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Lexington, KY S23
Spring 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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Jonathan Wilbur
Frontiers, Nicholasville KY
We have a passion to glorify God and see the Gospel of the Kingdom break-through in every people group living in our world today. For 20 years we have lived, loved, suffered, served, and enjoyed the blessings of following Jesus to the edges of the Kingdom where we have witnessed and experienced the life changing power of the Gospel and the truth that all the “promises of God are YES and AMEN in Christ Jesus”. During this time we led a church planting team among two unreached people groups in Central Asia. We are now overseeing teams in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Georgia, involved in mobilizing and training church planters to new unengaged Muslim people groups and preparing ourselves to begin a new work among Persian speakers. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 9, 2023
Time: 6:30 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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Ron Brown
Christian Medical and Dental Associations, Lexington KY
Ron was born to missionary parents who served on the Texas/Mexico border and Honduras. He developed a burden for missionary kids and majored in biology and secondary education at Asbury College. Ron completed a master’s degree in Guidance and Counseling at Eastern Kentucky University and has done graduate study at Fuller Seminary’s School of World Mission in Pasadena, CA.
He has been married to his lovely wife Becky for 43 years. Together they served ten years with Native Americans in Arizona, six years in Spain and six years doing recruitment for World Gospel Mission on the campus of Asbury College and Seminary. They have four children ages 42, 40, 38, 26, and 7 grandkids.
Since joining Christian Medical & Dental Association (CMDA) in June 1999, Ron has assumed responsibility with the Global Health Outreach (GHO) department for the Latin American outreaches, with a special focus on Honduras, and the mobile medical unit ministry. In 2007 the focus moved from Honduras to Nicaragua where 11 out of the fifty plus teams GHO sends each year will go. Ron continues to train future team leaders, as well as recruit and organize for the other teams with the GHO support staff.
Teaching, administration, counseling, mentoring and recruiting have been Ron’s heart in ministry. Ron has traveled to over 40 countries on mission trips with World Gospel Mission and GHO.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 16, 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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Dr Tom
Teach To Transform, Louisville KY
Dr. Tom is a Board Certified Emergency Medicine Physician in the USA with 35 years of experience and an ordained minister by Southeast Christian Church in Louisville Kentucky. His true passion is world missions and he and his wife Karen are the founders of an organization that exists to equip partners around the world with medical and vocational skills they can use to share the gospel of Christ to the unreached. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 23, 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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James Atherton
College Hill UMC , Waco KY
James is the pastor of College Hill and Doylesville United Methodist Churches in Madison County, KY. James is married to Michele Atherton and they have four children, Joshua, Faith, Victoria and Jonathan. James and Michele met in Kazakhstan in 1992, where they were both part of church planting teams. James has over 30 years of ministry and church leadership experience. In addition to serving churches in the central Kentucky area, he has planted churches in Kazakhstan and San Francisco, CA. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 30, 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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Corrie McKee
Greenville SC
Corrie has spent over 15 years in cross-cultural ministry, including working with international students in the US, college students in Asia and the Middle East, and refugees from Eastern Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Now she lives in Greenville, SC and serves as Director of Client Services at an international staffing agency that serves clients from all over the world. She also works part-time as a Fundraising Coach, training missionaries to raise their own financial support.
Corrie credits the 2012 Perspectives class as a major factor in her decision to move overseas. This is her 5th year instructing Lesson 5! b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 6, 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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Steve Pearson
Nicholasville KY
Steve Pearson has served as the Lead Pastor of Church of the Savior in south Lexington, Kentucky for 24 years. He is a graduate of Oral Roberts University and Asbury Seminary. His passions are Prayer, Evangelism, Preaching the Word, Missions, Mentoring, and his wonderful wife of thirty-seven years, Sue. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 13, 2023
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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Todd Martin
Ashland Avenue Baptist Church, Lexington KY
Todd has been serving with international student ministry in Kentucky for 20 years and currently serves as the college and missions pastor of Ashland Avenue Baptist Church. Before coming to Kentucky, Todd served with the International Mission Board in Ukraine. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 20, 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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Victor Barousse
Go To Nations, Jacksonville FL
Victor, along with his gifted wife Kathie, are experienced field missionaries, seeing much fruit in church planting, leadership development and humanitarian / developmental work. They first encountered Go To Nations while already serving as missionaries in Siberia. They returned to Russia full-time, planting new works and aiding national church networks to embrace their Great Commission calling. Now based at the Go To Nations Headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida, Victor currently serves as Director of GTN Frontier Missions, with a two tiered strategy. First, equipping American missionaries to reach Frontier People Groups, while also envisioning and mobilizing indigenous workers to raise up powerful, self-supporting disciple making movements. Victor also serves as First Coast City Director for City for the Nations, a strategy to connect 100 US cities to "adopt" entire countries until disciples and churches are made in every community. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 6, 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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Jay Moon
Sioux Falls Seminary, Nicholasville KY
Jay and his family were missionaries to the Builsa people group in Ghana, West Africa for nine years doing church planting and water development. You can read about their story in the book, "Ordinary Missionary: A Narrative Approach to Introducing World Missions." Since 2013, Jay has been teaching Intercultural Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 20, 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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Nik Ripken
Nik Ripken Ministries, Shelbyville KY
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 27, 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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Larry Frick
City for the Nations, Lexington KY
Larry joined the City for the Nations team in 2022. He has extensive experience leading medical mission teams and training leaders in Community Health Development and Integral Disciple Making Movements. His passion is leading and training others to meet both physical and spiritual needs around the world, particularly among unreached peoples. He also ministers in local churches, training on missions and on disciple making movements. He moved to Kentucky in 2008 to follow God’s call with his wife Marci and daughter Hannah after serving as a family physician in Chillicothe, Ohio. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 3, 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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David Griffith
Lexington KY
Dave serves as the Ministries Pastor at LexCity Church overseeing all adult ministries including local and international missions. He is married to an amazing woman, Wendi, and has 3 kids, Hannah, John, and Will. He has helped develop ministry in Africa, India, the Middle East and Latin America and has dedicated his life to helping people know about the love of Christ and to reach the unreached areas of the world. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 10, 2023
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 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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Miles Phelps
City For The Nations , Lexington KY
Miles and Melanie Phelps have been happily married for 19 years. They currently resident in Lexington, Kentucky with their eight year old daughter Penielle.
Miles serves as the Executive Director and Co-Founder of City for the Nations Ministry. A global missions ministry focus mobilizing entire cities to reach unreached nations.
They believe in serving a God that has no limits. Their lives together have been marked by a lifestyle of living by faith and seeing God’s faithfulness to His word.
Miles and Melanie Phelps are popular speakers and well known for their workshops on the prophetic, spiritual warfare, church planting, city reaching, evangelism, leadership, and spirituality.
A strong part of Miles and Melanie’s ministry is reaching out to the poor, marginalized and supporting many projects around the world. They also financially support and help to underwrite church planting, leadership development, evangelism, and health and rescue projects in the third world.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 17, 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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Anthony Humphress
Lexington KY
Anthony is currently a "full time" minister as the steward of Kampus Properties. He has volunteered on UK's campus for several years, specifically with fraternity men and coordinating Perspectives. He serves on the board of the Greater Lexington Apartment Association and the Lexington Leadership Foundation, where he assisted in the start-up of City for the Nations and the Lexington Prayer Center. He's also active with the National Christian Foundation. His lovely wife, Katie, directs LaneOfRoses.com and authored "Fake ID's". He has 2 incredible children. b
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Date: Monday, April 24, 2023
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
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