Source: Mission Frontiers, March 3, 2015<\/p>\n
Forty years ago Ralph Winter gathered a small number of Urbana Mission Conference students at Wheaton College. Today it\u2019s grown into a thriving movement with over 180,000 Perspectives alumni in the US and over 40,000 globally [and] now averaging over 8,000 new students in the US each year.<\/p>\n
As many as 34,000 have begun to serve cross culturally and internationally as a direct result of taking the Perspectives course. Many more have been awakened to intercede and give to the work of God\u2019s mission or have adjusted their lifestyles to welcome and reach out to internationals at home. God, through the Perspectives course, has created a vast \u201cfertile soil\u201d from which he draws his people to join the work he is accomplishing among all peoples.<\/p>\n
\u00bb Read full story<\/a> and learn more about Perspectives or find a class<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00bb Note that the next few Perspectives online<\/a> courses start May 4, July 6, and August 17. Perspectives intensive<\/a> courses are planned for California (June), Texas (July), and Pennsylvania (August). A Perspectives national conference will be held in July 2016. We\u2019ll add all those to the Missions Catalyst events calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Mission Frontiers, March 3, 2015 Forty years ago Ralph Winter gathered a small number of Urbana Mission Conference students at Wheaton College. Today it\u2019s grown into a thriving movement with over 180,000 Perspectives alumni in the US and over 40,000 globally [and] now averaging over 8,000 new students in the US each year. As … Continue reading USA: Perspectives Study Program Equipping 8,000 New Students Annually<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5568,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions\/5568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}