Location: Kenosha Bible Church 5405 67th St Kenosha WI 53142

Contact: Dave Groves

(920)988-5409

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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.”
    
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    Date: Monday, January 16, 2023

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:00 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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    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.
    
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    Date: Monday, January 23, 2023

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:00 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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    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.
    
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    Date: Monday, January 30, 2023

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:00 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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    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).
    
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    Date: Monday, February 6, 2023

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:00 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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    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.
    
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    Date: Monday, February 13, 2023

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:00 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.

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    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'.
    
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    Date: Monday, February 20, 2023

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:00 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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    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.
    
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    Date: Monday, February 27, 2023

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:00 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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    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.
    
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    Date: Monday, March 6, 2023

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:00 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.

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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.
    
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    Date: Monday, March 13, 2023

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:00 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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    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"
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 20, 2023

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:00 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.

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    Tawnya Ganfield

    , Glendale WI

    TAWNYA GANFIELD has spent over two decades in international, Christian ministry. She designed and taught spiritual formation classes highlighting that Christ is for all cultures. Her cultural knowledge has been leveraged as a mediator for conflict resolution with missionary teams and intercultural colleagues. Ms. Ganfield has hosted multiple internationals in her home for both long-term and short-term stays. She headed the international hosting program at her local church for many years. Her experience includes participating on the receiving team for refugee resettlement and assistance. Maintaining healthy diversity at the church school is a priority. She has delivered cultural trainings to church worship choirs and multicultural leaders’ networks, lay volunteers and church staff on the topic of culture and its implications in a church environment. Most recently, Ms. Ganfield has assisted multicultural churches with their cultural integration efforts and furthered diversity and inclusion efforts among homogenous church congregations.
    
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    Date: Monday, March 27, 2023

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:00 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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    Mike Soderling

    Centre for Health in Mission, Milwaukee WI

    I am a US trained MD who spent 11 years in Central America where I worked initially with many short term medical outreaches. After about 3 years of this I stopped doing these because they were not having a long term impact. I met Dr Dan Fountain and for the next 10 years he mentored me and helped me to see how westerners can be most effective in missions. He was a community health and development expert. Probably the worlds most foremost expert in this field. Most of what I teach comes from what he imparted to me.
    
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    Date: Monday, April 3, 2023

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:00 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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    Lee Wanak

    Asian Theological Seminary/Asia Graduate School of Theology, Madison WI

    As a career missionary, Lee is passionate about holistic Christian nurture and discipleship in developing biblical values and skills for cross-cultural ministry. During his early years in Mindanao, Philippines he served as Director of Training and Church Planting among tribal minorities. In his later years he served as Dean and Professor of Education, Urban Ministry, and Intercultural Studies at Asian Theological Seminary and Asia Graduate School of Theology in Manila. His interests and activities include holistic urban ministry, unreached peoples, ministry training, worldview perspectives, intercultural communication, cultural anthropology, sociology, and world religions. His writings focus on contextual theological education and pastoral training. He currently serves as V.P. for Educational Development at iTEE Global a pastoral training organization in the Asia, Africa and Latin America.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 17, 2023

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:00 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.

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    Darryl Jenkins

    DLJ CONSULTING GROUP LLC, Naperville IL

    Darryl is founder of DLJ Consulting Group, LLC, which coaches pastors nationwide in organic outreach and delivers training to communities of faith, corporations and business organizations in Mental Health First Aid, Trauma, Diversity, Equity and Cross Cultural Communications to improve and cultivate healthier communities through teaching, preaching, organizational and leadership development in evangelism, discipleship and missional church planting. (www.dljconsultinggroup.com) (www.faithcommunitycc.org)
    
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    Date: Monday, April 24, 2023

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:00 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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    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.
    
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    Date: Monday, May 1, 2023

    Time: 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM

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