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Date: Monday, August 14, 2023

Time: 9:15 AM to 12:15 PM

Location: First Christian Church 1532 E. Water Borden IN 47106

Contact: Melanie Mitchell

812 989 5861

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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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    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, August 14, 2023

    Time: 9:15 AM to 12:15 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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    Peggy Spiers

    All Nations International, Kansas City MO

    Peggy Spiers works for All Nations International where she mobilizes and trains both goers and senders. She has travelled extensively to missions fields around the globe. She enjoys coaching local church staffs and church members in ways to mobilize, equip and send well.
    
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    Date: Monday, August 21, 2023

    Time: 9:15 AM to 12:15 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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    Jim O'Neill

    Frontier Ventures, New Cumberland PA

    Missionary to Asia 1982 to 1995; Director of Missions, Liberty University and Seminary, 1995-2000; President, CrossWorld Mission, 2000-2009; ABWE, 2013 to 2016 President, The Center for Global Mission, 2009 to present; Director of Mobilization for Frontier Ventures 2016 to present.
    
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    Date: Monday, August 28, 2023

    Time: 9:15 AM to 12:15 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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    Tony

    CenterPoint International F'dation, Louisville KY

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    Date: Monday, September 11, 2023

    Time: 9:15 AM to 12:15 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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    Kshitiz Sharma Ghimire

    Flushing MI

    Kshitiz was born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal to a Hindu family. He was introduced to the gospel through a group of missionaries. After receiving the gospel in faith, Kshitiz has been residing in United States to pursue further education. Currently, he is working on his Doctor of Ministry in Expository Preaching and Teaching at Liberty University, while also serving as Pastor of Student Ministries at Riverdale Baptist Church in Flint, MI. His goal is to be missionary back to Nepal after his educational career comes to an end.
    
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    Date: Monday, September 18, 2023

    Time: 9:15 AM to 12:15 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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    Robert DuHart Sr

    Perspectives , Fort Washington MD

    Robert Gregory DuHart Sr. is a father, husband, grandfather and Elder at Cherrydale Baptist Church, where he teaches a Sunday Class and is a long-time member of the CBC Finance committee. Greg also serves on the boards of NAAMC & Pioneers. Greg has mentored immigrant families through the asylum process here in the US, worked with missionaries in Turkey, where he used his skills as a certified ESL teacher to prepare Iranian Christians for their journey west as well as preaching the Gospel in Cappadocia the land of the cave churches. In India, along with East-West Ministries, his team instructed 75-80 Pastor on the Sword Method of sermon preparation. In Indonesia, as a board member of Pioneers USA he and his wife Kimberlia prayed, listened, evaluated, and encouraged the teams bringing the Gospel to the Indonesians. Greg serves as mobilizer, coordinator, and instructor for Perspectives USA and is passionate about cross cultural ministry as a way of racially reconciling the Church in North America.
    
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    Date: Monday, September 25, 2023

    Time: 9:15 AM to 12:15 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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    Louisville KY

    
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, October 2, 2023

    Time: 9:15 AM to 12:15 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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    Glenn Rodriguez

    Crestwood KY

    Glenn is a native of Puerto Rico but has lived or worked in 3 continents and in more than 35 cities. His Christian walk has taken him to Cuba, Greece, Guatemala, Nigeria, Mexico, Uganda, Dominican Republic, and Kenya in addition to his home country sharing the word and serving God. Glenn continues to serve the Lord as a medical English to Spanish interpreter helping the needy. Glenn es natural de Puerto Rico, pero ha vivido o trabajado en 3 continentes en más de 35 ciudades. Su camino cristiano le ha llevado a Cuba, Republica Dominicana, Grecia, Guatemala, Nigeria, Uganda, y Kenya además de su propio patria compartiendo la palabra de Dios y sirviendo al Señor. Glenn le sirve al Señor como traductor de inglés a español en el campo medico ayudando a los necesitados.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, October 9, 2023

    Time: 9:15 AM to 12:15 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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    Jose Martinez

    Breath of Life International, louisville KY

    José Y. Martínez está casado con Raquel Martínez y tiene tres hijas: Ester (23), Fe (21) y Zoé (19). Nació en la República Dominicana y ahora reside en la cuidad de Louisville, Kentucky. José es un pastor ordenado, capellán, plantador de iglesias, misionero, evangelista, constructor de comunidades, mentor, visionario, pensador estratégico y constructor de equipos. Fue misionero con CFM entre los hispanos de EE. UU.,. Fue ministro asistente en la Iglesia de Cristo Locust Street en Johnson City, TN, y fundador del ministerio español en la Primera Iglesia Cristiana de Johnson City. Jose fundo la Iglesia Cristiana Breath of Life en Oxnard, California. Trabaja bi-vocacionalmente como fundador y actual presidente de Breath of Life International/Aliento de Vida Internacional (una organización misionera) y Gerente de Proyectos en Vogt Power International. Obtuve una Maestría en Divinidad de la Escuela de Religión Emmanuel en Johnson City Tennessee, una licenciatura de ciencia en Ingeniería Civil - Ambiental, una licenciatura en Física / Ingeniería y en español de la Universidades de Clarkson en Potsdam, New York y SUNY College en Plattsburgh, New York. Actualmente está terminando su doctorado en misiologia en el Seminario Bautista del Sur, donde es maestro asistente. El es el movilizador para el curso de Perspectivas sobre el Movimiento Cristiano Mundial en los estados de Kentucky y Indiana. Pero lo que es más importante, José ama a Jesús y tiene una pasión por hacer discípulos de todas las naciones. Pero la mas importante de Jose Martinez, es que el ama al Señor Jesucristo con todo su corazón y labora para que gente de toda la tierra adoraren y obedezcan a Jesucristo. José Y. Martinez is married to Raquel Martinez and has three daughters: Ester (23), Fe (21), and Zoe (19). He was born in the Dominican Republic. Jose is an ordained pastor, chaplain, church planter, missionary, evangelist, community builder, mentor, visionary, analytical thinker, and team builder. He was a missionary with CFM among US Hispanics, Assistant Minister at Locust Street Church of Christ in Johnson City, TN, Spanish Pastor, and founder of the Spanish ministry at the Johnson City First Christian Church, and founder of Breath of Life Christian Church in Oxnard, California. He works bi-vocationally as the founder and current president of Breath of Life International (a mission organization). I have earned a Master of Divinity from Emmanuel School of Religion, a B.S. in Civil - Environmental Engineering, a B.A. in Physics / Engineering, and Spanish from SUNY College at Plattsburgh. He is currently finishing his doctorate degree in global missions at the Southern Baptist Seminary where he is a teacher assistant. He is the area mobilizer for the Perspectives course on the Christian World Movement. But more importantly, Jose loves Jesus and has a passion for making disciples of all nations. But the most important of Jose Martinez, is that he loves the Lord Jesus Christ with all his heart and works so that people from all over the earth worship and obey Jesus Christ.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, October 16, 2023

    Time: 9:15 AM to 12:15 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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    Eliot Branch

    Mekong Multiply, Louisville KY

    Eliot Branch is the author of The Faith Road: A True Story of Peril and Mission in Southeast Asia and Director of Mekong Multiply. Eliot has a Masters Degree in World Missions from Lincoln Christian Seminary and served full-time in a church-planting effort among an unreached people group in Southeast Asia for 15 years. Eliot established a coffee company to assist upland farmers and former growers of opium, and continues to roast coffee in the USA. While in Southeast Asia, Eliot developed resources for the multiplication of disciples and churches among the unreached and through Mekong Multiply continues to coordinate efforts to launch national missionaries and national missionary sending bases to reach unreached people groups in Southeast Asia and beyond.
    
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    Date: Monday, October 23, 2023

    Time: 9:15 AM to 12:15 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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    Francis Bukachi

    HOPE ALIVE INITIATIVES, Nairobi Not in USA

    My wife, Pam and I have served in cross-cultural missions more than 10 years in the 1990s. We also provided leadership to children's home in Nairobi. Between 2010 and 2013, we served in northern Ghana equipping churches in wholistic ministry. We continue to provide leadership to Hope Alive Initiatives.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, November 6, 2023

    Time: 9:15 AM to 12:15 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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    Vicky Warren

    MissionNext, Mena AR

    Vicky spent 33 years working in innovative and creative environments from multimillion dollar technology deployments, alliances with technical luminaries such as Steve Jobs, Nicholas Negroponte's MIT media lab, Stanford Research Institute (SRI) and The Walt Disney Studios to entrepreneurial startup businesses. Her primary focus in these organizations included leadership and business development, strategic planning, research and development, innovation and creativity. She became "known" in these organizations for her heart for the Gospel through her daily walk in these high paced and demanding environments. Her passion for Christ took her on a 30-year journey of adventure as she walked on burning coals, assisted with eye clinics in Mexico, participated in medical relief efforts in Bolivia, planted pioneer businesses in Asia and Africa, came face to face with the persecuted church in Orissa, and served widows in the rainforest of Panama. Now she is committed full time to taking the Gospel to the nations through Pioneer Business Planting, building Kingdom businesses, and gobalization!
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, November 13, 2023

    Time: 9:15 AM to 12:15 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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    Tollie Meggs

    Out of the Boat Ministries, Tuscaloosa AL

    Founder of Out of the Boat Ministries where she is a Bible teacher, conference speaker, and author. Missions Mobilizer at Capstone Church in Tuscaloosa. Tollie leads retreats and conferences around the world, and has an ongoing counseling/teaching ministry to women in homeless shelters, helping them re-establish their lives. A passionate and gifted communicator, Tollie’s mission is: challenging and mobilizing followers of Christ to know Him more deeply and to make His glory known among the nations. She has a passion to help Christ followers discover their gifting and maximize their gifts, talents and life experience for the glory of God at home and abroad.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, November 20, 2023

    Time: 9:15 AM to 12:15 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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    Heather Gentry

    Louisville KY

    Heather served as a missionary in restricted access countries in Asia for 16 years. As a teacher of English as a Second Language, she has taught in several universities in Asia and the U.S. Heather and her husband also worked in community development while serving as church planters. Their focus is the Persian-speaking peoples of Muslim Central Asia. With the loss of numerous friends and acquaintances to targeted attacks, Heather and her husband and two teenagers personally learned the cost of valuing obedience over safety. Heather currently works in Student Affairs at a local university where she also serves as the university liaison to the Religious Life Association. She volunteers locally with Central Asian refugees and immigrants.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, November 27, 2023

    Time: 9:15 AM to 12:15 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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    Sarah Boles

    Hope Alive Initiatives, Louisville KY

    Sarah has a lot of experience with Cross-Cultural Ministry and training. She has been a short-term itinerant missionary for 10 years, visiting, training and learning from pastors and community leaders in Kenya, Malawi, Ghana, Zambia, Ethiopia, Cuba, Asia and Ecuador. Her heart is to empower others to effectively share the Gospel, demonstrate the love of God and disciple their communities. Sarah is currently the Director of the U.S. Office for Hope Alive Initiatives.
    
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    Date: Monday, December 4, 2023

    Time: 9:15 AM to 12:15 PM

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