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Southwest MO Area - Niangua, MO // I23
Intensive 2023
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Registration & Orientation
Opening Session
Registration & Orientation
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Instructor
Jerry Gibbs
IM Inc, Hermitage TN
Jerry and Barbara Gibbs spent 40 years as church-planting missionaries in France and returned to the States in 2014. They have continued to be involved in promoting missions involvement through church mission services, ETEAM, GoGlobal workshops, Perspectives courses, as well as connecting with Welch College students through teaching and organizing events such as the annual Gibbs Global Grille.
Jerry and Barb have three sons (Marc, Joël, and Ryan) and 11 grandchildren. They both enjoy music and gardening, but love nothing better than time spent with family, especially grandkids.
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Date: Sunday, April 23, 2023
Time: 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
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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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Instructor
David Outlaw
Mt View Baptist Church, LaVergne TN
David, and his wife, Angie are the parents of 5 children and have been in ministry together for over 25 years. David graduated from Welch College in Nashville, then received graduate degrees from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary. They have pastored churches in Arkansas and Tennessee, and served as missionaries in Central Asia. As they lead Mt. View they exhibit a passion for God’s Word and God’s world through teaching, hospitality, discipleship, and counseling. b
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Class Info
Date: Sunday, April 23, 2023
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Instructor
Neil Gilliland
Free Will Baptist International Missions , Mount Juliet TN
After graduation from OSU, Neil enrolled at Welch College to study Bible and Missions, where he met his wife Sheila. They served as house parents in East Tennessee, then 8 years in Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa, as dorm parents at a boarding school for missionary kids. Neil returned to graduate school earning a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Tennessee State University. In 2001, Neil became the Director of Member Care for Free Will Baptists. Neil is now a member care consultant and adjunct professor at Welch, and a online professor at Liberty University. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 24, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 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
Josh Coleman
Missouri State University, Springfield MO
Dr. Josh Coleman is a marketing professor at Missouri State University in Springfield, MO. He is also on staff at his church, where he serves as the Communications Director. He has traveled on short-term missions to China, Serbia, Italy, and Lesotho, where he has led local evangelism, taught Bible classes, led pastoral retreats, and preached in local churches. Josh is enthusiastic about the intersection of missions with every believer's daily walk of life, and he is passionate about teaching Biblical and theological literacy. Josh is married to his best friend and wife of over 12 years, Jill, and they have two fantastic kids, Lily and Oliver. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 24, 2023
Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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Instructor
Jon Hardin
Frontiers, Highlands Ranch CO
Dr. Jon Hardin is the National Communications Specialist for Frontiers. He has served in full-time missions work for over 25 years. Jon regularly speaks and teaches in churches, conferences, and various training events around the world--he has taught over 35,000 Perspectives students. Jon has a passion for seeing local churches and ordinary Christians step into strategic roles in the global missions enterprise.
Jon is an ordained minister, holds a PhD from the VU University in Amsterdam, and did post-graduate studies at the International Baptist Theological Seminary in Prague. He is also a graduate of Denver Seminary. Jon is a CPA and prior to going into full-time ministry he worked for IBM Corporation for nine years. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 24, 2023
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Instructor
Tyler Penn
English Corner, Oreana IL
Tyler Penn and his wife, Kellie, and their three kids serve with IM of Free Will Baptist to reach out to the international student population at the University of Illinois. Tyler has served in this capacity with IM for 8 years. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 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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Instructor
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. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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Instructor
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. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 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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Instructor
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. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Time: 8:00 PM to 9:00 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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Instructor
Mary Ho
All Nations Family, Inc, Kansas City MO
Dr. Mary Ho is the International Executive Leader of All Nations (http://allnations.international), a global Christian missions organization with workers making disciples and doing church planting in 44 countries. Dr. Ho is passionate about finishing the Great Commission in this generation by sharing the love of God among every people and in parts of the world where the name of Jesus Christ is little or not known. Dr. Ho received her Doctorate of Strategic Leadership from Regent University, VA, U.S.A. in 2016. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 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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Instructor
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! b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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Instructor
Scott Warren
Union Grove Church, Atkins AR
Scott is the Senior Pastor of Union Grove Church, in Atkins, Arkansas. Prior to assuming his current ministry role, he and his wife, Staci, planted churches in Utah, and served short-term missions in Central Asia and Latin America. Scott is passionate about discipleship and mission mobilization. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, April 27, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 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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Instructor
Clint Morgan
Free Will Baptist Int'l Missions, Antioch TN
Clint and his wife served 27 years in Cote d'Ivoire in evangelism, church planting, and leadership training. Two years were given to researching creative access opportunities, which led to setting up an NGO called The Hanna Project. They also spent 3+ years in southern France reaching Muslim immigrants.
Clint served as a Regional Director for 7 years before taking the agency directorship in 2011. The Morgans led projects in Central Asia, North Africa, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Panama, and Brazil. Clint enjoys teaching mission courses at Welch College and cross-cultural seminars in Russia, France, and Cote d'Ivoire.
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, April 27, 2023
Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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Instructor
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Heather L
Beautiful Feet , Springdale AR
Heather lived in South East Asia for 10 years and started a Business as Mission company that is still making disciples among the unreached.
She has a passion to train and mobilize believers to use their gifts and talents for the Kingdom. b
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Class Info
Date: Thursday, April 27, 2023
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Instructor
John Weaver
YWAM, Lindale TX
Since experiencing PSP in the early 90's, John has been praying for the nations, mobilizing believers, and sharing God's Love with Muslims. In 1998, after earning a MA, John joined a pioneer church planting team in Central Asia. He met his bride-to-be there and they had a Christ-centered wedding in 2005 surrounded by hundreds of curious Muslims. By God’s grace, they've seen some fruit and also birthed five children. John continues to facilitate disciple-making among Muslims. He is the author of Inside Afghanistan, A Flame on the Front Line and Najiba: A Love Story from Afghanistan. b
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Class Info
Date: Friday, April 28, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
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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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Instructor
Sarah Malone
Alton IL
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Class Info
Date: Friday, April 28, 2023
Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
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Celebration
Closing Session
Celebration
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Instructor
Jerry Gibbs
IM Inc, Hermitage TN
Jerry and Barbara Gibbs spent 40 years as church-planting missionaries in France and returned to the States in 2014. They have continued to be involved in promoting missions involvement through church mission services, ETEAM, GoGlobal workshops, Perspectives courses, as well as connecting with Welch College students through teaching and organizing events such as the annual Gibbs Global Grille.
Jerry and Barb have three sons (Marc, Joël, and Ryan) and 11 grandchildren. They both enjoy music and gardening, but love nothing better than time spent with family, especially grandkids.
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Class Info
Date: Friday, April 28, 2023
Time: 4:30 PM to 5:00 PM
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