Class Info

Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: Covenant Life Fellowship 1553 NE Vine St Roseburg OR 97470

Contact: Rachel Hawkins

541-378-5099

• • Registration & Orientation

    Registration & Orientation

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  • Date: Tuesday, January 17, 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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    Orin Kidd

    Grace Bible Fellowship, Albany OR

    Orin Kidd Grace Bible Fellowship Biographical Sketch Orin came to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ in 1971. At that time Orin was working in forestry with the United States Forest Service on the Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon. From the very outset of Orin's new faith in Christ, there was a strong desire to serve the Lord in a cross-cultural context among people who had not yet had the opportunity to hear the gospel. In order to prepare for cross-cultural ministry, Orin and his wife, Rosa, attended Prairie Bible College from 1972 to 1976. In 1977, following graduation from Prairie and linguistic training at the University of Washington, Orin and Rosa, along with their two sons, Orin Jr. and Joshua, left for Irian Jaya, Indonesia, (now West Papua) where they spent 22 years working with the Kimyal tribe in the Eastern Highlands. Orin spent most of those years in church planting, discipleship, and leadership development. The last four and a half years on the field Orin served as Field Director. Orin also served with World Team for 5 years as the Northwest Regional Director of a ministry arm of World Team called ChurchLink. The focus of this ministry was serving local churches through building relationships, casting vision and providing resources for strategic impact locally and globally among unreached people groups. Orin’s teaching and preaching gifts, his deep love for the church, and 22 years of cross-cultural experience uniquely equipped him for this ministry. After 30 years with World Team, Orin and Rosa resigned from World Team to begin a new ministry role as the Pastor of Global Outreach at Grace Bible Fellowship in Tangent, Oregon, where they currently serve.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, January 24, 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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    Gerry Breshears

    Western Seminary, Portland OR

    Gerry Breshears has been professor of theology at Western Seminary since 1980. He served three years with WorldVenture in the Philippines, teaching at Faith Academy and helping start Calvary Baptist Church. He received the Ph.D. from Fuller Seminary. He now teaches overseas about one month per year. In addition to teaching and lecturing at a number of colleges and seminaries around the world, he speaks in many churches. He is co-author of Vintage Jesus, Death by Love, and Vintage Church with Mark Driscoll, in the Relit series from Crossway. Gerry and his wife, Sherry, have two sons, Donn and David, and a daughter, Cyndee, and three wonderful grandgirls. He is an elder and a member of the preaching team at Grace Community Church of Gresham, Oregon.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, January 31, 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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    Gilbert A Gleason

    Portland OR

    Gilbert Gleason's initial exposure to missions came as a missionary kid on with the Navajos of Northern Arizona. He witnessed their passion for reaching others in their tribal group with the Gospel. Following his training at Biola University and Western Seminary, he has served for more than forty years in in the pastoral ministry at Grace Bible Fellowship in Portland, Oregon. He has made trips to Peru and Papua to encourage and support the church's missionary teams there. He authored “Love So Amazing: The Missionary Biography of Bert and Colleen Elliot.”
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 7, 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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    AC Hawthorne

    Frontier Ventures, Portland OR

    Ahshuwah has been a church planter and missions team leader since 2005. He lives with his wife and 6 kids in Portland, OR.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 14, 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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    Jim Stevens

    Fr., Portland OR

    Training in Biology and Environmental Science Worked as agricultural consultant and water quality specialist 6 years in Uganda in late 80's early 90's as agriculture development specialist. 4 years in Kyrgyzstan (06 thru 09) teaching in national ag university and doing projects outside of capitol. Currently Pac NW area director for recruiting and mobilization for a mission agency.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 21, 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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    Andrew Frye

    Worldview Acdaemy, Grants Pass OR

    Andrew Frye is a national speaker with Worldview Academy (worldview.org) and an educator with over 35 years in secondary and college education. He is a James-Madison Fellow Scholar and has served as teacher, elder, and worship leader in the local church. He has been married to Theresa since 1990 and has two adult children. He is currently department chair for social studies at Grants Pass HS.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, February 28, 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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    Al Dobra

    IDEAS (International Development & Educational Associates), Eugene OR

    I was born and raised in Pakistan by missionary parents before moving to Uganda and Kenya in high school. My wife and I served five years with World Venture in Ivory Coast and the US office. We served 19 years with AIM in Kenya and the US serving as recruiters/mobilizers. Currently we are with IDEAS (International Development & Educational Associates) serving as recruiters and mentors for those looking to serve cross-culturally in business and professional situations in mostly closed access nations.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 7, 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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    Marti Wade

    Pioneers, Hillsboro OR

    Marti has been teaching Perspectives since the 1990’s and serving with Pioneers (Pioneers.org) since 2007, where she is the editorial director for the Marketing Team. Previously she was part of a ministry that sent teams to conduct ethnographic research to support strategic prayer and ministry efforts in unreached cities. She is the editor and publisher of the weekly Missions Catalyst newsletter (MissionsCatalyst.net) and serves on the board for MissionWorks (MissionWorks.global).
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 14, 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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    Craig Combs

    Roseburg OR

    Craig and his wife, Anne, served in literacy and administrative roles with Wycliffe and SIL in Sudan and Uganda from 1991 – 2005. They served as communication consultants with the Wycliffe Global Alliance between 2005 – 2016. The latter role took Craig on story-gathering and literacy-training assignments in several countries, including Kenya, Mozambique, Russia, South Sudan, and Sudan.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, March 21, 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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    Bruce Benson

    Wycliffe Bible Translators, Oregon City OR

    My wife Jan and I worked for over 37 years with Wycliffe Bible Translators, 30 of those in Peru. In 2003 the Huamalies Quechua New Testament was published and distributed. In 2011, the Huallaga Quechua Bible was published and distributed. We are currently retired (as of October 1, 2015) and are looking forward to what God has for us next. Perspectives will continue to be a vital part of our lives and we are prayerfully considering other ministry opportunities.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 4, 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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    Jonathan Martin

    Black Butte Ranch OR

    Jonathan lives with his wife, Janie, in Sisters, Oregon. Jonathan taught in several colleges and universities in Central and East Asia for over a decade working with Muslims, and then spent 15 years pastoring at Good Shepherd Community Church in Boring, Oregon. He is now on staff with Co-Serve International and has the amazing privilege to learn from and help train leaders all over the world. He is the author of Giving Wisely, Breaking the King Saul Syndrome, and Reconstructing the Church: Paul's Letter to the 21st Century. Jonathan and Janie have three children and 4 grandchildren.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 11, 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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    Dan Collins

    Eugene OR

    I am a follower of Jesus, leader by character, social entrepreneur, husband of one, father to three, son of the most high God. I am intrigued and challenged by the writings in the Bible. I am inspired and compelled by the words, leadership, and life of Jesus the Messiah. My heartbeat is worship, that all people might know the joy of praising and following Jesus. May we be local churches of all nations for the nations.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 18, 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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    Miriam Adeney

    Seattle Pacific University, Shoreline WA

    With a Ph.D. in Anthropology and three sons, Miriam Adeney never stops learning. When not conducting her regular courses at Seattle Pacific University, Miriam teaches modules on five continents. She is passionate about training indigenous writers. A prolific speaker who has been invited to many campuses and national and international venues, Miriam also writes, resulting in five books and over 100 articles.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, April 25, 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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    Nathan J'Diim

    TOAG/Launch Internship and Frontiers, Chandler AZ

    Nathan J'Diim (pen name) is the Founder of TOAG and (semi-retired) Consultant, Instructor and Coach for Frontiers (www.FrontiersUSA.org). Launch (www.LaunchGlobal.org) has since replaced TOAG but carries the same DNA: a year long after-hours internship preparing beautiful feet to serve in the Unreached World. Offered in cities across the US, TOAG/Launch has apprenticed hundreds of interns, many who serve or will soon serve the least reached world wide.
    
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  • Class Info

    Date: Tuesday, May 2, 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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    Bill MacLeod

    MissionConnexion, Sun City West AZ

    Bill MacLeod is the Director of MissionConnexion which he founded in 2001 during his fifteen years as a missions pastor in Portland. He has been a mobilizer for over 40 years dedicating his life to city-wide people movements while serving in an evangelistic organization, a national men's movement, a local church as missions pastor, and as founder/executive director of a regional church-missions-mobilizing effort.
    
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    Date: Tuesday, May 9, 2023

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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    Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2023

    Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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