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Nashville Area - White Bluff, TN // I21
Intensive 2021
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PERSPECTIVES on the World Christian Movement
If you want to experience
something that will change your life, this is it!
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Spend one week immersed in what God
is doing in the world.
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Hear from instructors with rich
international experiences.
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Meet others interested in advancing
the Kingdom of God.
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Worship God together and pray
for the Unreached.
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Enjoy meals and fellowship with
classmates and invited guests.
Select the best level for your time and
commitment ...
How will the Intensive
work?
Participants meet daily from Sunday evening
through Saturday morning for one week with a variety of instructors and
enrichment activities. Breaks and lunch are provided daily, as well as
times for worship, prayer, collaboration on homework, optional
dinner discussions, study sessions, workshops for projects. Participants
may finish the course in the one week or complete the course in the
weeks following. COVID protocols will be observed.
What will the Intensive
cost?
* Key Reader and Certificate Fee $510 (Includes meals, snacks and housing.) * Undergraduate and
Graduate Fee - contact class coordinators * Alumni welcome to participate for $285.
* Refunds will be made if class has to be cancelled.
Books: once registered, a
link will be sent for you to purchase the Perspectives Reader and Study
Guide at a discount from the publisher. The books are approximately $30 plus shipping. *If you do not see your registration confirmation email with textbook ordering instructions, check in your spam.
*Date limit to register for this class: Sept. 18, 2021. *Participants will need to bring their own bedding (sleeping bag, or sheets, blanket, pillow, and towels). Check out the instructor bios and read the
complete first 6 lessons and homework reviews in the Sample
Assignments box below. “Helpful Tip for Completing Lesson Reviews” Have your review handy when doing your reading for each lesson and answer questions as you read. This will save you time and make the reviews much easier to complete.
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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, September 26, 2021
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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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, September 27, 2021
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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Adam Hoffman
Perspectives, Garner NC
Adam was transformed by Perspectives in 2005. More than a missions course, this class was discipleship into God's Kingdom purposes - and the best premarital counseling they had. Adam and his wife Melissa were married that summer and joined with Frontier Ventures (from the legacy of the US Center for World Mission), where they have been on staff since. He currently co-directs the Southeast region of Perspectives with Melissa.
Adam and Melissa are passionate about people understanding and living out God's global purposes.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 27, 2021
Time: 9:30 AM to 12:00 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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Myron Goodwin
Missions Pastor - Grace Chapel, Franklin TN
Dr Myron Goodwin began his journey as a follower of Jesus as a young man and has spent the last 40+ years in ministry focused on discipleship, missions, and formal theological education. He was on the staff of a discipleship-oriented mission working on the kibbutzim in Israel in the early 1980s. In the mid-80's he and his wife Carol joined another couple to found International Christian Ministries (ICM), a mission agency with a discipleship emphasis on transformation that focuses on delivering theological education and training to church leaders in Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
After 18 years on the mission field Dr Goodwin returned to the States where for eight-years he served as small group pastor, then the executive pastor of an interdenominational church in Nashville, TN, and executive director of ICM. He presently serves as the Missions & Adult Equipping Pastor at Grace Chapel in Franklin, TN, south of Nashville.
He has served as the Chair of the Ministry Leadership School at Williamson College in Franklin, TN and as the Provost of Africa Theological Seminary, a network of seminaries started by ICM in 1994 offering diploma and degree training on campuses in seven countries across Africa.
Dr Goodwin holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Oral Roberts University; a Master of Science in City & Regional Planning from the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Planning; a Master of Divinity in Cross-Cultural Ministry from Columbia Biblical Seminary & Graduate School of Missions; and a Doctor of Philosophy in Education from Walden University. He has taught in the Perspectives program for 20+ years.
He and his wife Carol reside in Franklin, Tennessee and have four grown children and four grandchildren. They teach a repentance-based workshop on how to walk free and lay hold of your inheritance in Christ called, Grace for Freedom: Bringing Transformation to Life.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 27, 2021
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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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, September 28, 2021
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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Tim Johnson
Gallatin TN
Tim has a B.A. in Missions from Welch College and a M.A. in TEFL/Intercultural Studies from Columbia International University. He has served for over 20 years as a church-planting missionary in Spain. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2021
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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Danny Gasperson
The Hanna Project, Mt. Juliet TN
Danny serves as the Administrative Director of The Hanna Project, an NGO that exists to provide Help, Hope, and Healing in hard places and difficult circumstances. Through his work at THP he has led numerous teams to Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, India, Ivory Coast, Uganda, Spain, Mexico, Panama, Dominican Republic and Jamaica. These teams provide a variety of services such as training leaders, teaching English, doing construction projects, hosting children's camps, providing eye/dental/medical clinics, etc. based on the needs of the fields.
Previously, Danny was the senior pastor of Zephyr Hills Church in Asheville, NC where he served for 20 years. The Lord used his ministry there to transform Zephyr Hills Church into a fully engaged, mission minded congregation that is involved in God's global purpose through praying, mobilizing, sending and going.
Danny and his wife Jackie are blessed with a son, daughter, son-in-law and two grandsons. He currently resides in Mt. Juliet, TN. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Time: 9:30 AM to 12:00 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
Timothy Ross
Pastor, Johnson City TN
Tim Ross pastors at Hopwood Christian Church at Milligan
College since 1996. Before Hopwood, Tim was a youth
minister, campus minister, and his family served as missionaries in Kenya, among
the Maasai for 8 years. Tim is an adjunct instructor at
Milligan College and Emmanuel School of Religion in
Christian ministries/missions and coordinates Perspectives
courses at Emmanuel. Tim is also active in
prison ministry and spiritual direction. Tim earned a DMin from Emmanuel in 2008. Tim and Marcia (a public school art teacher) have 4
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Time: 1:25 PM to 4:30 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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John Klaassen
Boyce College Professor, Louisville KY
John is the son of missionary parents and missionary grandparents, born in Colombia South America. He grew up in Kansas City, Missouri obtaining his Bachelor’s Degree in Education in 1985. Married that same year to Shari they have two boys, Seth and Andy. John and Shari served with the IMB from 1991 to 2013, primarily in North Africa. By the grace of God and with great team, they helped to initiate work with three unreached people groups; they built teams and helped develop a relief and development agency so the work could be done in a restricted access nation. John earned his MDiv from SBTS in 1990 and his PhD from the Billy Graham School at SBTS in Missions in 2011. John teaches in the area of global studies and is the Department Coordinator for Global Studies at Boyce College in Louisville KY. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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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, September 30, 2021
Time: 9:00 AM to 11:00 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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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: Thursday, September 30, 2021
Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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John King
Final Command Ministries, Murfreesboro TN
John King based in Murfreesboro Tn has been training missionaries and church planters in teaching a simple, easily-reproduced, inductive Bible study method called Discovery Bible Stuidies that encourages obedience-based discipleship. A 2004 short-term mission trip to Sierra Leone, Africa altered the course of his life. Witnessing the power of transformation in that nation exposed him to the kinds of truths examined in the Perspectives course.
John returned to Sierra Leone in 2005 to support a developing Church Planting Movement (CPM). He was commissioned to train indigenous church planters to teach others to do simple inductive Bible studies .The approach he taught has been used throughout the sub-Saharan Africa and has contributed to the planting of thousands of new churches there.
In June of 2011 John transitioned from pastoral ministry to full-time missions training with Final Command Ministry. He works for the spread of the gospel through indigenous believers in the least reached nations. b
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Class Info
Date: Friday, October 1, 2021
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 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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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: Friday, October 1, 2021
Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 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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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, October 1, 2021
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Sarah Malone
Alton IL
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Class Info
Date: Saturday, October 2, 2021
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
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