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Date: Monday, February 20, 2023

Time: 12:00 AM to 12:00 AM

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• • Registration & Orientation

    An Orientation packet will be distributed around Feb 20 to registrars. Virtual orientations (optional) are scheduled for 2/25 @ 12 pm ET and 2/26 @ 6pm ET (attend one). Class begins 3/6/23.

    Registration & Orientation

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  • Date: Monday, February 20, 2023

    Time: 12:00 AM to 12:00 AM

• • 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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    Lesson 1 Video Instruction

    Riverside CA

    Claude Hickman (pictured) and Richard Coleman
    
    b

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    Date: Monday, March 6, 2023

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Lesson 2 Video Instruction

    Austin TX

    Steve Hawthorne
    
    b

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    Date: Monday, March 13, 2023

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Lesson 3 Video Instruction

    Redlands CA

    Jeff Lewis
    
    b

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    Date: Monday, March 20, 2023

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Lesson 4 Video Instruction

    Glendale CA

    John Lo
    
    b

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    Date: Monday, March 27, 2023

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Lesson 5 Video Instruction

    Charlotte NC

    Phillip Nelson (pictured) and Steve Hawthorne
    
    b

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    Date: Monday, April 3, 2023

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 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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    Lesson 6 Video Instruction

    Austin TX

    Yvonne Huneycutt (pictured) and Scott Sunquist
    
    b

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    Date: Monday, April 10, 2023

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Lesson 7 Video Instruction

    Kansas City MO

    Mary Ho (pictured) and Andrew Pearce
    
    b

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    Date: Monday, April 17, 2023

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Lesson 8 Video Instruction

    Fayetteville AR

    Todd Ahrend (pictured) and Mary Ho
    
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    Date: Monday, April 24, 2023

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Lesson 9 Video Instruction

    Salt Lake City UT

    Bruce Koch (pictured) and Todd Ahrend
    
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    Date: Monday, May 8, 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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    Lesson 10 Video Instruction

    Lexington SC

    Dennis Cochrane (pictured) and Pam Arlund
    
    b

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    Date: Monday, May 15, 2023

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Lesson 11 Video Instruction

    West Hills CA

    Colleen Wong
    
    b

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    Date: Monday, May 22, 2023

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Lesson 12 Video Instruction

    Burbank CA

    Mike Brown (pictured) and Jim Ardill
    
    b

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    Date: Monday, May 29, 2023

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Lesson 13 Video Instruction

    Kansas City MO

    Pam Arlund (pictured) and Bobby Gupta
    
    b

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    Date: Monday, June 5, 2023

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Lesson 14 Video Instruction

    Fayetteville AR

    Brian Hogan (pictured) and Nathan J’Diim
    
    b

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    Date: Monday, June 19, 2023

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • 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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    Lesson 15 Video Instruction

    Stillwater OK

    Bryan Padgett (pictured) and Richard Coleman
    
    b

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    Date: Monday, June 26, 2023

    Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM

• • Celebration

    Integrative Project Due

    Celebration

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    Date: Sunday, July 9, 2023

    Time: 12:00 AM to 12:00 AM

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