Class Info

Date: Monday, January 9, 2023

Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: Marion Baptist Association 1520 NE 14th Street Ocala FL 34470

Contact: Amie Bricker

(352) 361-5642

• • Registration & Orientation

    Registration & Orientation

  • Instructor

    

    Sundee Simmons

    Perspectives, Winter Park FL

    Sundee Simmons currently serves as Associate Director of Perspectives Global. Sundee has been serving the Perspectives program since 1991. She has served as a volunteer coordinator, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Director, East Coast Regional Administrator and the Director of Training for Perspectives USA before joining the Perspectives Global Team. Sundee Simmons is a wife and mother of 3 children, Nathan (1996), Emily (1998) and Julianna (2005). Her husband, Scott, is a ordained PCA Pastor serving Third Millennium Ministries as the Director of Instructor Relations.

    
    

  • Date: Monday, January 9, 2023

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

• • 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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    Darren Gaddis

    Ocala FL

    Darren has been in full-time ministry for 32 years and has served churches in Florida, Texas, and Kentucky, Since 2010, he has been the Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church of Ocala, FL. His passion for the Great Commission has led him to global mission engagements in North America, South America, and Europe. In recent years, he has led his church to adopt and engage the Ayacucho Quechuans, an unreached people group located in the Peruvian Andes. Darren is married to Jennifer. They have three children: Leah, Ethan, and Meredith.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 16, 2023

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Emily Simmons

    Frontier Ventures, Gainesville FL

    Emily has a Bachelors Degree in Linguistics, Arabic, and Hebrew with a Teaching English certificate from UF. She works for Frontier Ventures, a missions organization dedicated to innovating new ways of reaching frontier peoples. She has a few different roles there, though her favorite is her role on the Perspectives 5th Edition Revision Team. She is passionate about learning and teaching and absolutely adores getting to learn from the students as she teaches Perspectives!
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 23, 2023

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Grant Haynes

    Global Frontier Missions, Lilburn GA

    Grant Haynes founded Global Frontier Missions in 2000 while church planting among indigenous groups in southern Mexico. His passion is to see as many individuals and churches as possible praying, giving, welcoming, and going to the least reached people groups of the earth. Grant spent 14 years serving in Oaxaca, Mexico with his wife and three children church planting, hosting short-term mission groups, running an indigenous Bible school, and starting a missionary training school for North Americans. Grant now serves in Clarkston, GA, known as the most diverse square mile in America, reaching refugees from Iraq, Burma, Bhutan, Nepal, Somalia, Ethiopia, and many other nations.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, January 30, 2023

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Jeffrey Moody

    Frontier Ventures, Gainesville FL

    After serving in various church roles, Jeff was "ruined for the ordinary" when he took Perspectives in 2003. He served his church as missions pastor for 6 years before joining Frontier Ventures. After leading internal projects for a couple of years, in 2014 he helped launch NextMove, a ministry of FV that helps missions agencies implement diaspora missions solutions. He co-directed NextMove for 6 years. In 2021 he joined the FV Operations Team as Business Transition Lead. He has volunteered in Persspectives for many years, coordinating and teaching Perspectives classes. He and his wife Kemberly have 3 adult children (and one wonderful daughter-in-law!). Jeff loves exercise, bass guitar, the arts, reading, and great conversations accompanied by good food and coffee.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 6, 2023

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Scott Simmons

    Third Millennium Ministries, Winter Park FL

    Scott Simmons is currently the Director of Professor Relations for Third Millennium Ministries, a ministry designed to provide theological education to church leaders around the world for free. Scott is in charge of adding video content from seminary professors and pastors around the world into our free, online curriculum. Before this, Scott was the minister of missions and spiritual formation at Chapelgate Presbyterian Church, where he oversaw global church planting partnerships and local evangelism and mercy ministries. Scott is the husband of one and father of three and he loves nature and wildlife photography, jazz and folk music, movies and a good book.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 13, 2023

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Roger Frank

    GLobal Connections, Orlando FL

    Roger received eternal life while in college. In seminary he received God's call into cross-cultural missions. After seminary he planted a church in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1989 he and his wife joined Youth With A Mission and focused on church planting among Muslims in Southeast Asia. In 1992 he worked for Far East Broadcasting. In 1993 he became the Dean of Tung Ling Bible College's School of Ministry. In 1996 he became the director of mobilization for YWAM Singapore and then from 1999 to 2006 led the School of Frontier Mission. In 2006 Roger became the director of YWAM's Frontier Mission Int'l Coordination Office. In 2011 he has been helping YWAM Orlando train, send, and support long-term workers. Since 2018 he and his wife are sharing the gospel with international students at local Orlando universities and coaching emerging Asian leaders.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 20, 2023

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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.

  • Instructor

    

    Sundee Simmons

    Perspectives, Winter Park FL

    Sundee Simmons currently serves as Associate Director of Perspectives Global. Sundee has been serving the Perspectives program since 1991. She has served as a volunteer coordinator, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Director, East Coast Regional Administrator and the Director of Training for Perspectives USA before joining the Perspectives Global Team. Sundee Simmons is a wife and mother of 3 children, Nathan (1996), Emily (1998) and Julianna (2005). Her husband, Scott, is a ordained PCA Pastor serving Third Millennium Ministries as the Director of Instructor Relations.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 27, 2023

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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.

  • Instructor

    

    Sundee Simmons

    Perspectives, Winter Park FL

    Sundee Simmons currently serves as Associate Director of Perspectives Global. Sundee has been serving the Perspectives program since 1991. She has served as a volunteer coordinator, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Director, East Coast Regional Administrator and the Director of Training for Perspectives USA before joining the Perspectives Global Team. Sundee Simmons is a wife and mother of 3 children, Nathan (1996), Emily (1998) and Julianna (2005). Her husband, Scott, is a ordained PCA Pastor serving Third Millennium Ministries as the Director of Instructor Relations.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 27, 2023

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Christopher Deckert

    JESUS Film - Cru, Orlando FL

    Chris works with The JESUS Film Project, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ. He has been working in the field of missions research and mapping of languages and people groups for 27 years. Chris has shared the story of the unfinished task at conferences around the globe and helps coordinate the World Missions Atlas Project (www.worldmap.org).
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 6, 2023

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Tom and Danielle Brendle

    Ethnos360, DeBary FL

    We are Tom and Danielle Brendle. We have been married for 27 years. In 1998, God took Danielle and I and our two little boys to Papua New Guinea. It was here that we became vessels to share the love of Christ with the Siawi people. The years were difficult, but we would not trade them. Today,there is a functioning church in Siawi. In 2009, our time of ministering in PNG ended, and we returned to Florida (with four boys) to work at the Ethnos360 home office. Today we serve as the Directors of Member Care. We have a passion to see others thrive as image bearers of the Creator.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 20, 2023

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Julie Whitmore

    Pioneers, Orlando FL

    While pursuing her degree, God grew Julie’s heart for missions among people who have little or no access to the gospel. Before even going on a short-term mission trip Julie made a three-year commitment to church planting in South Asia. She loved those years, but afterward God led her to work at Pioneers in Orlando. After four years on the mobilization team, now she serves as a pre-field coach, helping people move into cross-cultural, church-planting ministry with unreached people groups.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 27, 2023

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Elena Campbell

    Pioneers, Orlando FL

    I have a passion for community development, specifically agricultural development. After spending a year getting trained in desert agriculture with an organization called ECHO, I was able to spend a year in Tanzania working at their regional office. After returning from East Africa, I am developing my other passion - mentoring and mobilizing the next generation. I joined Pioneers on their mobilization team as a coordinator for their young adult program. I live in Orlando, Florida with my husband, and after some more training we do eventually hope to go overseas to work among the unreached.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 3, 2023

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Moasic girl

    St.Cloud FL

    Aicha serves on the Media2Movements team with Arab World Media, a ministry of Pioneers.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 10, 2023

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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.

  • Instructor

    

    Bruce Wilson

    GACX, Orlando FL

    Dr. Bruce Wilson is the Executive Vice President of GACX (a Global Alliance for Church Multiplication). The vision of GACX is to inspire and facilitate intentional collaboration within the body of Christ toward planting a healthy and multiplying church or faith community among every 1,000 people on Earth. Bruce has worked internationally for 30+ years as a consultant, pastor, and organizational leader. He is a global expert on international volunteering. After working in Indonesia for more than a decade, Bruce served as the mission pastor at College Church (IL), the Director of Strategic Initiatives at ECHO, and the Product Strategy and Vision Officer for a missions-tech start-up developing an online platform to connect skilled volunteers with global needs. Bruce has a doctorate in organizational leadership, writing his dissertation on the principles, practices and models guiding international volunteering initiatives. He has traveled to more than 70 countries. He is the author of the upcoming book, The Platform Revolution in Missions: Connecting Everyone to Everywhere on God’s Mission.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 17, 2023

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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    Jaime Saint

    I-TEC, Dunnellon FL

    Jaime was born in Willmar, MN, into a family with a heritage in missions.  His dad, Steve, is the son of martyr, Nate Saint, a jungle missionary pilot who was speared to death in the Amazon Rainforest of Ecuador, South America in 1956 by the Waodani tribe.  Jaime grew up in a family that participated in mission ventures in Ecuador as well as in Mali, West Africa, in-between businesses that took them from Minnesota to Texas and eventually to central Florida where I-TEC is headquartered. After graduating from high school in 1995, Jaime moved with his family to the Amazon Rainforest to help the Waodani tribe learn to do for themselves what outsiders had been doing so that the Waodani could reach their own people with the Gospel.  After returning from the jungles, Jaime attended the University of Florida, where he graduated with a degree in Marketing.  After his second year of college, Jaime married Jessica Shea, a girl he met just before leaving for the jungles.  Jaime and Jessica have been married for over 24 years and have six beautiful daughters, including one set of twins who became their grand finale. In 2010, Jaime joined the Indigenous People’s Technology and Education Center (I-TEC), which was founded by his dad, Steve.  Since his Dad's injury in 2012, Jaime has become the primary spokesperson for I-TEC, helping people in North America and around the world catch the vision for training Indigenous Christ followers with tools to open doors for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
    
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    Date: Monday, April 24, 2023

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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