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Date: Sunday, January 22, 2023

Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Location: Good News Church 7415 Hickory St, Omaha NE 68124

Contact: Tami Donica

(402) 616-6297

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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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    Andy Kampman

    Launch Global and Austin Stone Community Church, Austin TX

    Empowering this generation to bless all nations. Andy and Jamie Kampman did college ministry for 8 years. In 2006, they help start Launch Global and now also works with Austin Stone Community Church as Director of Mobilization. Their strong desire is to see young people engaged in the evangelization of the world! They have four children and live in Austin, TX.
    
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    Date: Sunday, January 22, 2023

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Al Fadi

    CIRA International, Queen Creek AZ

    Brother Elijah *** Lessons taught: 4 & 11 *** * Missionary to Muslims * Islamist – Researcher, Writer, and Blogger * Co-Editor/Co-author/Translator * Guest Lecturer/Speaker on Islamic Studies & Apologetics * Adjunct Professor of Islamic Studies at numerous Bible colleges and Seminaries * Invited guest speaker and trainer at churches and mission agencies * Invited Guest Analyst on the topics of the Middle East & Radical Islam * Host of the faith talk radio show, "Let Us Reason. A Christian-Muslim Dialogue with Al Fadi" on KPXQ 1360 AM [ http://soundcloud.com/let-us-reason ] Elijah is a former Wahabbi Muslim from Saudi Arabia. He is a researcher, editor, writer, and translator for numerous ministries, including "Answering Islam", “Desiring God”, “The Gospel Coalition”, and “Jesus On Line”. Elijah is the founder & director of an outreach training & equipping Ministry (The Center for Islamic Research & Awareness – CIRA) which focuses on bringing awareness about Islam, building bridges with Muslims, training on outreach and evangelism to Muslims (i.e. immigrants, refugees, & international students), and to provide expert opinion and consultations on issues related to Muslim evangelism, Academic training, Political Islam, & Sharia Law. From 2008 – 2013, Elijah was also involved as a co-editor, co-author and contributor of "The Qur'an Dilemma" (English Book – Vol. 1) - a critical analysis book of the Qur'an. His responsibilities included overseeing and managing TheQuran.com blog & social media. Elijah holds a Masters in Engineering and an M.Div. in Biblical Communications.
    
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    Date: Sunday, January 29, 2023

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Don Pahl

    Gardner KS

    EDUCATION: BA - Grace University, Omaha MDiv; DMin - Denver Seminary PASTOR (50 years): Saskatchewan; Ohio; Manitoba; Kansas; Nebraska FAMILY: Married to Rosella (45 years). We have two married sons and six grandchildren. Father of 2 sons; grandfather of 6. CURRENT: Semi retired.
    
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    Date: Sunday, February 5, 2023

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Tara Rye

    Audio Scripture Ministries, Omaha NE

    Tara’s love for a good story makes her heart sing. She incorporates biblical storying along with inductive Bible study methods in small groups at church, in a homeless shelter, on mission trips, on the radio, and at speaking engagements. Tara is the Training Coordinator for Global Friends, a ministry that reaches international students on college campuses. She is an adjunct professor at Nebraska Christian College. She is also an Executive Coach with Cru and the President/Founder of Cultivating Hearts Ministries. Tara is an author and speaker. She was the former Dean of Women at Grace University and the professor for Orality. Feel free to contact her at www.tararye.com.She was the former Dean of Women at Grace University and the professor for Orality. Feel free to contact her at www.tararye.com.
    
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    Date: Sunday, February 12, 2023

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    John Oh

    Dallas International University, McKinney TX

    After working as an engineer and completing his seminary education, John worked as a mobilizer at a mission agency. He joined Wycliffe Bible Translators in 1998 and served as a Bible translator in Southeast Asia. He also served as the director of Korean Church Engagement and provided missions education and training. He is currently serving as the Director of External Relationships at Dallas International University.
    
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    Date: Sunday, February 19, 2023

    Time: 2:00 AM to 5:00 AM

• • 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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    Jordan Schlake

    Lincoln NE

    Jordan grew up in a small town church with a big heart for missions. That global outlook has continued with him in his career in international trade development where he gets to see God at work in people and places around the world. He has a particular heart for the Japanese people and he enjoys using his language skills to get to know the Japanese community living in Lincoln. When not traveling for work, he enjoys spending time with his wife Trisha and their one-year-old son Roen.
    
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    Date: Sunday, February 26, 2023

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Darrell Racey

    Christar, Lincoln NE

    Darrell and Ruth worked in the Middle East for 26 years, witnessing and gathering believers into fellowship groups. They now work with Arabic speaking refugees in Lincoln, NE, from Muslim, Yazidi, Christian and Sabean (followers of John the Baptist) backgrounds.
    
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    Date: Sunday, March 5, 2023

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Jon Hardin

    Frontiers, Highlands Ranch CO

    Dr. Jon Hardin is the National Communications Specialist for Frontiers. He has served in full-time missions work for over 25 years. Jon regularly speaks and teaches in churches, conferences, and various training events around the world--he has taught over 35,000 Perspectives students. Jon has a passion for seeing local churches and ordinary Christians step into strategic roles in the global missions enterprise. Jon is an ordained minister, holds a PhD from the VU University in Amsterdam, and did post-graduate studies at the International Baptist Theological Seminary in Prague. He is also a graduate of Denver Seminary. Jon is a CPA and prior to going into full-time ministry he worked for IBM Corporation for nine years.
    
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    Date: Sunday, March 12, 2023

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Laura Clause

    Global Hues Market, McCook NE

    Laura has always found herself passionate about engaging with people from all cultures and languages around the world. She is a Perspectives Alum who turned her Perspectives Project into a business so that she could use her voice to ignite change in the world. Global Hues Market's focus is on poverty elimination, orphan prevention, and trafficking abolition by creating jobs through retail partnerships. Laura lives with her husband, Matt and their five young children in McCook, Nebraska.
    
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    Date: Sunday, March 19, 2023

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Trevor Deck

    Wycliffe Bible Translators, La Mesa CA

    Trevor Deck has served with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Bangladesh, Bulgaria, and now with the Global Diaspora Team working to connect diaspora communities with translation projects in hard to access countries.
    
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    Date: Sunday, March 26, 2023

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Wayne Edwards

    Wycliffe Bible Translators, Wheaton IL

    Event speaker, Translation and Scripture Engagement Consultant with Wycliffe Bible Translators. Wayne and his family pioneered in a Muslim tribal community for fifteen years before a medical crisis brought them back to the States. Wayne travels regularly to Asia to continue leadership development work and check translations done by local believers. He has to avoid family and work identifiers here but will share more of the story in person. Taking Perspectives and coordinating two classes has inspired and shaped everything Wayne has been involved in since; now he loves bringing a report of God's faithfulness from the field he serves.
    
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    Date: Sunday, April 2, 2023

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Pamela Franks

    Embrace the Nations, Founder, in Omaha, NE www.embracethenations.com, Omaha NE

    Pam began her call to missions in Guatemala, Central America. She led medical missions for a large Christian organization during a time of civil war in that country. After five years on the field, the family relocated to Omaha, NE. As Missions Director at Glad Tidings Church in Omaha since 1998, Pam has been able to share her passion to see Jesus lifted up among the nations and has built relationship with people from all over the world. As a Registered Nurse, she has used her experience to instruct healthcare professionals and other groups in cultural awareness. In 2009, Pam began a Christian non-profit called Embrace the Nations. The main focus of this ministry has been toward refugees living in the city who are from unreached parts of the world. Embrace the Nations exists to bring the gospel to refugees so they may know and glorify Jesus. We do this through empowering families, discipling cross-culturally and mobilizing the church toward prayer and action.
    
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    Date: Sunday, April 16, 2023

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Stan Yoder

    World Partners, Maquoketa IA

    Stan and his wife, Valli, served full-time with World Partners since 1978. Valli passed away in November 2021 after a long battle with M.S. Their experience includes 10 years of church planting and curative medical work in Sierra Leone, West Africa among the Yalunka People; 3 years at the US Center as Administrative Director for the Adopt-a-People Clearinghouse; 3 years mobilizing churches to adopt unreached people groups; 2 years training students at Bethel College, Mishawaka, IN; 4 years coaching workers in Africa and the Middle East; and 16 years reaching out to Middle Wast refugees in Kansas City, Missouri. They moved to Maquoketa, Iowa in October 2018 and will begin a new ministry to Middle East students. Stan will continue to serve with World Partners as a traveling evangelist among Muslims and instructor for Perspectives.
    
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    Date: Sunday, April 23, 2023

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Jim Capaldo

    Converge Heartland, Sioux Falls SD

    Jim Capaldo and his family spent 11 years serving in a pioneering church planting movement among the Tuvan tribe of Siberian Russia, a land where Shamanism and Buddhism have the prominent religions for centuries. Jim took a holistic approach to church planting that involved both the spiritual elements of evangelism and discipleship as well as addressing the the physical elements through community development and business as mission. Following his missionary career, Jim has served as as the Outreach and Teaching Pastors at ChangePoint Church in Anchorage, AK and Central Baptist Church in Sioux Falls, SD. He currently serves as the District Executive Minister of the Converge Heartland District (formerly known as Baptist General Conference) working to see a gospel-centered church bringing transformation to every Heartland community. The Converge Heartland District spans from ND to KS, Jim and his family are based in Sioux Falls, SD.
    
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    Date: Sunday, April 30, 2023

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 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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    Brett Clemens

    Perspectives Study Program, Kansas City MO

    After spending 9 years in the corporate world as a financial analyst at Hallmark Cards in Kansas City, MO, Brett left the corporate world for full-time vocational ministry. He currently serves as a Perspectives Regional Director. He has a great passion to mobilize the body of Christ to strategic engagement in God’s global purpose.
    
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    Date: Sunday, May 7, 2023

    Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

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