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Santa Ana, CA // S23
Spring 2023
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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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Jake B.
The Traveling Team, Riverside CA
Jake grew up in Kansas and earned a degree in Animal Science from Kansas State University. For the past 9 years, he has been on staff with The Traveling Team, serving as a team leader and Director of Projects. The Traveling Team is a ministry that speaks to students all across the country to cast missions vision and challenge them to get involved in finishing the Great Commission. During his time on staff, Jake has spoken to over 35,000 students on 400+ campuses in 49 states. He’s also spent time doing ministry in India and hopes to do long-term ministry in the Middle East in the near future. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 23, 2023
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Mike
Hacienda Heights CA
Mike and his wife, along with their three children, lived and served for 10 years among one of the least reached people groups, with a Christian population around 0.02%. They were involved in church planting, discipling local believers, training indigenous missionaries, as well as coordinating educational and medical projects. Nowadays they are based in the U.S. and focused on equipping missionaries and reaching immigrants and refugees. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 30, 2023
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Instructor
Robert Blincoe
Frontiers, Mesa AZ
Bob led a Frontiers team into northern Iraq following the first Gulf War in 1991. He is president emeritus of Frontiers USA, living in Phoenix. He has a Ph.D. in History from William Carey International University in Pasadena. He has twice lost on television game shows. He blogs at robertblincoe.blog. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 6, 2023
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Daniel Lim
International Students, Inc., Torrance CA
Daniel has worked with international students since 1996, and currently serves with International Students, Inc. as an Area Mobilizer, partnering with local churches to develop, equip and train church based teams to engage in the highly strategic missions field of international student ministry. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 13, 2023
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Jonathan Marshall
, Santa Ana CA
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 20, 2023
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Shanalea Atchison
Sandals Church, Riverside CA
Shanalea is wife to Adam Atchison, campus pastor of Sandals Church Palm Ave, mom to four active boys, and an elementary school teacher. She grew up with a love for the world, and God is teaching her what it means to love the world from her classroom and the local church. Her heart is to teach others what it means to live this out from right where they are. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 27, 2023
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Andy Pearce
International Students, Inc., San Gabriel CA
Andy serves as Director of Church Partnerships with International Students, Inc. (ISI) He has a Master's in Theological Studies from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, a Master's in Education from Cal State Los Angeles, and a Ph.D.in International Development from William Carey International University. Andy and his wife have four daughters and one son and live in San Gabriel, CA. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 6, 2023
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Dan David
Frontiers, Santa Maria CA
Dan David worked in the Middle East for 20 years to see disciple making movements happen among Muslims. He currently is a prayer catalyst with Frontiers. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 13, 2023
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Jeannie Marie
Frontiers, Gilbert AZ
Jeannie Marie is a strategist for Frontiers, an international sending agency that recruits, trains, and sends long-term field-workers to more than fifty Muslim countries. She's also lived overseas in the Philippines and in India with her husband and four children, worked with refugees and international students locally, and worked at a church mobilizing.
Jeannie Marie is the author of Across the Street and Around the World: Following Jesus to the Nations in Your Neighborhood and Beyond, published by Thomas Nelson and the creator of the digital The Neighbors & Nations Course. Check out a lot of resources, like quizzes, blogs, free chapters, and training for going across the street and around the world at www.jeanniemarieacademy.com b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 20, 2023
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Wade Harlan
Alhambra CA
Wade & his family spent 18 years combining agricultural development projects and pioneering church planting among an unreached people group in a communist country in Asia. Since being blacklisted in that country in 2016 for his ministry activities Wade has been serving as a pastor in Los Angeles. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 27, 2023
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Laura Macias
Trinity United Presbyterian Church , Fullerton CA
After serving as a public school teacher for 18 years, Laura and her family joined Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) as the orality specialist for Latin America. While serving among oral preference learners in Central and South America, Laura also served with the International Orality Network (ION) leadership team overseeing secondary orality projects. Laura holds a MA in Intercultural Studies and is a Ph.D. candidate at Johnson University. Currently, she is the Director of Missional Engagement at Trinity United Presbyterian Church in Santa Ana, CA. Laura and her husband, Tony, have three children. The couple lives in Orange County. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 3, 2023
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Michelle Lapp
Africa Inland Mission, San Diego CA
Michelle and her late husband Chris were appointed as missionaries with Africa Inland Mission in 2008 after leaving careers in Education/Church Ministry and Business Management/dressmaking. They served with their 6 children in the small village of Molumong in rural Lesotho, Africa. After language and culture acquisition and Chris teaching one term, he got Encephalitis and passed away after a short 3 weeks in a coma. Through God's strength and Sovereignty, Michelle went on to serve as a teacher at Rift Valley Academy and now serves as the Southwest Mobilizer for AIM while juggling parenting and an active speaking ministry. Michelle has a passion for proclaiming God's heart for the Nations and the truth that EVERY Christ-follower has a place in His plan to redeem the Nations unto Himself. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 17, 2023
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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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Larry Hansen
Calvary Murrieta , Murrieta CA
Larry Hansen has been on staff at Calvary Murrieta for 17 years and serves as the Missions Pastor. God has moved him to passionately pursue unreached people across the globe and he has taken the Great Commission as a personal commission. Larry combines missions’ education, first-hand experience, and missions’ partnerships to continue to move forward in reaching the unreached. He has a strong desire for developing strong missionary care and support for missionaries in the field and invests in providing tools and preparation for them to become equipped to serve in a global capacity. Larry brings a strong focus to being a continuous learner and listener so that he can best serve in the role he has been called.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 24, 2023
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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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. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, May 1, 2023
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Tim Hardy
Aliso Viejo CA
His passion is to move people to a deeper dependence upon God and to help them seamlessly integrate His global purposes into the fabric of their lives. He loves the local church and is committed to helping it connect to God’s purposes to reach the fringes of the world.
Tim lives in Dana Point with his wife, Heather, and their six kids. Together they love being in the outdoors and spending time with family and friends. b
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Date: Monday, May 8, 2023
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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