March 2014   
                                                                            

A WorldView Partner

WorldView...
Missions...
Gospel...
Great Commission...
To the ends of the earth...
Reaching unfamiliar languages and cultures with Jesus' Truth...  
Transformed lives...
Transformed cultures.

 

We get excited by WorldView's purpose. And then, a few seconds later, we get overwhelmed! Who is capable of this huge undertaking?

 

If WorldView were alone, overwhelmed is exactly how we should feel.  But we are not alone. We work with mission sending and training organizations from Latin America to West Africa, from North Africa to Southeast Asia. The network is large! We all have a part, and the glory is to God who brings all of these pieces together in one magnificent plan to reach every tribe and tongue and language and people.

 

Western Seminary in Portland Oregon is one of our strong partners. On a daily basis WorldView and Western overlap through Western students who live at WorldView Center, and Western courses that are taught in WorldView's classroom. We share staff, enjoy "brain storm" sessions, and share reports of God at work around the world.

 

This partnership with Western Seminary includes the lecture series called Global Voices. Global Voices is an occasional lecture series highlighting the movement of God in the world through the lens of students at Western Seminary and other invited speakers. It is co-sponsored by the Western Seminary International Student Office and the WorldView Center.

 

 

March 13

7:00 - 9:00 PM 

invited speaker 

Wanda Walborn

 

Global Voices at Western Seminary 

partnering with 

WorldView

presents Wanda Walborn, doctoral student, with a focus on reaching 
the millennial generation 

Answer to Prayers

We want to let you know how the prayers you offered for our most recent WorldView seminar, Making Sense of a Culture (Jan. 29th - Feb. 13th), were answered. Thank you for praying!

 

Making Sense of a Culture was adapted from the second two weeks of the month-long seminars we used to offer. We who were seminar presenters (6 of us) wondered how well our reformulated seminar would work for the participants. We're happy to report that, based on the written evaluations the participants completed on the whole seminar, it worked very well! It's affirming to know that what we worked so hard to put together was well-received by the participants themselves.

 

One new thing we added to the seminar was a cultural observation trip to a Feng Shui lecture at the Lan Su Chinese Garden. The Feng Shui lecture included a ceremony that fit perfectly into a topic we added to this seminar, "Guidelines for Evaluating Religious Ceremonies." The last minute decision to attend the Feng Shui lecture was definitely a God thing!

 

During activities like the Feng Shui lecture, participants record their observations of Chinese culture. After group work that leads to the recognition of cultural patterns in all their observations, they hypothesize cultural themes that help them to make sense of Chinese culture, so that the Gospel can be presented in a way that makes sense to Chinese people.   

 

On the last day of the seminar, each participant made an oral presentation to the whole group that grew out of their reflections on how to apply seminar ideas and skills to their own ministry contexts. It was amazing to hear how they planned to extend Making Sense of a Culture into their ministries!

 

Thank you again for praying. Truly, your prayers were answered in a big way!

Giving

In his book, The Prodigal God, Pastor Timothy Keller walks us through the parable of the prodigal son and challenges us:

"We can only change permanently as we take the gospel more deeply into our understanding and into our hearts. We must feed on the gospel, as it were, digesting it and making it part of ourselves."

 

"...It manifests itself in many ways."

 

"...'You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich' (2 Corinthians 8:9). Paul is taking 

them back to the gospel. He is saying. 'Think on his costly grace-until you want to give like he did.'" May we pursue our love relationship with Jesus until His love pours out of us with all we are and have. 

 

Quotes from The Prodigal God, Timothy Keller, pp. 129-131

 
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Celebrating our Volunteers

 

On Saturday, February 22nd, we honored our WorldView volunteers with the annual "Volunteer Appreciation Brunch." We had about 80 volunteers, staff and residents together for a delicious brunch followed by a pie social. It is a small way that we can express to these men and women how much their contribution means to our lives at WorldView.

 

WorldView has a treasure in its volunteers. The volunteers that have served and do serve WorldView have blessed us with thousands of hours in skilled labor and in the process have saved us hundreds of thousands of dollars in those labor costs.

 

We can hardly count how many hours have been volunteered at WorldView since its inception in 1995, yet know that everything from cooking, to cleaning, to filing, to answering phones, to building, remodeling, plumbing, electrical ... it would be hard to point to something at WorldView that hasn't been touched by the hand of a volunteer.

 

Our volunteers come from all walks of life: teachers, professionals, tradesmen, accountants, pastors and other men and women that have simply wanted to serve God and serve the staff and residents at Worldview. When a volunteer gives his or her time at WorldView they truly are advancing the worldwide kingdom of God by making it possible for men and women in ministry to have a place to live while they study.  


 
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Coming Events:

 

March 13

7:00 - 9:00 PM

Global Voices at Western Seminary 

(partnering with WorldView) presents Wanda Walborn, doctoral student, with a focus on reaching the millennial generation. 

 

March 18 

12:00 - 2:00 PM

Second Tuesday 

Mission Lunch

is on the THIRD Tuesday this month. Peter Nguyen, Doctor of Intercultural Studies student, shares about ministry to Vietnamese. Please let us know you are coming, by emailing the office.

 

April 5 

2014 Northwest Regional Meeting

of the Evangelical Missiological Society at WorldView Center
Portland, Oregon 

April 8 
12:00 - 2:00 
PM
Second Tuesday 

Mission Lunch

Mark Hedinger will share about WorldViewPlease let us know you are coming, by emailing the office.
Wanda Walborn is currently in her eleventh year as the Director of Spiritual Formation at the Rockland County campus of Nyack College. 

The 1984 Nyack alumnus is also an adjunct professor in Nyack's College of Bible and Christian Ministry where she
teaches courses such as Introduction to Women in Ministry, Introduction to Spiritual Formation, and Developing a Woman's Gifts and Calling. She earned a master's degree in intercultural studies at Alliance Theological Seminary and is currently pursuing her doctorate at Western Seminary in Portland, OR. 
 
Whether she is inside or outside of the classroom, Wanda lives out her passion, which is to train and mentor emerging leaders. As she pours into the lives of young men and women, her desire is that they grasp the depth and breath of God's love for them and that they live lives without compromise for the Lord Jesus Christ. 

 

In addition to her experience in church leadership, she also draws from her roles as pastor's wife, homemaker, mother, and educator, as she speaks at venues around the globe to audiences that include both lay people and leaders.
 

Did you know?

One of the interesting things we learned as new missionaries in Ukraine was how Russian "middle" names are formed. Take Ivan Petrovich as an example. Petrovich means "son of Peter." The first name of Ivan's father is Pyotr; add -ovich; the vowel sounding like yo changes to e and you get Petrovich. Who am I? Ivan, son of Peter.

 

For daughters the idea is the same but the ending is different. Natasha is a common first name. If her father's name is Pyotr, then her "middle name" or patronymic is Petrovna. Instead of adding -ovich, daughters add -ovna. Who am I? Natasha, daughter of Pyotr.

 

BTW, addressing another person by first name and patronymic combined is the equivalent of saying "Mr. __" or "Sir." Try forming your own patronymic from your father's name. It's fun!

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