes of the world.
Tim lives in Dana Point with his wife, Heather, and their six kids. Together they love being in the outdoors and spending time with family and friends. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, November 16, 2023
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
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