Brigada

“Brigada: Since 1995… Buckets full of Resources, Trends, Challenges — all in a weekly e-zine & website…”Compiled by Doug Lucas, Team Expansion, Louisville, KY(Thanks for your patience as we ‘catch up’ with the publishing date.) In this issue…1) Hear The News? Fire Up The Lausanne Flame Again2) Where Do You Get Your Coaching Training?3) Language [...]

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Finally… Someone is rising to the task of calling us out to mission again. Praise the Lord that the bugle is sounding again from Lausanne for the third international Congress on World Evangelization. This one is scheduled for Capetown, South Africa. Learn more at: http://www.lausanne.org/cape-town-2010/cape-town-2010.html If they’ll have me, I’m committing to be among the [...]

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Our Field Coordinator for Asia is going to try to get it at http://www.creativeresultsmanagement.com/ Use the “tag” in the tag cloud at left to find other recent items on the concept of “Coaching” in Brigada… but either way, please add here any additional coaches’ training resources about which you’re learning by clicking on “Comment” below.

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We know every tongue, tribe, and nation will be in heaven! Frequently this will be preceeded by ‘foreigners’ bringing the Good News. Most language software will be irrelevant for those foreigners, though, because it only targets big markets (French, Spanish, Chinese, etc.), ignoring 99% of the world’s 6000+ dialects. If you have computer programming talent [...]

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See a sample digital library at http://library.maf.org/ This can be put on a CD for those without internet access. If you are interested in creating an electronic library, view the collection, “How to Build Your Own Digital Library”. Contact the librarian working with MAF Learning Technologies http://maflt.org/ for more information. Got a question or comment? [...]

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Along the same theme as the item above, Phil and his colleagues are experimenting with http://unlibrary.com/ which he thinks will be interesting for missionaries. You can set up private communities in your areas, put your books on there (along with your friends), and then *borrow* a book instead of buying it. As Phil points out, [...]

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The Evangelical Training Database is a searchable online database at http://www.trainforChrist.org/english The project seeks to give information on all evangelical pastoral, theological and missionary training courses world-wide, so that people everywhere can more easily find the training they need to serve the Lord. As well as English, the database has interfaces in Afrikaans, French, German, [...]

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Caring for Others http://www.caringforothers.org/ is now taking registrations for its next Personal Growth Conference for Missionaries to be held November 2-7, 2008 in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Designed to promote personal growth through debriefing and reflection, global Christian workers will develop their own personalized growth plan, in addition to developing improved relational skills that bring about [...]

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This week, we’re incredibly grateful to an anonymous donor in Edmond, OK, for the $30 undergirding for Brigada. We also appreciate First Evangelical Free, in Manchester, MO for the $50 they sent.

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Would you help send this edition and other future editions to 10,000 people in dozens of countries around the world. If so, see the pushbuttons at the right-hand top of the home page… or use the PayPal link on the upper left if you prefer. Either way, you can also click on the “Donate” page [...]

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Or do we just ask for volunteers. Sometimes I think it’s easier for all of us to do the latter. In other words, we’ll stand in front of a group at a college or at an Urbana-like gathering, asking, “Would one of you consider giving your life for missions?” It’s a compelling-enough call. We get [...]

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