Preaching Schedule
November 2 | Douglas Birdsall
“But Because You Say So, We Will Do It!” (Luke 5:1–11)
November 9 | Robert Mullen
”Your Part in God’s Plan for the Nations” (Matthew 28:18-20; Revelation 7: 9–10)
November 16 | Daniel Yang
“The Antioch Church Emerging from American Soil” (Acts 11:19–30)
Class Schedule
November 2 | Dave Childers
“You Are Sent”
November 9 | Wes Watkins
“Movemental Ecclesiology: Rediscovering a Pre-Christendom Hermeneutic of Church Multiplication.”
November 16 | Jared Falkanger
“Engaging a New Generation in God’s Global Mission.”
November 23 | Steve Browne
Serving God’s Mission as an Engineer and as an Architect
November 2 | Prayer and Worship | 6:30-7:30pm
Join us at Calvary for a time of prayer and worship as we cry out to the Lord for our nation and for our immigrant brothers and sisters in Christ. Pastor Paco Amador will lead us in a time of reflection on God’s Word, and we’ll also have the chance to write notes of encouragement to pastors and believers, letting them know that we are praying and standing with them. 1 Corinthians 12:26 reminds us, “If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.” Come ready to pray, listen, and lift our voices together before the Lord.
November 5 | Family Dinner and Worship Night | 5:30-8:30pm
We will start the night with a time to feast together. We will follow the dinner up with a time of worship and prayer in the Sanctuary and hear from missionary guest speakers, Heidi & Ryan Hannah.
Nursery will be available for ages 0-3 and there will be a program led by missionaries, Jamie & Lucas Orner, for ages 4-5th grade.
November 8 | Prayer Breakfast with Missionaries| 8:30-10:30am
Join us to spend some time with our missionaries. We will take time to fellowship with one another and pray for our missionaries as they head back to their homes and places of ministry. Breakfast will be provided
Guest Preacher and Speakers
Douglas Birdsall
Doug and Jeanie (Rowell) Birdsall has been involved in the global mission of the church for forty-five years. After graduating from Wheaton College and Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, Doug and Jeanine began their missionary career with Asian Access in Japan in 1980. During their twenty years in Tokyo, they were engaged in student evangelism, church planting and leadership development. In 2000 Doug was invited to establish the J Christy Wilson Center for World Mission at Gordon-Conwell, while continuing to serve as the president of Asian Access. Doug has also served as the Chair and CEO of the Lausanne Movement, and as the President of the American Bible Society. Doug and Jeanie have three adult children, all born and raised in Japan. All three are happily married with children in NYC, Washington, DC, and Wheaton where they are active in local churches and where they are professors at NYU, Georgetown, and Wheaton College. Jeanie is also a graduate of Gordon-Conwell and Fuller Seminary. She is actively engaged in teaching Bible classes, marriage and family counseling, and in mentoring younger women in ministry roles. Doug and Jeanie were raised in Peoria and Pekin, Illinois. They celebrated their 50th anniversary in June!
Robert mullen
“My journey to becoming a part of the Partners International team was an exciting venture directed by the
Lord,” says Robert Mullen. Robert began his professional career as an attorney concentrating on commercial litigation and representing Christian ministries. After nine years of practicing law, he joined the staff of a churchwhere he served as Missions and Discipleship Pastor and later as Senior Pastor.
It was in his role as pastor that Robert began collaborating with Partners. Over the years, he directed the church to invest strategically in Partners’ ministries through prayer, encouragement, and finances.
Robert is passionate about his role in strategically connecting local leaders with Kingdom investors. He says, “I love to help Jesus-followers understand the incredible opportunity and personal responsibility we each have to be strategically involved in reaching the least reached with the Gospel.” Robert regularly teaches and speaks on global missions matters and is available to serve your church in motivating and mobilizing for greater global missions impact. He also is strategically engaged in the missions community and serves as part of the Coalition on Supporting Indigenous Ministries.
Robert holds a B.S. in Finance and Political Science from Liberty University, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Virginia School of Law, and an M.Div. from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Anne, live in Virginia and have two grown children and two granddaughters.
daniel yang
Daniel Yang serves as the Senior Director for Global Mission and Church Movements for World Relief. Prior to that he was the director of the Church Multiplication Institute at the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center. Daniel has been a pastor, church planter, engineer and technology consultant. He has planted churches in Detroit, Dallas, Toronto, and Chicago, either as the lead planter or through recruiting, training, assessing, and mentoring church planters. Daniel is a sought-after conference speaker, missional strategist, consultant, and co-author of Inalienable: How Marginalized Kingdom Voices Can Help Save the American Church (InterVarsity, May 2022) and Becoming a Future-Ready Church: 8 Shifts to Encourage and Empower the Next Generation of Leaders (Zondervan, October 2024).
Dave Childers
Dave Childers serves as the Sending Network Director for The Upstream Collective. He has been Missions Pastor in 3 different churches, most recently at Park Community Church in Chicago. He is married and has two grown daughters and seven grandchildren who all live in the Chicago area.
Jared Falkanger
As the Director for Ministry and Evangelism at Wheaton College, Jared encourages students to take their faith and learning in the classroom away from campus in service and ministry in both local and global contexts. Jared has spent his years teaching, volunteering, and developing relationships with parachurch organizations in Chicagoland. Jared loves his work with students as he supports, trains, and develops leaders involved in Ministry and Evangelism programming. He especially loves the way that service forms identity and contributes to a deepening relationship with God. Jared is married and the dad to two incredible little boys! He loves participating in cross-cultural activities, especially related to food and fellowship.
Wes watkins
Wes Watkins (formerly Warrick Farah) is the editor of Motus Dei (2021) and coeditor of Margins of Islam (2018). He is an adjunct professor at Arab Baptist Theological Seminary and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. As a missiologist with One Collective, Wes facilitates the Motus Dei Network and is a researcher at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies.
steve browne
Steve has been a civil and water resource engineer for nearly his entire life. His work has spanned the globe, improving the lives of millions of people. He is passionate about using his skills for kingdom work, especially in coming alongside global partners to help with their infrastructure needs to serve the people of God.