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Milwaukee Area - Milwaukee, WI // S23
Spring 2023
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Instructor
Theresa Heyward
International Needs USA, Elm Grove WI
Terry Heyward has been married to Lee for 44 years.
She grew up in Atlanta Georgia and got her training as a nurse at Georgia State University. Terry now works for International Needs USA, a non-profit organization which supports locally led ministries in over 17 countries.
Her latest adventures have included teaching at a pastor’s wives conference in South East Asia and South Africa, sharing Jesus stories with Afghan refugees in Greece, traveling the USA with a freed Ghanaian slave and leading community development and medical teams to East and West Africa.
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Date: Saturday, January 7, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
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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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Pam Arlund
All Nations, Kansas City MO
Pam is currently the Co-Editor of Perspectives 5th Edition and a member of All Nations. She lived in Central Asia for ten years, where she planted churches among three people groups, two of whom are Muslim. She earned an MA and PhD in Linguistics (i.e. Bible Translation) from the University of Texas at Arlington. She has published numerous books and articles in missions. She is most well known as “The Stick Figure Lady” for her popular book “Stick Figures Save the World.” b
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Class Info
Date: Saturday, January 14, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 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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Matthew Malone
Elmbrook, Brookfield WI
Matthew is a church planter, pastor, mobilizer and trainer. Currently he serves as the pastor of Mission for Elmbrook Church, a role where he is responsible for almost 80 field workers spread across the globe. Before that he and his family lived in Siberia for almost a decade helping start churches and encourage leaders. They returned to the states in 2004 and planted a multi-site church in Washington County, Wisconsin.
He also currently serves as the Wisconsin area mobilizer for Perspectives and loves seeing people take steps of involvement in God’s mission. Matthew and Kari were married in 1994 and have four children. Matthew is a hack triathlete, which means he enjoys biking and swimming, and endures running. b
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Class Info
Date: Saturday, January 21, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 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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Adam Steinbock
Crossroads Community Church, Sheboygan WI
Adam currently serves as the Staff Pastor at Crossroads Community Church in Sheboygan, Wis. - an 18-year-old, 3rd generation church plant. He and his wife, Tabitha, have a passion for church planting, both here in Wisconsin, but also around the world. Over the past fifteen years he has been on short-term church planting mission trips to Ecuador, Israel and Russia. b
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Class Info
Date: Saturday, January 28, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 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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Instructor
Manohar James
, Verona WI
Dr. Manohar James holds a Ph.D. in Intercultural Studies from Asbury Theological Seminary, USA. He is currently serving as a Minister of Intercultural Ministry at High Point Church, Madison, WI. As an adjunct professor, he teaches at Alliance Theological Seminary (NY, USA), The Alliance Institute for Mission (Sydney, Australia), Mission India Theological Seminary (Nagpur, India), and Christian Life College (Madison, WI).
Before coming to the US for higher education, he served in India for 15 years as an evangelist, church planter, and seminary professor. While church planting in Himachal Pradesh (India) he suffered severe beatings twice for the sake of preaching the gospel and bringing people to Christ. He is the founder of Serving Alongside International (www.ServingAlongside.org), a non-profit Christian organization in the USA which annually trains about 1200 indigenous pastors in India. He often travels to India to train pastors.
Dr. James and his wife Jasmine live in Madison, WI, along with their sons Jason (7 years) and Jonathan (2 years). b
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Class Info
Date: Saturday, February 4, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 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
Adam Steinbock
Crossroads Community Church, Sheboygan WI
Adam currently serves as the Staff Pastor at Crossroads Community Church in Sheboygan, Wis. - an 18-year-old, 3rd generation church plant. He and his wife, Tabitha, have a passion for church planting, both here in Wisconsin, but also around the world. Over the past fifteen years he has been on short-term church planting mission trips to Ecuador, Israel and Russia. b
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Class Info
Date: Saturday, February 11, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 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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Instructor
Andrew Minch
Wycliffe Bible Translators, Dixon IL
Andy Minch is an Associate editor for the Perspective's Reader 5th edition and a 5 star instructor. He has instructed well over 100 Perspectives lessons over the past 30 years. He has spent 20 years working as a Bible translator in Papua New Guinea with Wycliffe Bible Translators. For eleven years he was an international administrator helping oversee about 20% of the world's remaining translation needs. Presently he is part of Wycliffe’s National Speaker’s bureau speaking on college campuses and other venues. He is author of the book 'Words Can Not Express'. b
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Class Info
Date: Saturday, February 18, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 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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Brian Hogan
Disciple Making Mentors, Fayetteville AR
Brian and Louise Hogan have served in mission since 1987. From the Navajo Tribe to Outer Mongolia, their passion has been to see Jesus glorified and lifted up among those who have never known Him.
From 1993-1996 their team pioneered a church planting movement in Erdenet (AIR-DUH-NET), Mongolia that continues to grow under fully indigenous leadership to this day. Their Mongolian disciples are now training and sending out their own missionaries to other unreached people groups. The story of the work in Erdenet can be read in Brian’s book: There’s a Sheep in my Bathtub (Asteroidea Books), and in the case study article – “Distant Thunder: Mongols Follow the Khan of Khans” – on page 695 of your Perspectives Reader. b
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Class Info
Date: Saturday, February 25, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 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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Debra S
Northern VA
Debra grew up on the "Greats," deeply inspired by the heroes of Lesson 8. In 2005 she ecstatically moved to Afghanistan to teach ESL, but life upheaval catapulted her to rural Virginia just three years later. Yet she soon discovered her new hometown bordered on “Northern Virginia” – the States’ most popular region for Afghans entering the US! Today she relishes friendships with Afghans that revolve around ESL, paperwork, giving rides, eating heaps of Afghan food, dancing awkwardly at women's-only parties, and simple Bible studies that point to Jesus Messiah. She finds serious Muslims some of the world’s most enjoyable people to be around, as they take eternity and spirituality seriously. b
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Class Info
Date: Saturday, March 4, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 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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Lindsey Rice
Perspectives USA, Chicago IL
Lindsey is a Greek-American living in Chicago, Illinois. After serving in East Asia, and having her eyes opened to God's love and desire for the nations, Lindsey has been focused on doing cross-cultural ministry in various contexts. Planting herself and her family in Chicago, Lindsey found multiple opportunities to be a part of expanding God's kingdom. She has now invested 15 years serving with international students, welcoming refugees, working with Perspectives, and mobilizing her church to help every follower of Christ take their next step in being a World Christian. b
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Class Info
Date: Saturday, March 11, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 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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Jake Leigh
James Place Ministry , Milwaukee WI
Jake Leigh has spent the past ten years crossing cultures overseas, in colleges, and urban environments here in Milwaukee. Jake is currently working on a Master of Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School while overseeing local mission at Elmbrook Church.
Learning from the Global Church is one of his main passions. He also hosts a mission podcast called "What in the World" b
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Class Info
Date: Saturday, March 18, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 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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Instructor
Theresa Heyward
International Needs USA, Elm Grove WI
Terry Heyward has been married to Lee for 44 years.
She grew up in Atlanta Georgia and got her training as a nurse at Georgia State University. Terry now works for International Needs USA, a non-profit organization which supports locally led ministries in over 17 countries.
Her latest adventures have included teaching at a pastor’s wives conference in South East Asia and South Africa, sharing Jesus stories with Afghan refugees in Greece, traveling the USA with a freed Ghanaian slave and leading community development and medical teams to East and West Africa. b
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Class Info
Date: Saturday, March 25, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 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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Pamela Lovett
Wales WI
My husband and I have been involved in mission work in Asia and Central Asia since 1983, together. We raised our children in Central Asia where the 2 main languages were Persian and Russian. We are grateful that God guided us to make friends in that region of the world and that we were able to join God in what He was doing out that way. b
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Class Info
Date: Saturday, April 1, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 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
Marcus Constantine
Oakwood Church, Milwaukee WI
Marcus and his wife Sweet Bridget met at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, where he studied communication and leadership. He received a Master of Theology degree from South African Theological Seminary.
They served globally with a Zulu church plant and more recently as disciple-making trainers. He has served in local ministry and as a communication director with several mission organizations. He serves with Outreach, Prayer, & Disciplemaking for their local church in greater Milwaukee, WI and previously as Theology & Credentialing Catalyst for the Forest Lakes District of the EFCA.
Marcus is passionate about prayer, disciplemaking, and nurturing vibrant relationships to multiply groups of disciples and unite the Body of Christ toward biblical, transforming revival! b
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Class Info
Date: Saturday, April 15, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
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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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Tom Lin
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship / Lausanne, Madison WI
Tom Lin became InterVarsity’s eighth president in 2016. He served as an InterVarsity campus minister at Harvard University and Boston University before helping to establish an International Fellowship of Evangelical Students movement in Mongolia, where he served as the Country Director. He then became Regional Director of InterVarsity’s Central Region and served as Vice President of Missions and Director of the Urbana Student Missions Conference.
He has also served as a trustee on the boards of Wycliffe Bible Translators, Missio Nexus, and the Leadership & Legacy Foundation. He currently serves on the boards of Fuller Theological Seminary, The Crowell Trust, and the Lausanne Movement.
Tom is the author of Pursuing God’s Call (2012) and Losing Face & Finding Grace (1996), a coeditor of the Urbana Onward book series (2012), and a contributor to Still Evangelical? (2018)—all published by InterVarsity Press. He is also a contributor to Uncommon Ground (2020), published by Thomas Nelson.
Tom and his wife, Nancy, have two daughters. He has a B.A. in economics from Harvard University and holds an M.A. in global leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary. b
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Class Info
Date: Saturday, April 22, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 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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Kari Malone
West Bend WI
Radically coming to faith at age 19, Kari knew within months that God was calling her to follow Him to the nations. She and her husband followed Him to Eastern Siberia where they lived out 8 of their early years as church planters and new parents to (eventually) 4 wonderful children.
Returning to the USA in 2004, they settled in SE Wisconsin to lead a church plant, continue raising their family, and embrace God's heart for Unreached People Groups. Kari is now Director of Reach Global at their home church and dreams of living among an Unreached People Group in the future.
As Kari waits, dreams, prays, mobilizes, and sends other, she also coaches a high school girl's cross country team in the hopes of impacting families in her hometown for Christ. b
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Class Info
Date: Saturday, April 29, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
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Date: Saturday, May 6, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
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