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Date: Monday, August 22, 2022

Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Location: Terra Nova Church 7 Whatney Irvine CA 92618

Contact: Tim Hardy

(805) 304-9377

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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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    Robert Blincoe

    Frontiers, Mesa AZ

    Bob led a Frontiers team into northern Iraq following the first Gulf War in 1991. He is President of U.S. Frontiers, 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.
    
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    Date: Monday, August 22, 2022

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Date: Monday, August 29, 2022

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Roger

    Frontiers, San Diego CA

    Tony and his wife Tessa were pioneer churches planters in Central and South Asia for 25 years before returning to the US as trainers. They raised their family overseas. They now lead the Studio Internship, a community of practice where aspiring missionaries study and minister alongside veteran workers here in the USA. Their passion is to catalyze church planting movements among all Muslim peoples worldwide. www.studiointernship.org
    
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    Date: Monday, September 5, 2022

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Daniel Lim

    International Students, Inc., Torrance CA

    Daniel has worked with international students since 1996, and currently serves with International Students, Inc. as an Area Mobilizer, partnering with local churches to develop, equip and train church based teams to engage in the highly strategic missions field of international student ministry.
    
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    Date: Monday, September 12, 2022

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Nathan J'Diim

    TOAG Internship and Frontiers, Chandler AZ

    Nathan J'Diim (pen name) is the Founder of TOAG (www.TOAG.net) and Consultant, Instructor and Coach for Frontiers (www.FrontiersUSA.org). Launch (www.LaunchGlobal.org) has since replaced TOAG but carries the same DNA: a year long after-hours internship preparing beautiful feet to serve in the Unreached World. Offered in cities across the US, TOAG/Launch has apprenticed hundreds of interns, many who serve or will soon serve the least reached world wide.
    
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    Date: Monday, September 19, 2022

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Andy Pearce

    International Students, Inc., San Gabriel CA

    Andy currently serves with International Students, Inc. (ISI) on the campuses of California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA and California State University Los Angeles. He also supervises 18 teams in his role as Southern California Area Director for ISI. In addition, he has made 20 trips to Asia for the purpose of following up with former international students. He has a Masters in Theological Studies from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary and a PhD in International Development from William Carey International University. Andy and his wife have four daughters and one son and live in San Gabriel, CA.
    
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    Date: Monday, September 26, 2022

    Time: 6:30 PM to 6:30 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.

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    Shanalea Atchison

    Sandals Church, Riverside CA

    Shanalea is wife to Adam Atchison, campus pastor of Sandals Church Hunter Park, 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.
    
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    Date: Monday, October 3, 2022

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Tim Hardy

    Laguna Niguel 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.
    
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    Date: Monday, October 10, 2022

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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.

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    Luke Womack

    The Go Fund, Anaheim CA

    Luke Womack is the founder of The Go Fund, a nonprofit organization eliminating barriers to advance the gospel to the unreached. He graduated with a B.S. in Business Administration from California Baptist University in 2011. When not working, he enjoys weightlifting, reading, and spending time with his wife Allison and children, Vera (5), Dawson (4), and Pearl (2). To learn more about Luke or The Go Fund, please visit thegofund.com.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, October 17, 2022

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Dan Crane

    EV Free Fullerton, Fullerton CA

    Dan Crane is a third generation missionary. His grandparents served in China at the turn of the century where his dad was born and raised. Dan was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in Trinidad where his parents were church planters. Dan returned to Trinidad as a missionary and was a part of the indigenization of the TEAM field turning all the assests and ministries over to the nationals. Dan was called to be the Missions Pastor of his home church in California where he has served since 1999.
    
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    Date: Monday, October 24, 2022

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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.

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    Date: Monday, October 31, 2022

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    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.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, November 7, 2022

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    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 0.002%. They were involved in discipling and mentoring local believers, as well as coordinating educational and medical projects. Nowadays they are based in the U.S. and focused on equipping and training missionaries.
    
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    Date: Monday, November 14, 2022

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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.

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    Date: Monday, November 21, 2022

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Jeannie Marie

    Frontiers, Gilbert AZ

    Jeannie Marie is a strategist for Frontiers, an international sending agency that recruits, trains, and sends long-term field-workers to more than fifty Muslim countries. She's also lived overseas in the Philippines and in India with her husband and four children, worked with refugees and international students locally, and worked at a church mobilizing. Jeannie Marie is the author of Across the Street and Around the World: Following Jesus to the Nations in Your Neighborhood and Beyond, published by Thomas Nelson, available October 2, 2018. And the creator of the digital The Neighbors & Nations Course. To book a speaking or training engagement, see www.jeannie-marie.com/about and/or write hello@jeannie-marie.com
    
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    Date: Monday, November 28, 2022

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

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