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  Central Arkansas Northwest Arkansas
Lesson No.& Title Instructor Week of Instructor Week of
Registration and Orientation   Jan 14   n / a
BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE
1. The Living God is a Missionary God ( 22 pp.) Bill Elliff Jan 21 Claude Hickman Jan 14
2. The Story of His Glory (27 pp.) Sean Vollendorf Jan 28 Dick Nelson Jan 21
3. Your Kingdom Come (30 pp.) Ken Wilson Feb 18 John Zumwalt Jan 28
4. Mandate to the Nations (32 pp.) Charlie Loften Feb 11 Robbie Castleman Feb 4
5. Unleashing the Gospel (31 pp.) Marty Brown Feb 4 David Ray Feb 11
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
6. The Expansion of the World (32 pp.) David Smithers Mar 3 Sean Vollendorf Feb 18
7. Eras of Mission History (29 pp.) Eddie Rogers Feb 25 Jamie Zumwalt Feb 25
8. Pioneers of the World (27 pp.) Jamie Zumwalt Mar 10 Dave Flynn Mar 10
9. The Task Remaining (36 pp.) John Zumwalt Mar 17 Bill and Yvonne Taylor Mar 3
Spring Break   Mar 24   Mar 17
CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
10. How Shall They Hear? (32 pp.) Stan Yoder Mar 31 Archy Hensley Mar 31
11. Building Bridges of Love (27 pp.) Dennis Cochrane Apr 7 Marsha Reile Miles Mar 24
12. Christian Community Development (32 pp.) Matt Fries Apr 14 Ed Klotz Apr 7
13. Spontaneous Multiplication (31 pp.) Bobby Gupta Apr 21 Bobby Gupta Apr 14
STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVE
14. Pioneer Church Planting (33 pp.) Eric Guthrie Apr 28 Eric Guthrie Apr 21
15. World Christian Partnership (33 pp.) Mark Wood May 5 Todd Ahrend Apr 28
Celebration   May 12   n / a

TODD AHREND Northwest Arkansas - The Traveling Team Go to Top

Central Arkansas Marty is the Teaching Pastor at Heritage Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His main area of ministry is preaching with a passion for prayer, small groups and missions. Marty and wife, Jan, have three grown children, Jason, Amy and Katy and a new grandson Jackson.

Before taking the opportunity at Oklahoma City, Marty was a pastor at the Markham Street Baptist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, which entered into a partnership with an unreached people group in spring of 2002 and was working with the Corongo Quechua tribe in the north central Andes Mountains in Peru in a church planting movement. Marty's vision is to be used as a catalyst to help other pastors in smaller churches get a vision of being used in a significant way to be part of fulfilling the Great Commission.

ROBBIE CASTLEMAN Northwest Arkansas - John Brown University

Central Arkansas and his wife, Nancy, served as linguists and Bible translators among the Duna people in the highlands of Papua, New Guinea. Before beginning Bible translation work the Cochranes learned the language of the Duna people. They then created an alphabet for this previously unwritten language, did grammar analysis and compiled a Duna-English dictionary. After they prepared literacy materials many of the Duna people learned to read and write in their own language.

Finally it was Dennis' joy to give the Dunas the first portions of God's Word translated into their language. A church was born as several thousand of these people came to know Christ. Today dozens of congregations meet regularly in thatch-roofed chapels to worship the Lord and study His Word in their language.

Bill ElliffBILL ELLIFF Central Arkansas - The Summit Church Go to Top

Northwest Arkansas Dave 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.

Central Arkansas Matt serves as an Elder at The Grove Church in Fayetteville. He and his wife, Michelle, have three children (Taylor 9, Dotty 7, and Marcom 5) and live in Springdale. They have spent the majority of their professional lives pursuing different strategies to plant the church in an Asian people group that has never known the gospel. Currently Matt is selling hand-made Tibetan rugs and doing PR. Michelle is home-schooling the children and holding the family to a strong foundation.

Central Arkansas has as his life mission the spreading of the gospel throughout India. He has served as president and director of Hindustan Bible Institute (HBI), in Chennai, India, since 1984. He serves as chairman of the church-planting Council on National Service, and developed HBI Global Partners to mobilize the North American church to partner with evangelism ministries in India.

ARCHY HENSLEY -

CLAUDE HICKMAN Northwest Arkansas - The Traveling Team Go To Top

Central Arkansas

ED KLOTZ Northwest Arkansas Dr. Ed Klotz graduated from JBU with a Broadcasting degree. He received his Masters degree in Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary and his DMiss, Doctor in Missiology, from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

Dr. Klotz and his family served as missionaries in Nigeria, Liberia, and Eritrea with SIM (formerly Sudan Interior Mission) from 1974 to 1994. He is currently an associate member of SIM. He has done research on entry orientation of new missionaries to West Africa.

CHARLIE LOFTEN Central Arkansas

MARSHA REILE MILES Northwest Arkansas

DICK NELSON Northwest Arkansas - Fellowship NWA

EDDIE ROGERS Central Arkansas - Eddie Rogers and his wife, Kathy, went to Kenya to do mission work among the Kipsigis people in 1987.  While there they were involved mainly in leadership training.  All three of their children were born in Kenya.  They stayed in Kenya until 1997 and since then Eddie has gone back to Kenya with his sons to visit the churches and made a trip to Mexico with his daughter.  He is involved with the CALL, a ministry recruiting Christians to be involved with foster children in Central Arkansas and STEP, a ministry to at risk kids in Pulaski county.  Eddie, Kathy and their children are members at Cornerstone Bible Fellowship in Sherwood, AR, where Kathy teaches the 5th grade children’s class.

DAVID RAY Northwest Arkansas - Cross World

Central Arkansas presently serves on staff with Student Volunteer Movement 2 (SVM2) as the National Prayer Track Director and is also the founder of Awake and Go Global Prayer Network, which is designed to call this generation to watch, pray and prepare for a genuine Christ centered Revival and Global Awakening. He has been a student of Church History for the past twenty five years and never wearies of bringing the stories of the past to life for a new generation through his writings and teaching. In addition to writing, traveling and speaking frequently, David is also the father of five. David and his wife Lucretia are based in the Oklahoma City area and regularly minister in the areas of Prayer and Revival History Seminars, Perspectives Classes and Orphan Relief work.

BILL and YVONNE TAYLOR Northwest Arkansas - World Evangelical Alliance

SEAN VOLLENDORF Central Arkansas Northwest Arkansas Sean came into a relationship with Christ at age 16 in Breckenridge, Colorado.   After attending Saint Louis University and the University of Tulsa, he joined the staff team of Student Mobilization, a collegiate ministry focused on evangelism, discipleship, and missions mobilization.  For the last six years, Sean has served as campus director for StuMo at the University of Arkansas and regional director for Arkansas and Oklahoma.  In addition to training staff and students in personal ministry, he frequently speaks to college students about the need for the gospel to be dispensed among all peoples.   Sean and Kim have three sons, Fisher, Sim, and Stone.  Sim is from Calcutta, India.  In his freetime, Sean hunts, lifts weights, and plays basketball.  He has a love for God's word, and a passionate desire to see the gospel delivered to college students in every nation.

Central Arkansas has been the Teaching Pastor at Fellowship Bible Church in Conway, Arkansas the past several years. His primary responsibility is the teaching of God's word and providing direction for the staff and elders with focus on Sunday mornings and Equipping classes. Born in Germany, Ken finished his graduate studies at the Dallas Theological Seminary and at the Colorado Christian University. Prior to serving as the teaching pastor at FBC, Ken was an Assistant Professor of Bible and Theology at the Graduate Counseling Program at Colorado Christian University and was also a pastor at the Anchorage Bible Fellowship in Anchorage Alaska. Ken is a board member of the Student Mobilization organization. Ken and wife Dawn Marie have two children, Jordan Luke and Joshua Caleb.

Central Arkansas Mark is the pastor at the Christian & Missionary Alliance Church in Russellville, Arkansas. Mark is also a missions mover and serves as the Southwestern District Missions Chairperson for the The Christian and Missionary Alliance. The vision of the The Christian and Missionary Alliance is to be a movement of Great Commission Christians who are glorifying God by building Christ's Church worldwide. The organization is focused on developing healthy local churches, identifying Workers for the Harvest, training Called Workers, multiplying churches in the United States, multiplying churches worldwide, and establishing a strong support base.

STAN YODER Central Arkansas

Central Arkansas Northwest Arkansas is the founder of Heart of God Ministries and the Director of HGM’s Missionary Training Institute, Boot Feet Boot Camp. A missionary kid, John also returned to the mission field and served with the Shan, Karen and Chinese of Northern Thailand and as a tentmaker in Taiwan among the Hakka and Taiwanese. He has authored the book, Passion for the Heart of God and travels widely, preaching and holding seminars, raising up missionaries to go to the unreached. His responsibilities also include overseeing missionaries in closed countries. He and his wife, Jamie, have five children, Jessica, Josiah, Jael, Jewel and James.

 
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