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Giving and Receiving Strategies

November 01, 2011 by Greg H. Parsons

Tags: mission, perspectives

It’s commonplace in missions today to emphasize the need to let new believers decide what is best in their context, under the prayerful guidance of the Bible and the Holy Spirit. Jesus told his...

Perspectives

May 01, 2009 by Steve Hawthorne

Tags: perspectives

Ralph Winter has significantly shaped the priorities and practice of many mission agencies and even more local churches around the world. One of the well-known avenues of influence for Winter’s...

Perspectives National Conference

September 01, 2008 by David Flynn

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Imagine attending an event where all the people are extremely committed to the same goal. There is no need for convincing people to get on the same page—they already are. There is no agenda to...

Learning From the Global Family of God

March 01, 2008 by

Tags: perspectives, worldview

We were all ready. We’d just finished seminary and had a sense of excitement about the future. One of my classmates was “Sam.” Sam and I had both been to southeast Asia during a short term a few...

What’s Happening in the Global Perspectives Family?

March 01, 2007 by Bruce Koch

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Have you ever met distant relatives for the first time and were astounded by how you are very much alike? Yet this is no mystery, for we share DNA with family members.

In Amsterdam in April 2003...

Urbana and Perspectives
Meant to Go Together

January 01, 2007 by Yvonne Wood Huneycutt

Tags: mobilization, perspectives, urbana

Peanut butter and jelly, lattes and biscotti, Urbana and Perspectives: things that go great together. The Perspectives course has enjoyed a symbiotic relationship with the Urbana student mission...

Advancing Perspectives Globally

March 01, 2004 by

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More than 50 curriculum developers representing over 25 countries converged at the U.S. Center for World Mission (USCWM) in Pasadena December 9-13, 2003 for a consultation called “Advancing...

The Journey Deepens

March 01, 2004 by Lindsay Goodier

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Future missionaries created lifelong connections and were empowered for missionary service at “The Journey Deepens” retreat February 28-March 2, 2003 in Oklahoma. This gathering of 70 students and...

Mobilizers Meet in Amsterdam to Advance the Perspectives Movement

October 01, 2003 by

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God’s purposes, an emphasis given even greater prominence since a 1999 curriculum revision.  Furthermore, the vision of Perspectives is intended to give integration and significance not only to...

Reaching New Heights and Hearts

March 01, 2001 by

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Born as a follow-up to Urbana, the Perspectives course continues its world view tranformation.

With graduates from the Perspectives course fast approaching the 50,000 mark, the course is...