Speakers

Lesson Number & Title Date Speaker
1. The Living God is a Missionary God Thurs Jan 11 Bryan Padgett
2. The Story of His Glory Thurs Jan 18 Yvonne Huneycutt
3. Your Kingdom Come Thurs Jan 25 Dave Mutchler
4. Mandate to the Nations Thurs Feb 1 Teri McCarthy
5. Unleashing the Gospel Thurs Feb 8 Jason Mayhall
6. The Expansion of the World Christian Movement Thurs Feb 15 Michael Pocock
7. Eras of Mission History Thurs March 8 Steve Shadrach
8. Pioneers of the World Christian Movement Thurs Feb 22 David Smithers
9. The Task Remaining Thurs March 15 Dr. Rondal Smith
10. How Shall They Hear? Thurs March 22 Ron Binder
11. Building Bridges of Love Thurs April 5 Brad Buser
12. Christian Community Development Thurs April 12 Malcolm Hunter
13. The Spontaneous Multiplication of Churches Thurs April 19 Bob Sjogren
14. Pioneer Church Planting Fri April 27 Brian Hogan
15. World Christian Partnership Thurs May 3 Claude Hickman

Bryan Padgett Bryan Padgett graduated from Oklahoma State University with a Communications degree. He served on staff there with the Baptist Collegiate Ministries before joing The Traveling Team. With The Traveling Team, Bryan has visited hundreds of campuses and churches, igniting vision and passion for the world. He has spoken to over 15,000 college students and counseled more than 400 students. He has overseas experience in Myanmar, China and Indonesia.

Yvonne Huneycutt Yvonne HuneycuttYvonne'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.

Dave Mutchler Dave Mutchler and his wife, Linda, first became involved with Wycliffe Bible Translators in 1980 when they attended a summer training program at the University of Oklahoma. They became short-term missionaries with Wycliffe in 1982 and were assigned to the Papua New Guinea branch of SIL as a teacher and nurse, respectively. Dave taught middle school to children of missionaries while Linda served in the medical clinic and in rural villages as a pediatric nurse. The Mutchlers served for over 4 years in Papua New Guinea and returned the U.S. and completed the requirements for career membership in Wycliffe in 1989. They were then assigned to the Central America Branch of SIL where, again, they served in missionary children education at the Christian Academy of Guatemala. In 1997 Dave and Linda returned to the United States to serve in Dallas, with Dave developing and implementing a campus mobilization program in an 8-state region.

Teri McCarthy Teri McCarthy has worked with the International Institute for Christian Studies (IICS) since 1996. She has taught at the university level long-term in China and Russia and short-term in Holland, Nigeria and most recently Afghanistan. Teri's focus is on mobilizing the Church for missions and issues of Christian worldview. She married the CEO/Executive Director of IICS, Dr. Daryl McCarthy, in 1994. Before marrying, Teri's experience in missions took her to over 30 nations where she participated in both indigenous and international ministries.

Jason Mayhall Having grown up in Bastrop and West Monroe, LA, Jason Mayhall graduated from Louisiana Tech with a finance degree and the love of his life, Candice. They have 3 wonderful children who keep them laughing: Jonah, Camden, and Cohen. After completing his Th.M from Dallas Seminary, Jason came to CCC to lead, teach, and equip college students through the study of the Scriptures and encourage them to go beyond knowing about Christ to becoming more like Christ. Jason loves playing basketball, reading, and having a good conversation over a good meal or a cup of hot green tea.

Michael Pocock Michael Pocock

Steve Shadrach Dr. Steve Shadrach, former Missions Pastor and founder of Student Mobilization, took the Perspectives on the World Christian Movement course at the U.S. Center for World Missions in the summer of 1985. He then started and facilitated several Perspectives courses until 1995, when he spent a year in Ukraine.
In 2004 Steve took on the role of Director of Mobilization for the US Center for World Mission where he oversees the Perspectives on the World Christian Movement in North America and the Global Kingdom Community Campaign. Steve lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas with his wife Carol and five children.

David Smithers David Smithers 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.

Rondal Smith Dr. Rondal 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

Ron Binder After a brief stint in Columbia, Ron Binder and his wife, Kathy, began working among the Wounaan people of Panama in 1970. The Wounaan had no written language at the time and virtually no Christians among them. Over the course of the next 20 years, Ron and Kathy translated the New Testament into the Wounaan language, published some 50 books in their language, and began literacy classes where they trained teachers, pastors, authors and artists. As a result, today there are some 15 Wounaan churches that are self-governed and maintained. Since returning to the U.S. in 1991, Ron has continued to travel to Panama frequently to work on projects that the Wounaan have requested. These have included the development of a culturally appropriate hymnody and a documentation of their music system (ethnomusicology), the publication of an illustrated vocabulary book, a series of 185 Bible stories for children, a social science book and the Jesus Film. Ron is currently a mobilizer for Wycliffe USA, Southwest Region. Ron holds a B.A. in Missiology from Biola University and an M.A. in Linguistics from UCLA.

Brad Buser Brad Buser and his wife, Beth, served for 20 years in Papua New Guinea, working among the Iteri people. They were involved in church planting, translation, church planting consulting, and language checking. They also served in leadership in the Sepik Region of PNG and at the boarding school for missionary children -- Numonohi. 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.

Malcolm Hunter Malcolm Hunter went to Africa in 1963. He was married earlier that year to Jean, a Nurse from Bromley, Kent who led Malcolm into the SIM. Malcolm and Jean were assigned to many different locations in southern Ethiopia where their nursing, teaching and building skills were needed. After 10 years of doing what he was told by the SIM the mission began to release Malcolm to go more and more towards the nomadic peoples of the South west corner of Ethiopia where he found many unreached people groups, mostly nomadic because of constant intertribal fighting and cattle raiding. By the time they retired from Ethiopia in 2000 Malcolm and Jean had worked with 18 different ethnic groups, opening air strips and preparing the way for national evangelists to move into those tribes, usually in conjunction with whatever development assistance was most needed by the local people with the evangelist as the agents of change.

Bob Sjogren Bob Sjogren has been instrumental in starting the Caleb Project (an organization geared toward mobilizing the body of Christ toward the Great Commission) as well as Frontiers (an interdenominational faith mission agency geared toward church-planting in the Muslim world). He has authored Unveiled At Last and co-authored Run With The Vision with Bill and Amy Stearns. His heart has always been geared toward raising up laborers to help fulfill the Great Commission in order that God's greatest glory would be revealed among all nations!

Brian Hogan Since 1987, Brian Hogan and his family have served in missions to Navajos (USA), Mongols (Mongolia), and Bajans (Barbados). Their team in Erdenet, Mongolia pioneered the first indigenous church planting movement in Mongolia, which is now sending out missionaries to other unreached peoples. Their four years in Mongolia are the basis for the article in the Perspectives Reader which Brian authored, called Distant Thunder: Mongols Follow the Khan of Khans.

Claude Hickman Claude Hickman is the executive director for The Traveling Team, a national missions mobilization movement. He and his wife Rebecca were married in 1999, live in Oklahoma, and have experience in China, Ukraine, and the Middle East. Claude and Rebecca have traveled ten months of the year since 2000, speaking to over one hundred and fifty thousand students at college campuses, conferences, and churches in the U.S., casting vision for the evangelization of the world. Claude is the author of Live Life On Purpose, and speaks nationally at "Perspectives" classes and NVision seminars, and is currently working on a Masters in Biblical Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary.