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Sterling, VA // S23
Spring 2023
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Registration & Orientation
Registration & Orientation
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Instructor
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Date: Monday, January 9, 2023
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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
Dave Shive
Frontier Ventures (formerly US Center for World Mission), Catonsville MD
Dave Shive is a 1968 graduate of the Washington Bible College, a 1972 graduate of Capital Bible Seminary with a Th.M. in New Testament Studies, and a 1994 graduate of Baltimore Hebrew University with an M.A. in Biblical Literature. Dave has spent the past 47 years in full time ministry as a pastor, Christian school director, and college professor. He currently serves with Frontier Ventures (formerly the US Center for World Mission) as a missions mobilizer for the northeast region of the United States. Dave lives in Catonsville, MD, with Kathy, his wife of 52 years. Dave and Kathy have three married children, Dan, Mike, and Becky. They are also the proud grandparents of 9 grandsons and 2 granddaughters. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 16, 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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Donald Rodgers
Frontier Ventures (formerly USCWM), Newark DE
In 1978 Don graduated from Penn State with an advanced degree in engineering and went on to work for the university part time while being heavily involved with CRU. In 1980, after taking the Perspectives class, he took a position with CRU serving in Guam, then the Philippines and finally Japan. He worked in community, university and administrative ministries and for a while was an acting national director. In 1983 he returned to the U.S. to work with Frontier Ventures, first in mobilization and then as a division manager. He and his wife Anne moved to the Eastern Regional Office in 1992 where they have been involved in administration, mobilization (coordinating numerous Perspectives classes) and international outreach. Don has a Master’s degree in Theology. They have two children and six grandchildren. 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 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
Greg Fletcher
Pioneers, Spotsylvania VA
A native of Virginia, Greg has done church planting work in Japan and missions mobilization from Australia. He now works with Pioneers, serving church mission leaders in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Regions as part of the Pioneers Church Partnerships Team. 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 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
Richard Herring
International Students Inc. , Newark DE
Richard and Wendy Herring began their ministry in 1980 at the Clarendon Road Church in Brooklyn, NY. From 1983 to 2013, they ministered in Thailand with the Christian and Missionary Alliance sharing the Good News with Thai Buddhists, assisting Thai churches, teaching at Northeastern Bible College, teaching at Bangkok Bible College and Seminary, and serving in mission leadership. Richard currently serves with International Students Inc. (ISI) reaching out to international students at the University of Delaware.
Richard has a B.S. in Education from the State University of New York at Oswego, NY, an M.Div. from the Alliance Theological Seminary, Nyack, NY and a Doctor of Ministry from Columbia Biblical Seminary, Columbia, SC. He and Wendy have been married for over 40 years and are richly blessed with two adult daughters, both born in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 6, 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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Instructor
Mark Seager
South Riding VA
Mark is the Lead Pastor at CityView Church in Ashburn, VA. Prior to pastoring CityView, Mark enjoyed a career in Civil/Environmental Engineering, served as an Associate Pastor in Northern Virginia and pastored a church in England. He is happily married to Karen and they have 4 children. His heart for missions has been fueled by participating on or leading over a dozen short-term missions teams on 4 continents. Mark also serves as an advisor to Men of Valor (menofvalor.org). 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 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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Douglas Batson
Global Frontier Missions, Cross Junction VA
Douglas Batson is a retired Defense Department geographer. With award-winning research and publications, he was an expert on land tenure and international migration.
Also a National Certified Career Counselor, Doug is on the Board of Directors of Global Frontier Missions, which operates a missionary training school in Atlanta, GA. He has been a Perspectives coordinator, instructor, and Professor of Record in the DC area for 25 years. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 20, 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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K.
Frontier Ventures, Columbia MD
Karen has been involved in coordinating and instructing in Perspectives for 36 years. She currently serves as an associate with Common Ground Consultants. Her focus is on mobilizing and training followers of Jesus to share Him with their Muslim friends. Her love for and appreciation of Muslims has taken her to Turkey 21 times. As a result, she has many Turkish friends both in Turkey and in the U.S. She is also known as the "fun captain" by her grandchildren and she loves spending time with them. 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 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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Robert DuHart Sr
Perspectives , Fort Washington MD
Robert Gregory DuHart Sr. is a father, husband, grandfather and Elder at Cherrydale Baptist Church, where he teaches a Sunday Class and is a long-time member of the CBC Finance committee. Greg also serves on the boards of NAAMC & Pioneers. Greg has mentored immigrant families through the asylum process here in the US, worked with missionaries in Turkey, where he used his skills as a certified ESL teacher to prepare Iranian Christians for their journey west as well as preaching the Gospel in Cappadocia the land of the cave churches. In India, along with East-West Ministries, his team instructed 75-80 Pastor on the Sword Method of sermon preparation. In Indonesia, as a board member of Pioneers USA he and his wife Kimberlia prayed, listened, evaluated, and encouraged the teams bringing the Gospel to the Indonesians. Greg serves as mobilizer, coordinator, and instructor for Perspectives USA and is passionate about cross cultural ministry as a way of racially reconciling the Church in North America. 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 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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Jim O'Neill
Frontier Ventures, New Cumberland PA
Missionary to Asia 1982 to 1995;
Director of Missions, Liberty University and Seminary, 1995-2000;
President, CrossWorld Mission, 2000-2009; ABWE, 2013 to 2016
President, The Center for Global Mission, 2009 to present;
Director of Mobilization for Frontier Ventures 2016 to present. 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 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
Brittany Woods
SIM USA, Washington DC
Brittany is a North Carolina native living in Washington, DC with her partner in life and ministry, Alex, a Campus Ministry Director at Howard University.
Brittany serves as an Educator and Recruiter with SIM USA, an international mission organization existing to respond to need, proclaim the Gospel and equip local churches in communities where Jesus is least known.
After living in South America for a season, Brittany has spent the past five years recruiting and equipping African American believers for God’s global Gospel work, training candidates of all backgrounds as they prepare for overseas service, and journeying with church and organization leaders desiring to send well.
Brittany has led short-term teams to West, South and North Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and throughout Europe, serving in nearly 20 countries and she remains in awe of how God is moving among His people. 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 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
Brother Ali
Victory Comes by Faith, Omaha NE
God's love is powerful enough to conquer even the proudest Muslim. I am the living evidence of that. Our brothers and sisters in the mission field report that more Muslims are coming to Christ today than ever before. We see also that God has brought millions of foreigners to America. We must befriend them, pray for them, and love them, so in order to show God’s love and preach His Gospel. Now Brother Ali and his wife serve the Lord in a full-time ministry wherever they are called. 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 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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Glenn Kauffman
Capital Christian Fellowship, Laurel MD
Glenn Kauffman with his wife June served in Hong Kong for 15 years with a number of those years in Asia wide ministry with Eastern Mennonite Missions. Currently Glenn and June live in the Washington DC suburbs where Glenn continues to minister cross-culturally as a bishop in an Anabaptist network of churches and ministries in the Washington - Baltimore area and Lead Pastor of Capital Christian Fellowship, Lanham, MD an international congregation of over 20 nationalities. In 2022 Glenn became President of International Missions Association, which empowers global south Anabaptist groupings of churches to send among the least reached with the Good news of Jesus. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 10, 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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Instructor
Steve Kim
OMF Link Asia, Centreville VA
Steve lived in East Asia for 16 years with the membership of OMF since 2002. They served 13 years doing church planting among the Zhuang, the largest unreached people group in China. They also lived 3 years in Taiwan raising awareness and mobilizing Taiwanese churches for the Zhuang. In 2018 Steve was arrested and interrogated by the Chinese Security Bureau for 8 days and eventually deported. In 2019, they moved back to the US to serve as missions consultants with OMF Link Asia, where they are training and equipping churches to excel in missions. Currently, they live in Fairfax County in northern Virginia with their three daughters, Lois, Karis & Ellis.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 17, 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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Joseph Steinitz
GraceXtensions / unmissions.net, Towson MD
After ministering in a Muslim context, Joe served as missions pastor at his church in Maryland for 8 years. Since 2001, he has been co-director of unmissions.net, a ministry that helps churches more effectively engage in world missions. He is also on staff at his local church helping to lead it’s local and international outreach efforts. Joe is married and has 6 children. For obvious reasons he has no hobbies. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 24, 2023
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 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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T. Richardson
Northern VA
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Class Info
Date: Monday, May 1, 2023
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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