Permian Basin Perspectives

World Christian Partnership

2007-12-05T18:15:00.000-08:00

Brian Hogan
Church Planting Trainer, Youth With a Mission, Malta

Brian and his wife Louise, have served in missions since 1987. From the Navajo Tribe to Outer Mongolia, their passion has been to see Jesus glorified and lifted up among those who have never known Him.

From 1993-1996 their team pioneered a church planting movement in Erdenet, Mongolia that continues to grow under fully indigenous leadership to this day. Their Mongolian disciples are now training and sending out their own missionaries to other unreached people groups. The story of the work in Erdenet can be read in the case study article - "Mongols Follow the Khan of Khans" - included in the 1999, third edition of Perspectives on the World Christian Movement: A Reader, ed. Winter & Hawthorne (William Carey Library).

Brian and Louise have four children: Melody, Mollyanne, Alice, and Peter.

Currently this family makes their home in Northern CA where Brian manages the YWAM Church Planting Coaches office. In addition, he coordinates the Church Planting Coaches activities in East and Southeast Asia, and Europe. Brian travels extensively conducting workshops and seminars on cross-cultural church planting skills and Frontier Missions. Brian serves on the European Frontier Mission Leadership Team.

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Pioneer Church Planting

2007-11-28T07:05:00.000-08:00

David Watson is the founder and executive director of Asian Partners International, Inc. (API), a Lubbock, Texas based church planting ministry that focuses on un-reached people groups primarily in Asia.

David and his wife Jan have been involved in this type of ministry since 1986 and were among the pioneers of the nonresidential missionary movement. They not only established two missions agencies that concentrate on church planting among un-reached people groups but also started three companies that support missionaries and provide income for local Christian workers.
Their entire career in foreign missions has centered on restricted access countries, and during the past fifteen years their teams have helped to initiate more than 40,000 house churches throughout Asia.

Before becoming executive director of API, David was a church planter and strategy coordinator for the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. His ministry experience also includes youth evangelism, associate and senior pastorates, senior adults, radio and television, music, working with the hearing impaired, hospice care, and hospital chaplaincy.

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Spontanoues Multiplication of Churches

2007-11-20T22:00:00.000-08:00

Brad Buser
West Coast Representative, New Tribes Mission

Brad and Beth Buser served for 20 years in Papua New Guinea (PNG) with New Tribes Mission, working among the Iteri people. Their ministry included learning the language and culture, creating an alphabet, teaching God’s word, planting churches and translating the New Testament. God granted them much fruit, as hundreds accepted Christ as Savior and have since begun reaching their own people with the gospel. The Busers also served in leadership in the Sepik region of PNG and at the Numonohi Christian Academy. Since returning to the U.S. in 1999, Brad has served as the West Coast Representative for New Tribes as well as the Missions Pastor at Clairemont Emmanuel Baptist Church. Brad teaches Inter-Culture Studies at Eternity Bible College in Simi Valley, California; Cross-Cultural Church Planting at The Masters College in Santa Clarita, California; Intro to Tribal Missions at the New Tribes Bible Institute in Jackson, Michigan; and the book of Acts at Ecola Bible School in Oregon. Brad is a frequent speaker at Christian colleges, churches, and Perspectives courses. Brad especially enjoys talking to young people, exhorting this generation to reach the world with the truth of Jesus Christ. Brad and Beth have four children and three grandchildren. They make their home in San Diego, California.

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Christian Community Development

2007-11-15T21:34:00.001-08:00

Michele Rickett is founder, president and CEO of Sisters in Service (SIS). SIS is an innovative ministry that informs, mobilizes and equips advocates for global outreach to women and children in the least Christian regions.

Michele Rickett brings over 20 years of experience in international women's outreach. She travels internationally to create partnerships with indigenous women and bring their insights and stories to audiences throughout the U.S. Michele is a delightful speaker who helps people to grow in their spiritual walk and co-labor with their sisters who are risking their lives to share God's love.

Michele and her husband, Daniel, committed their lives to international work in 1975. In 1979 they joined Partners International and in the early 80's moved their family to Africa where they worked in five East African countries before returning to the international headquarters.

Michele has taken active leadership roles in women's ministries. She is an engaging speaker who helps women grow spiritually, and work together to make a difference for suffering women and children. Along with an international speaking and teaching ministry, she has developed numerous workshops and retreat presentations including:

Women In the Hardest Places - A Global View
Beauty Out of Hardship
Moving Beyond Your Mailbox
A Heart of Purpose for Every Woman
What, Why and How of Mentoring

Michele is co-author of Ordinary Women, a course that guides a developing spiritual life for individuals or groups, and graduates trained mentors. She has also authored Daughters of Hope, Stories of Witness and Courage, published by InterVarsity Press.

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How shall they hear?

2007-11-07T09:53:00.000-08:00

Don Richardson

Upon entering a chapel service at Prairie Bible Institute, Don Richardson was a run of the mill college student, barely out of his teens. Leaving the service that morning however, Richardson was a man headed of all places, to the Sawi headhunting tribes of Netherlands New Guinea.

Answering that specific call in 1955 would seem absurd to the average suburban family in the 50s. Yet Don knew his mission: no matter how immense the barriers were, he would preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a place where wild jungles, cannibalism, and bloodshed ran rampant. With a young bride and a seven-month-old baby at his side, Don first set foot on the Sawi lands. Mud, sago thorns, tangled vegetation, leeches, crocodiles, malaria, dysentery, and hepatitis viruses were not the most ideal conditions to settle a new family. However, it was a constant reminder of the problematic task he and Carol Richardson had in front of them.

The couple's first struggle was conquering the language. Not only did Sawi have an intricately complex vocabulary, but it also had 19 tenses for every single verb. With 8-10 hour daily learning sessions, Don was able to become proficient in the dialect. The next obstacle involved the actual Sawi people. Richardson became baffled as to how the villagers could comprehend a Savior who gave His life for them. But then came an unlikely event that would spawn a crucial analogy.

Around this time, three villages were in constant battle. Presented with the threat of the Richardsons leaving the area, the Sawi people came together and miraculously decided that they would make peace with their hated enemies. Ceremonies commenced that saw young children being exchanged among opposing villages. One man in particular ran toward his enemy's camp and literally gave his son to his hated foe. Observing this, Richardson writes: "if a man would actually give his own son to his enemies, that man could be trusted!" From this rare picture came the analogy of the Father's sacrifice of his own Son. The Sawi were beginning to understand.

Following the incredible event came legions of villagers converting to Christ, a translation of the New Testament in Sawi, nearly 2,500 Sawi patients being treated by Carol, and the creation of the world's largest circular building made strictly from unmilled poles as a Christian meeting place. Armed with beautiful memories and a sense of accomplishment, the Richardsons left the Sawi people, only to minister to yet another tribe, the Yawi of Iranian Jaya. By 1966, about 20 of the fiercest Yali tribesmen were converted.

Don's chronicles of the numerous adventures he experienced in these foreign lands are documented in his bestsellers Peace Child, Lords of the Earth, and Eternity in Their Hearts. Richardson's story is unique in that he produced revolutionary ideas of ministering to people while still adhering to those tactics that apostles like Paul in the New Testament used. His principles seem new and innovative, yet are inherently based on God's word. With this approach, Don was able to see thousands come to Christ.

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Building bridges of Love

2007-11-01T15:39:00.001-07:00

Bruce Green
Since November 2002, after the first anniversary of 9-11, Rev. Green has been the "Bridge Building Facilitator" between a consortium of churches and our Muslim neighbors, especially Afghans living in the East Bay Area. Bruce has an MA from Biola University (1983) and currently serves on the board of the Afghan Coalition.

Due to the sensitive nature of Bruce's Ministry there is no audio offered for this speaker. But please fill free to check his blogspots.

http://aliapark.blogspot.com/

http://littlekabul-centerville.blogspot.com/

The Task Remaining

2007-11-01T15:13:00.001-07:00

Rev. Virgil Lee Amos

Virgil began his missionary service in 1962 with Operation Mobilization, working for 10 years in Mexico, Europe, India, Sri Lanka and Iran. Upon graduation from Talbot Seminary in 1979 he went on in 1982 to found Ambassador Fellowship (AF) which, from its start, was focused on getting minorities involved in missions.

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Eras of Mission History

2007-11-01T13:57:00.000-07:00

Dave Flynn is the National Director of the Perspectives Study Program. Dave and wife, Liz, felt God's call into missions in 1998. They had been working at the U.S. Center for World Mission in Pasadena California for several years, mobilizing individuals and churches into developing a missionary vision. Dave recruited and managed personnel for the USCWM and had major responsibilities in Judson International School, the new ministry of USCWM aimed at providing quality schooling for missionary children and as an outreach to unbelieving families in the area.

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Pioneers of the Christian Movement

2007-10-17T10:21:00.000-07:00

COY WYLIE, Pastor

Pastor Coy Wylie has served Cornerstone Baptist Church since its founding in 1998. He is husband to Debra, his wife of twenty years and is father to two teen daughters, Ashlea and Hannah.

Besides his passion for expository preaching and the local church, Pastor Coy loves playing traditional acoustic music on guitar, mandolin and fiddle. He enjoys hunting, fishing, camping, shooting and most outdoor sports.

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Expansion of the Movement

2007-10-03T09:01:00.001-07:00

Mrs. Yvonne (Wood) Huneycutt
Serving the Global Perspectives Movement through WayMakers
Recent Director, Nashville Office, US Center for World Mission

Yvonne's past career experience includes the corporate world of Dell Inc. and local church youth ministry. Today, she serves as mission mobilizer, speaker and consultant, raising the flag for the 2.1 billion people sealed off from the Gospel.

During the 1990's, Yvonne helped raise up and equip well over 100 new missionaries from Nashville. In her role as Regional Director for the U.S. Center for World Mission's Nashville Office, Yvonne coordinated Perspectives classes, and assisted local churches in developing mission vision, policies and strategies.

Yvonne's recent marriage to Dr. Steve Huneycutt moved her back to Austin, TX, She is affiliated with WayMakers to encourage, assist and help develop the burgeoning growth of Perspectives courses in other lands and languages.

Yvonne's overseas field experience includes one year in Russia and multiple trips into India, Nepal, Turkey, Central Asia and Europe. She holds a Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and is working toward her Doctor of Ministry in Missions and Cross-Cultural Studies from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

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Unleashing the Gospel!!!

2007-09-26T08:01:00.001-07:00

M. David Sills

Associate Professor of Christian Missions and Cultural Anthropology (2003); Director of Great Commission Ministries; Director of the Doctor of Missiology program, Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Church Growth

E-mail: dsills@sbts.edu
Website: http://www.davidsills.org/
Education:

* B.A., Belhaven College
* M.Div., New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
* D.Miss., Ph.D., Reformed Theological Seminary

Dr. Sills joined Southern Seminary after serving as a missionary in Ecuador. While with the International Mission Board, he served as church planter and general evangelist among the Highland Quichua people in the Andes and as a seminary professor at the Ecuadorian Baptist Theological Seminary. He also served as Rector and professor of the Baptist seminary as a missionary with Global Outreach International. Dr. Sills is the author of two books on the Highland Quichua indigenous people published in Spanish by Editoral Abya Yala, Quichuas de la Sierra: Descubriendo un modelo de Pastoral adiestramiento pastoral culturalmente apropiado and Capacitati—n en la Cultura Quichua. He has traveled internationally preaching, teaching, and leading mission teams for over fifteen years. Among his professional memberships are the Evangelical Missiological Society, the American Society of Missiology, and the Association of Professors of Mission.

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Mandate for the Nations

2007-09-19T16:04:00.001-07:00

Dr. Rondal Smith,

Dr Smith has been President of Pioneer Bible Translators from 1988 to 2005. He is a consultant in Missions, Translation, Linguistics, and represents Pioneer Bible Translators in the areas of Papua New Guinea, in the South Pacific, Zaire, Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Tanzania and Guinea in Africa; Ukraine, Russia, the Netherlands, England, Scotland, Italy in Europe, Thailand in Asia and Canada in North America

Dr. Smith received his Ph.D. and MA in Linguistics and Cultural Anthropology from Indiana University in 1965 and 1972 Since 1988, he has been coordinator and lecturer for the class "Perspectives on the World Christian Movement, throughout US

Dr. Smith was born in Lawrenceville, IL. He and his wife Janice have two children; Darin and Andria. They and their families both live in the Dallas area and have all been involved in Perspectives over the years.

Dr. Smith was minister of the Macedonia Christian Church, 1959-1961; Wrays Christian Church, 1961-1963; and Walnut Street Christian Church (now renamed the Sherwood Oaks Christian Church) 1964-1965.

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Your Kingdom Come!!

2007-09-12T14:04:00.000-07:00

Steve Venable

Steve is married to Cindy and has two children, Emily and Ben. Steve served as a pastor in West Texas for 16 years and in Christian camping for five. He earned his Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry from Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. He fell into a heart for the nations watching members of the churches he pastored serve God across the US and across the globe. Stev e has served on mission teams in Texas, Kentucky, Costa Rica and Ethiopia. His daughter Emily has served on mission teams in New Orleans, Mexico, Costa Rica, Hong Kong, and Romania and his son Ben has done inner-city mission ministry in Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, and New Orleans. Steve and Cindy are currently ministering with both long and short term missions teams.

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The Living God is a Missionary God

2007-09-11T14:32:00.000-07:00

John S. Leonard

Associate Professor of Practical Theology
B.A., Belhaven College, 1977; M.Div., Reformed Theological Seminary, 1983; Ph.D., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2006; Youth Pastor, Monroeville Presbyterian Church, 1976-1977; Assistant Pastor, Redlands Community Church, 1984-1987; Missionary, Mission to the World and Arab World Ministries, 1988-1998; Visiting Professor of Missions, Reformed Theological Seminary, 1994-1995; Regional Director for Franco-phone Africa, Mission to the World, 1997-1998; Westminster, 1998-.

Author: Beyond Brazil: An Introduction to Missions (English title); Great Faith (English title).

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The Story of HIs Glory

2007-08-29T14:44:00.000-07:00

This week we had Dusty Thompson from Southcrest Baptist in Lubbock Texas. He spoke on "the story of Gods Glory".
Marital Status: Married to Amy on May 20, 1995. Children: Roman Degrees: B.B.A. in Accounting at Texas Tech University-1994 MDIV from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX-1998 DMIN (cand.) from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois- estimated completion Summer 2007. Hobbies: Sports (football, baseball, and basketball) and everything outdoors (fly fishing, hiking, skiing, mountain biking).

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Chapter 2 The Story of His Glory

Audio Introduction

2007-08-22T13:45:00.001-07:00

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Permian Basin Perspectives Video

2007-05-21T14:12:00.000-07:00

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Perspectives Permian Basin Study Program

Midland, TX
Fall 2007

Date Session Lesson Instructor & Organization

Aug 28
1 The Living God is a Missionary God Dusty Thompson
Southcrest Baptist Church

Sept 4
2 The Story of His Glory John Leonard
Westminster Theological

Sept 11
3 Your Kingdom Come Steve Venable
Professor of Records

Sept 18
4 Mandate to the Nations Rondal Smith
Pioneer Bible Translator

Sept 25
5 Unleashing the Gospel David Sills
Southern Baptist Seminary

Oct 2
6 The Expansion of the World Yvonne Huneycutt
Christian Movement Waymakers

Oct 9
7 Eras of Mission History Dave Flynn
Perspectives Study Program, USCWM

Oct 16
8 Pioneers of the World Coy Wylie
Christian Movement Cornerstone Baptist Church

Oct 23
9 The Task Remaining Virgil Amos
Ambassador Fellowship

Oct 30
10 How Shall They Hear Bruce Green
Bridge Building to Muslims

Nov 6
11 Building Bridges of Love Don Richardson
Author of Peace Child

Nov 13
12 Christian Community Development Michelle Rickett
Sisters in Service

Nov 20
13 The Spontaneous Multiplication Brad Buser
of Churches New Tribes Mission

Nov 27
14 Pioneer Church Planting David Watson
City Team

Dec 4
15 World Christian Partnership Brian Hogan

Dec 11
16 Graduation & Commissioning Coordinators