Class Info

Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Location: St. James Church 111 West Lake Drive Athens GA 30606

Contact: John Shields

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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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    Myrtle Smalls

    Beyond the 4Walls4 Inc., Covington, GA

    Myrtle grew up in the church but was never exposed to global missions. She attended the World Outreach Missions Training School which ignited a “fiery” passion in her to see the nations reached with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2023

    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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    Nicole Parks

    Cafe 1040, Cumming GA

    God has been calling Nicole to missions since before she was walking with Him. She graduated from the University of Georgia with a BBA in International Business and Risk Management. Through studying abroad twice in college, God began to open her eyes to her love of other cultures, languages, and travel. After graduation, she worked in financial services for a few years before God called her into ministry. While working for North Point Ministries, she went on her first short-term missions trip. Through 2 trips to the 10/40 window, God called her into vocational missions. In 2014, she joined the staff of Cafe 1040 first as a mobilizer and then as a team lead. She now serves on their board of directors. She is also the Missions Director at Restoration Church in Alpharetta. She is passionate about the unreached, mobilization, and God's heart for the nations.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2023

    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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    John Shields

    Bishop GA

    John worked as a director of a core lab at the University of Georgia for over 20 years before retiring in 2023. He met his wife Corie at an Intervarsity Christian Fellowship meeting as undergraduates. They have been involved with English Language Institute- China (ELIC) working with Chinese English teachers in Hunan. They are part of the Athens Perspectives coordinating team in various roles and love seeing participants discover how they can join in God's work.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2023

    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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    John

    Church of God World Missions, Charleston TN

    
    
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    Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2023

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    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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    Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2023

    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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    Alex Fields

    College of Athens, Winterville GA

    Alex holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Georgia and a Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies from Columbia International University. Alex currently serves as the Director of Outreach & Student Affairs at the College of Athens, a Christian college in Athens, GA. He and his wife, Anna, are members of Living Hope Church and currently serve on their mission team. He is passionate about God’s mission to see every nation come to know and worship Jesus and is committed to helping students and the larger Body of Christ discover their role in the Great Commission. In their free time he and Anna enjoy spending time with friends and family, running, hiking, various other sports, traveling and reading.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2023

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Richard Allen Farmer

    Stone Mountain GA

    Richard Allen Farmer is the Senior Pastor-Teacher of the Crossroads Church in Stone Mountain, GA. A global Christian and classically trained pianist and vocalist, Dr. Farmer has given concerts or preached on every continent except Antarctica. He has earned degrees at Nyack College, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Emory University. He and his wife, Rosemary, have one adult son.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2023

    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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    CH Hills

    iFace Ministries, Roswell GA

    Chiu Hea loves to teach in a way that displays the power of God in lives released for God’s glory. After 10 years in Pasadena, CA, at Frontier Ventures, she and Mark moved to Atlanta to raise Brandon and Kimberly. From 2000-2015, they invested in Perspectives, mobilized many to serve refugees from Burma, Nepal, Somalia, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Iraq. They also provided homestay to international students learning English in an immersion setting. Recently, after 4 years in Jordan and Malaysia (counseling missionaries and serving refugees), they returned to Atlanta as empty-nesters, encouraging others to go deep with God. They enjoy caring for international students through iFace Ministries, and bringing people together around themes of global significance.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2023

    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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    Stephen B

    Cafe 1040, Bogart GA

    Stephen joined Cafe 1040 in 2013. He served as the Director of Mobilization and Director of Development prior to stepping into the role of Executive Director in November of 2021. Before Cafe 1040, Stephen invested 8 years directing Freshmen Ministries at UGA’s Wesley Foundation, where he realized the vast potential of the emerging generation. The Lord broke his heart for the nations during a short-term trip to Costa Rica in 2010. His life is committed to mobilizing this generation to complete the Great Commission, and see Jesus worshipped by all peoples. Stephen earned degrees from UGA and Asbury Theo. Seminary (MDiv). He loves organizational leadership, mobilization, and developing unrealized potential in young adults. Stephen and his wife, Christina, daughter Kate (10), and son Caleb (7) live in Athens.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2023

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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    Dennis Cochrane

    Lexington SC

    Dennis and his wife Nancy served as linguists and Bible translators among the 20,000 Duna people of Papua New Guinea. After devising an alphabet for this previously unwritten language they produced primers and readers, teaching many to read their own language. They then translated the first portions of God's Word into the Duna language. Several thousand Duna came to faith in Christ and today there are many churches among these people.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2023

    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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    Richard Kronk

    Gainesville GA

    Rick and his wife, Denise, spent 17 years in Europe as church planters with Christar in France among North African Muslim immigrants. They served on church planting teams in Lyon, Grenoble, and Mulhouse, France. In addition, Rick has been involved in the training of potential workers among Muslims and contributes to the development of pastoral leadership of the emerging North African church. Rick is Associate Professor of Global Ministries at Toccoa Falls College.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2023

    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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    Anja Staten

    Pathway Community Church, FMC, Columbus GA

    Anja found Jesus at a secular university in Chicago while aiming for the stars to become an astronaut. She has worked in a basement as a corporate recruiter, spent some time on a farm in New Hampshire ministering to adults with life controlling issues, and spent much of her adult life working at a not-for-profit serving out of school foster kids. Currently, she serves as a Pastor/Planter for Pathway Community Church in Ellerslie, GA. This is a house church plant from Christ Community Church in Columbus, GA where she served on staff for 7+ years. Being born in Germany and then becoming a military brat - she has a passion for helping people discern who they are in Christ and how they belong in His family. She has had the opportunity to participate in short term mission trips to Bulgaria, Rwanda, Cyprus, and Kurdistan. This has only expanded her desire for God's name to be proclaimed in all the earth. And it continues to amaze her that we each get to participate in that mission.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2023

    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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    Sarah Pascual

    Stone Mountain GA

    Sarah serves as the Executive Director of her church, Resonate Atlanta and is on the Leadership Team of Women in the Window International. She and her husband, Jonathan, have four kids and live near the international community of Clarkston.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2023

    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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    Shaun Johnston

    Refugio Ministries, Alpharetta GA

    Shaun was born in South Africa and has been serving in cross-cultural ministry in Spain with his family since 2008, planting churches, doing Business as Mission, and teaching English. He has a Master’s in Global Studies, is pursuing a PhD in Intercultural Studies and enjoys training and equipping cross-cultural workers. Shaun currently lives in Atlanta with his wife and three daughters.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2023

    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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    Julio Moromisato

    Operation Mobilization, Tyrone GA

    Julio Moromisato has been serving as a missionary with OM (Operation Mobilization) since 1998. During this time, he played different roles – Training Coordinator, Personnel Manager, CEO/President for OM Brazil. While working for OM he also served as a pastor and as a Bible College Teacher. In 2014 he joined OM in the US, where he currently serves as the TeenStreet Director. He is a strategic thinker, and passionate communicator that loves to connect Christians with God’s mission around the world. Julio is married with Gildelia and they have one son, Lucas
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2023

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

• • Celebration

    Food & Fun & a time of reflection on What's Next

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  • Instructor

    

    John Shields

    Bishop GA

    John worked as a director of a core lab at the University of Georgia for over 20 years before retiring in 2023. He met his wife Corie at an Intervarsity Christian Fellowship meeting as undergraduates. They have been involved with English Language Institute- China (ELIC) working with Chinese English teachers in Hunan. They are part of the Athens Perspectives coordinating team in various roles and love seeing participants discover how they can join in God's work.

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    Date: Tuesday, May 9, 2023

    Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

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