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Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Time: 6:15 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: Faith Evangelical Free Church 1921 Barnes Rd Manhattan KS 66502

Contact: Leslie Burford

(316) 559-9970

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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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    Luke Hettinger

    Restore Counseling Services, Columbia MO

    When I was 24 I became the pastor of a small town church in Sumner, Iowa. It was there that God began to show my wife and I his heart for the nations through books, people, and Perspectives. Since that time we have had the incredible privilege to work as mobilizers, welcomers and even goers in a number of different contexts. Most recently my wife and I work as counselors and mentors to workers on and off the field through our counseling practice in Columbia, MO.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2023

    Time: 6:15 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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    Jeff Isaacs

    Valley Center KS

    Jeff Isaacs has been the Lead Pastor at Riverlawn Christian Church in Wichita, Kansas, for the past 14 years. Jeff is married to Jennifer and they have 4 amazing boys. Jeff has always had a heart for missions and strives to help share that heart with the church.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2023

    Time: 6:15 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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    Scott Hickox

    The Journey West County, Liberty MO

    
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2023

    Time: 6:15 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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    Matt

    Partner 135, Van Buren AR

    I am a family man, a business man, and a Kingdom man. As a missional leader, it is my aim to see the Gospel advance to where it is not currently being proclaimed, by whatever means God provides.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2023

    Time: 6:15 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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    Dennis Toll

    Associate Pastor, Manhattan KS

    Is passionate about the local church's role as Jesus' witness to the ends of the earth. Ministered for 11 years in France in church planting and theological education. Now serves as associate pastor focused on missions, and teaches regularly in French-speaking West Africa and Ethiopia. Focused on teaching the Word to disciple-makers who can proclaim Jesus and launch the Gospel.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2023

    Time: 6:15 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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    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: Tuesday, February 28, 2023

    Time: 6:15 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.

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    Andrew Herbek

    Perspectives, Omaha NE

    God took this farm boy from the middle of nowhere in Nebraska and sent him to serve among an unreached people group in East Asia doing ethnographic research. God used this experience to shape Andrew into a mobilizer and sent him back to North America to equip the body of Christ back home to engage and participate with God in His global purpose. Andrew is a member of Perspectives and serves on the Curriculum Revision Team. He has a Masters of Divinity and a MA in Intercultural Studies, and has field experience in thirteen countries. His heart is that of an educator and discipler, and he desires is to see Christ named and known by all the peoples of the earth, so that Christ can be loved and obeyed within all the peoples of the earth.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 7, 2023

    Time: 6:15 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.

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    Andrew Herbek

    Perspectives, Omaha NE

    God took this farm boy from the middle of nowhere in Nebraska and sent him to serve among an unreached people group in East Asia doing ethnographic research. God used this experience to shape Andrew into a mobilizer and sent him back to North America to equip the body of Christ back home to engage and participate with God in His global purpose. Andrew is a member of Perspectives and serves on the Curriculum Revision Team. He has a Masters of Divinity and a MA in Intercultural Studies, and has field experience in thirteen countries. His heart is that of an educator and discipler, and he desires is to see Christ named and known by all the peoples of the earth, so that Christ can be loved and obeyed within all the peoples of the earth.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 7, 2023

    Time: 8:15 PM to 9:00 PM

• • Lesson 9

    !! ONLINE !! - 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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    Lesson 9 Video Instruction

    Salt Lake City UT

    Bruce Koch (pictured) and Todd Ahrend
    
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    Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2023

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Dave Percy

    Ethnos 360, Roach MO

    I Served on the field of Thailand for 14 years. God allowed me to be involved in many facets of ministry. I see myself as an ORDINARY MAN SERVING AN EXTRAORDINARY GOD! I am a firsthand witness of a God who moves in incredible ways. God has given me a passion for his people, a love for his word and a desire to encourage and strengthen the church in this task of seeing a church birthed and matured among the unreached people of this world. My wife and I are presently located at the Missionary Training Center (MTC) located in central MO. I serve as a Teacher/ Trainer and Speaker for the MTC and we also serve together as advisors to students as they train for serving overseas.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2023

    Time: 6:15 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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    Marsha Relyea Miles

    Pioneer Bible Translators, Allen TX

    Marsha Relyea Miles is a missionary with Pioneer Bible Translators. Together with her late husband John Relyea, she has served as a Bible translator for the Aruamu people group in Papua New Guinea for 23 years. The Relyeas lived in an Aruamu village, analyzed and created an alphabet for this previously unwritten language, and worked together with local leaders to develop an extensive literacy and scripture-use program, and completed the translation of the New Testament into the Aruamu language. After John's death in PNG, Marsha has continued working as translation advisor to the Aruamu Old Testament team. The full Aruamu Bible was completed and published in 2021. The Bible dedication is being planned in PNG for August 2022. Marsha currently serves as an international translation consultant During 2007 Marsha served as President of the National Missionary Convention. She served as Director of Church Mobilization and Development with PBT for 5 years. Marsha is married to Nathan Miles of the United Bible Societies. She holds a Bachelor of Theology from Ozark Christian College and an MA in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Arlington. God has given Marsha a passionate heart for world missions, and a very compelling story to tell, drawn from front-line mission experience, sitting in the dirt in steamy jungles sharing with people about the Lord and translating the scriptures for them. Her inspiring challenge to mission involvement comes through with bold eloquence.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2023

    Time: 6:15 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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    David Cupery

    Manhattan Christian College, Manhattan KS

    Currently, I teach intercultural studies at Manhattan Christian College. My family and I served as missionaries in the country of Estonia, I was a part of developing a national organization that trains and equips workers for the local church. For my PhD, I am researching the barriers that North American leaders face when they engage in leading in second culture situations.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2023

    Time: 6:15 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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    Gene Daniels

    Fruitful Practice Research, Jacksonville AR

    Gene Daniels has a passion to spread the fame of Jesus in the Muslim world, something he and his family have been involved in since 1997, first as church planters in Central Asia and now as a mission researcher. Daniels has his doctorate in Religious Studies from the University of South Africa. He is also the author of several books and dozens of articles on mission. (Gene Daniels is a pseudonym)
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2023

    Time: 6:15 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.

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    Randy

    Common Ground Consultants, Minnetonka MN

    We've had the privilege of working and living among unreached peoples since 1989. Today we train many people in how to bring the good news of Jesus to the unreached and begin disciple-making movements among them. We opened and later directed the work for our organization in Central Asia.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2023

    Time: 6:15 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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    Andrew Broeckelman

    Christar, Garland TX

    Andrew grew up on a farm in Kansas and graduated from Kansas State University with a degree in Biological Systems Engineering in 2013. Upon graduation, Andrew joined staff with The Traveling Team, a mobilization ministry that recruits students from all major universities to God's global purposes. During a five year span, Andrew spoke to over 25,000 students at 150 different universities across the country about God's heart for the world. In 2018, Andrew and his wife joined Christar and moved to Spain for one year to work on a mobilization project hosting college students for short term trips and internships while working with Muslim immigrants and refugees. Andrew has firsthand experience in 12 different countries where Christar workers serve among least reached peoples and now serves with his wife as the directors of mobilization for Christar in the US.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, May 2, 2023

    Time: 6:15 PM to 9:00 PM

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    Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2023

    Time: 6:15 PM to 9:00 PM

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