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Harrisonburg, VA // S23
Spring 2023
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Registration & Orientation
Registration & Orientation
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Instructor
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Date: Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Instructor
Steve Shank
Pioneering Coach, Strasburg PA
Steve and his family have served among the formerly unreached people group, the Garifina, along the coast of Central America in church planting. For the past ten years he has been the Regional Representative for the Americas (North, Central and South) for Eastern Mennonite Missions. He travels to Central and South America numerous times each year. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Time: 6:00 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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Instructor
Dave Shive
Frontier Ventures (formerly US Center for World Mission), Catonsville MD
Dave Shive is a 1968 graduate of the Washington Bible College, a 1972 graduate of Capital Bible Seminary with a Th.M. in New Testament Studies, and a 1994 graduate of Baltimore Hebrew University with an M.A. in Biblical Literature. Dave has spent the past 47 years in full time ministry as a pastor, Christian school director, and college professor. He currently serves with Frontier Ventures (formerly the US Center for World Mission) as a missions mobilizer for the northeast region of the United States. Dave lives in Catonsville, MD, with Kathy, his wife of 52 years. Dave and Kathy have three married children, Dan, Mike, and Becky. They are also the proud grandparents of 9 grandsons and 2 granddaughters. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Time: 6:00 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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Instructor
James Cha
Crescent Project, Leesburg VA
Rev. James Cha was born in Korea, but grew up here in the US. He studied electrical engineering at Cornell University, and worked ten years as an engineer. In 2000 he and his wife, Faith, took their 3 kids to Central Asia, where they served ten years as church planting missionaries with Pioneers. They are now back in the US reaching out to the Muslims in the Washington, DC area. James & Faith are Washington DC Area Coordinators for Crescent Project. They also direct ESL ministry in Leesburg, VA. They have three adult children and one grandchild. James recently published a book about their missions journey - Fear Not: Living a Life of No Regrets. Available on amazon. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Time: 6:00 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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Instructor
Blake Wood
Faith Community Church, Port Republic VA
Rev. Dr. R. Blake Wood has served in the Middle East since 2001. He founded Impact Middle East which is committed to planting creative discipling groups in underserved areas and empowering national leaders. He served as Executive Director of IME until 2011. Presently he serves as chairman of the board of IME and makes regular ministry trips into the Middle East to train and encourage national leaders. He is also Lead Pastor of Faith Community Church in Harrisonburg, VA. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Time: 6:00 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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Instructor
Lizzette Hernandez
Virginia Mennonite Missions, Rockingham VA
Lizzette is a native Honduran who lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia with her husband and two young adult children. She is a Medical Doctor graduated from the Honduran National University and has experience in working with several Christian non-profits who provided specialized medical services to people in need in her country. Her home church in Honduras has grown into a church planting movement both within Honduras and abroad. She moved to the US twelve years ago to attend Eastern Mennonite Seminary where she graduated with an M.Div. She currently works with Virginia Mennonite Missions as the Latino Ministries Coach where she coaches, equips and mobilizes Latino church planters into God's mission among the local Latino immigrant community and also works with other Latino workers abroad. She coordinates and facilitates the local chapter of the Anabaptist Biblical Institute which offers biblical and theological education in Spanish to Latino leaders. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Time: 6:00 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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Instructor
Douglas Batson
Global Frontier Missions, Cross Junction VA
Douglas Batson is a retired Defense Department geographer. With award-winning research and publications, he was an expert on land tenure and international migration.
Also a National Certified Career Counselor, Doug is on the Board of Directors of Global Frontier Missions, which operates a missionary training school in Atlanta, GA. He has been a Perspectives coordinator, instructor, and Professor of Record in the DC area for 25 years. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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
Jeff Graf
Missions Connections, Blacksburg VA
After closing his small business, Jeff and his wife Suzanne attended Capital Bible Seminary where Jeff earned a M.Div. degree, and Suzanne completed a Master of Arts in Christian Counseling and Discipleship. They served for six years in Papua New Guinea. They were lecturers at the Christian Leaders Training College. Suzanne taught missions history and lay counseling courses. Jeff led courses in theology, Bible, cell group leadership, preaching, teaching creatively, and Christian history. He developed an inductive Bible study tool kit to help students plumb the depths of Scripture. In addition, they conducted village ministries, were guests on public radio programs, and spoke at national Christian conferences. They have a good background in animistic religions and Melanesian culture. Upon their return to the United States, they served as Missionaries in Residence at Capital Bible Seminary and Washington Bible College. At these institutions Jeff taught missions classes at the undergraduate and graduate levels. They now reside in Blacksburg, Virginia. Jeff teaches in his church’s adult Sunday school program and shepherds a group of aspiring Greek students. Suzanne is an active leader in our church’s women’s ministry. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Instructor
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: Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Time: 6:00 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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Instructor
Bradley Long
Frontier Fellowship, Dayton VA
Rev. Bradley Long is a Presbyterian (ECO) Minister who grew up in Southwest Virginia. He holds degrees from King College in Bristol, TN (2007) and Princeton Theological Seminary (2010) and is currently working towards a PhD in Intercultural Studies (sometimes called Missiology) at Columbia International University. Bradley has served as a Pastor, Hospital and Hospice Chaplain, Mission Worker in Central Asia and now as a Mission Mobilizer. He lives in Dayton, VA with his wife (Jessica) and three girls (Susie, 7, Jenya, 4, and Aziza, 1). b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Time: 6:00 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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Clair Good
Eastern Mennonite Mission, Dayton VA
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Time: 6:00 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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Instructor
Skip Tobin
Virginia Mennonite Missions, Harrisonburg VA
For over 40 years, Skip has been energized to see church emerge in unlikely ways and places - inside prisons in SE PA, among immigrants in the town of Kennett Square, and later as he, his wife and six daughters served in Northeast Thailand among rural rice farmers. Most recently, Skip is serving as a ministry and church planting coach for Virginia Mennonite Missions. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Time: 6:00 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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Carl S Stauffer
Harrisonburg VA
BA - Social Work & Biblical Studies,
MA - Conflict Transformation & Restorative Justice,
PhD - The Power of Narrative Discourse in Shaping the Conflict in Zimbabwe b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Time: 6:00 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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Charlie
Asian Access, Potomac Falls VA
Charlie is presently directing the work of Asian Access in Vietnam. He has served as the Director of Outreach and Missions at The Falls Church in Falls Church, Virginia and as the Pastor of Missions and Outreach at McLean Presbyterian Church in McLean, Virginia as well as many years of ministry on the field. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Time: 6:00 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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K.
Frontier Ventures, Columbia MD
Karen has been involved in coordinating and instructing in Perspectives for 36 years. She currently serves as an associate with Common Ground Consultants. Her focus is on mobilizing and training followers of Jesus to share Him with their Muslim friends. Her love for and appreciation of Muslims has taken her to Turkey 21 times. As a result, she has many Turkish friends both in Turkey and in the U.S. She is also known as the "fun captain" by her grandchildren and she loves spending time with them. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Time: 6:00 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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Instructor
Brittany Woods
SIM USA, Washington DC
Brittany is a North Carolina native living in Washington, DC with her partner in life and ministry, Alex, a Campus Ministry Director at Howard University.
Brittany serves as an Educator and Recruiter with SIM USA, an international mission organization existing to respond to need, proclaim the Gospel and equip local churches in communities where Jesus is least known.
After living in South America for a season, Brittany has spent the past five years recruiting and equipping African American believers for God’s global Gospel work, training candidates of all backgrounds as they prepare for overseas service, and journeying with church and organization leaders desiring to send well.
Brittany has led short-term teams to West, South and North Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and throughout Europe, serving in nearly 20 countries and she remains in awe of how God is moving among His people. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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