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Entries from April 2008

TRY OOVOO AND CALL THE USA OR CANADA COST-FREE ‘TIL JUNE 15

April 25th, 2008 · No Comments

We’ve already mentioned ooVoo, a web service offering free web-to-web voice- over-IP (free phone calls from your computer to any other computer in the world ). Now, in celebration of a recent upgrade, ooVoo is offering free unlimited phone calls (well, actually 3000 minutes) to the USA and Canada until mid-June. Instead of phone to [...]

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GET TRAINING IN BIBLE STORY-TELLING

April 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Grab this training in Bible story-telling, referred to as “Bridges I Training in Orality” with Scriptures In Use, on Thursday, July 24 at Northside Christian Church, New Albany, IN. Sessions run from 8-5, generally. The cost, including lunches, is $75. See the church’s website at: http://www.nsider.org Write for more info at: aruff (at)nsider(dot)org [As a [...]

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TRANSFORMING NATIONS COMMUNITY BY COMMUNITY

April 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Are you interested in establishing a Community-Based Health Care Program which integrates the physical and the spiritual? LifeWind International’s (formerly Medical Ambassadors International) Training of Trainers (TOT) introduces people to Community Health Evangelism (CHE). This strategy teaches concepts, gives vision and practical How Tos for implementing and managing CHE in your ministry. Train in the [...]

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DOWNLOADABLE SPOKEN ENGLISH LEARNED QUICKLY

April 25th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Here’s an excellent free evangelistic spoken English language course for students coming to an English instruction Bible college or Seminary. Over 300,000 students have used the course worldwide. A Bible college, Seminary, or individual may download the entire course from http://www.FreeEnglishNow.com/help14.html You may send prospective students a CD of the course for their personal English [...]

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ZWEMER CENTER FOR MUSLIM STUDIES OFFERS COURSES

April 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Zwemmer at CIU offers courses to help you understand Islam and Muslims (credit/seminar) for field worker candidates, workers on home leave, professional tentmakers in an Islamic country, pastors serving where there is a growing number of Muslims, and students sensing God’s call to work among Muslim people groups. Scholarships are available. Current course offering: SUMMER, [...]

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MENTORNET" FREE CPM COACHES’ MONTHLY E-LETTER

April 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Church Planting guru, George Patterson, and his co-workers answer pressing questions for those who mentor and coach shepherds of reproducing, new churches. Read the latest article “Keeping New Believers Faithful at http://acquirewisdom.com/keeping-new-believers-faithful. See past issues at http://www.MentorNet.ws Subscribe at the site or send a blank e-mail message to mentornet_articlesgetresponsecom You will be sent a return [...]

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HINDU EVANGELISM RESOURCE NOW AVAILABLE IN HINDI LANGUAGE

April 25th, 2008 · No Comments

This print ready tract is designed for tri-fold to print at your church or home computer. The tract is designed to make witnessing to Hindus simple. The Vedic Bridge is a contextual Gospel tract ready for you to download and print in PDF format. And they are free to download and distribute. The new Hindi [...]

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DIRECTOR NEEDED FOR EXCELLENCE IN SHORT-TERM GROUP

April 25th, 2008 · No Comments

The Executive Committee of the Standards of Excellence in Short-Term Mission (SOE) is conducting a search for candidates for a full-time support-based position as Executive Director of the SOE. They’re hoping to wrap up the search by June 15th. Learn more at http://www.stmstandards.org

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WOULD YOU CONSIDER SPONSORING AN EDITION OF BRIGADA?

April 25th, 2008 · No Comments

You can. Set your own amount. What do you think a Brigada mailing would be worth for 10,000 Brigada participants worldwide. See your agency, church, or name here… or dedicate your gift to a favorite ministry or missionary. To get started, just click on the “Sponsor/Donate” page. You can choose to use PayPal or any [...]

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THE BACKPAGE: TRY A WEBINAR

April 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Next time you’re tempted to bring together 150 households from all over the world (well, 27 countries), try a webinar instead. Our organization just did its first couple of webinars this past weekend. We brought together the majority of our workers (a few hundred) for a one-hour powerpoint presentation and discussion. It worked great, and [...]

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WHOA – DO YOU USE OUTLOOK? THEN READ THIS

April 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Last August, our entire office had to switch away from our contact manager (“Goldmine”), after nearly 10 years of use. We began using Microsoft Outlook… and although there were lots of new bells and whistles, I could never quite get my arms around how to follow up on emails I had sent and replies I [...]

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RUNNING OUT OF HARD DRIVE SPACE?

April 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Now might be a great time to swap. If you’ve ever switched out hard drives before, perhaps you recall what an arduous task it is to a) obtain the original drivers and version of Windows, b) install everything and try to remember all the special settings you’ve changed, c) reinstall all the little utilities and [...]

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LEARN ABOUT BIBLE TRANSLATION AND MISSION

April 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Let Wycliffe help you totally settle it once and for all. You like the idea of missions but you’re not sure about learning another language. We’ll show you how to learn language the linguistic way. Or you like languages and you’ve wondered about Bible translation, language survey, literacy or other language related ministries. We’ll help [...]

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