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This 16 week course will allow you to interact with some of today's most dynamic mission leaders.
Offered nationwide and internationally since 1974 with over 70,000 alumni in the U.S. and Canada.
Over 70 authors have contributed to make Perspectives on the World Christian Movement: A Reader, the best selling missions textbook today.
Endorsements by major Christian leaders including Billy Graham, Bill Bright, Avery Willis of the IMB.
Over 70,000 students worldwide have taken the class.
College or seminary credit available.

Perspectives is a sixteen week introduction to missions that could change your life! Serving the Tri-Cities from Johnson City, Tennessee, Tri-Cities Perspectives is a course of vision—a vision that mobilizes and equips the people of God to live a life of passion and purpose as Jesus did. Perspectives is also a course of purpose—a purpose to create a movement to help God's people embrace their destiny of extending the blessing of Abraham received to every people group.

"Perspectives is a catalytic course designed to equip the people of God for strategic participation in His plan to reach all peoples, tongues, tribes and nations." —Perspectives Coordinators Field Council, Raleigh, NC July 1995

The Perspectives course is both a training and mobilization tool that is valuable to missions organizations and local churches. Over 60 mission agencies recommend this course to their "pre-candidates." Field research has shown that missionaries who have taken the Perspectives course have a greater chance of suceeding in a life of missions. Tom Telford, of ACMC, reports in his annual review of top mission churches in North America that these top churches require their mission committee members to take Perspectives. As a mobilization tool, Perspectives exposes students to God's heart and the Holy Spirit takes the content to motivate them to further pursue what God might have for them.

Perspectives classes are held across North America, usually in local churches, with summer and January intensive classes in Pasadena, CA at the US Center for World Mission. The course presents the biblical, historical, strategic and cultural facets of God's work among the nations, from Genesis to Revelation and employs integrative case studies. Having a different instructor each week brings depth and experience to the classes from their personal walk with God, their agency, denomination, school, or church ethos as well as their passion for a particular field of service. Each instructor's style of presentation adds to this diversity. Trained coordinators arrange for the guest speakers and facilitate creative class interaction. Perspective courses are offered for graduate and undergraduate credit, or for general enrichment.

Feel free to write us with any questions you may have about Tri-Cities Perspectives.

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Endorsements

"I sincerely doubt that there is any single organization that has made a greater contribution to the Great Commission cause over the last 25 years. Both directly...and indirectly...the USCWM has been one of the greatest gifts that the Lord of the Harvest has given to His church and its mission in recent times."
--Dr. David Hesselgrave, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

"I’m enthusiastic about Perspectives because my life and our church are devoted to spreading a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples. Perspectives has been essential in mobilizing hundreds of lay people in our church to be World Christians."
--John Piper, Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis

"Perspectives gives people an opportunity to be exposed to the faith-stretching challenge of world missions from the first hand experience of those God is using on the field. I heartily endorse this effort."
--Bill Bright, Campus Crusade for Christ

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