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Date: Monday, January 16, 2023

Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: Second Baptist Church 2600 Dave Ward Conway AR 72034

Contact: Brian Darnell

(501) 303-8858

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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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    Kevin Little

    Maumelle AR

    
    
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    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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    Eric Guthrie

    Beautiful Feet, Choctaw OK

    Dr. James Eric Guthrie is the Executive Director of Beautiful Feet, a missionary mobilization, training, and sending organization focused on the unreached and neglected people groups of the world. He has traveled to more than 40 countries and ministered among all of the major religious blocks. Dr. Guthrie was involved with a church planting movement in India that saw more than one million people swept into the Kingdom over fifteen years. He has a Doctor of Intercultural Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary and his dissertation was focused on missionary training. He has been married for 35 years. In his free time, Dr. Guthrie enjoys reading, collecting comic books, playing guitar, and listening to the blues.
    
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    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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    Brian Hogan

    Disciple Making Mentors, Fayetteville AR

    Brian and Louise Hogan have served in mission since 1987. From the Navajo Tribe to Outer Mongolia, their passion has been to see Jesus glorified and lifted up among those who have never known Him. From 1993-1996 their team pioneered a church planting movement in Erdenet (AIR-DUH-NET), Mongolia that continues to grow under fully indigenous leadership to this day. Their Mongolian disciples are now training and sending out their own missionaries to other unreached people groups. The story of the work in Erdenet can be read in Brian’s book: There’s a Sheep in my Bathtub (Asteroidea Books), and in the case study article – “Distant Thunder: Mongols Follow the Khan of Khans” – on page 695 of your Perspectives Reader.
    
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    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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    Wyman Richardson

    North Little Rock AR

    
    
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    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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    Nathaniel Allen

    Global Outfitters, Fayetteville AR

    Nathan Allen is the Global Missions pastor at New Heights Church in Fayetteville, AR and the Director of Global Outfitters. He has a Bachelors of Arts in History and political Science from the University of Arkansas. He is currently pursuing a Masters in Theological Studies from Reformed Theological Seminary.
    
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    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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    Wesley Ooms

    Hot Springs Village AR

    Wes served for more than 30 years as the Lead Pastor of Community Bible Fellowship in El Paso, Illinois, a church he planted in 1990. He holds a Master's Degree in Biblical Studies from Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas. Wes is an adjunct professor, having taught Homiletics as well as Church History at the New Life Bible College in Moscow, Russia. He has trained missionaries and pastors in Russia, Estonia, Tunisia and Kenya. He has been a Perspectives instructor since 2006. Wes and his wife Norma have been married for 46 years, and have 3 grown children and 6 grandchildren. In his spare time, Wes enjoys camping and collecting vintage fishing lures.
    
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    Date: Monday, February 20, 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.

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    Kenneth Wilson

    Fellowship Bible Church, Conway AR

    Ken has a heart for God's Word and for the Nations. As a pastor and bible teacher Ken is actively involved in mobilizing, sending and supporting as well as being directly involved in mission efforts all over the world. Ken's pastors Fellowship Bible Church in Conway and since 1999 has seen Fellowship change its Mission Focus from being a Sending Agency to being Full Partners in Mission. With yearly trips for all ages to Mexico, Czech Republic, Ukraine, China and Nicaragua as well as sending many members of Fellowship to long term assignments (many of them from the church staff) Fellowship is deepening its heart for the Nations and the Gory of God.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, February 27, 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.

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    Anna Darnell

    Perspectives, Conway AR

    Anna & her husband Brian are passionate about mobilizing God's people to engage fully in His plans & purposes. Whether locally or abroad, one of her greatest joys is helping others realize who God created them to be and coaching them as they take steps toward their specific role in fulfilling the Great Commission. Anna has served through Perspectives as a coordinator, instructor, area mentor and currently serves as the Perspectives Chief Training Officer and Acting Director of Instructor Development.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 6, 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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    Brian Darnell

    , Conway AR

    Brian first learned of God's heart for the nations on a trip to an orphanage in Jamaica. From that time as an 18 yr. old, he has lived in India on a church-planting team, done medical missions in multiple countries, and has partnered with his wife in mobilization in the U.S. and abroad. His passion is for the lost to hear, and for the church to be mobilized worldwide in an effort to give God the glory He is due.
    
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    Date: Monday, March 13, 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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    Ken

    Pioneers International, Plano TX

    Ken has walked alongside Hindus for over a decade. He loves helping Hindus in their spiritual journeys and teaching others how to better love and serve their Hindu friends.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, March 27, 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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    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: Monday, April 3, 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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    Kolton Thomas

    Reclaimed Recovery, Little Rock AR

    Kolton and his wife Sarah live in Little Rock, AR where Kolton is currently serving as the coordinator for the Little Rock Perspectives class. Kolton worked for a Christian development organization for two years serving as a liaison between the US and Haiti. He also served on the Board of Directors for a local nonprofit fighting Human Trafficking and lived for 3 years as an RA in a residential home typesetting for male youth aging out of foster care. Kolton is currently pursuing a graduate degree in counseling from John Brown University and has a passion for mobilizing fellow believers deeper into world missions and also for leading men out of addiction so they can be more effective in helping advance the Kingdom of God.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 10, 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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    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, April 17, 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.

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    Louise Hogan

    Disciple Making Mentors, Fayetteville AR

    Louise first took the Perspectives course in 1988, when she and her husband Brian were working with Navajo Gospel mission in Arizona. The course changed the course of their lives and ended up at the ends of the earth. From the Navajo Tribe to Outer Mongolia, their passion has been to see Jesus glorified and lifted up among those who have never known Him. From 1993-1996 their team pioneered a church planting movement in Erdenet, Mongolia that continues to grow under fully indigenous leadership to this day. Their Mongolian disciples are now training and sending out their own missionaries to other unreached people groups. The story of the work in Erdenet can be read in Brian’s book: There’s a Sheep in my Bathtub (Asteroidea Books), and in the case study article – “Mongols Follow the Khan of Khans” – included in Perspectives Reader Louise trained as a midwife in 2010-2011 and practiced in Northern California and NW Arkansas. She now devotes her time and energy to training Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs – village midwives) who are also disciple makers. She has run multiple trainings in Uganda, Columbia, South Sudan, Mozambique, Malawi and Madagascar. Louise finances the travel and expenses for these trips from the sale of her home-made artisan greeting cards. Louise also staffs Schools of Frontier Mission for YWAM and mentors college-age women headed for the mission field. Together, Brian and Louise put on semi-annual GAP Gatherings where church planters come from around the world to share a week with their peers and relaunch their vision to see a Disciple Making Movement among the people they work with.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Monday, April 24, 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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    Justin Schell

    Union, Tulsa OK

    Justin is passionate about doing whatever he can to see the Great Commission fulfilled. He mobilized with The Traveling Team for 5 years. He studied missiology and global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and global leadership and business at EDHEC Business School in Nice, France. He has been a part of a church planting team in North Africa. He is the US Director for Union, a ministry based in the UK training leaders for the Church throughout the world. He also serves as the Director of Executive Projects for The Lausanne Movement, creating and catalyzing initiatives to accelerate the completion of the Great Commission. Areas of interest/expertise include Reaching Muslims, Church Planting, Global Christianity, Biblical Theology, the Local Church engaging in mission, Global Partnership, Theological Education, Business as Mission, and Mobilization. He is husband of Megan and papa of Henry and Evie.
    
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    Date: Monday, May 1, 2023

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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